Muthu Kumar

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Biography

Over 12 years of experience in providing user experience thought leadership for small and large organizations including Fortune 500 companies.

Key strengths
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- Lead user experience design teams
- Interaction design for mobile and web applications
- Map customer journey across multiple channels
- Mental models
- Touch-point design
- User scenarios
- Information architecture
- Usability testing

Domain expertise
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• Insurance (Allstate, Nationwide, ERIE, Sun life, Safeco)
• Sales and Auction Management (Andale/Vendio)
• Banking (OCBC)
• Publishing (Sourcemedia)
• Auto (Manheim Auto Auctions, Suzuki, Ashok Leyland)
• Technology (Linksys)

Worked for top IT consulting and product development companies. (Sapient Corporation, Capgemini, Andale)

Client facing user experience design professional with pre-sales and team management skills

Applied user centered design methodology for 25+ large scale web based projects

Managed/mentored team size of 5-12 interaction designers/developers

International working experience (USA, India and Singapore)

Contact:
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Email : muthu.kumar (at) yahoo.com

Industry Expertise (3)

Design

Computer Software

Internet

Areas of Expertise (5)

User Experience Design

Usability Testing

Information Architecture

Software Project Management

Team Leadership

Education (2)

Bharathiar University: Bachelor's, Visual Communication 1999

IDL, Chennai, India: Advanced Diploma in Internet technologies 2001

Affiliations (2)

• Member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
• Secretary at Usability Professionals' Association Hyderabad Chapter

Links (1)

• My Twitter URL

Availability

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