India

Indian Education School

Bachelor's degree

Stanford Ignite

Sandeep Supal

Director

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Driving UX strategy and Design leadership for Oracle Financial Services Banking &
Analytical Applications (Financial Risk & Compliance).

Consulted $275K savings by engaging GBU CS (UX+APEX); replaced erratic vendor with resourcing & training issues.

Engaged on product design on Ledger Adjustment service for a large bank, building a LTV, and gain trust to upsell Oracle Accounting platform

Envision enterprise user journeys, product experience, and consult the Redwood UX Design for Oracle Global Industry Units (Financial Services and F&B) 

Redwood Design: Oracle’s next generation user experience that brings state-of-the-art, consumer grade+ user experiences across devices to the sophisticated enterprise scenarios through practical UCD Process, well-knitted Design System, and Design Consulting for advocacy and adoption.

Designed VL Central, a single pane user experience for Enterprise commerce, to processes 85% (~$75B) of licensing business at Microsoft. Setup a design team with a strategic goal to deliver the product features and platform services for the VL sales transformation program. 

Managed the Enterprise search design team tasked on noteworthy features like Query Assistance, Web-enriched work search, Entity-based coherence for Microsoft Search, Shared SERP 2.0, and Canvas collaboration etc, targeted to 2x Bing Commercial DAU.

Consulted UX to drive increased adoption, resulting in 56% ARR revenue gains for leading cloud provider, facilitating migration of virtualisation apps/licenses from the largest virtualisation market platform. 
(User Journeys | Cloud Transformation | Build-Operate-Transfer)

Architected UX for Lifion by ADP-next-gen HCM solution with a focus on dynamic teams to manage their global workforce through single user experience. Bagged 7 client-wins based on concept for Automated Time Policy based eligibility rules for policy assignment, further evolving it for multi-time systems with scale to auto-map & validate policies for 50K employees

Enabled a challenger bank in Australia, focussed on redefining broker-originated Home loans Customer Journeys. Consulted the savings of around $1.6M for loan business, curated 18 preferred reality epics to increase customer satisfaction and advocacy in the loan application, as well an optimized process with 40% FTE efficiency gain and 15% non-FTE cost savings.
(Design Thinking & VSM Workshops | Business Process Re-engineering | Agile in Banking)

Led digital services re-imagination work and delivered concepts for the consular services of the Saudi MoFA. Consolidated the refinement of 40+ discrete visa services into 15 Saudi Visas.  
(Digital Design | Vendor Management | Digital Transformation in Public Sector)

Formalized new innovative features and revamped digital services in a volatile disruptive environment, characterized by a high degree of uncertainty, for a strategic initiative at India's largest film exhibition company aiming to build the Cinema of the Future.
(Vendor Management | Build-Operate-Transfer)

Instituted a digital transformation program towards the setup of Digital Hub in India for a Japanese Automotive giant; consulted the investment of around $15M for India Hub setup.
(Agility at Scale | Digital Projects Sourcing | Vendor Management | Program Management)

An integral part of consulting & pre-sales team for UX and Product Dev at Globalogic, A Hitachi Group Company, with a core focus on lean approach towards product prioritization, roadmap planning and setting up digital services for Indian telecom' (Reliance Jio & Vodafone Idea) foray into consumer space. 

Led product design a wallet application - Idea Money that fetched a 5x MAU growth in 4 months and grew 3x in digital transactions in a yearly pilot launch. 

 Slashed vendor management costs 30% by negotiating pricing and fees while ensuring the continuation and enhancements of services as per RFP.

Orchestrated product planning & solution design for omni-channel platforms in finance/banking (JioMoney) as well for enterprise products in network connectivity (Jio Net), retail merchant services (Jio World), and & healthcare (Jio HealthHub)

Designed a common services framework a core module utilized by all the consumer apps for user access management, issues logging and tracking (Jio CSF)

Led digital delivery for OTA apps (JioNet, JioWorld, & Jio HealthHub) and built a centralized practice for design. Collaborated with business stakeholders, developers, marketers, and visual designers, to ensure that the outcome is a viable, feasible and pixel-perfect desirable solution.

With a vision to make healthcare proactive and a mission to serve patients facing chronic diseases like Asthma and COPD* that encompasses 8 million population in India and susceptible to around 20 million more Indians. (*pulmonary (respiratory functions) chronic diseases and lack of personal health care, which worsens the conditions leading to mismanagement).

OxyTrac - The Product:
A portable medical device (Low-Cost Spirometer + OxiMeter integrated with Mobile Application), that functions for an ECG of lungs, uses revolutionary techniques (patent pending), to conduct full PFT at home without any assistance. Asthma/COPD Patients use oxytrac to measure log their readings and manage the essential vitals tracked and trended over their PHR account. Oxytrac is a connected device built on principles of the Internet of things and syncs the data with the platform on cloud storage.

Mobile App that provides tracking the patient compliance data and generates powerful analytics-based insights for both the patient and doctor.
- patients to manage their recovery by sending reminders to the patient for scheduling an appointment, following up with the lab visits and therapies.
- helps to schedule an appointment for a consultation with a doctor.

Consulted Projects in Healthcare Technology, Medical Devices design, and development, TeleMedicine solutions, Market research in healthcare and HMIS solutions.

Project Accolades:
- NASSCOM 10000 startups Fellow.

- Winner of Impact-a-preneur Quest 2014. 
(Business plan competition in association with Villgro Chennai and TiE)

- Program winners at startup events organized by Weekend Venture, Startup weekend, TiE
(Pune/Mumbai Startup Meet, Bangalore Startup Launchpad, TiE Mumbai IQ Bootcamp)

- Entrepreneur Scholar at Global Sankalp Summit - 2015

Partners:
- Manufacturing (Forbes Marshall, Mahindra, Godrej)
- Healthcare (Practo, AsiaHealthNexus, ProHealth).

Reported to CTO and responsible for Design and Product Experience for the SaaS platform - Sogolytics. Engaged as a Product Management leader and UX practice head for a leading Survey Software consumer company.

Conceptualized new product- tweet surveillance for K12 districts, to monitors heated conversations amongst students and succeeded in a pilot phase to acquire 30 first paying customers.

Researched security solution to serialize  original products & avoid counterfeits. To differentiated, integrated the solution in the manufacturing assembly workflow.
 
Usability Testing of TV application Design for devices tablet devices like Apple iPad and Blackberry Playbook. HE of Mundu TV app for Android phones.

An all-in-one Instant Universal Messenger app Design for iPhones and Android phones. 

Web Application Redesign for Sync that is cross-platform/device synchronization application for web, phones, and tablets

The Product Development process for Internet radio allows listening to thousands of radio stations that stream audio on the internet using mobile devices.

Conceptualization & Architecture of a Multimedia Entertainment (TV+Radio) application for the users wherein the product will be scaled further with content like Podcasts, VoD, MoD, Metadata (EPG), Trivia etc. The product is currently envisioned as a ‘Complete Entertainment Suite’.

Intuit Fasal is a user non-paid Business Model that creates a peer-to-peer marketplace for farmers in India using SMS - means of Business Communication, Learning & Innovation for the Indian Farmers & Mandi agents. 

Designed Viral Marketing campaigns & driven experiments for tapping customer experiences which yielded in a 30% increase in user acquisition. Developed Persona, analysed Consumer Interaction Data & visualized Design for Viral marketing experiments to tap customer.

GoConnect - Send targeted texts/ad-media to customers to grows business on the go. Screen Design, Heuristic Evaluation, Usability Testing, Paper Prototyping.

Responsible for Departmental internships and Institute placements for the year 2010-11.

Collaborated on Mobile Web with Microsoft IDC. Experimented Mobile Web Usability on touchscreen devices, and presented a research on the context of Mobile Web on Touch based devices for Microsoft project, which was awarded as the best team project

Researched customer experience & analytics for lighting systems in vehicles, for new SUV - Mahindra Scropio; recommended areas of improvements and form redesigns for car interior lighting systems.

Desk Research, Ethnography, Data Log-Analysis, Flash, Iterative Development

Sandeep Supal🇮🇳