Suchithra Thyagarajan Email & Phone Number

• “Out of 887 project teams across the M&M group companies; my unit (that I represented) was nominated amongst the top 7 in the Mahindra Innovation Awards, as a successful business model, which would pivot R&D as a.
• Responsible for spearheading innovation / futuristic projects and solutions for the Global Innovation Centre.
• Conceptualizing and designing the entire user experience, and working with the team of designers and developers.
• Managing the delivery of research programs including proof of concepts, based on customers’ research goals and translating them into billable projects.
• Engaging world-class research organizations, academic institutions around the world for collaborative research.
• Organizing and conducting automotive and research events with other industrial bodies.

• Spearheaded the synergy between the business units to leverage core competencies in Internet and mobile technologies
• Conceptualized and developed an automated, template driven engine for reducing development time on repetitive client promos..
• Responsible for product development (web-based tools) and new initiatives for websites
• Responsible for estimating the demand for new products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and vendors.
• Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities across all channels.
• Communicating with all areas of the company and working with the Engineering counterpart to define product release requirements.

Chennai

• Designed and headed a 30 Learner Hour project for a Fortune 100 company in 1 month, which generated $2.0 million revenue for Sify Ltd.
• Received the SIFY WAY Excellence Award for two consecutive years (2003 and 2004) for excellent performance..
• Managed a team of over 75 graphic designers, animators and illustrators.
• Responsible for all creative initiatives and the aesthetics of the designs and courseware.
• Set up the design team and was responsible for managing their skill-sets and training
• Created a comprehensive asset repository of design templates and user-interfaces for ensuring reusability

Singapore

Media Arts was a boutique design agency and I worked as an interaction / web designer. I created user interfaces, and also worked on multimedia animations. I used software such as Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks and Dreamweaver. I also used Flash for animations.I worked on advertising campaigns for clients such as Coke, Nike, Standard Chartered, HP etc.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business/Commerce, General

Master Of Arts (M.A.), English Language And Literature/Letters

Distance education

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Fine/Studio Arts, General

Drawing, Typography, Painting, History of Art, Architecture and Sculpture, and digital arts