Maksim Sovenkov Email & Phone Number

Spain

- Managed a project for one year as a Project Manager, focusing on updating components in a legacy system to meet business requirements. The project reduced developer time for deploying changes from one month to 1-2 weeks.-- Also participated in the same project as a designer. Conducted research on the existing solution to assess its effectiveness and identify areas for improvement. Developed prototypes, conducted testing, and shaped the final design for the end solution. As a result, I enhanced user experience through improved clarity and speed of interaction.- Assisted the Head of Product and HR in developing a quarterly Performance Review system for designers, aimed at improving the fair compensation system based on employees' experience and contributions to the company's activities.- Learned to code in Python with a focus on data science. Applied text clustering methods in work using various algorithms and models, including Llama 3.Personal Projects Beyond Work- Conducted analysis of 8,000 messages from one selected Telegram channel to study the use of manipulative tactics in communication. The analysis was performed using various algorithms and packages from scikit-learn, as well as models like ChatGPT-4. Additionally, evaluated messages based on parameters such as toxicity, sentiment, frequently used keywords, and more. This is my personal project, which I worked on out of personal curiosity. It allowed me to practically apply skills in working with modern AI models. Given the rapid development of this field, I believe that the knowledge and experience gained through this project could be applicable to my primary professional activities in the future.- Developed websites: https://makemechart.com https://pescan.ru/

Spain

– Designed 3 interfaces for the admin panel. The interfaces are dedicated to offer creation, offer management and subscription management– Implemented visual updates to the payment form to improve the convenience of its usage – Helped to hire a UI specialist and then trained him to become a UX specialist (that was the initial aim, the training took about 1 year). At this moment the specialist is able to work independently as a UI/UX designer within the company– Has initiated and then continued to work as a project manager on the projects for Behance и Dribbble. One of the projects won a 3D award: https://www.behance.net/semrush/https://dribbble.com/semrush– Developed a website for Donut chart generation and its further usage in Figma: https://donutsvg.luckyfox.design/- And other sites: https://badabooker.com/- Developed improvements for payment forms in accordance with WCAG accessibility standards.- Designed a solution for integrating PayPal.- Created an internal interface for fraud analysts to work with transactions and identify suspicious ones.- Initiated an experiment aimed at enhancing user experience and consequently increasing MRR. The experiment was completed, metrics were analyzed, and the decision was made to adopt the new solution I proposed.- Conducted research as part of a larger task using Python and internal APIs, followed by data extraction and analysis to understand current metrics, assess their adequacy, and identify which metrics need improvement.

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

– Designed a user invitation form which increased the conversion into paying users by 8%– Carried out a restyling for the payment list on the admin panel. According to the users’ feedback, the convenience of working with the list has increased by 28%– Prototyped and designed a new payment form– Developed a color-picker component for Semrush design system: https://developer.semrush.com/intergalactic/components/color-picker/ – Prepared and held a workshop on animation with js/css/html for Semrush designers: https://codepen.io/luckyfoxdesign/pen/povYpra– As a project manager prepared an article publication on VC (a big Russian online resource devoted to technology): https://vc.ru/semrush/239438-kak-pereehat-so-sketch-na-figma-opyt-semrush – Described internal rules for working with projects in Figma– Transferred 7 components from the old design system in Sketch to a new one in Figma– Created a plugin for random number generation in Sketch: https://github.com/Luckyfoxdesign/helpify – Created animations for error states: https://errorsanim.luckyfox.design/ – Developed and tested a framework for test task evaluation for the process of hiring new designers. The framework was in use for approximately half a year (later it was replaced by another framework since the internal processes changed a lot)

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

- Designed about 10 different types of out-of-home advertising for conferences and promos made by the company- Designed and animated a cover picture for the company’s page on Facebook- Designed and animated several tens of ad banners for the company promo campaigns- Designed promo previews for about 40 applications in google play market- Created a website design for a conference held by the company

St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia

– Designed a new website for “Мясо и рыба” restaurant (Moscow, Russia). After this redesign the website audience grew by 18%. The average time spent on the website has increased by 61%, and the bounce rate has decreased by 43%. Website address: https://meat-and-fish.ru/ru – Designed a website for a dental service. The dental service is not working anymore, so the website is not available now

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Website design (see examples in my portfolio) Ad banners creationCreated one game with Unity3DDesigned 3 logos for businesses