Muthukumar Rajamani

Current

Manager - Product Experience, R & D - Product Management team at Cisco

Past

Interaction Designer at Sun Microsystems
Senior Principal Engineer : UCD team at Honeywell
UI Design Lead, Interactive Services Division at Sify

UI Designer at Puretech Internet Pvt Limited
Head - Web Design at Surf India Web Services Pvt Ltd

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Education

Symbiosis institute of Management Studies
University of Madras

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Computer Software

Websites

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Muthukumar Rajamani’s Summary

- Over 13 years experience in leading & managing User Experience, Front-end Development & Design driven Product innovation/management for Web, Web 2.0, Desktop & Mobile (iPhone, Blackberry Tour, Storm & Motorola Droid) products

- Bachelor's Degree in Visual Communication and Master's Diploma in Business Administration (Marketing)

- Expertise in evangelizing & implementing user-centric design processes, guidelines, UI patterns etc.,

- Experienced in defining product requirements, gathering user requirements through user & stakeholder interviews.

- Effectively reviewed, analyzed and mapped business requirements to design strategies through prototype-design, validation and iteration. Also planned, facilitated, data-logged usability-lab tests with end-users and proposed design recommendations.

- Thorough exposure to Six Sigma, Velocity and Agile development life cycles

- Exposure to front-end technologies like XHTML, CSS, iPhone SDK, DOM, JavaScript & client-sided scripting for Web 2.0 Applications

- Evangelized usability within and across organizations. Conducted live-demos/workshops/training programs on usability, Web 2.0 Layouts, at educational institutions and unConferences

- Organized multiple Conferences (World Usability Day events) & Unconferences ( Bangalore Barcamps and dCamps)

Blog & Life-stream > http://muthuonline.com

Muthukumar Rajamani’s Specialties:

iPhone, Blackberry Storm Application Design & Development, User Experience Design, Product Stewardship, Product Requirements Definition, Social Media, Social Software, CSS, User Research, Interaction Design, UI Architecture, AJAX frameworks, Mobile , Trend Analysis, Web 2.x, Online Collaboration, SaaS et al

Muthukumar Rajamani’s Experience

Manager - Product Experience, R & D - Product Management team

Cisco

(Public Company; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Responsible for defining and managing the product experience of on-demand SaaS based web 2.0 and mobile applications, in the online collaboration domain. Additionally manage front end development and participate in product management/stewardship activities.
Interaction Designer

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)

January 2006 — July 2008 (2 years 7 months)

Involved in Object Modeling, UI-Architecture, User Research and Interaction Design for Java Enterprise System (Java ES) products targeted at 'System Administrators'. Also involved in designing Web 2.0 components & widgets.
Senior Principal Engineer : UCD team

Honeywell

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HON; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

August 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Involved in User Requirements, Prototyping, UI Assurance and Usability testing of Web and Desktop Applications in the Engg IT, Aerospace and Automated Control Systems domains.

Developed a Velocity Product Development framework through effective re-use of CSS and aspx files, based on design patterns and reduced web application design & development time by 40%

Trained in Metrics based Management through DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) program.
UI Design Lead, Interactive Services Division

Sify

(Public Company; SIFY; Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2004 (5 years )
UI Designer

Puretech Internet Pvt Limited

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 2 months)
Head - Web Design

Surf India Web Services Pvt Ltd

(Internet industry)

January 1998 — October 1998 (10 months)

Muthukumar Rajamani’s Education

Symbiosis institute of Management Studies

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration , Marketing , 2004 — 2006
University of Madras

BS , Visual Communication , 1993 — 1996

Additional Information

Muthukumar Rajamani’s Websites:

My Blog

Muthukumar Rajamani’s Interests:

Collaboration, Social Business Networking, On Demand Software, Enterprise 2.0, SaaS, Mobile Experience Design, Online Business Communities, User Experience, Product Design, Research, Web 2.0