Resume of R.Muthukumar

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C 203, Nakshatra, 7th Cross, Lingarapuram, Bangalore 560084


SUMMARY

  • 11 years professional design experience including 9 years in designing, leading & managing User Experience for web & desktop products
  • Bachelor's Degree in Visual Communication and Master's Diploma in Business Administration (Marketing)
  • Thorough exposure to Six Sigma, Velocity and Agile processes, Metrics based management and product development lifecycles
  • Experienced in evangelizing & implementing user-centered design processes & methodologies within and across organizations
    • Researched, probed & gathered user requirements through user & stakeholder interviews and surveys.
    • Reviewed, analyzed and mapped business requirements to design strategies through prototype-design, validation and iteration.
      Also conducted UI assurance.
    • Planned, facilitated, data-logged usability-lab tests with end-users and proposed design recommendations based in test findings.
  • Collaborated & persuasively negotiated and influenced product vision, strategy and requirements with cross-functional teams including development, product management and business analysts.
  • Expertise in front-end technologies like XHTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript & client-sided scripting for Rich Web Applications
  • Conducted live-demos & training programs on Usability, Interaction Design, Web 2.0 Layouts, at educational institutions and unConferences.
  • Organized multiple Conferences (World Usability Day events) & Unconferences (Bangalore Barcamps and dCamps)


EDUCATION



EXPERIENCE

Sun Microsystems, Bangalore, Jan-'06- to present
xDesign (Software Experience Design team)
  • openInstallerIDE : Designed, validated and iterated low-fi prototype this Open Sourced Netbeans tool with users, stakeholders and developers.
  • Sun Java System Web Sever 7.x : Proposed design-recommendations based on Usability Test findings and conducted UI Assurance for this web-based server-administration application. Involved in Object Modeling, Task Analysis of related Java Enterprise Systems (Java ES) products to provide uniform a user experience. Proposed new features based on comparative analysis of competitive products like Zeus 4.3
  • Java ES Software Management Tool : Gathered usage scenarios through User Interviews, Stakeholder Interviews.
  • Rich Web Applications : Probed, experimented, deep-dived and achieved expertise in front-end technologies like CSS, DOM, JavaScript and AJAX-basics. Experimented and re-designed my portfolio using rich-web UI Libraries, UI components like YUI, extjs etc.,.

Honeywell, Bangalore, Aug-'04- to Jan-'06 | 1.5 years
Senior Principal Engineer | UCD (User Centered Design team)
  • Conceptualized and implemented a Velocity Product Development framework by creating and re-using CSS, aspx files based on Design patterns. Reduced web application design and development time by 40%. Nominated for a Global Honeywell Excellence award.
  • Consistently reviewed and influenced the scope and direction of project requirements, based on data gathered through low-fi prototype-validation, during early stages of SDLC. Negotiated and persuaded implementation of technically-difficult yet user-friendly features. Also involved in designing Usability test plans, data logging, user observation, usability test facilitation, generating test reports based on findings etc.,., apart from designing process-flow maps, task-flow maps, wireframes etc.,
  • Awarded the "Individual Excellence Award" for Lean Search Tool project.
  • Evangelized User-Centered-Design process across SBUs and conducted training programs on usability. Also got mentored in Usability Testing and underwent training in Design For Six Sigma (DFSS)

Satyam Infoway, Chennai, Dec-'99- to Aug-'04 | 4.8 years
UI Design Lead | Interactive Services division
  • Recruited, trained and led a multi-functional team of designers, developers and writers.
  • Designed and maintained transaction-driven B2C and B2B e-commerce sites like www.indiaplaza.com, www.sifymall.com, www.samachargifts.com
  • Evangelized User-Centered-Design process and its integration with SDLC, across SBUs by conducted training-programs
  • Involved in online-branding, advertising and promotions, online-gaming, prototyping, portal design, content management, search engine optimisation, client-interaction etc., Clients include Nike, Coca-Cola, Acer etc.,
  • Awarded the "Bubka Award" for GE Technology Cockpit Intranet Design project.

Puretech Internet, Mumbai, Nov-'98- to Dec-'99 | 1.2 years
UI Designer & Developer
Involved in client interaction, information architecture, visual design, search engine optimization, HTML & JavaScript coding of high-end corporate websites, online editions of magazines etc.,

Surf India Web Services, Chennai, Feb'98- to Oct-'96 | 8 months
Head-Web Design
Involved in client interaction, information architecture, visual design, flash animations, search engine optimization, HTML & JavaScript coding of medium-end corporate websites.

Vector Institute of Visual Arts, Chennai, Jul'97- to Dec-'97 | 6 months
Faculty - Digital Design and Multimedia
Taught visual design basics, 2D animation, 3D modeling and animation, interactive multimedia and communication design with specific input sessions on copy-visual dialectics

Nest Multimedia, Chennai, Sept-'96 to Feb-'97 | 6 months
Trainee- Multimedia
Experimented with a variety of design opportunities in print, ad-films, graphics for films, cell animation, 3d gaming & modeling, web design and client-interaction.


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