Sivasailam muthiah

Phone: (425) 922 8872 
Email: kmshiva@gatech.edu
Portfolio: http://kmshiva.com

OBJECTIVE:
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Seeking a full-time position in the area of User Experience Design and Interaction Design.

EDUCATION:
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GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (2009 - May 2011 (expected))
M.S. Human-Computer Interaction (GPA: 3.90)

UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS (1999 - 2003)
B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Percentage: 76%)

SKILLS:
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USABILITY EVALUATION
Cognitive Walkthrough / Think-Aloud Testing / Heuristic Analysis

UI DEVELOPMENT
Wireframing / Storyboarding / MVC / Design Patterns / Web Standards


TOOLS:
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PROTOTYPING & DESIGN
Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign / OmniGraffle / Flash

UI DEVELOPMENT
HTML / CSS / Javascript / jQuery / Python / C# / ASP.NET / Java / SQL

EXPERIENCE:
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CareerBuilder LLC.(May 2010 - July 2010)
R&D Intern - Data Visualization

Georgia Institute of Technology (Jan 2010 - Dec 2010)
Graduate Research Assistant

Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (Jan 2004 - Mar 2009)
Team Lead, Lead Architect, Lead Developer

PROJECTS:
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LIQUIDTEXT HELP SYSTEM DESIGN (Group Project, Aug 2010 - Present)
- Designing help system and help videos for gestures used in an
iPad application designed for critical reading
- Wireframing, Storyboarding, Prototyping

SPLASH  (Group Project, Aug 2010 - Dec 2010)
- Designed and built a system which enables the sharing of pic- tures stored on a Mobile phone or on Facebook using a large external display, while utilizing the phone as a ÒGesture PadÓ
- System Design, Programming - Javascript, Node.js (Server-side Javascript), Canvas

GT MOB	(Group Project, Aug 2010 - Dec 2010)
- Designed and built one part of a HTML5 based mobile portal
for Georgia Tech utilizing Web SQL and Application Cache
- Wireframing, Programming - Javascript

TANGIBLE BULLETINBOARD (Group Project, Aug 2010 - Dec 2010)
- Designed and built a digital interactive bulletinboard which allows the posting of physical flyers
- Wireframing, Programming - Canvas, Javascript

WHAT'S IT LIKE THERE? (Group Project, Aug 2010 - Dec 2010)
- Designed and built a context aware information system where a user browsing travel related websites like Wikitravel is presented
a method to video chat with people at the locations mentioned on the page
- System Design, Programming - Android, Java, Javascript

VISUALIZING JOB RECOMMENDATIONS AND RESUME COLLECTIONS (Individual Project, May 2010 - July 2010):
- Built a system to visualize all the ResumŽs and Job Postings in the CareerBuilder database 
- Built a web application to help job seekers visualize and filter a large number of job recommendations
- Unstructured Interviews, Wireframing, Programming - Silverlight, Javascript, SVG

VISUALIZING PRODUCT REVIEWS (Individual Project Aug 2009 - May 2010):
- Studied problem of evaluating a product based on a large number of reviews 
- Created a large corpus of consumer reviews and analyzed existing visualization systems 
- Created visualizations to help digest all this data
- Wireframing, Programming - Python,Javascript, SVG

BILLBOARD TOP 50 SONGS OVER 50 YEARS TRENDS VISUALIZATION (Group Project, Jan 2010 - May 2010)
- Designed and built an interactive visualization of the Top 50 Billboard chart positions for the past 50 years in order to discern the trends in how musical genres have risen and fallen over the years.

FIREFIGHTER VISION SYSTEM (Group Project Aug 2009 - Dec 2009):
- Interviewed firefighters and analyzed problems faced by them 
- Designed an Augmented Reality (AR) System to navigate low-visibility environments 
- Built and evaluated the prototype AR system comparing it with existing technologies
- Unstructured Interviews, Prototyping, Evaluation

GOVTRACK 2.0 (Group Project Aug 2009 - Dec 2009):
- Designed a web-based system to help users to comprehend United States legislation 
- Studied existing systems and performed an user evaluation to discover problems with them
- Wireframing, Evaluation