DESIGN LEADERSHIP

Experience

2016 AUGUST – PRESENT | BANGKOK THAILAND

AGODA
SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGN MANAGER

Leading product design for Agoda’s front end guest experience from browsing, search, payment, booking and post booking experience. Oversee Design Managers, Design leads and UX designers. Work closely with Directors of Product, Engineering & Marketing to build usable, lovable and scalable experiences that are also highly converting.

2010 JULY – 2016 AUGUST | OAKLAND CALIFORNIA

PANDORA INTERNET RADIO
SENIOR UX DESIGNER

My responsibilities include working on online advertising design custom units, page skins, landing pages, mobile ad solution concepts. I work directly with the ad operations team & campaign managers to achieve custom and productized design solutions for major brands like ( ie P&G, BMW, Kraft, Reebok, Nike, Coke, Pepsi). A major role at Pandora includes the direct support of the ad sales team with mock designs in rfp stages and design of internal site and marketing communications materials for Pandora Internet Radio. Worked very closely with the sales team to develop design concepts for major advertising pitches for fortune 500 brands and local client advertising solutions.

FEBRUARY 2007 – 2013 DECEMBER | SUNNYVALE CALIFORNIA

SKILLNET SOLLUTIONS
PRINCIPAL DESIGNER

Developed creative design solutions to market Skillnet Solutions innovative products in the IT industry. Developed marketing materials, collateral, brochures, website designs, UI Designs. Worked very closely with software developers, project managers to develop unique UI products for clients in retail, government and telecom. Developed UI products with wireframes, storyboards and to the final design phase.

2008 JANUARY – 2010 JULY | SANTA CLARA CALIFORNIA

MILESTONE INTERNET MARKETING
SENIOR INTERACTION DESIGNER

My role at Milestone Internet involved creating engaging hotel website designs that embrace the indigenous aspects of worldwide destinations while enhancing the user’s online experience. I worked very closely with a team of 40 account managers and sales team of 10 to come up with creative design solutions to market and increase hotel bookings for hotel brands that includes ( IHG, Hilton, Choice to independently owned hotels. 

2006 JANUARY – 2010 JULY | FREMONT CALIFORNIA

BIG DESIGN
CREATIVE GRAPHIC DESIGNER

My role at Big Design included working very closely with a team of 4 on package design, tradeshow displays, advertising, illustration, structure designs, website design and banners. My primary role included working very closely with the Creative director to come up with branding solutions from concept to production. 

2005 JUNE – 2005 DECEMBER | BURLINGAME CALIFORNIA

MODE ( GLAM ) MEDIA
WEB INTERFACE DESIGNER

Glam Media is the pioneer and global leader of Vertical Media—a revolutionary new media model that combines our flagship properties with curated publisher sites and their passionate, engaged audiences. By pairing our 1400+ publishers worldwide with our own large and growing properties: Glam.com for women; Brash.com for men; and Tinker.com for real-time conversations on social media sites across the Web, our vertical media model enables premium brands to connect with millions of passionate audiences online.

Education

CLASS OF 2020-2021 | HARTFORD, CN

YALE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

CERTIFICATION& COURSES

In this program, design-industry professionals broaden their management skills to complement their deep creative abilities and become well-rounded senior leaders. They strengthen strategic thinking to better tackle high-impact opportunities and drive innovation for growth. They develop soft skills to better influence, persuade, and negotiate with colleagues and clients. In addition, they learn how to lead change, use data to better manage customer relationships, and learn the basics of accounting and finance to communicate better with their financial team.

CLASS OF 2005 | SAN FRANCISCO, CA

ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY

Academy of Art University’s School of Web Design & New Media is the intersection between traditional design and new technologies, where creativity meets innovation. Students in the program are knowledgeable, strategic designers and thinkers who create cross-brand and cross-media experiences. They act as the vital bridge between web design and back-end coding. They are nimble interactive, new media and web designers who work spontaneously to meet contemporary design challenges.

CERTIFICATION& COURSES

ATTENDED 2019 JULY | NEW YORK

LEADINIG DESIGN

In this program, design-industry professionals broaden their management skills to complement their deep creative abilities and become well-rounded senior leaders. They strengthen strategic thinking to better tackle high-impact opportunities and drive innovation for growth. They develop soft skills to better influence, persuade, and negotiate with colleagues and clients. In addition, they learn how to lead change, use data to better manage customer relationships, and learn the basics of accounting and finance to communicate better with their financial team.

ATTENDED 2019 OCTOBER | CHICAGO

NIELSON NORMAN UX CERTIFICATION

The NN/g UX Certification Program offers a flexible, exam-based credential which has helped thousands of professionals build skills, gain credibility, and win projects and opportunities.

Speakings&Blogs

May 2020

DesignUp Bangalore

Spoke about the travel trends based on the new world of living in covid. Spoke with a panel of 5 virtually about the pandemic’s impact on design as a business. 

Contact

  • www.devengrover.com
  • dev23j@yahoo.com
  • +66 94 661 4008


References

I’ve worked with Deven for several years at Agoda, his presence was immediately felt as he provided great leadership, business thinking, and problem solving skills that facilitated our work with the design team. He’s not only an excellent UX and design expert as well as team leader, but he’s also someone who’s deeply in touch with the business and product he’s working with.

David Salamon
Director of Product at Agoda
Not only great people manager when it comes to designers, Deven is a relied-upon bridge between product, design, and other parts of the business to infuse the vision, goals, and get everyone moving in the same direction.

Adam Hu
Principal Product Lead at Agoda
I have been working with Deven for the past 2.5 years at Agoda (Booking holdings), me as a product lead and he’s as a design manager.
During that time, Deven constantly proved to be a true asset to the company by driving vision and high standardization of how design products should look like.
All of his reports know exactly what is expected from them and seem like they truly bought into the way and path he dictated.

Chen Biran
Senior Product Lead at Agoda