rinesch murugathas

About Me

Hi, I'm Rinesch. I'm an aspiring UX Designer and Coder from Basel, Switzerland. I'm very passionate about designing pretty websites, apps and applications, while making sure the user experience is great as well. Recently I graduated from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland in Brugg, Switzerland, majoring in Computer Science and I'm currently looking for work.

Education

Sep 14 - Sep 17

University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with specialisation in Design and Management

Subjects completed

  • User Interface and Interaction Design
  • Advanced Experience Design
  • Information Visualisation
  • Custom User Interface Elements
  • Design Theory and Process
  • Requirements Engineering
  • Web Engineering
  • Marketing and Product Management
  • Project Management
  • Workshops (Usability, Webdesign)

Aug 09 - Aug 12

Informatikmittelschule Basel

Federal Certificate of Vocational Education and Training & Federal Vocational Baccalaureate

I learned the programming language C# and made first experiences in C++. Also completed various subjects like Business Administration, Accounting and Political Economy.

Work

Jun 16 - Feb 17

iOS Service Desk Agent @ Vitra

During my studies, I worked here as a temporary (20%) iOS Supporter. My job was to set up iPhone & iPad for internal clients, exchange the devices if they got damaged and teach some basic iOS functionality. I had a lot of direct client contact, which helped me to get better at communicating.

Aug 13 - Jan 14

Application Developer SharePoint @ Center for IT services Basel

I was put in charge of the SharePoint platform, which was used to create project & team rooms. These were far from standard rooms as they needed a lot of customisation, which included HTML, CSS and JS modifications. My job also included a lot of telephone support, discussing with clients about requirements and preparing & holding presentations. I also got the chance to learn a bit about the Magnolia CMS.

Aug 12 - Jul 13

Internship @ Center for IT services Basel

As part of my 4th year at IMS I had to do a fulltime internship, which I did here. Mainly, I was doing customer support by telephone and helping out internal teams with their projects. However, I also got to know SharePoint, made first experiences working in a team and broadened my knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS.

Jul 11 (3 weeks)

Internship @ Canoo Engineering AG

This internship was in preparation for the year long internship. During my time here I learned Java by creating a minimalist Breakout game.

Hobbies

Destiny 2: Forsaken

Currently Playing

Destiny 2: Forsaken

Bungie

Black Panther

Currently Listening

Black Panther: The Album

Kendrick Lamar

Norse Mythology

Currently Reading

Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman

About This Site

I created this website with Jekyll and it's hosted on GitHub Pages, if you're interested in viewing how this site was built, you can view the site's source.

Further, I used Gulp to make the build process easier for minifying and combining assets, but mainly for the livereload, so that I could see my changes directly in the browser without having to hit refresh each time. The Google Fonts 'Roboto' and 'Roboto Condensed' are used throughout the website. For the icons I used Entypo Icons and used icomoon to generate the icon font.

A big inspiration to create this website was my friend's website and I also used his SSGS grid system for the layout of this website.