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Bulgaria

• Manage a small team of Product Designers and UI Dev Engineers bystrategically positioning them throughout development to show value proposition of their effectiveness to define End-2-End stories, extrapolate and define well thought out use cases, and help development team and PM to drive and prioritize product features based on use cases.• Lead and support UX team through a difficult period of disruption and attrition caused by post acquisition. Working with UX team to raise morale, engagement, and motivation. Clarifying priorities and driving alignment around core UX principles within software development. Leading hiring efforts to replenish and grow the team.• Drive rebranding efforts by proposing new company logo and define a company-wide product identity.• Define use cases and UI component specifications for Mirantis Design system, define UI guidelines and patterns, integrate MDS across all products to achieve a company product identity.• Support UX design efforts by defining and reviewing use cases, UI design workflows, and UI design reviews for Mirantis Container Cloud and product integration into Lens IDE and Security Portal.• Drive UI/UX design support horizontally across all Mirantis products (MCC, MSR, MKE, MSC, Security Portal, etc…)• Advocate and integrate UCD process and Design Thinking methodologies within a development driven company.• Support defining UI/UX strategy and prioritization for company-wide product vision.• Drove design and implementation for Mirantis Documentation Portal

• Research and define End-2-End workflows for VMware’s industry-leading server virtualization product vSphere H5 Client to run, manage, connect and secure applications in a common operating environment across clouds that meet user needs.• Worked with 6 project lead and over 50+ developers to port vSphere from Flex to HTML5, while simultaneously filling UX gaps, porting a consistent look & feel, and improving overall user experience.• Translate engineering requirements into UX design specifications and picture-perfect clickable mockups.• Drove and synchronized UX initiatives across cross functional teams• Project lead who works closely with Product Managers, UI developers, and Principal Engineers to create and maintain the product vision.• Pushed UX perspective and judgements to influence overall direction of the product.• Grew a robust UX team by interviewing, hiring, and mentoring UX interns, designers, and contractors.

• Designed multiple user interfaces and UI architectural framework for SAP’s web-based NetWeaver Administrator• Conducted usability tests with corporate clients at ASUG and SAP TechEd to collect and incorporate end-user feedback• Performed numerous UI reviews and consultation for developers in U.S., Germany, India, Israel, and Bulgaria• Worked on a joint web-based Central Print Management Project (CPM) with HP• Central accessibility expert responsible in setting up test environments, writing accessibility test cases and testing products for accessibility gaps and WCAG compliance.• Established a local UX team by hiring and mentoring interns and designers which strategically positioned UX team within other development teams• Project lead and author of Pragmatic Guidelines for Administration and Monitoring Solutions which contained a set of design floorplans and patterns that guided UI developers and junior UX designers to desig n usable and consistent world class applications• Designed multiple user interfaces for Integration and Orchestration solution to seamlessly integrate and administrate SAP systems, define and monitor business process to achieve optimization for our customer’s line of business

Bachelor'S Degree - Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, Gpa - 3.55 / 4.0

Associate'S Degree, Gpa - 3.95 / 4.0