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)

Internet

Design

Computer Software

Areas of Expertise (5)

User Experience Design

Usability Testing

Information Architecture

Software Project Management

Team Leadership

Education (2)

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

Bharathiar University: Bachelor's, Visual Communication 1999

Affiliations (2)

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

Links (1)

• My Twitter URL

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