Arun Menon, UI/UX Consultant

Arun Menon

UI/UX Consultant

TrueTech Solutions

Location
India
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business Studies
Experience
13 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 11 Months

UI/UX Consultant at TrueTech Solutions
  • India - Bengaluru
  • November 2015 to April 2016

1) UX/UI deliverables for an SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution proposed for Royal Dutch Shell, a client of Utopia India Pvt. Ltd who in turn is a client for TrueTech Solutions.

Responsibilities:

- UX and UI deliverables based on early stage Functional Specifications and mockups conceptualized by leading industry experts and technical/solution/UX architects
- Participated in a week-long workshop at Shell’s Kuala Lampur office where solutions were promulgated alongside discussions and meetings
- Early mockups required adherence to SAP Fiori Guidelines with end deliverables expected to follow SAPUI5 standards and specifications
- Short timelines meant quick turnarounds and deliverables were varied in nature including self-contained HTML/CSS/JS files, Powerpoint files, static images, short videos (screen-captures) as well as web server hosted solutions
- Click-through Axure prototypes were supported by prototypes built off HTML5/CSS/JS (powered by Foundation)



2 ) UX/UI deliverables for Utopia India Pvt. Ltd, focusing on solutions that would be built around SAP Fiori (1.0).

Responsibilities:

- Creating low fidelity clickable prototypes envisaging solutions for an ESPIR implementation
- Used Axure to simulate SAP Fiori Single Page Application solutions for complex workflows
- Attained exposure and hands-on experience in writing live SAPUI5 code using mockdata to silmulate backend communications

Ui Developer at Compo2000 Pte Ltd
  • India - Pune
  • March 2015 to September 2015

The project envisaged enhancement to an existing website to enable interfacing with Remedy (consuming SOAP web services) and Crystal Reports(for viewing reports) over the internet in order to allow registered logged-in users to easily access defined
workflows and services through a pleasing, simple and intuitive interfaces using standards-driven browsers shipped with, or available in, commonly available devices.

Some key development points include:

- the application needed to be responsive across common devices like smartphones, tablets and desktops/laptops
- the application needed to use modern-day patterns and paradigms for enhancing the UX
- the application needed to be quick and responsive
- the application needed to be secure
- the application needed to be intuitive
- the application needed to be simple i.e. not have the user pause at any point due to complexity in performing a task
- the application functionality needed to be uniform and predictable so that user expectations were met and delivered as expected
- considering that AJAX and other related technologies are in active use, the application needed to continually inform the user of the current state of the application or when major tasks or processes had been completed, regardless of the result i.e. successful or failed.

Associate Consultant at TechMahindra Ltd.
  • India
  • April 2006 to February 2013

Provide accessible interface design solutions for clients that include BT, CenturyLink, 02, Unisys, CenturyTel, SoonCorp, HOVRS etc

Software Engineer at Tesco HSC
  • India
  • November 2005 to April 2006

The Tesco Hindustan Service Centre (HSC) is the Global Services Arm for Tesco - the world’s third largest retailer. The centre sits at the heart of the Tesco group, and provides IT and Business services to Tesco operations across Europe and Asia.


As a Software Engineer (with a team size of 7) was involved in User Interface Design and Analysis for IBM Webshpere portal systems for Tesco HSC as well as the parent organization.

Technical Leader at Caritor India Private Ltd (Now Keanes Inc)
  • India
  • April 2003 to October 2005

implement interface/interaction/usability solutions for several large MNC clients which included Unisys, Wells Fargo, Staples, Honeywell, Orange, ToysRUs etc

Software Engineer at Maintec Technologies
  • India
  • June 2001 to December 2002

Helped orchestrate a full e-commerce solution for Iatria Plc, Raleigh, NC.The shopping cart was integrated with a Payment Gateway - BluePay so that Online Credit Card Payment was functional. Shipping was calculated automatically by connection to UPS - the Shipping Method offered by the client. Also integrated during this period was a comprehensive Mailing List System to send out richly formatted e-mails to a subscriber base, complete with automated subscribe/unsubscribe facility.


As a Team Member (with a team size of 1) was responsible for:
- Complete design from flow determination to final implementation
- Maintaining consistency of look and feel across all the pages
- Integration of Blue Pay with the Shopping Cart
- Mailing List system integration
- Designing/Editing and optimizing images required for navigation

Web Designer at Manasu Communications
  • India
  • January 2001 to May 2001

Design websites for company's clients.

Web Developer at Front Point Systems
  • India
  • August 2000 to December 2000

Design website/portal components for inhouse portal.

Web Designer/Copywriter at Graphic Arts Industries
  • India
  • February 2000 to July 2000

Design websites, write copy (web and print) for certain campaigns

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business Studies
  • at Farook College, Calicut University
  • April 1998

The first batch of the newly introduced Bachelor's in Business Studies course.

Specialties & Skills

HTML + CSS
SAP Fiori
User Interface Design
JavaScript
User Experience
Interaction Design
Accessability
User Experience Design
Javascript
Interface Design

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Malayalam
Intermediate
Tamil
Intermediate
French
Intermediate
Spanish
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Basics of Design Research (Training)
Training Institute:
OpenSAP
Date Attended:
September 2016
Duration:
100 hours
Imagine IoT (Training)
Training Institute:
OpenSAP
Duration:
150 hours
Developing Web Apps with SAPUI5 (Training)
Training Institute:
openSAP
Date Attended:
May 2016
Duration:
50 hours
Digital Transformation Across the Extended Supply Chain (Training)
Training Institute:
openSAP
Date Attended:
March 2016
Duration:
40 hours
User Interaction Design related internal workshops at TechMahindra (Training)
Training Institute:
Corporate Training
Human-Computer Interaction (Training)
Training Institute:
Standford University (through Coursera)
Date Attended:
December 2013
Duration:
80 hours
Build Your Own SAP Fiori App in the Cloud – 2016 Edition (Training)
Training Institute:
openSAP
Date Attended:
February 2016
Duration:
100 hours
Workshop at the Royal Dutch Shell office at Kuala Lampur for a proposed SAP Fiori implementation (Training)
Training Institute:
Corporate Workshop
Software Design for Non-Designers (Training)
Training Institute:
openSAP
Date Attended:
June 2016
Duration:
50 hours