Objective

To obtain a career as an UX designer/ Interaction designer.

Education

2006- 2007
Master of Human Computer Interaction, August 2007 (expected)
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science
GPA: 3.81/4

2004-2006
Master of Science in Architecture, August 2006.
Mississippi State University, College of Architecture, Art and, Design, USA
GPA: 3.79/4

1996-2001
Bachelor of Architecture, Oct 2001
College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India

Work experience

2007 - 2008: PayPal, CA
position: UI Designer
Job responsibilities: developing the design and UI based on user research and functional requirements, working with designers to develop layouts, screen designs and prototypes, collaborating with Product and Marketing Managers to understand business needs, and translating these needs into design requirements implementation

2007: Oracle Corporation, CA
position: Interaction Designer
Job responsibilities: Design prototypes, screen mockups and wire frames based on the results of usability testing and customer feedback. Work collaboratively with Usability Engineers to define and improve the user experience for Oracle’s software applications.

2006 Summer: Levian Corporation. NY.
position: Web and graphic designer
Job responsibilities: Website and database maintenance using flash and cold fusion.

2004-2006: Design Research and Informatics Lab. Mississippi State University.
Position: Graduate Research Assistant for Design Research and Informatics Lab and Teaching Assistant for the graduate program at College of Architecture, Art, and Design.
Job responsibilities: Website design, graphic design, research on health care.

2002 – 2004: A-tecture, New Delhi, India.
Position:  Architect and team leader.
Job responsibilities: designing, construction documentation and design presentation.

Publications

2006: Satpathy, Lalatendu and Anijo Mathew; "RFID Assistance System for Faster Book Search in Public Libraries". Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '06). Montreal, Quebec (April 22-27, 2006). New York: ACM Press, in press.

2006: Satpathy, Lalatendu, Nathaniel Pierce, Anijo Mathew; "Cat Eye: An Assistance System for Independent Shopping". Proceedings of International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence, (ICADI ‘06). St. Petersburg, Florida.

2006: Mathew, Anijo and Lalatendu Satpathy; "Smart" Spaces, Responsive Environments, and Assistive Technology: The Role of The Designer". Proceedings of International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence, (ICADI ‘06). St. Petersburg. Florida.

Thesis

2006: “Smart Housing: Technology to Aid Aging in Place - New Opportunities and Challenges”.
Thesis – Mississippi State University, August, 2006.

Presentations

2006: Seminar Presentation: "Cat Eye: An Assistance System For Independent Shopping for Physically Challenged and Visually Impaired People”. Graduate Research Symposium, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State. (March 31, 2006).

Selected Projects

2007: Microsoft Live Lab project - The primary focus of this project is to find out how to rapidly user can cull from a large collection of personal imagery those pictures that will be used to author an image based experience. A secondary focus is on novel experiences that can be authored along with corresponding specification of techniques for easy and powerful end-user authoring.

2007: NightOwl – A project on the tourist information on the hottest spots from a mobile phone. NightOwl can provide the trendiest places at the user’s fingertips. User can add his local hotspots and NightOwl will find a similar spot in a new city.  NightOwl searches through user’s friends’ and the overall NightOwl community spots and provides results based on price and genre.

2007: Redesign Blogger.com – This is a HCI Methods semester long project. In this project we used all the HCI methods learned during the course to find out problems and formulate design solution in an iterative process.

2006: FRID assistance system for faster book search in public libraries – The proposed RFID Assistance System uses existing mobile computing technology and devices to enable faster book search, information overlay, and check out in a public library.

2006: Negotiation via Email an HCI Lab project - This project addresses this negotiation challenge by constructing agents that assist users (either organizers or participants or both) in participating in the negotiation process.

Awards

2006: ARCC / King student Medal for excellence in architectural + environmental design research.

2006:  College of Architecture, Art and Design Graduate Student Research Award by Office of Research, Mississippi State University.

2006: Research Assistant of the Year Award Nominee by Graduate Student Association, Mississippi State University.

2006: Best oral presentation (3rd place) in Social Science Oral Competition by Graduate Student Association, Mississippi State University, March 31, 2006

2006: Best T- Shirt Design for Student Volunteers of CHI’06 , Montreal, Canada

2006: Scholarship byInternational Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence, (ICADI 2006) St. Petersburg Florida.

2004: Graduate Research Assistantship by Mississippi State University

1999: Gold medal in Photography at Zonal National Association of Student of Architecture, BIT, Mesra India.

1996: 1st Prize in junior Chess Competition, College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India.

Skills

Usability Methods

Applications



Languages

Operating Systems

Contextual Design, Heuristic Evaluation, KLM, Think-Aloud, Focus Group Interview, Directed Storytelling, Persona, Storyboarding, Task Analysis.

AutoCAD 2005, 3D Studio MAX 6, Rhinoceros 4.0, Adobe Illustrator CS2, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Revit 8.1, Adobe Flash 8, Adobe Dreamweaver 8, Visual Interdev 6, VB 2005

ASP, PHP, C, C++, MySQL, HTML, Arduino,  VB.NET