About Me
Experience Design Director and Design Consultant living and working in Berlin, Germany. I'm focusing on creating design teams, leading designers, and fostering Design Thinking culture with proven hands-on knowledge of the complete product development lifecycle across various solutions for different industries and contributing to new-business activities as a design consultant.
With extensive experience managing large teams of diverse personalities in deadline-driven environments, also, I am responsible for establishing employee career development programming, leading cross-functional team collaboration, and acting as a mentor to all levels of the team.
19+
the design industry
B2B/C
design solutions
120+
under management
5
pet products
Work History & Expertise
My overall experience in the design industry is 19+ years. I have started my professional journey as a web developer (design + coding) and went through each stage of the designer evolution journey until Director level. My passion is not only design strategy and planning. I still love to work under details of design execution as "the devil in the details."
Expertise: Design Thinking, Product Design, Design Consultancy, Service Design, Design Design Strategy & Planning, UX Research, Interaction Modelling & Visual Design Research, Brand Design, Design Development & Support, UX Testing and Prototyping, Design & Product Management, DesignOps, Client Facing and New-Business Generating
SoftServe
Implementing design competency frameworks and mentorship program for different levels and expertise.
Managing activities to fulfill the company's goal by handling processes and resources available at Design Office, which means 120+ designers in 8 locations worldwide - Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Mexico, Colombia, UK and USA.
GlobeStudio Apps
GlobeStudio Apps is a set of simple iOS utilities for everyday usage with a focus on the travel industry. These are my "pet" projects where I'm responsible for the overall direction, user experience, interface design, marketing, and continuous improvement process with over 1.7 million users.
AKQA
Managing multiple, inter-dependent UX workstreams on large-scale and complex projects.
Oversing the work of the creative department to ensure goals were met and performed large-scale projects with identified activities that need to be carried out with the efforts required to complete them.
Providing direction, leadership, guidance to members of the User Experience team and supported in recruitment, retention, training, and mentoring designers.
carbon12 creative
Leading all aspects of campaign design, including innovation, development, and implementation.
Reviewing the work of the creative team, provided constructive feedback and leading creative part of work to assure on-schedule delivery for review by the client.
Managing freelance services which include the recruitment of only the top freelancers available.
frog
Directing the creative products from concept to finalization to keep the projects on schedule and organizing cross-studio global collaboration between Kyiv - Austin, Seattle, New York, Milan, Amsterdam, Munich, and Milan.
Overseeing the work of the creative department to ensure goals were met and attended creative input meetings to develop strategies and implemented all design requirements.
Developing design team in Ukraine and implemented creative strategies to achieve new goals.
Star / Cogniance
Ensuring the Cogniance UX team creating world-class products and creating world-class user experience for mobile and web applications as a part of the Cogniance Design Team.
Formalization UX deliverables, defining creative directions for all products. Developing interaction models and conceptual frameworks
Pre-sales support, facing new customers, guiding clients through key UX engagements.
Running Code
Designing user interaction models and interface for large web content management systems, mobile and windows applications.
Supporting development team in design implementation.
Software MacKiev
Endeavoring to turn complicated processes and concepts into user-friendly, highly intuitive, and navigable interfaces.
Creating user interfaces to be used as reference points before finalizing the specifications and requirements of the app.
Working with engineers in key stages of the design process.
IT Center of National Taras Shevchenko University
WEB developer (design and coding) at the Information Computer Center of National Taras Shevchenko University.
Taras Shevchenko National University
Master of Cryogenics and Microelectronics, Completed the Cisco Networking Academy Program (CCNA).
Awards & Recognitions
Awards and recognitions are not a primary goal of my work. It is only one of the ways of getting feedback and confirmation from the outside about the quality of work. It just proves that this solution gives sense to others.
![Good Design Award - User interface of smartphone [Feel UX]](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/60abbcb66d81b9b314b5727f/62725ed005f0ceff08a40fc6_Slice%201%402x.png)
All results of my work are results of teamwork. I have been lucky to work and collaborate with amazing people under different products and services worldwide.
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