Kumar Ahir
About myself

With over 20 years of experience working with large corporates and running startups I have groomed myself in Design Strategy, Leadership, and Product management

As co-founder of my startup OoBI, I focussed on solving Business and users problems by employing Design and leveraging technology.
Currently I am leading team of exceptional designers to deliver simple and unified Customer Experience at Cisco, India.

Work Experience

Product Design Leader - Jan 2020 - present
Leading design of Cisco Customer Experience, Design Strategy

Consultant - Apr 2019 - Jan 2020
Design, Product, Immersive Technologies

Co-founder - Dec 2017 - Apr 19
Product, Design, Operations - Startup in Immersive Technologies

Co-founder, Tech, Operations, Design - 2011 - 15
OoBI, Bengaluru

Interaction Designer - 2010 - 11
CISCO, Bengaluru

UI Designer - 2008 - 10
Symantec, Pune

System Engineer - 2004 - 06
TCS, Chennai, Ahmedabad

Awards and Recognitions

OoBI awarded Big Idea award by Startup Karnataka

Design Registered boardgame Mahawar

Sold Mahawar Board game Design to Funskool

Skills

Design Leadership
Collaboration, Culture, Innovation at scale and complexity

UX Design
Interaction, Discovery, Research, Usability

UI Design
Adobe XD, JustInMind, PowerPoint

Prototyping
Adobe Animate/AIR, Javascript, Unity3d, HTML, CSS

Educational Qualifications

M. Des - Interaction Design
IDC, IIT Bombay - 2006 - 08

B.E. - Computer Engg.
Nirma Institute of Technology - 2000 - 04