About

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My name is Sarth Desai, a technology enthusiast, dog dad, with 6+ years of managing software products ranging from student, faculty, and administrative facing web, mobile applications, conversational chatbots to voice interfaces.

Throughout my career, I have taken multiple challenging roles such as an Entrepreneur, UX Designer, Service Owner, Technology Manager, Product Designer, and Product Owner.

I started my career in tech by co-founding an ed-tech startup with friends in college. The startup journey was short (~2 years) but was full of surprises. We were constantly innovating, solving problems, interacting with customers, and skilling up to be competent. It also helped me gain experience in starting from scratch, end-end delivery, taking ownership, validating solutions, conducting pilots, pivoting, frugality, etc.

Currently, I am a Product Owner for Student Life and Career Services at New York University, where I lead a talented team of 8 UX Designers, 14 Software Developers, and 2 User Support Staff. My team works closely together to design, build, and support services like Engage (Club Management System), Handshake (Student Job platform), VioletNetwork (Student-Alumni networking & mentoring platform), Events Check-in, PrintStatus, TravelMonitor, etc

From 2018 - 19, I served as a Product Designer at New York University, I led the design process for the app/web projects and managed a team of designers. My team designed the NYU Torch Design System for NYU to provide efficiency, consistency, and scalability. I also lead the emerging tech/proof of concept (POC) strategy for NYU IT. As part of this strategy, my team worked on two POC projects, one Augmented Reality project that virtualizes club fest for students and a Mixed Reality project for the facilities manager to explore and engage with floor plans.

From 2016 - 18, I served as the Technology Manager for NYU Engage (OrgSync) and relationship manager/advisor for student technology projects associated with the NYU Campus Coding Collaborative (C3).

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