Work Experience

• Technologist
  Big Spaceship
  June 2011 – Present
  Making awesome things with cutting edge technology.
• Developer
  Aviary Inc
  October 2010 – June 2011
  Developed and maintained online audio applications – Myna and Roc – and open source code libraries for the Effects API.
• Graduate Research Assistant
  Parsons the New School for Design
  August 2008 – May 2010
  Worked in teams to design and develop websites for projects related to the New School; built Drupal and Wordpress themes, created a custom Drupal module; worked in teams to design and develop a mobile, location-based game; designed and developed a social classroom site with Wordpress; developed a collaborative website with Drupal
• Project Manager
  ActivElement
  February 2006 – December 2007
  Managed projects; initiated, built and maintained client relationships; designed, developed and tested websites and web applications.
• Associate Art Design Manager, Sr. Graphic Designer
  Maximize Learning Pvt. Ltd.
  May 2004 – January 2006
  Managed and maintained client relationships; managed and trained teams; conducted performance appraisals; authored Requests for Information and Proposals; presentations to visiting clients.
  Senior Graphic Designer
  Graphic design, user interface design and flash animations; conducted Peer Reviews

Honors & Awards

• 2010: 2010 Adobe Design Achievement Awards, Application Development, Semifinalist for Shredboard.
• 2009: Open Society Institute’s (OSI) Public Health Program and Parsons CDT Summer Fellowship.
• 2008: World Wide Web Awards – Gold Web Award 2008 for Adina's Deck
• 2002 – 2004: Multiple awards for rock vocal performance.

Teaching

• Part-Time Faculty
  Parsons the New School for Design
  August 2010 – Present
  Teaching 1st year MFA Design and Technology students programming concepts and using code to produce art with Processing, C++/OpenFrameworks and Arduino.
• Teaching Assistant: Creativity and Computation Lab
  Parsons the New School for Design
  August 2009 – December 2009
  Taught 1st year MFA Design and Technology students PHP/MySQL, Wordpress and Processing.
• Bootcamp 2009: Code Teacher
  Parsons the New School for Design
  July 2009 – August 2009
  Taught incoming MFA Design and Technology students programming concepts through Processing. (Bootcamp is a 3-week intensive summer course).

Performances, Exhibitions and Talks

• 2010
  • Exhibition: social sqncr, onezero, Parsons MFADT 2010 Thesis Symposium, Parsons the New School for Design, NYC.
  • Demo: social sqncr, Humanities + Digital, Visual Interpretations Conference, MIT, Boston, MA.
  • Exhibition: social sqncr, California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, LA, CA.
• 2008
  • Performance: Video performance with Analogue Transit, BAM and Southpaw, NYC.

Education

• Parsons School of Design
  Master of Fine Arts, Design and Technology
• Symbiosis Institute of Business Management
  Post Graduate Diploma, Advertising & Public Relations Management
• University of Allahabad
  Bachelor of Commerce