Professional skills

Layouts for books, brochures, magazine ads, promotional materials
Illustrations (book covers, cards, magazines).
Flash animation.
Image processing (retouch, cropping, color and tonal correction).
Digital printout and file troubleshooting, including complicated cases.
Web design (client side development).

Technical skills

Operation Systems: Windows, Mac OS. Advanced user. WM user.
Design Sotware: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash, CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT. Desktop Publishing software: Adobe InDesign, Adobe PageMaker, Acrobat, Quark Xpress.
Utilities: Acrobat, Photoshop, InDesign and Quark XPress plugins and add-ons, font managers, system utilities and more Office Aplications: MS Office Suite.

Equipment Experience

Color laser printers/copiers with Fiery RIPs. High volume black and white printers, oversize equipment.

Adobe Inc

San Francisco. 2008-present.

Quality Assurance Engineer, Flash Team, Russian version.Testing both international and functional side of the Flash CS4 and Flash CS5 application.

ArticulateSF

San Francisco. Since 2006 (recurring contract)

Graphic design, retouch, design concepting. Corporate image for the promotion campaign. Work under the art director guidance inside a developed brand. Developed a new brand direction for the campaign. Books, large banners, presentations, display signs, promotion packages, website design.

Svenartsmedia

Mill Valley. 2007.

Flash design. Illustration. Print design, Branding. (sites, collateral print materials, logotypes and branding graphic)

Jewish Community of San Francisco

San Francisco. 2005–2006.

design concept and template for the newspaper. Consulting, ad design and personnel training on recurring basis.

Copy Station Inc

San Francisco. 2003 - 2005.

Prepress and design (brochures, flyers, cards, presentations). Corporate style. Corporate website. Print production for different printers (including oversize )