design.laboratory.bukengolts

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)