• Since 2008 I'm working at SpecificMedia. I lead UX and UI design and manage product development of our Ad Server and analytics portal. Unfortunately due to the nature of internal projects they are confidential and can't be shared here publicly.

§ Specialty

Product vision, roadmap and execution; user experience design & optimization, information architecture, interface design (specialty: complex professional interfaces); data visualization, data mining and analysis, Tableau BI platform.

§ Skills

Information Architecture: Requirements gathering, analysis, documentation, project flow, wireframing, usability study.
Graphic design: expert in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, Flex).
Coding: expert in JavaScript (I'm a big fan of jQuery), CSS, PHP, MySQL.
Wireframing and prototyping: expert in Microsoft Visio, fluent with Adobe Fireworks, Axure, Omnigraffle. Project/Product management: Highly organized perfectionist with vision for best user experience; leadership, self-starter, quick learner.

§ Experience

Specific Media

August 2008 — Present

Position: Director of User Experience, Product Manager, Product team

Responsibilities: Collaborate with Business, design, lead development and release of user experience for core Ad Server to support rapid business growth. Continue to manage and grow SMs analytics offerings through visualizing insights of massive collected data. Train internal experts to help bring power of rapid analytics to Business Analytics, Ad Operations, Media Buying and other teams.

Position: Lead Engineer, Business Interfaces

Responsibilities: Lead the international Business Interfaces team in all aspects of UI and business processes work. Gather requirements, design, plan, and lead development of innovative user-centric interfaces to organize, optimize and streamline business processes.

Position: Senior UI designer/Information Architect

Responsibilities: Drive the design and development of user interfaces for internal products. Plan, test and implement user experiences. Developed Flex based interface for business logic management platform. Gathered requirements, designed user experience, project managed, design and development of main ad serving system.

VPI.Net

July 2002 — July 2008

Position: Sr. Director of Product Development

Responsibilities: UX-design, system architecture, project management; strategy/brand development for sophisticated software products; management of multiple teams, projects at the same time; complex UI development with specialty in interfaces for everyday use; establishing company's coding and usability standards. Organized and managed Flash Department.

Position: Production Director

Responsibilities: Production management within the company, project management for various clients including Paramount, AOL, City Of Lake Forest and others. Organized and managed Programming department, trained new employees. Created an internal workflow management application.

Position: Senior Web developer/designer

Responsibilities: Design, flash development, front-end programming (HTML/CSS/Javascript) on projects for high profile clients including AOL, THQ, Warner Brothers, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Eyeblaster, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and others.

Freelance

March 2001 — Present

Project: System architect, programmer at photo-editing and sharing social networks Puricute.com, Phototeez.com

Responsibilities: Complete implementation of small, but quickly growing social networks targeted at young creative crowd. Complete front (JavaScript and CSS) and back-end programming (PHP) with database (MySQL) design. Developed a content and user management system to support the main site.

Advanced Zone, Inc.

September 2001 — March 2002

Position: ASP Programmer, front-end developer, interface designer

Responsibilities:Worked with a team of ASP and JavaScript programmers on development of several large scale projects including medical billing and profiling system, ecommerce site for ticket sales. Developed reporting system and user account flow.

American Institutes for Research

March 2001 — September 2001

Position: Web developer

Responsibilities: Developed internal document management system. Analyzed process and created intranet to help manage and categorize internal flow of proposals, surveys, and other documentation. Created innovative inline rich-text editor.

Perm Scientific Instrument Making Company

July 1997 — September 2000

Position: Designer

Responsibilities: Designed print and packaging materials as a member of in-house design group. Led design and programming (ASP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for the company's corporate web site and intranet.

§ Education and certifications

• Certified Macromedia Flash Developer (June 2004)
• Certified Macromedia Flash Designer (June 2004)
• Master degree in Applied Mathematics from Perm State University (1994–1999)

I am a web developer, designer, information architect, who enjoys creative solutions to complex problems.

I like

• Web pages that stretch with the browser;
• Web sites that don't require magnifying glass for reading;
• Organized and clean code that's easy to follow;
• jQuery;
• PNGs;
• Adobe CS products;
• Visio for quick wireframing;
• PC for work and Mac for home entertainment;
• Firefox for working and debugging and Opera for websurfing;

Also

I'm a father to my beloved daughter Alisa and husband to my soul mate Kira.

I am not some other Sergey Kuznetsov out there.

I am not a pianist or a math professor (although I couldn've been one), nor I am a head of support in oil and energy industry. I like electronic music, but I'm not a musician, and unfortunately I'm not a Head of Laboratory of Theoretical Nonlinear Dynamics. But I am what I am, living, working and having a time of my life one day at a time. Drop me a line to get in touch.

I would too. I promise they will be here soon... But for now, some pretty pictures on flickr.