Alexey Tcherniak

UI & Graphics Designer

Minsk, Belarus

Work Experience

Outsourced Designer For Remote Customers

GUI & Graphics desinger

Among others, there are few perfect projects worth to be mentioned:

[GPS Cycle]

Design of handful iOS/Windows Phone mobile application for tracking of cycle rides using GPS. Cristal-clear Metro design for WP7 and XAML templates.

[Loyalty Manager for GasPromNeft]

Lead Designer of long-lasting Silverlight project for filling-station network management. Participation in project includes whole complex of design activities from initial design of the application's GUI to XAML prototyping and creation of custom user controls. Templates and styles organized into resource dictionaries and themes.

Customer: Gazprom Neft, one of the largest and fastest growing oil and gas producers in Russia and owner of the largest filling station network in Russia.

[VerniMoment.ru]

Corporate Identity and web application design. Work includes several variants of logo design, application design and mobile version of application.

[Miraplacid.com]

Graphics and GUI design for software applications, including Miraplacid Publisher, Miraplacid Text Driver, logos, icons, banners, branded graphics for installer application, corporate identity.
January 2009 - Minsk, Belarus

ReverseVision

GUI Designer

Research and design of GUI for the market-leading reverse mortgage software, ReverseVision:
Work includes creating design concepts, prototypes and development control, and consists of 3 parts, with approach to GUI design:
- standalone windows application, heavily loaded with forms, user controls and info-graphics;
- corporate web site, providing visitors with corporate products information;
- web administration console, full of forms and data grids.
- business trips to meet with customers in Europe and the United States to test new GUI elements with new and experienced customers and gather feedback to better understand customer needs.
October 2011 - Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Friendlyway

GUI & Graphics designer

Friendlyway is a world leader in informational terminals and Digital Signage solutions. I participated as Graphics and GUI Designer in many projects, including web, Flash, Silverlight projects for advertising, digital signage, infornation services. GUI design for Silverlight/WPF applications, from graphics mock-ups to XAML templates, styles and page prototypes. Unique design and behavior for custom user controls, including visual feedback to touch screen user actions.

Performed projects were made for global customers as well as for local municipal information systems acting as interactive customer advisory services, trade and entertaining center path-finding, banking and touristic terminals, etc.

Other activities includes:
- Development of Flash applications, including ActionScript programming and animation (e.g. animated Weather Forecast, RSS feed reader, Ads-broadcasting flash templates, etc)
- Graphics design of Corporate Identity, advertising, information graphics for Digital Signage and Kiosks
- Graphics design of booklets, product boxes and DVD/CD covers, collateral materials, web graphics

Customers of the projects: Bosh, Kempinski, Husqvarna, Raiffeisen Bank Austria, Schuster Sporthaus, Shaeffler, Edeka, Euronics, Avis
May 2009 - October 2011 Unterfohring, Germany

IMDSoft

GUI Designer

Graphics and GUI designer of MetaVision Suite, the leading clinical information system worldwide. I created UI concept design and participated in researching of User Experience from customer feedback and product look-and-feel development. Also, I've been creating Visio storyboards and guidelines from customer requirements to make overall product design consistent.
November 2007 - December 2008 Tel Aviv, Israel

EPAM Systems

Graphics designer

Graphics design of web applications, websites, icons, advertising, Flash, publishing and typography. Design of mock-ups, user interfaces, page layouts and navigation for medium/large enterprise applications. Developing project prototypes, specifications, storyboards, style guides, user scenarios, workflow diagrams.
July 2001 - August 2007 Minsk, Belarus

Intetics

Web designer

Web Design for small/medium web sites and web applications, HTML/CSS/JavaScript prototyping. Visual graphics design: concepts, mock-ups, user interfaces, web sites, banners etc.
January 2000 - October 2001 Minsk, Belarus

Education

Belarusian National Technical University

Master's Degree in Computer Science (Systems Engeneering)

Faculty of Information Technologies. Speciality of Systmes Engeneering.
September 1990 - July 1995 Minsk, Belarus

Languages

English (Advanced),
Russian (Native),

Skills

CSS, Silverlight, Adobe Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Digital Photo Retouching, HTML, Mobile Design, Photo Manipulation, XAML,

Experience

Graphics and User Interface Designer, experienced in research and analysis of elegant solutions to solve complex UI/UX design problems.

Ability of creating of full-cycle design solutions from graphics mock-ups to prototype-ready templates.

Mobile design skills: high quality graphics for both iOS/Win Phone interactive touchable applications, good knowledge of Metro style guidelines and real works in portfolio.

XAML design skills: creation of XAML prototypes, styles, templates, custom user controls in Microsoft Expression Blend, deep knowledge of control styles and templates, style triggers, visual states, animated transition storyboards, vector icons and brushes and familiarity with resource dictionaries and data binding.

Efficient and fast transforming wireframes and user interface design into XAML files for Silverlight/WPF applications. Collaboration for simultaneous GUI creation with software developers.

Creative graphics design using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, including mock-ups, application layouts, navigation, product icons etc.

Broad expertise in complex User Interface design for both web and windows applications, from modern touchable mobile interfaces to specific interactive solutions for medical equipment, digital signage and public information devices (i.e. city guide information system, way-finding system, shopping mall visitor information etc).

Advanced usage of Adobe Acrobat Pro, Adobe Flash Professional, Corel Draw, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Expression Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio.

Knowledge of Flash/ActionScript, XML/XSLT/RSS, HTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL.

Strong knowledge of principals of GUI Design and Usability. Comprehensive expertise in computer graphics, contemporary design trends, typography, web technologies. Quick prototyping, storyboarding and documenting of project with GUI design tools.

Knowledge of software development life cycle and workflow (time reporting, bug tracking, usage of SVN/TFS version control tools).