August 19th,2015
Mentor of the week: Shipra Kayan

Shipra Kayan is currently mentoring THINK's incubatees and has accepted to mentor at kLab. She is a typical technical mentor- and we have got a lot of requests for this kind of mentorship.
She will be at kLab this Thursday (20 August 2015) from 2PM- 5PM. Check out her profile below and If you are interested in meeting her, please contact us at info@klab.rw.

E D U C AT I O N

Masters in Human Computer Interaction | GPA 3.7, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA | September 2005.
Bachelors in Information Technology | 1st Class, University of Delhi, India | April 2004.

E M P L OY M E NT

Upwork, San Francisco, CA | May 2015 to present formerly oDesk, Elance-oDesk
User Experience Research Lead: I am gathering and distributing customer behavior insights across the product, design and marketing teams.
Elance-oDesk, Mountain View, CA | January 2010 to May 2015 formerly oDesk
Interaction Designer: I researched, designed, and even product managed various projects on oDesk.com, from working with economists and data scientists to improve the search experience, all the way to re-thinking the Information Architecture. I employed Personas and Experience maps to align the product team around our top customers and their problems.
Oracle Corp. Redwood Shores, CA | October 2005 to December 2009
Interaction Designer: I solved complex design problems with enterprise level financial and project management software.