Objective

A UX enthusiast with 6+ years of experience in crafting compelling UX and UI, my breeding ground is where the line between designer and a developer, gets blurred. With expertise hands-on experience in Contextual Inquiry, Product development life cycle, Visual-designing, Wire-framing, Prototyping, Web-Standards, I love to bring an application to life!

Passionate about the life of an application, I love being a vital part of a UX team, throughout the life cycle of the product / application, right from requirement gathering, through wire-framing / prototyping, to being a preacher of web-standards and best-practices while implementation and delivery.

An ardent reader, a budding writer, a novice speaker and a passionate Internet-buff, I believe in the infinite possibilities of the wired world! I see myself as a UX evangelist, and as an integral part of any team that I would work with, making the web a better place to be!

Accolades

  • Listed among the ‘Top 52 designers to follow on twitter’ by Webdesignmash
  • Planned and executed several knowledge sharing sessions across Infosys, mainly on web-standards and best practices, to make the developer community aware of the standards and thus to lift the quality of deliverables on a micro level.
  • Played a key role in building a UX portal for the Infosys community, which is now a base reference point for all best practices and reusable artifacts, within the organization.
  • Active contributor in webdesign blogs, by writing articles and leveraging internet as a tool to enlightenment

Skills

Contextual Inquiry

Strategically frame the architecture of an app/website, by following standard guidelines and user research

Visual Design

A pixel-perfect multimedia designer, following the philosophy - 'Devil lies in details'

UI Development

Passionate handcrafter of compelling front end experiences, adhering to web-standards and implementing latest techniques

Technical

  • IA Fundamentals
  • Visio
  • Balsamiq
  • Axure
  • Web Accessibility
  • Usability
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Corel Draw
  • Adobe Flash
  • Macromedia Director
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Adobe Aftereffects
  • Adobe Encore
  • Adobe Audition
  • Web Standards
  • Cross Browser Compatibility
  • XHTML
  • HTML 5.0
  • Object oriented CSS
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • Mootools
  • Wordpress
  • CSS Frameworks

Experience (6 Years)

Infosys Technologies Ltd.

UI Lead

Jan 2009 - till date

Provide optimal UX solutions ranging from Wireframing/Prototyping/Visual Designing/Front-end Engineering, to a wide range of clients, the key being, the ability to adhere to standards in challenging timelines, and the implementation of best-practices and methodologies, giving importance to sustainability and scalability of the solution provided !

Sapient Corporation

Interactive Developer

August 2006 - Jan 2009

Front-end Engineer expert for project teams, with responsibility to regulate and guide the development team to adhere to web-standards, and provide optimal solutions regarding UI techniques, Frameworks and approaches to be followed.

Intersolutions Pvt Ltd

Member Support - Creative Design

August 2005 - August 2006

Work closely with the IA and dev team, to come up with intuitive and effective UI for applications, for both web and mobile media.

Ephron Technologies LLC

Web / Graphics Designer

Nov 2004 - July 2005

Designing visual design mockups for application UIs and creating standard-based working prototypes, by working closely with the Dev team and Business Analysts

Image Multimedia

Multimedia Designer

Feb 2004 - Nov 2004

Responsible for designing UIs for various medias like Web, TV, Kiosks and Print. Strong exposure in designing and developing interactive UIs using Adobe Flash, Director and hands-on experience in various video editing and post-productin tools like Adobe Premiere and Adobe Aftereffects.

Education

Still learning, one day at a time

Journey called life !

1982 - tilldate

VLB Janakiammal College of Arts & Science

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science

2000 - 2003

SDV English Medium Higher Secondary School

AISSCE (CBSE)

1998 - 2000

SDV English Medium Higher Secondary School

AISSE (CBSE)

1998

SDV English Medium Higher Secondary School

Primary & Secondary School (CBSE)

1986 - 1998

Interests

Books, Internet, Writing, Drawing, Graphology (Handwriting Analysis), Attending sessions by expert speakers, Conducting sessions, Table Tennis, Yoga, Cooking, Spending time with family.

References

Available upon request

Ranjith kumar R — mysticpixels@gmail.com — (+91) - 9986660233