Position: UX/UI Designer
Category: Design
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 7

I started a UX design and development studio with two talented engineers. We grew it to 15 people which presented a number of challenges. I brought in new clients, participated in hiring and training the team members. 

I was heavily involved in delivery to our clients. I worked closely with our client’s stakeholders to understand their end customers’ needs and create a roadmap for the product. My job was to document the requirements and communicate them with the internal team. I also acted a role of a creative director since I was responsible for the brand vision and brand strategy for us as an agency and for our client’s brands as well. 

Here are a few of the projects we worked on:

- Booqed is a Hong Kong startup that lets you find and book short-term workspaces like a meeting room or a coworking desk in Southeast Asia. They went through the Techstars program and raised $2m. 
We were their product team. I lead engineering, did user interviews and user testing, created the infrastructure, the testing, and release pipelines, and helped them hire internally and more.
My team built the Booqed mobile app, web admin portal, and API. I also helped to outline a plan for the new product called Cubic before I left.

- Alibi was founded by two amazing specialists who help people file tax returns on their R&D efforts. I helped them prototype and design the whole web app that revolutionizes the way people track and file all development efforts which results in higher tax returns and saves dev team time simultaneously.
Overview:

- Started a UX design and mobile development app agency with two co-founders and grew it to 15 people, then scaled down and sold it to one of the clients.
- Lead teams in Canada, Ukraine.
- Designed cross-platform apps, websites, e-commerce stores, social platforms and physical products&experiences. 
- Created products and brands from zero to hero with great emphasis on customers’ needs.
- Initialized and analyzed numbers of user testing sessions, questionnaires and A/B tests to make better products.
- Proficiency with Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, prototyping tools like Invision.
Work with me:

- If you want to build an amazing user experience. I love to empathize with people and create user experiences that solve their pains in a seamless manner. 

- If you need someone to maintain good relationships with clients and stakeholders. I'm friendly, open-minded, I know how to listen to people and understand their needs. Then I can translate these needs into the tasks to the team and then deliver, iterate and improve. 

- If you need someone who can create a bunch of prototypes to test that is me. I love learning and improving and I believe that the right way to make products is to do a lot of testings.

- If you need someone who will establish a user interview process for your company I will be super happy to do this. 

- If you need someone who is versatile and can create marketing assets, support brand image etc.