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Woodbridge, Va, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Rebuilding the biggest school in Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine destroyed by the war.

Baltimore , Md, Us

Hiring, onboarding and leading a team of designers and content strategists across a wide portfolio of projects: from designing a smart loan application and building chatbots for self-service and prospect support to a large scale brand refresh, including redesigned home page. Coached and supported the team to improve the UX of a loan application resulting in increased loan submit rate, faster time-to-complete, and reduced number of data errors, leading to increased profits and improved net promoter score.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Led large digital transformation effort for the digital infrastructure at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: design and implement government-wide platform (LEAF) to onboard and process thousands of business and logistic requests across the organization. Developed a consistent design system and worked with engineers to implement it using code components.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Led design proposals and narrative development on digital and design transformation projects for the CMS, USCIS, USPTO, AmerisourceBergen, and other major federal and commercial clients. Senior advisor for executive leadership on design offerings for business development and new engagement models for the potential clients. Improved design practice and culture by focusing on design recruiting processes and design storytelling.

Manassas, Virginia, Us

Led a team of designers to create human-centered and innovative product solutions for the United States Postal Services, including the new flagship mobile app for 25+ million users. Responsible for creating and growing design practice.Created and introduced a design skills framework, socialized and integrated new design and cross-functional collaborative processes across the company, including launching a design research lab. Created a design proposal toolkit to help the company to customize and pitch new contract proposals faster and more efficiently.

Mclean, Va, Us

Responsible for developing and articulating Capital One Design brand and communication strategy—internally, for partners and stakeholders, and externally, for design industry at large. Nurturing design culture, establishing a talent brand, keeping our designers happy, healthy and successful, and making design a part of our company's DNA.Launched a corporate Slack bot: intelligent assistant and automation agent for Capital One associates to integrate dozens of knowledge and data management platforms into one single touchpoint, improve collaboration and data intake, and make smarter decisions together.

Mclean, Va, Us

Responsible for supporting operations and communications for 450+ designers, fostering human-centric design culture in Capital One, while empowering designers to get better as people and as professionals, develop their careers and share their stories of design impact.Launched design storytelling practice at Capital One, created and developed One Design publication on Medium, Dribbble team, Vimeo channel and other communication channels, including a rich ecosystem of internal communication and engagement websites for all design teams, and a weekly designer newsletter.Designed and implemented multiple career development and talent management programs.

Mclean, Va, Us

Design lead for a $4M+ project (first among major banks) to introduce Apple iPads in all 900+ Bank Retail locations. Led the team to design and implement a robust ecosystem of iPad apps—both consumer-facing and associate-only—to create a seamless service and sales experience for branch customers throughout the entire customer journey.Design lead for CashTapp app—an innovative app for cardless ATM withdrawals.

Created and developed a successful business from scratch. Maintained great long-term relations with dozens of accounts. Supervised and coordinated a large creative team of designers, illustrators, and web developers. Responsible for complex creative development from initial input to final production — assessing the scope and budget, delivery timeline, creative and content strategy, digital development, production and deployment, product and account management.

Responsible for leading the core design team with staff artists and photographers, articulating a creative strategy for the publication, while maintaining and evolving its style and brand. Performed monthly training and development sessions for the team. Handled hiring, time and task management. Performed quality control on every stage of production. Constantly improved overall visual content quality, earning a top 5 nationwide rating among women magazines in Ukraine.

Instrumental in complex engineering and application of various brand identities and advertisement projects including new brand development, brand repositioning, and numerous advertising campaigns. Responsible for complex creative development from initial input via technical brief or business meeting with the client to final production — assembling and calculating the budget, initial creative composition of sketches and illustrative materials, copyright and text layout development, concept approval with client and print production supervision. Dispatched the workflow within the creative team while constantly controlling the process and supervising task results. Managed multiple design projects while staying within the operating budget and meeting deadlines.

Amsterdam, Nl

Instrumental in full magazine redesign from the initial creative idea to production layout, coordinated the design team and photo service while issuing tasks for staff photographers and illustrators. Handled traffic management including deadline determination and page production control while constantly improving the production cycle efficiency. Performed weekly training sessions and master-classes for staff members.

Developed complex magazine design from an initial creative idea to production layout, coordinated the design team and photo service while issuing tasks for staff photographers and illustrators. Handled traffic management including deadline determination and page production control while constantly improving the production cycle efficiency. Performed weekly training sessions and master-classes for staff members. Produced creative cover pages for the magazine. Managed the creative level of the marketing department and provided creative contribution and general quality control. Responsible for design staff recruitment and human resource management. Developed creative concept for magazine marketing materials, significantly increasing sales profit.

Chief responsible for 6 prime magazines in the company portfolio. Coordinated the design team and issued tasks for staff illustrators and photographers. Performed monthly training sessions and master-classes for staff members. Produced creative cover pages for every company periodical. Managed the creative level of the marketing department and provided with creative contribution and general quality control. Handled time and task management including deadline determination and day-off planning. Performed quality control on every stage of production including text processing and pre-press. Participated in the Investgazeta newspaper-to-magazine redesign process from a creative idea to production realization, resolving the periodical into one of the top 3 business editions in Ukraine. Participated in Delo newspaper and Top-100 rating magazine redesigns, vastly increasing readers’ art appreciation and sales profit.

Responsible for the creative direction and production of materials designed for the company’s clients. Executed and supervised all projects from concept to completion, including graphic design, art/photo direction, production and final press checks for print collateral. Managed multiple design projects while staying within the operating budget and meeting deadlines. Trained junior staff to achieve budget projections and ensure the highest value to the client. Commissioned to manage monthly advertisement campaigns for Southern Maryland Newspapers. Delivered complex solutions for major national brands including Pfizer, Simply Wireless and a number of foreign embassies in the US. Participated in the development of the corporate electronic workflow and accounting system which significantly increased team productivity.

Performed software testing and quality control, automated test scenarios development, while constantly interacting and collaborating with several development teams.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Applied System Analysis

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business/Managerial Economics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Art History, Criticism And Conservation