Junius Gunaratne

Past

Research Intern at Microsoft
Senior Interaction Designer and Prototyper at Yahoo!
User Interface Designer at Amazon.com

Associate Human Factors Specialist at Siemens Corporate Research
User Interface Intern at Macromedia

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Education

University of California, Irvine
Carnegie Mellon University
Macalester College

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Junius Gunaratne’s Summary

Experience designing consumer products including My Yahoo!, the Yahoo! Front Page, Amazon Gold Box and Amazon recommendations. Skilled in creating high fidelity prototypes and comprehensive interaction design specifications.

Junius Gunaratne’s Specialties:

User Interface Design, Human-Computer Interaction methods, AJAX/JavaScript prototyping

Junius Gunaratne’s Experience

Research Intern

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

April 2009 — July 2009 (4 months)

Developed a collaborative sharing application in C# on an experimental mobile phone operating system platform and Windows Mobile; Conducted research on interactive public media displays and sharing applications on mobile phones.
Senior Interaction Designer and Prototyper

Yahoo!

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

July 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 3 months)

Developed interactive prototypes and defined interaction for concepts and features on Yahoo's home page, My Yahoo and various Yahoo properties; Used JavaScript-based Yahoo User Interface libraries for rapid prototyping.
User Interface Designer

Amazon.com

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Internet industry)

May 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 3 months)

Redesigned Amazon GoldBox and recommendations e-mail; developed web applications for analyzing website usage statistics and customer behavior; designed Amazon Delivers e-mail subscription management features; evaluated website usability issues.
Associate Human Factors Specialist

Siemens Corporate Research

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Computer Software industry)

September 2002 — April 2005 (2 years 8 months)

Prototyped industrial, commercial and medical software; Defined requirements for web and desktop applications by working on-site with teams throughout the U.S., Austria, Germany and Slovakia; Contributed to research activities by publishing conference papers.
User Interface Intern

Macromedia

(Public Company; MACR; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — April 2001 (4 months)

Junius Gunaratne’s Education

University of California, Irvine

Ph.D. student , Information and Computer Science (Informatics, Ubiquitous Computing) , 2008 — 2012 (expected)
Carnegie Mellon University

Master's , Human-Computer Interaction , 2001 — 2002

Capstone project with industry client Texas Instruments; TI incorporated usability findings into its graphing calculator line.
Macalester College

B.A. , Computer Science , 1999 — 2001