Sivasailammuthiah

OBJECTIVE:

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

EDUCATION:

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 2009 – 2011 (expected)

M.S. Human-Computer Interaction GPA: 3.90

UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 1999 – 2003

B.E. Electrical and Electronics EngineeringPercentage: 76%

PROJECTS:

LIQUIDTEXT HELP SYSTEM DESIGN Group Project, Aug 2010 - Present

• Designed help system and help videos for gestures in an iPad application
• Wireframing, Storyboarding

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

SPLASH Group Project, Aug 2010 - Dec 201

• Designed and built a system which allows the exploration of photographs on a mobile phone (or on FB) using a TV as an external display and the touch screen phone as a gestural input device
• System Design, Programming - Javascript, Node.js (Server-side Javascript), Canvas

VISUALIZING JOB RECOMMENDATIONS AND RESUME COLLECTIONS Individual Project, May 2010 – July 2010

• Built a system to visualize all the resumes and job postings in the CareerBuilder database
• Built a webpage to help job seekers visualize and filter a large number of job recommendations

VISUALIZING PRODUCT REVIEWS AND DISCUSSIONS Individual Project, Aug 2009 – Till date

• Studied problem of evaluating a product based on a large number of reviews and discussions
• Created a large corpus of consumer reviews and analyzed existing visualization systems
• Created visualizations to help digest all this data

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

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

EXPERIENCE:

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Graduate Research Assistant (Jan 2010 - Dec 2010)

• Worked on visualizing product reviews and discussions

SATYAM COMPUTERS

Team Leader, Lead Architect, Lead Developer (Jan 2004 – Mar 2009)

• Designed and Developed an applications that worked across Unix, Windows and the Web
• Created reusable libraries and tools which improved usability and cross-browser compatibility

SKILLS:

USABILITY EVALUATION

UI DEVELOPMENT

TOOLS:

PROTOTYPING & DESIGN

ARCHITECTURE

DEVELOPMENT