Brajeshwar Oinam

BRAJESHWAR OINAM “I'm a Product Owner and Designer, with a deep appreciation of the relationship between meaningful design and powerful backend solutions. I have been a developer, frontend designer, turned to Creative Product Direction with a track record of building products and leading teams.” Over my career, I have focused on 3 specific areas to develop my overall capability: ! User Interfaces & Experiences I started my career as a developer turned designer working in the trenches coding, understanding and promoting well-designed user interfaces. I'm particularly passionate about responsive interfaces, typography, simple, clean, minimal and meaningful designs. As an erstwhile developer, I am also sensitive to marrying great design with powerful user experiences and backend solutions and take a developer-first approach to delight a user by building usable and beautiful technology. " Product Design & Development I’ve been fortunate enough to lead and be at the fore-front of product design and development at several startups and projects. I have learnt that it’s important to avoid designer hubris and focus on being responsive to users and their needs from the ground up. Rather than building products in an ivory tower, I prefer to work in a lean manner and co-innovate with my user or customer base. # Team Building My developer-designer community blog, brajeshwar.com, has received 10M+ unique visits over the last decade. I am a community expert officially recognized by Adobe since 2003 for evangelizing web standards worldwide. I have learnt that team building and community building go hand in hand. I am able to blend this community engagement by adhering to global standards, evangelizing my own teams, and growing them from the community. $ Work History Owner 2003 onwards (10+ years) • Designed and developed web apps, websites and native apps for clients such as - Zoho, Aditya Birla, JP Morgan, LxiDD (Singapore/India), STARZ (USA), OBEO (USA), Salorix (USA/India), Pearson Publishing (UK), OnMobile (India), ILFS (India), Ultrashock (USA), Edition Interactive (UK), Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (UK), Tata Interactive Systems (India), Let’s Go Holdings (UK). • Designed and Developed few highly appreciated and commercially successful WordPress themes - Nishita (2006), Autochrome (2011). • Maintained a technical blog with decent traffic and loved by audiences and readers alike at brajeshwar.com since 2001. • Was amongst the few selected ActionScript Developer by erstwhile Macromedia (acquired by Adobe) for the Lego Team. The Lego Team comprised of 20 of the best Flash Developers from around the world. • Adobe recognized Community Expert Professional since 2003. • Graduated Startup Levoma from the Founder Institute, Silicon Valley Chapter (Winter-). Alaris Prime Business Owner Apr 2016 – Present (1 year) At Alaris Prime, we design and build beautiful and performant products. • I built a team of dedicated User Interface and Experience Designers, and advanced frontend engineers. We were able to work with some of the most challenging projects with well known clients. • Plans and leads the day-to-day ideation, design, programming and delivery of client’s projects. • Made sure we’re one of the best when it comes to quality for our clients. Our client’s testimonials are testaments to our work. Razorfish Creative Director Sep 2014 – Jun 2016 (1 year and 10 months) Razorfish, part of Publicis Groupe, is a full-service digital agency at the intersection of creativity, media and technology. With offices across the globe, Razorfish serves a wide range of clients across a spectrum of discipline and industries. • Single handedly formed and trained the Creative and Front-end Technology Team at Razorfish, Bangalore (INDIA). From an almost non-existent team, I was responsible in forming a creative workforce of 40+ strong proficient designers and developers within the span of my first year tenure. • Involves and leads the day-to-day ideation, design, programming and delivery of client’s projects. • Spearheaded an extensive and exhaustive design and code quality enhancements of the Creative and Front-End Team. Levoma, Inc. Co-Founder, Product Designer Jan 2011 – Dec 2012 (2 years) Levoma is a mobile video-dating service, helping singles aged 18-30, find partners easily, quickly and effectively. Levoma works across and between multiple devices - iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets. We were the first Indian startup to be selected as part of Founder Institute in- Winter Silicon Valley Chapter. Levoma was among the final 12 graduating companies out of it’s initial cohort of 50+ startups. Levoma released its beta app in January 2011. It was bought by Kamelot Kapital Pte Ltd. in January 2013. • Designed and wrote the front end code for product launch. • Worked with a team of programmers in Pune, Bangalore and Los Angeles. • Represented Levoma at Founders Institute, and negotiated exit with lovinapp.com, a Kamelot Kapital portfolio company. Infinitely Beta Pvt. Ltd. Co-Founder, Product Designer Jun 2009 – Jul 2010 (1 year and 2 months) Infinitely Beta set out to build innovative products in Pune, India. It’s flagship product, Paisa.com, was praised by industry experts and beta testers for its innovative User Interface and a never-before-done-in-India User Experience. Paisa.com was merged in February 2012 with Helpshift which has raised venture capital from investors such as Nexus Ventures and True Ventures. • I designed and coded the front-end for beta launch. • I was responsible for leading the product development and innovation for Paisa.com. • I bought the entire team from my previous startup and grew it into a team of 10 people at the time I left. oCricket Co-Founder, Product Designer Jun 2007 – May 2009 (2 years) oCricket was poised to be a dedicated network for Cricket lovers and fans. We envisioned oCricket to be able to get users access to Cricket related media and content more easily and at a much affordable price. oCricket was acquired by Infinitely Beta Pvt. Ltd. in June 2009. • I was responsible for the architecture and design of the Product. • I built the team, and negotiated the acquisition to Infinitely Beta Pvt. Ltd. Mixercast, Inc. Senior Architect Apr 2006 – Mar 2007 (1 years) Mixercast allowed users to create embeddable slide show widgets. Users could mix together both personal and licensed content into their slide show. Mixercast was funded by Fuse Capital, ONSET Ventures, and Intel Capital for over $12M and had clients such as Youtube, CBS etc. • I bought the entire Oinam Software team to form the initial founding team at the Research and Development center of Mixercast in Pune (India). • I was responsible for hiring, business development, and evangelism. Oinam Software Pvt. Ltd. Founder, Director Apr 2005 – Mar 2006 (1 year) At Oinam, we did extensive design and development of websites, web applications and applications for Pocket PC Devices. We undertook some of the most innovative, sometimes very experimental work for clients, including but not limited to the likes of STARZ, Obeo, Ultrashock, Edition Interactive, Cambridge University Entrepreneurs, Tata Interactive Systems. We also worked for many Contractors who sub-contracted their work to us. We were in-fact one of the best ghost developers to many successful contractors & agencies. Oinam Software was acquired by Mixercast, Inc in April 2006. • I founded and ran Oinam as my first entrepreneurial venture. Peerless Software Pvt. Ltd. Designer & Developer Nov 2001 – Feb 2003 (1 year and 4 months) Mega Motion Pvt. Ltd. Designer & Developer Apr 2000 – Oct 2001 (1 year and 7 months) D.I. Publications Lead Visual Designer Sep 1999 – Mar 2000 (7 months) % RECOGNITIONS 2003 – 2014 Adobe Community Professional “Adobe recognized Expert Professionals with Adobe Products.” 2003 Adobe Certified Flash Professional # Community Early on, in my professional life, I learnt that design and development is a social activity. We’re always building on the work of others — using libraries, frameworks and runtimes that others developed; debugging and adding on to code that others might have written; communicating with systems someone else developed etc. With this in mind, I’ve worked hard to learn from my peers in the designer & developer community by sharing designs, code, participating in discussions, and presenting at conferences: & Open Source, Forums & User Groups • Experimented and published a bunch of open source codes, which are still available at - downloads.brajeshwar.com. • Regular contributor to open source projects at Github. • Participated and helped a lot of designers and developers on various online forums. ' Presentations • Pushing the Envelope with Flash ActionScript (Apr 2005) Spoke at the “Powered by Detroit Flash and Coldfusion conference” at the Hyatt Hotel, Detroit, USA. • Be a Ninza CSS Coder with CSS Preprocessors (Apr 2012) Hasgeek: MetaRefresh — India’s leading conference on User Interfaces. • Introduction to Gamification for UI/UX Designs (Aug 2012) SiliconIndia WebApps 2012, Bangalore, India. • The Design Superheroes who use Modern Design Workflows (Feb 2014) MetaRefresh 2014. • A Smarter WordPress Theme Development Workflow with node.js, ruby, sass, bower & grunt (Mar 2014) WordCamp Mumbai. • Good Enough Design for Responsive Web Apps (Sep 2016) Metarefresh 2016. ( Testimonials “ Brajeshwar has demonstrated an ability to create great teams of technical people, to pioneer interesting rich internet applications, and to write intelligently about developments in the technology field in a way that makes people listen. — Freeman Murray Internet Enthusiast, Startup Guy, Investor “ Brajeshwar believes in doing perfectly and nicely, I would say, he is a very detailed oriented person. Someone who is great technically and has an amazing entrepreneurial skills. We kept talking on various things over these years and I was always surprised with his innovative ideas. — Abdul Qabiz Founder - IndieReign, ReelClever “ Brajeshwar has proved to be a great asset every time our company worked with him. He had tremendous grasp of Flash and has turned around complex assignments in short times, without much micro-management from our part. He has the technical and management skills of a good partner. If you are looking for anything (complex) in Flash, I will strongly recommend Brajeshwar any day. — Krishna Jha Entrepreneur, Angel Investor “ Brajeshwar is a highly talented Flash developer and new media expert with whom I had the pleasure to work with on several projects. He was always very thorough, wrote some kick-ass code and very responsive to my emails. Not only that but he's also a genuine nice guy, very helpful and always happy to share his efforts with others. If you're looking for a highly skilled Flash developer with a good business sense then you should not hesitate one minute to hire Brajeshwar. — Stefan Richter Founder at scribblar.com For more references and recommendations, please see my LinkedIn profile or ask if you have any specific questions. )-* - + github.com/brajeshwar , linkedin.com/in/brajeshwar - brajeshwar.me Brajeshwar Oinam Bangalore (India) .