User Experience: Information architecture, Usability, User Interface Design
PAVEL BUKENGOLTS
Nashville, TN, USA
Phone: +1.615.866.2369
E-mail: pavel@bukengolts.com
Objective
- Develop user-friendly, functional and elegant user interfaces for websites and applications
- Promote thoughtful and effective user-centered design methodologies
- Work with passionate, collaborative and earnest teams
Skills
General:
- Strong working knowledge of user-centered design methodologies
- Steadfast in pursuit of clean, simple, and intuitive user interfaces
- Well acquainted in the economic importance of “usable” interface designs
- Considerable experience in user research and usability testing techniques
- Adept at translating business strategies into functional specifications
- Proficient at translating complex concepts into visual representations
- Skilled at balancing business goals with user needs while minding technical limitations
- Solid foundation of programming fundamentals
- Deep understanding of dynamic web application architectures and deployment techniques
- Understand real-world tradeoffs between desired features and implementation time
- Strong knowledge of the limits and constraints of design for the Web
Design
- User Interface and Interaction Design
- Knowledge usability testing heuristics evaluation
- Information Architecture and Taxonomy
- Photography, Graphic Design
- Grids and Template Construction
- Graphics and Code Optimization
- Project Transition — Documentation, Hand-off and Training
Technology:
- Adobe: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash; QuarkXPress
- Axure, MS Visio, Silverlight Sketchflow
- Digital documents production, post-production and pre-press
- Advanced knowledge of: CSS, XHTML, XML
- Working knowledge of: Silverlight, Flash, JavaScript
- Well versed in browser and platform issues
- Other abilities: Content Management Systems (web and publishing) , Pre-Press
Summary of Qualifications
- Experienced interaction designer with engineering background and 20 years of industry experience developing human-computer interfaces and web applications
- Proven skills in web and online media, graphic design.
- Skills in problem-solving and troubleshooting
- Capable of total involvement of projects from concept to completion
- Combining Master’s degree in Computer and Communication Science and Bachelors of Arts in Graphic Design
- Full range of experience creating art for electronic and print reproduction – from basic cut-and-paste to producing multi-layered, key-lined mechanicals for four-color printing
- Deep knowledge of contemporary web and press technology
Experience
Edgenet Inc.
UI Designer
2008-Present • Nashville, TN
- Responsible for redesign and restructure of several complex web-applications
- Created and managed User Interface Design group
- Usability evaluation and design of web applications
- Create rich user interface prototypes
- Working with Product Management and Engineering teams utilizing mockups
Art Institute of Tennessee – Nashville; Web Design & Interactive Media Dept.
Web Design & Interactive Media Instructor
2008-present • Nashville, TN
- Course of lectures and labs «Information Architecture»
- Course of lectures and labs «Usability Evaluation and Accessibility»
- Course of lectures and labs «User-Centered Interface Design»
- Course of lectures and labs «Interactive Design Concepts»
- Course of lectures and labs «Conceptual Interactive Design»
- Course of lectures and labs «Non-Linear Narrative»
- Course of lectures and labs «Interactive Message Design»
The Gannett – The Tennessean
Online Technical Production Coordinator II (Sr. Web Designer)
2005-2008 • Nashville, TN
- Design and develop look and feel of www.tennessean.com
- Analyzed existing site and content for SEO
- Developed site architecture to blend visitor and corporate goals
- Translated corporate concepts to web-safe, accessible design
- CMS prototype, production templates, web design and development for www.tennessean.com
- Quality control and established site design standards
- Prototype, templates design, architecture and usability consulting for www.TennesseeGreen.com, www.TennesseanTravel.com, www.TuneInMusicCity.com and other corporate products.
The Gannett – The Tennessean
Online Technical Production Coordinator (Web Designer)
2002-2005 • Nashville, TN
- Responsible for web design, development, usability, information architecture of www.tennessean.com
- Design special projects for web-site
- Web-unique content: streaming video, audio, photo galleries
- Quality control and established site design standards
The Gannett – The Tennessean
Graphic Artist/Paginator
1999-2002 • Nashville, TN
- Advertiser and in-house ads design, page layout and ad placement
- Technical and pre-press troubleshooting
Belarus State University, Department of Journalism
Electronic Media Instructor
1996-1998 • Minsk, Belarus
- Course of lectures and labs «Design, Layout And Make-Up Of The Publications»
NIKTAGRAPHICS Publishing House
Art Director
1997-1998 • Minsk, Belarus
- Supervised and art-directed design and pre-press projects
- Started a web design studio
- Trained and supervised new employees
MAGIC Publishing House
Art Director
1992-1996 • Minsk, Belarus
- Responsible for all visual aspects of printed products
- Established corporate identities, advertised product and services for internal and external customers
- As logic analyst, helped in making custom CMS and database for a business magazine
Minsk Radio-Technical Institute
Specialist in Graphics Software
1990-1993 • Minsk, Belarus
- Design and make-up of teaching booklets for MRTI
Education
School of Visual Arts
1986-1990 • Minsk, Belarus
Graphic Design, BA
Minsk Radio-Technical Institute
1988-1993 • Minsk, Belarus
Computer and Communication Science, MS
Download
Resume in Microsoft Word
Pavel Bukengolts, resume UX, IA, UI (zip-file)