Junius Gunaratne

Junius Gunaratne

Graduate Student

Greater Los Angeles Area

Past
Education
  • University of California, Irvine
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Macalester College
Connections
323 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

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 2009July 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 2006September 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 2005July 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 2002April 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 2001April 2001 (4 months)


Junius Gunaratne’s Education

  • University of California, Irvine

    Ph.D. student , Information and Computer Science (Informatics, Ubiquitous Computing) , 20082012 (expected)

  • Carnegie Mellon University

    Master's , Human-Computer Interaction , 20012002

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

  • Macalester College

    B.A. , Computer Science , 19992001


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Junius Gunaratne’s Groups:

Carnegie Mellon University

  •    BayCHI
  •    Amazon Alumni
  •    Macromedia Alumni
  •    Carnegie Mellon Alumni
  •    UCI Alumni
  •    Macalester College
  •    Yahoo Employees
  •    Yahoo Employees and Alumni Group
  •    User Experience

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