Skills Summary
- Teamwork: Energetic, friendly, helpful, conscientious, and responsible with excellent customer interaction skills. Extensive experience working with cross functional teams successfully.
- Leading People: Proven success as project manager and production ead on new web site development, as well as freelance web designer.
- Results Driven: Strong planning and organizational skills;
with he ability to effectively manage multiple projects to completion
on time.
- Professional Marketing: Adwords, search engine optimization,
and “legal” tricks.
- Practical Experience: Maintained large e-commerce web sites
such as Developers.Sun.com, SDNShare.com, Blogs.Sun.com
and Java.Sun.com. Designed wireframes, created site maps
and navigation for sites such as Mervyn’s, GIA, RS Investments,
Sunset Magazine, and CareCredit.
Technical Skills
- Software: Photoshop CS2, PageMaker 7.0, Illustrator 10, ImageReady CS2, Dreamweaver 8, Flash MX, Adobe Acrobat 6.0, Visio, MindManager Pro 7, PC and Mac platforms.
- Software Languages: CSS(hand coding), HTML(hand coding),
DHTML(hand coding), JavaScript, XML (basic), PHP
- Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 98, 2000, NT, XP, Mac
- Online Applications: TeamSite, Telnet, Putty, FTP, Netscape,
IE, Outlook, Firefox, Thunderbird
- Spoken Languages: Fluent Russian
Experience
Extractable, Foster City, CA
September 2006 - November 2008
Information Architect
- Routinely created site maps, navigation and labeling.
- Conducted competitive site analysis.
- Designed wireframes and prototypes, illustrated page types, UI components, content collection templates and workflows.
- Collaborated with managers and team members to define processes.
Web Developer/Production Lead
- Started from scratch with a major account, and wrote instructions for current and new account staff.
- Involved with client presentations and attend meetings with
customers.
- Managed overseas contractors: met deadlines, assigned tasks,
and reviewed their work.
- Maintained JSP, HTML and XML pages.
- Created images and banners, newsletters, and blogs for customers.
- Maintained and created JavaScript navigation tabs.
- Designed templates using the client's web standards specifications.
- Created new CSS layouts and maintaining existing CSS files.
- Created and modified metadata, and title implementation
of PDF files.
- Wrote and updated technical documentation on client web site maintenance.
- Employees are encouraged to have contract business on the
side, and I did have several clients.
Web Splash Design, San Jose, CA
January 2005 - current
Owner/Web Designer
- Designed look and feel of sites, and proposed original graphic design mockups to customer.
- Created page design, layout, templates, and created web pages
out from original graphic designs.
- Worked with clients during web development phase to improve
the design before final release.
- Developed HTML pages and PHP/CGI forms.
- Designed flash intros.
- Provided search engine optimization and marketing services.
- Set up hosting accounts based clients needs.
Santa Rosa Junior Collage, Santa Rosa, CA
January 2002 – May 2002
Web Designer
- Created new look for Santa Rosa Junior College Web Development Training Program website.
- Met with client to discuss site requirements.
- Developed layout, mock ups, created homepage and second
level template.
- Proposed design to client and implemented requested changes for approval.
Santa Rosa Junior Collage / RESIG, Santa Rosa, CA
September 2001 – June 2002
Project Manager - Web Site Development
- Assigned necessary tasks and created timeline/deadlines for project.
- Implemented contingency strategies for team members who failed
to meet tasks.
- Managed communication between team members as well as between client and team.
- Handled planning and organization of the client presentation and storyboard of the website.
Education/Professional Development
- Web Development & Graphic Designer – Certification, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
- Computer Science & Business Accounting – Computer Science & Business Accounting Degree, Technical University of Ekaterinburg, Russia
- AA Degree – in progress, Foothill College, CA
- Close to passing MCSE for servers certification with 73% score on official test. (Pass is 75%)