Muthukumar Rajamani : Interaction Designer/Manager, Bangalore

Prior to Cisco Systems, Muthu worked with Sun Microsystems, Honeywell etc.,

Education

• Bachelor of Science (Visual Communication), Loyola College, '96
• Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Marketing), '04

User Experience & design driven Product Innovation

Expertise in evangelizing & implementing user-centered design strategies, processes & participatory design methodologies, both 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 competitive analysis, prototype-design, validation and iteration.
• Designed object models, task flow & process flow maps, wire frames, visual design & conducted UI assurance.
• Planned, facilitated, data-logged usability-lab tests with end-users and proposed design recommendations based on test findings.

Product & Process Management

• Thorough exposure to Six Sigma, Velocity, Agile/Lean processes, Metrics based management etc.,
• Persuasively negotiated and influenced product vision, strategy and requirements by collaborating with cross-functional teams including developers, product managers, business analysts & clients.
• Exposure to a variety of domains like Online Business Collaboration, Enterprise Servers, Aerospace, Automation & Control Systems, Building Security Solutions, Engineering IT, B2C & B2B, Portals, Online Advertising etc.,
• Exposure to designing client-sided scripting components and widgets for Rich/ Web 2.0 Applications using front-end technologies like XHTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript & AJAX
• Designed "single page interfaces" using UI Libraries like YUI, ExtJS et al

Misc.

• Organized multiple usability related Conferences (World Usability Day events, UPA Bangalore UX Meets, etc.,) & unConferences (Bangalore Barcamps and dCamps).
• Conducted multiple live-demos & training programs on Usability, Interaction Design, Web 2.0 Layouts, at a variety of educational institutions and unConferences
• Quoted in
  • The UPA Voice HE Competition ( Apr '08)
    UPA Bangalore's interview on emerging trends and the Indian usability landscape (Oct '07)
  • ACM SIGCHI’s Interactions Magazine ( Mar '06)
  • IT Magazine’s article on Usability ( May '07)
• Founding member of UPA Bangalore chapter

Presentations/Workshops

• Designing Web 2.0 Layouts & Widgets
  using XHTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript and Yahoo UI Library
  Dcamp Bangalore | Yahoo's Campus, Sept '07
• User Centered Design
  BarCamp Bangalore 1 | Yahoo's Campus, Apr '06
• User Centered Design
  BarCamp Chennai 1 | Anna University Campus, Apr '06
• UCD & Usability Testing
  World Usability Day | Anna University, Chennai, Nov '05

Contact

M : 9845913990
E : muthuonline at gmail (dot) com