Muthukumar Rajamani

Current

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

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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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Life Stream 2.0

Muthukumar Rajamani’s Summary

Over 13 years experience in managing User Experience, User Research, Front-end Development & Product Management for Web, Web 2.0, Desktop & Mobile (iPhone, Blackberry & Android) products.

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

• 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.

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

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

Muthukumar Rajamani’s Specialties:

Mobile (Android, iPhone, Blackberry) application design & development
- User Research, User Experience Design, Usability Lab Testing, Interaction Design, Product Requirements Definition

Muthukumar Rajamani’s Experience

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

  Cisco Systems

  (Public Company; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 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 a cross functional team of UX Designers, Front End Developers etc., and define product requirements.

• 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:

• Life Stream 2.0

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

Muthukumar Rajamani’s Groups:

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

•    Sun Alumni
•    Interaction Design Association
•    MobileMonday
•    Design Thinking
•    UX Professionals
•    Cisco
•    Product Management
•    Honeywell
•    Cloud Computing
•    User Experience
•    Google Android
•    Design Research
•    Software as a Service (SaaS) Group
•    Human Factors
•    CSS Designers & Developers
•    TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
•    Forum Nokia
•    Agile Application Lifecycle Management
•    User Experience Jobs
•    Apps
•    (The NEW) Mobile User Experience

Muthukumar Rajamani’s Honors:

Bubka Award, Satyam-Infoway, Chennai : 2000
Individual Excellence Awards, Honeywell, Bangalore : 2004
Outstanding Performance Award, Cisco Systems, Bangalore : 2009

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