# Sumithra G.

> Product Design Lead | VMware, Ex-Oracle

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sumithra

User experience designer motivated by solving complex problems and passionate about empathizing with user needs to create simple, usable and intuitive designs.  I love to uncover the “Why“ and the “How“ behind every design problem and deliver innovative solutions. 

Currently, leading the user experience for SaaS services log analytics and data explorer in Oracle Management Cloud aimed at helping users monitor and troubleshoot IT issues.

Specialties: Interaction Design, User Research, Usability Testing, Prototyping, Information Architecture, Data Visualization, Agile Methodologies
Software: Sketch, Invision, Adobe CS6, Balsamiq, HTML, CSS, javascript, jQuery, Backbone.js, D3.js

When not in front of a computer, I like solving sudoku or spending time with family and friends.

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ VMware
Jan 2021 – Present
Led VMware’s UX strategy for subscription experience, collaborating with 10 teams.
Led a team of 8 designers, ensuring timely design delivery and mentoring new talent.
Managed the design process, accessibility, and user research across teams.
Received multiple awards within VMware for exceptional contributions.

### Senior Product Designer @ VMware
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Led the UX for vSphere+ from start to launch, achieving significant adoption in 6 months.
Conducted strategic research with 35 customers in 2 months, influencing the product roadmap.

### Senior Interaction Designer @ Oracle
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019
- Lead design initiatives for products within the Oracle management cloud suite and designed responsive applications for SaaS services
- Based on user needs, identified key insights to highlight in ML-based application diagnostic flows and increased user satisfaction by 30% for application diagnostic flows
- Increased impact of UX and increased user empathy within the organization by organizing user research sessions and influenced the product roadmap by advocating for user needs
- Lead design effort and produced high quality prototypes for executive presentations that were launched in Oracle Openworld conference
- Managed temporary contractors for icon production and mentored junior designers on the team


Key Projects:
Troubleshooting IT issues with Log Analytics
Log administration based workflows
Data visualization and Dashboards

### Interaction Designer @ Oracle
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Drive design process and involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle
 - Writing user stories designing the user interfaces
 - Run usability testing for ML based clustering feature
 - Collaborate with development, QA and product management team

### Software Engineer @ bwin.party digital entertainment
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Hyderabad Area, India
Implemented the validation framework for the registration and login pages using JavaScript and Spring framework. Implemented a real-time player conversion system using Java. Drove the Front-end development using JavaScript and JSP for these 2 features.

### Trainee (Intern) @ ABB
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
The task assigned was to analyze the SCADA communication risks and to suggest a solution to ensure secure transmission of data in such networks. It involved an extensive study and culminated with a final report with analysis and suggestions to the company. It was archived by them for further review and implementation.


## Education
### Master's degree in Information Technology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

### Subscription Business
Stanford Continuing Studies

### Design Research Techniques in Design Leadership
Cooper Professional Education

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science
College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sumithracg
- Portfolio: https://www.sumithragnanasekar.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13