Position: UX/UI Designer, Graphic Designer
Category: Design
English level: upper
Years of experience: 9

– Hundreds of design and business-related books read.
– Dozens of successful projects complete.
– Some number of certificates earned.
– A lot of friendly relationships with colleagues built.
Early in my career (the first job), the main focus of my work was on e-commerce websites, branding, and graphic design for relatively short-term projects. We worked in a tiny (10 people) team, producing many short-term projects.

Later  I started to work in an outsourcing company, whose clients were mainly in Real Estate, Fashion, Marketing, and the Internet of Things domains. There I learned the basics of great teamwork. During my work, I mostly relied on my Project Managers and their opinions of the project, planning, and vision. My passion there was the UI part of a design. 

Currently, I work in a multinational company. The main domain here is Healthcare, Education, Wealth Management, ERP, B2B. I manage a few startups at the same time. Though I still design interfaces, my work shifted a lot towards communication with the stakeholders, development team, junior designers, and planning our small team's workload. I don't, of course, consider myself as a project manager, but some of the projects handled by me did not have any project management, and yet our team is always able to produce a good result.

The "definition of done" is a concept that changed a lot during the last few years. Previously I believed that a project is complete for me as soon as all the screens have their first approval by the project owner. Now I understand that the most important part only starts after this. Though I am used to working with many MVPs, the long-term design is an iterative project with room for infinite improvement.

I used to dislike changes given to me by project managers. But now I believe that no person can do a job as good as a few people. I am trying to admit that when I make a mistake, I try to hear every team member's opinion regardless of their seniority level. Though as a designer who communicates with stakeholders, I make many project decisions myself, I never discard any comments of my fellow teammates (if their arguments are good enough).
Would love to work in a company that understands the value of Human-Centered design.

Will NOT work with
- Gambling, 
- Alcohol Promotion,
- E-commerce.
- US projects (time zone issues for early birds).