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Riga, Latvia

Dobele, Latvia

DELFI is the largest national digital media in Latvia with more than 350k daily active real users which make around 800k visits and 5M page views per day (850k monthly active real users, 21M visits, 131M page views). The main goal of the company is to provide high-quality news content for Latvia. The main revenue source is ads and content marketing solutions, however, in the year 2019, there was launched also paywall solution.Main Responsibilities:• Team leadership for IT department which includes 6 developers, one data analyst and one IT support manager• Hiring IT personal - recruitment, interviewing, screening and onboarding• Participate in business strategy and process improvement• IT infrastructure strategy, procurements, maintenance management for datacenter, office and live stream video studio• Participate as one of three members of Express Group (DELFI group company located in Estonia) CIO consul to vote on group Baltic IT business strategy • Maintain relationships with IT development and operations vendors, contract management• IT architecture strategy, planning, and vision• IT security• IT budgeting• Involvement into news media, sales and e-commerce project strategy, planning and execution• Digital marketing analytics and SEO strategy and planning

As Full Stack Developer for largest digital news media in Latvia main goal was to support editors, sales and marketing teams by developing all kind of web projects and internal web applications.Main Responsibilities:• Develop and maintain frontend of news media portals for desktop and mobile devices• Develop and implement news digital ad solutions and integrate with existing ad systems• Involve in marketing and sales projects planning and development• Find or develop solutions for internal editor, sales and marketing team workflow improvements

Company main goal was to provide all kind of digital and graphic design services for business clients. Main services were website and web application development, graphic design, digital ads development. Main Responsibilities:• Relationships management with existing clients and building partnership with new clients• Gather, analyze and improve project requirements, define the scope• Planning of project executions, milestones, and MVP• Project budgeting and invoicing • Active involvement in project development - even hand on coding

SAN is a GPS based augmented reality mobile application. This project at the start was meant to deliver art objects to real life via augmented reality, however, it shifted the work field to provide commercial clients interesting ways to improve their marketing activities.Main Responsibilities:• Develop and maintain administrator interface for 3D objects, location GPS data, and another app-related data• Develop API interfaces for mobile applications• Configure and maintain IT operations

iPS Media is providing high-quality e-learning services with a focus on photography. The company has also a website/blog about this topic with more than 1M active monthly users.Main Responsibilities:• Development of marketing/sales landing pages• Email marketing automation using Infusionsoft and connecting this system with the website• Integration of Stripe payment system including invoicing, refunding, upsell and also data sync with Infusionsoft CRM• Implementation of digital marketing analytics tools - Facebook Pixel, Google Analytics with advanced customization, Google Ads retargeting &, etc.• Website improvements and maintenance

Portal Labaprece.lv was group buying site that was launched for Latvian market in 2010. For this company main selling channel was website and for that, there was a need for email marketing, CRM and other systems which were developed internally.Main Responsibilities:• Internal CRM development• Business client self-service portal frontend and backend development• Banklink and credit card payment system integration• Invoicing and transaction reporting system development• Email marketing and notification system development• An end-user website with group buying logic, checkout, recommendation &, etc.• Integration with social networks via API for automated deal posting

"Firma Zemgale" is local newspaper based in Dobele, Latvia and the main goal is to provide news coverage about events which are related to local regions - Dobeles, Auces, and Tērvetes districts. For me, this was a summer job as I was still a student in high school and later in university. During these years each summer (from June till September) I needed to replace existing layout designers for vacation time.Main Responsibilities:• Design newspaper layout with 12 pages three times a week• Process and retouch images for newspaper• Design ads and improve them after client feedback• Prepare final printouts for offset printing

Computer Programming

Secondary Professional Education, Information Technology