Raj Thakur

About Raj Thakur

I synthesize the needs and goals of users, product managers, marketing and salespeople, user researchers, writers, localizer\'s, developers and testers to ensure the best possible experience. I am a User Experience Designer and Expert Front End Engineer with over 12+ years of work experiences to support my knowledge and skills, who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. My responsibilities include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the web and applications. I am work with the UI/Front-End design team and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.SKILLS & RESPONSIBILITIES - Specialties in User Centered Analysis and Design approach. Expert in various aspects of User Experience fundamentals - Requirement Analysis, User Profiling/Grouping, Personas, Task Analysis, Wireframes, Prototyping, Usability Testing. Strong in HTML (5), CSS (3), Native JavaScript. Very good at jQuery development. Expert in Responsive Web Design, Mobile Web App Development. Experience with Google invention Material Design guideline. Experience with AJAX, REST, JSON, Map based APIs, PhoneGap, HTML5 Canvas 2G Drawing, SVG, Data Visualization Expert in LESS and SASS preprocessors. Excellent skills on getting rid of Cross Browser UI (HTML/CSS) Pitfalls. Expert in front-end frameworks – Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Dojo Mobile, Google Polymer. Excellent User Interface Visual design in Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator. Familiar with Agile development process:> Technologies and toolsHTML5, CSS3, jQuery/JavaScript, LESS / SASS, Bootstrap, Node.js / Bower, AngularJS, Google Polymer:> Apps & ToolsSublime, Git / SVN, Jira / Basecamp, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Balsamiq

Experience

1. Lead Front End Developer

   CarDekho Group

   Mar 2014 — Present · Jaipur, IN

   Cardekho.com is one of India\'s leading auto portals and is a fully owned subsidiary of GirnarSoft, which owns popular portals like Bikedekho.com, Pricedekho.com and Mobiledekho.com among others. In a period of nearly 6 years, Cardekho has acquired top ranking as an authoritative source of information on cars in India. GirnarSoft is a leading IT and ITES solutions company which owns and operates this portal, one of its flagship ventures.Key accomplishments:=> Manage team (size-10) of visual designers and front-end engineers.=> Design wireframes, user flows, and hi-res comps for various projects spanning desktop, mobile, and iOS & Android app development.=> Art direction and creative development of products and brand.=> Front end development utilizing HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript leveraging the material design framework and a Java / SQL backend.=> UI/UX development to create a seamless customer experience for a high traffic e-commerce website through desktop, mobile and Smartphone app interfaces.=> Web application development for backend system using AngularJS and Node.js with cutting edge HTML5 and CSS3 techniques.=> Refine and iterate user experience by designing and implementing new modules and interfaces in a complex, responsive site.

Education

• University of Rajasthan

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biotechnology

  2007 — 2010

Skills

• Coral
• Html
• Jquery
• Jquery UI
• Web Design
• Flash Animation
• Phonegap
• Psd to Html
• Javascript
• Html 5
• Psd Tp Html5
• Css3
• Android
• Drupal
• Jquery Mobile
• Wordpress
• Html5
• Div
• Snecha Touch
• Css
• Psd to Wordpress
• Flash
• Xhtml
• Illustrator
• Photoshop