Myself

I'm Mugunth Kumar, currently working as a Software Engineer in Singapore with Honeywell.  I've completed my Masters in  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and waiting for my results. An avid photographer, some of my photos are uploaded to Flickr. You can find them at Mugunth's Photographs

I know a bit of Japanese, learnt it for about two years and cleared JLPT(日本語能力試験) Level 3 exams with flying(?) colours. I'm also accredited at J3 in JETRO Business Japanese proficiency exam (ビジネス日本語能力テスト)

My resume can be downloaded from here -> Mugunth's Resume

Countries Travelled


I've visited three countries so far, India, where I was born, Singapore where I live currently, and Japan where I toured in 2008. I posted a blog about my Japan trip.

Activities

Occassionally, I edit Wikipediatoo... May be close to 1200 edits by now..., I also have a page there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mugunth_Kumar

Google, the big brother who is watching all of us, has indexed a majority of my Internet Activities. You can find about all of my activities here... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Mugunth+Kumar

Favourites

Google for information on various computer related topics
Editing Wikipedia fervently, I'm also a member of a WikiProject called, Windows. It is a project which aim to improve all Windows related articles on Wikipedia. My total number of edits is around 1400+

Photography... One of my favourite pastime...
Have a look at my best shots at Flickr...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mugunthkumar

I also made a flash slide show using some tool and blogged it here.

Picasaweb, contains more comprehensive set of mine...
http://picasaweb.google.com/mugunth.kumar

I use the Canon Powershot S5 IS camera. You can read a lot of reviews on this camera on the Internet. I'll post my experience on my blog and may be notify you.

I also read a lot of technology articles using Google Reader and share what I read. It's really a great Web 2.0 app. My shared items can be accessed through this link. I think it's worth the subscription as I usually share about 20 very important links every day.

Blog - Voice of Mugunth Kumar

Blogging occasionally @ http://mugunthkumar.sulekha.comand @ http://mugunthkumar.blogspot.com Some of my topics are hot and spicy, like India 2020 Vs China 2020 and Education System in India and Quality of Education in India on the education system in India. A few blogs are on reviews (like review on Windows Vista) written by me.

I've also tagged some of my technological posts in my blog, where I'm planning to post technical articles and may be bookmark articles I read on the Internet. You can read that blog @ Mugunth's Technology Blogs. My first posting in this series is a debate on whether C# or C++ when it comes to performance which can be accessed here. Further series of articles would be reviews and wallpapers.

Company where I worked

General Electric - World's Most admired company for about two years.

Social Networking @ Orkut and Facebook

I'm at Orkut... Though I don't use it much, you can visit it to know updated information about me... Here is a link to Mugunth's Orkut Profile. I'm also at Facebook. Here is a link to Mugunth's Facebook profile

Articles

Long back... in 2003, I wrote a personality assessment test on BrainBench. I found that it was pretty accurate. Here is that report. Of late, I found that I've changed a lot after getting bashed by the corporate politics and thought I would take this assessment again. In November 2007, when I took this again, my personality has changed a bit. Especially, I became more candid from being considerate of others feelings. I've become more excitable, more imaginative and more abstract in thinking. Here is the new report. I've also made a comparison between the two here.

My company, GE, where I worked for about two years - A great company in one word... One word is simply not enough for that company. I'll probably upload a file here describing my experiences and lot others.

My college Amrita - I'll probably upload a file here.

My native, Kanyakumari - I'll probably upload a file here. Meanwhile, you can read a travel guide article on Wikitravel here. This is the only article I spent a lot of time editing on Wikitravel.


Projects

The Biggies

A community powered meta speech recognition platform (Year 2007-2008, NTU Dissertation)

Hands-free desktop using Natural Language Processing (Year 2003-2004, Amrita Dissertation)

Image Processing in VC++ (Year 2002, Amrita Mini project)

Other big noteworthy projects

Desktop Image Switcher - An Application that changes your desktop wallpaper periodically... Now, ditch that memory hogging webshots...! I've hosted this project on codeplex.

Lookup - A small handy utility that takes up literally no space ( < 1KB on hard drive) and no memory or CPU cycles, yet serves to look up meanings of words that you encounter while browsing. It's kind of a plugin for Internet Explorer and uses lookwayupto search for the meaning of the word.

Smaller projects, yet noteworthy enough to make an entry here...

Calendar in C. (Year 2000, My first C Program... sort of...)

Audio CD player.

MP3 tag reader.

<<To be updated with a seperate pages for every project>>