Jayarani Kumar

About Jayarani Kumar

Around 20+ years of experience in User Experience for Complex Systems and versatile experience of project management, Avionics Testing, and Product Management.Domains:Aerospace, Automobile,Mobility,Fintech, Education,Information Technology systems and services, Battery Product Manufacturing • Passionate User Experience Designer and strong UCD practices to provide complex to organic solutions • On-time delivery of 100+ releases through strong execution skills and technical management by working with the development team/stakeholders/Business and/or customers. • People management, budget management, strategic guidance, creative direction, ideation, prototyping, marketing strategy, product design/visioning. • Entire UX lifecycle including UX research, UX strategy, UX design and UX optimization. • A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, Information Architecture, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns. • Collaborate with behavior-based research programs to generate user persona driven development and user scenarios • Act as the user-advocate during the proposal, envision, sales presentation, development process, subjecting early-stage designs to usability testing or expert review, and other implementation suggestions from a user-centered perspective • Conceptualized Design Business / Marketing Presentation • Lean/Agile Project management, Configuration management, defect management and issue management with tools like JIRA, PVCS, Clear Case and Clear Quest

Experience

1. Director Design and Content

   IBM

   Jul 2024 — Present

Education

• Vinayaka Mission's Kirupananda Variyar Engineering College

  Master’s Degree, Computer Science Engineering

  2010 — 2013

• Periyar University

  Master's degree, Psychology

  2017 — 2019

• Indian Institute of Management (IIM)

  Executive MBA, Marketing, Strategy and General Business

  2020 — 2022

• Sri Sarada Matriculation Higher Secondary

  High School, Maths, Computer Science

  1999 — 2000

• Maharaja Engineering College

  Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology - Applied Science

  2000 — 2003

• PSG College of Technology

  Master’s Degree, Computer Technology

  2003 — 2005

Skills

• System Requirements
• System Integration Testing
• Clearcase
• Aerospace
• Requirements Analysis
• Embedded Systems
• Usability Testing
• User Interface Design
• Sdlc
• Pvcs
• Tortoise Svn
• Avionics
• Opengl
• User Acceptance Testing
• Six Sigma
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• User Experience
• Testing
• Project Management
• Test Automation
• User Analysis
• Do-178b
• Systems Engineering
• C
• Software Project Management
• User-Centered Design
• Test Management
• C++
• Team Leadership