R Muthukumar

Current

• Lead - Product Experience, R & D - Product Management team at Cisco WebEx

Past

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

• 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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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog

R Muthukumar’s Summary

- 12 years experience in leading & managing User Experience & design driven Product Innovation for web, web 2.x & desktop 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 et al

- Experienced in 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, DOM, JavaScript & client-sided scripting for Rich Web Applications

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

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


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

R Muthukumar’s Specialties:

Social Media, Social Software, CSS, User Research, Interaction Design, UI Architecture, AJAX frameworks, Mobile , Trend Analysis, Web 2.x, Collaboration, SaaS et al

R Muthukumar’s Experience

• Lead - Product Experience, R & D - Product Management team

  Cisco WebEx

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; webx; Computer Software industry)

  July 2008 — Present (2 months)

  Responsible for defining the product experience for collaborative, on-demand SaaS based web 2.0 applications

• Interaction Designer

  Sun Microsystems

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

  January 2006 — July 2008 (2 years 7 months)

  Role : Experienced Individual Contributor
  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; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  August 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 6 months)

  As an Experienced Individual Contributor, was 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

  Satyam Infoway

  (Public Company; Internet 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)

R Muthukumar’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

R Muthukumar’s Websites:

• My Blog

R Muthukumar’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

R Muthukumar’s Groups:

UPA Bangalore, dCamp Bangalore, CHI Bangalore, BarCamp Bangalore, Bangalore Usability

•    Interaction Design Association
•    UX Professionals
•    User Experience
•    Forum Nokia

R Muthukumar’s Honors:

Bubka Award, Satyam-Infoway, Chennai : 2000
Individual Excellence Awards, Honeywell, Bangalore : 2004

R Muthukumar’s Contact Settings

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