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Valencian Community, Spain

• Rebuilt my client base from scratch, collaborating with diverse international clients and industries.• Designed visuals for a French online school, including presentations, website elements, and YouTube graphics.• Created advertising creatives for various games for a Spanish gaming company, boosting their marketing campaigns. • Created a full marketing strategy, logo, branding, and website design for an eco-sweets company in France, while also assisting with the project’s financial planning.• Designed a logo, branding, and marketing strategy for a restaurant in Switzerland and currently working on the design for their startup project.• Developed branding and a logo for an Israeli expert, with whom I co-hosted a webinar as part of the Women in Tech program.• Developed a logo and product catalog for a Spanish jamón production company.• Designed logos for multiple companies, including businesses in Spain and Estonia.• Created a website for a Montenegrin company, ensuring user-friendly navigation and modern aesthetics.• Developed branding and packaging for goat milk products in Spain.• Developed a visual style, including social media creatives, for a business coach from Greece. • Designed a website for a company specializing in technology security. • Designed a logo for a remote island in Scotland.• Developed a logo for an Italian travel company, along with the concept for an online exhibition in Italy.

Valencia Area, Spain

• Delivered branding, packaging, and website designs for long-term clients across diverse industries.• Built and led a team of designers, retouchers, photographers, and freelance marketers, ensuring seamless collaboration and high-quality deliverables.• Transitioned freelance clients into agency partnerships, increasing project budgets and expanding service offerings.• Directed photoshoots by creating detailed briefs, supervising sessions, selecting raw images, and coordinating retouching for advertising materials.• Designed key creative assets, including logos and branding concepts, while delegating production work (flyers, banners, catalogs, and presentations) to the team.• Worked closely with developers, providing design briefs and prototypes, reviewing progress, and ensuring alignment with the brand vision.• Maintained excellent relationships with clients, managed deadlines, and coordinated recurring projects such as annual exhibitions.• Oversaw financial operations, including contracts, invoices, tax payments, and team compensation, ensuring smooth business management.

Russia

The company provides comprehensive security services, ranging from human resources to AI-based systems, serving prominent brands such as Heineken, Hilti, Fazer, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Leroy Merlin, Castorama, Shell, and Stockmann. The company employs about 5000 people. Collaborated as a freelancer and later on behalf of my design company to support the brand’s marketing and design needs.Design and Branding Achievements:Introduced image advertising in 2019, significantly enhancing brand awareness. Assisted in the rebranding process, ensuring smooth adoption across marketing materials and internal documentation.Maintained brand identity through magazine advertisements and animated web banners, ensuring updated and engaging content to avoid “banner blindness.”Designed social media visuals for platforms including YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook, as well as creating roll-ups, banners, and posters for exhibitions.Developed corporate presentations on company growth and new services, including creating a national branch map to emphasize the company’s scale.Calendar Project:Proposed and executed a conceptual flip calendar, transitioning from traditional designs to one reflecting the company’s mission and values.Delivered both visual design and resolved technical usability challenges to ensure employee convenience. After the first iteration, collected feedback with the marketing department to refine and enhance the calendar’s usability in subsequent editions.Website Design:Designed approximately 100 internal-use webpages in collaboration with the company’s developers, ensuring user-friendly layouts and brand consistency.

Russia

Collaborated with three departments in IT company employing over 15,000 people.Testing Department:• Supported the department as it grew from 5 to 350 employees, providing design solutions that aligned with its expanding needs.• Created branding for two testing conferences in collaboration with Home Credit Bank, including logos, roll-ups, merch, badges, navigation materials, and YouTube assets.• Designed corporate presentations, including annual reports and reviews.• Developed the department’s logo to align with the company’s branding while reflecting its specific values.• Designed training course materials for interns and onboarding presentations tailored to different offices, covering essential employee information.Corporate Culture:• Developed branding and visual content for corporate events, including Zoom conferences, random coffee sessions with experts, and book-reading contests.• Designed 42 custom T-shirts overnight for a 10th-anniversary celebration.• Created motivational cards and materials for employee guidance on open office etiquette, public speaking, and other professional skills.• Implemented a company-wide digest with user-friendly navigation, receiving positive employee feedback.• Created promotional materials for corporate culture projects, including “EduQuest,” which won a competition and ranked in the top three initiatives in a city of 13 million people.• Supported as a designer charitable initiatives, including campaigns for orphaned children.Cybersecurity Department:• Designed the department’s logo and service presentations.• Created over 50 unique icons for the website and presentations.

Russia

• Analysis of target audience - three different groups by price segment• Developed > 30 designs for collections of labels for meat products in niches from economy to premium• Developed and successfully brought on the market 3 trademark • Market analyzed and new brand of dairy products created in 2020• The brand of the meat factory was created. After advertising companies with a new brand, the brand tripled its market share• Organization of photography of products every year• Logo and corporate style• Logos for trademarks• 30 options of packaging design• Posters / affiches• Souvenir products and design in transport• Annual product catalogues and design of promotional materials for the exhibition

Italy

• Сreating brand and event designs - about 50 school music events• Сreating catalogs, annual and weekly reports - catalogue in 4 languages• All the school’s promotional materials are designed into a single corporate style• Сommunication and work in English• Corporate style • Invitations• Catalogs (up to 60 pages)• Flyers• Posters / affiches• Banners• Roll up

Russia / Usa

• Promotion of company products and services, design of presentations and promotional materials for banks and partners of the company, annual and quarterly reports• The company works with brands such as Raiffeisen Bank, Tinder, VTB Bank, AlfaBank, MTS and so.• Developing of reports QA 2014-2015 and QA 2017• Developing of reports “Digital Device Testing”• Mobile application interface design for partners of the company• More 100 presentations (up to 100 slides)• More 50 catalogs and reports (up to 100 pages)• Corporate identity• Design of the social network (fb, youtube, linkedin)

Malta

• Creating of promotional materials for different directions of the company, such as diving school and cinema city • Developing the company's brand-book• Developing landing pages and web sites• Developing mobile application interface designs for Android and iOS• Collaboration with different departments of the company in English

St.Petersburg, Russia

EXPOFORUM is convention-and-exhibition centre. It is the most cutting-edge venue of its kind anywhere in Russia – or Europe – for holding business and entertainment events of any size and format. • Сreating brand and event designs, including Gas Forum, ICCA, SPIEF, BMF• Сreating catalogs, annual and weekly reports• Developing event brand-books• Collaboration with all departments of the company• Development of logos• Catalogs (up to 100 pages)• Flyers• Programme• Posters / affiches (different sizes more 25)• Banners (different sizes more 25)• Roll up• Design of the social network (fb, instagram)• Invitations• Presentations

St.Petersburg, Russia

Furniture producing - for hotels• Management of the furniture producing (1,000 square-metre and office) • Hiring the staff (up to 20 persons) • Document management • Procurement and sale• Opening corporate outlet • Marketing • Successful sale of the company

St.Petersburg, Russia

Three casinos, several restaurants, slot machines, cinema• Promotional materials for pranks, events, restaurant menus• Design of print advertising materials: presentations, booklets, posters• Design of marketing materials for events

Master Of Arts - Ma, Graphic Design

Graphic Design Painting Drawing Advertising Photography Printing art Typography Fonts Infographic Art History Political Science Sociology.

Technology And Development Of Start-Ups