Desigan Chinniah Firestarter @ Mozilla
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Desigan Chinniah is an enthusiastic, sociable, self-motivated and highly experienced web geek, who enjoys creating and innovating web products backed by solid user experience and community engagement.
A self-confessed geek, Dees lives in London with wife, Sanne and their kids, Summer & Kiran.
Dees is a Firestarter at Mozilla, the makers of Firefox — innovating, experimenting and engaging with their global community.
He has worked within web circles as a Designer, Developer & Product Manager for over 8 years, including stints at Ask Jeeves, Skype, BBC World Service, eBay, PayPal X and Gumtree.
Dees evolves within a magical world of VoIP calls, IRC and cross-Atlantic flights — while silently working his way through as many indie coffee shops as humanly possible.
When he's not geeking out, he can be found sporting, snapping pictures or entertaining the kids, but not at the same time.
You’ve come this far… Why not say hello?
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- Global Partnerships & Business Development at MozillaInternet | Bromley, United Kingdom, GBSummaryYou should follow 'cyberdees' on Twitter, Lanyrd, Last.fm etc. or visit http://desiganchinniah.com.
Firestarter @ Mozilla (ex-Ask/Skype/eBay/PayPal)
Startups.Angel —
Tech.Innovation.Mentoring —
Events.Unconferences —
Husband.Dad —
Travel.Music.Sport —
tl;dr
Desigan Chinniah is an enthusiastic, sociable, self-motivated and highly experienced web geek, who enjoys creating and innovating web products backed by solid user experience and community engagement.
A self-confessed geek, Dees lives in London with wife, Sanne and their kids, Summer & Kiran.
Dees is a Firestarter at Mozilla, the makers of Firefox — innovating, experimenting and engaging with their global community.
He has worked within web circles as a Designer, Developer & Product Manager for over 8 years, including stints at Ask Jeeves, Skype, BBC World Service, eBay, PayPal X and Gumtree.
Dees evolves within a magical world of VoIP calls, IRC and cross-Atlantic flights — while silently working his way through as many indie coffee shops as humanly possible.
When he's not geeking out, he can be found sporting, snapping pictures or entertaining the kids, but not at the same time.
You’ve come this far… Why not say hello?
helloATdesiganchinniahDOTcomSpecialties: ▪ Partnerships and Business Development ▪ Community creation, maintenance and engagement ▪ Product functionality, innovation, development and delivery ▪ User-centred design professional with UI (user interface), IxD (interaction design), IA (information architecture) skills ▪ Semantic web standards and accessibility advocate ▪ Finger on the pulse of technologyExperience- Sept 2011 - PresentFirestarter — Global Partnerships & Business Development / MozillaPart of the launch team, responsible for engaging with top tier brands and startups on a global scale — for partnerships with the Mozilla App Store. ▪ https://apps.mozillalabs.com/ ▪ http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/12/mozilla-labs-apps-preview/ ▪ https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Apps [The Mozilla App Store, is an initiative to bring App experiences — built using HTML5 standards and open technologies — to all your gadgets — totally agnostic to platform, browser or device.]
- Sept 2009 - PresentMentor / Startup Funds, Accelerators & IncubatorsProduct, User Experience and Community advice and feedback to teams participating within various worldwide technology programs, including: ▪ Seedcamp ▪ Springboard ▪ Gamma Rebels ▪ Rockstart ▪ WebFWD ▪ TechCityUK
- Jan 2008 - PresentLocal Champion as 'cyberdees' / London Tech CommunityA well known face within the London technology scene since 2007, attending various events, meet-ups, unconferences and conferences, with the odd bit of organisation thrown in as well. Events include: ▪ Moz(illa) Pub(lic) — founder ▪ Mozilla Festival (Drumbeat) — organiser ▪ Knight-Mozilla Journalism Challenge — organsier ▪ MozCamp — volunteer ▪ Design Jam — co-founder ▪ BarCampLondon — organiser ▪ Team Lebowski — founder ▪ Charity Hack — co-founder ▪ UXCampLondon — co-organiser ▪ TweetCamp — co-founder ▪ SocialMediaCamp — volunteer
- Jul 2010 - Sept 2011Community Manager & Curator of the Concept Series / Mozilla LabsEngaging with the global community to evolving the Concept Series by innovating and experimenting with new channels: ▪ http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/2010/10/18/concept-series-a-time-to-evolve-into-something-new/ ▪ http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/category/concept-series/
- Aug 2009 - Aug 2010Platform Developer Evangelist / PayPal X.com (X.commerce)Part of the X.com platform team organising and attending various meet-ups, hack days, unconferences and conferences around UK and Europe. Outreach and expansion for PayPal to businesses and developers, as part of their UK & European drive to showcase the new PayPal X.com APIs. Events include: ▪ FOWA London ▪ LeWeb ▪ London Pub Standards ▪ Warwick University Internet Enterprise Week ▪ Skillswap ▪ Charity Hack ▪ Launch48 ▪ Hack North ▪ Barcamps (various) [PayPal X.com, a new adaptive platform opens the PayPal platform to let developers lead change in the future of payments.]
- Jul 2009 - Aug 2010Product Architect / GumtreeInnovating and improving Gumtree.com's online presence on multiple platforms. ▪ helping maintain a prioritised roadmap ▪ driving the overall user experience strategy ▪ collaboration with and directing design, research and strategy agencies ▪ advancing search capabilities ▪ expansion of geographical outreach ▪ adding layers of trust and safety ▪ introducing effective unobtrusive monetisation ▪ getting developers to innovate with us by sharing and opening our data via APIs ▪ creating seamless third party integrations [Gumtree.com, part of eBay Classifieds Group, is the largest website for local community classifieds and one of the top 20 websites in the UK]
- Jan 2009 - Aug 2010Organiser of Brownbag Session / eBayArranging leading industry figures to speak to the eBay UK - Richmond Campus (eBay, PayPal, Gumtree, Shopping.com) during an open for all lunch time slot followed by Q&A, pizza, discussion and networking. Guests speakers include: ▪ Nik SIlver, Head of Technology at The Guardian ▪ Shed Simove, Author of Ideas Man at The Talent Shed ▪ Joana Picq, Chief Operating Officer at The NextWomen ▪ Kaigani Turner, Head of Information Architecture at Agency.com ▪ Andy Budd, Director at Clearleft ▪ Colin Bruce, Co-founder at BView ▪ Pascal Finette, Director of Mozilla Labs at Mozilla Corporation ▪ Christian Heilmann - Evangelist at Yahoo Developer Network ▪ Paul Annett, Lead visual designer at Clearleft ▪ Peter Merholz, President at Adaptive Path ▪ Seedcamp teams [eBay is The World's Online Marketplace, enabling trade on a local, national and international basis. With a diverse and passionate community of individuals and small businesses, eBay offers an online platform where millions of items are traded each day]
- May 2008 - Sept 2009User Experience (UX) & Front-End Engineering Team Lead / GumtreeImproving the overall User Experience on Gumtree.com with the introduction of User-centered design (UCD) methodologies and principles ▪ engaging more with our users via extensive research, testing, prototyping and iterations ▪ identifying and improving pattern inconsistencies ▪ working closer with the development team and actively participating in Agile (SCRUM) processes ▪ engaging and managing visual, user interface and interaction design with agencies ▪ overseeing improvement of front-end coding standards, bringing it in line with semantic and accessible mark-up Member of: ▪ Information Architecture Institute (IAI) ▪ Usability Professionals Association (UPA) ▪ Interaction Design Association (IxDA) ▪ London IA ▪ UX Book Club [Gumtree.com, part of eBay Classifieds Group, is the largest website for local community classifieds and one of the top 20 websites in the UK]
- May 2007 - Sept 2008Lead Front-End Engineer / eBayWorked on front-end development and solutions for local UK-based eBay projects, as part of a Local Development team within the Product division ▪ introduced standards-based coding techniques ▪ improved accessibility features ▪ worked with the UED pattern engine team ▪ developed a CSS toolbox for European/Asian developers ▪ participated as a technical adviser on weekly Design Review sessions ▪ organised BarCampLondon5 at eBay (Richmond Campus) [eBay is The World's Online Marketplace, enabling trade on a local, national and international basis. With a diverse and passionate community of individuals and small businesses, eBay offers an online platform where millions of items are traded each day]
- Feb 2007 - May 2007Senior Designer & Information Architect / BBC World ServiceAdvising, the BBC Work Service on improving their search interface offering across multiple languages. [The BBC World Service is arguably the most widely recognised international broadcaster, currently broadcasting in 32 languages to many parts of the world]
- Sept 2006 - Feb 2007Senior Designer / SkypeHeavily involved with the team and 3rd party agency on the Skype re-branding process and finalisation. Integrated 'Take a deep breath' brand integration into various web and application elements and modules. [Skype is software that enables the world's conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Everyday, people also use Skype to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles]
- Mar 2006 - Feb 2007User Experience Consultant / Passado LtdCalled in ton an ad hoc freelance basis to improve and overhaul the user interface and flows on existing product features on Passado, while the management team were busy trying to secure a second round of funding. The site has since been re-branded as Wasabi. [Wasabi is a social networking website in Europe, with 4.5 million members. The site, initially known as Passado was started by two school friends who thought it would be interesting if people who left their school or university could just keep in touch]
- Jan 2006 - Aug 2006Senior European Creative Designer / Ask.comInvolved in all Ask's European creative activity from search interfaces, 3rd party integrations, white label solutions, display advertising and marketing. [Ask.com (or Ask Jeeves in the United Kingdom) is a search engine founded in 1996. The original idea behind Ask Jeeves was to allow users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language, as well as traditional keyword searching. The current Ask.com still supports this, with added support for math, dictionary, and conversion questions]
- Mar 2004 - Dec 2005European Media Designer / Ask JeevesLed front-end web design of interactive branded widgets, static pages, embeddable modules on 3rd party sites. Led and coordinated the project to remove references to Jeeves on any live creative when Jeeves was being axed from the brand. [Ask.com (or Ask Jeeves in the United Kingdom) is a search engine founded in 1996. The original idea behind Ask Jeeves was to allow users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language, as well as traditional keyword searching. The current Ask.com still supports this, with added support for math, dictionary, and conversion questions]
- Nov 2003 - Mar 2004User Interface Designer and Front-End Engineer / Search Labs LtdProduced design and front-end development of the initial interface for this conceptual search engine start-up as they tendered for initial contracts against Autonomy, Verity and Fast.
- Aug 2003 - Nov 2003Web Designer (Contractor) / Ask JeevesJunior web designer to help with html interactive bespoke display advertising modules featured on the Ask Jeeves platform. [Ask.com (or Ask Jeeves in the United Kingdom) is a search engine founded in 1996. The original idea behind Ask Jeeves was to allow users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language, as well as traditional keyword searching. The current Ask.com still supports this, with added support for math, dictionary, and conversion questions]
Education-
2002 - 2002Mutlimedia Graphic Design DiplomaDiploma in Web Design, Graphic Design, Multimedia
Activities: Web Design, Graphic Design and Multimedia training covering a wide variety of Industry Standard software including : Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Fireworks, Freehand, Illustrator, Quark Xpress -
1997 - 1999University of Durban WestvilleBachelor of Accountancy
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1996 - 1997University of the WitwatersrandBSc (Chem Eng)
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1990 - 1995Westville Boys High SchoolMatric / A-Levels in English, Afrikaans, Maths, Physics, Biology, Accounting
Activities: Equivalent to A levels. Subjects: Maths, English, Accountancy, Physics, Biology, and Afrikaans
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Interests:▪ Family ▪ Technology ▪ Innovation ▪ Travel ▪ Sports ▪ Music ▪ Streetart
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Tweets
- @PierMucelli Ha! Go check out wifes companies garden (Brewin Dolphin) - supposed to have swooped gold or something.#whatdoiknowaboutgardens
- @rslosek Yeh, he's good like that ;)
- @fj As always - a crowd pleaser. Nice design although potentially not super comfortable.
- @fj *picture* that is...
- @fj And here I was expecting apocrine of the bench. Disappointed ;)
- Wishes Facebook Camera was simply a 'switch view' from main application rather than beig standalone. I'd probably use it much more then. #fb
- @MozLDNbeers What else is in you? No keeping dirty secrets, now.
- A bit of Waka Waka for the motherland on Africa Day. Turn it up! http://t.co/Q7OoUPOe #fb
- Oh, dear. I've been followed by a frekin' beer fridge. A beer fridge, I tell you. +@MozLDNbeers
- @vanderwal Sure the guys involved with this would love to hear your findings, thoughts and more from back then. +@trisignia
- @vanderwal My new toy — but also suffering from lack of enabled devices. http://t.co/XTOSrKYU +@trisignia
- @laurakalbag It's possible but more so enabled from the Last.fm side. Download and install your OS' scrobbler.
- Must not stop at the pub. Must not stop at the pub. Must not stop at the pub. Fuck it! </burp> http://t.co/Yij4LGOi
- Notes on booking read: "PLZ DO ALL POSS TO UPG VIP GUEST OF MOZILLA" ›› Ha, now if that could only happen with flights and not hotels. #fb
- Zef's CV. Brilliant. LBi were quick off the mark here in hiring. http://t.co/pkXfhwDB
- @jvbates Same ole. Same ole then. </sigh>
- Excel. Work. Crash. Lost. Fuck. Drink. #fb
- Jubilee bunting lining the streets of #london http://t.co/h1WSY0Jw
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