MICHAEL POLYAKIN resume

UX/UI Professional

*** ******* *****, ********, *** 2B5, Ontario, Canada

Tel/Fax: 519-***-****

abpr22@r.postjobfree.com

www.embedpixel.com

Qualification Overview

Seasoned UX specialist shaped by extensive experience working closely with engineers and product managers

throughout all stages of the product cycle, across all UX disciplines designing UX, UI and IA for:

Web 13 years

Web based enterprise-scale applications 9 years

Desktop 3 years

Mobile > 1 year

Sometimes acting as a Team of one I have extensive experience in:

HTML and CSS hand coding, intermediate Javascript for prototyping purposes

Selling design concepts to clients as Senior web designer, Art Director and independent consultant

Presenting and negotiating design solutions across different teams, product owners, executives

Mentoring junior designers

Being involved into the following deliverables creation and activities:

Leadership 3 years

Leading design process of assigned projects throughout all stages of the product cycle

across different teams

UX > 3 years

Requirements gathering (interviews)

Information Architecture 6 years

Blueprints

Affinity tables & Taxonomies

Card sorting

Interaction Design 11 years

Task flows

Storyboards

Navigation

Wireframes from low to high fidelity

Visual Design (Printing & Web) 15 years

Concepts

UI skins & layouts

Icons

Branding

Relevant Education & Training

Six Sigma yellow belt, 2009

Capability Maturity Model Integration, 2009

Blackberry Administration, 2009

Product Development Process, 2008

Masters Certificate Program in Design. Digital Technology in Art Design Practice, Concordia

University, Montreal, Canada (2004)

Relevant Work History

UI Designer 1 year 8 months

Research in Motion (03/2009 11/2010), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Designing user interactions flows for multiple handheld applications as part of User

Experience organization as an User Interaction Designer

UI Designer 6 months

Research in Motion (10/2008 03/2009), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Created IA, interaction and visual design of multiple internal enterprise software products as

part of Strategic Capabilities Team (SQM) as an User Interface Designer

Selected projects:

MVS handheld application (http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/business/blackberry_mvs)

Role:

Interaction Designer

BlackBerry Administration Service web console (http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/

business/server/full)

Roles:

UX Architect

Information Architect

Interaction Designer

Visual Designer

User Experience & User Interface Designer 2 years 5 months

EK3 Technologies (06/2006 10/2008), London, Ontario, Canada

Played key role in leading the UX-design stages of software development, in creating user-

centered corporate culture & UX framework I supported user-centered design throughout the

product development process, from research & conceptualization to commercialization.

Selected company s clients:

Software Multimedia Designer 1 year 4 months

OSTnet Inc. (08/2004 - 11/2005), Montreal, Canada

Responsible of:

UI & Interaction design of Web and Desktop based software products of the company

Design and maintenance company web site

Design of multimedia training materials

Independent Consultant 2 years 10 months

Software UI, IA, Web & Multimedia/Graphic Design (11/2001 07/2004)

Selected clients:

Alvarion

IntelHub

BlueprintSys

Stereologic

Art Director 1 year 6 months

MLL Software Industries - one of the leading software houses in Israel (05/2000 10/2001)

Israel

Conceptualizing and designing enterprise administrative and document management software

for such company s clients as:

Keter (Israeli leading manufacturer plastic products)

Home Depot (Israeli branch)

Israel Aircraft Industries

Tnuva (Israeli largest food producer)

Senior Web Designer 1 year 5 months

Tapuz - (12/1998 04/2000) Israel

Accomplishments

Patents pending

Method and apparatus for displaying keys of a virtual keyboard (RIM assignee)

Food ordering system and method

Selected Awards

www.embedpixel.com/akutagawa - award-winning work at [9th] Japan Media Arts Festival

(2005). http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/2005/recommend/

My online portfolio - Platinum American Design Award, (2003). http://www.

americandesignawards.com/winner-03-2003.html

Diploma of Excellence from Art Addiction Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (1998), for my

drawings

International SOHO Award New York, US (1994), for my drawings

Selected Projects

Design of UI, user guide and heuristic evaluation of desktop based software Blueprint Requirements Center.

Blueprint Requirements Center - is the first software development communications platform to implement

the new paradigm of Customer Oriented Software Development .

Client s feedback

I wanted to give you all some feedback from Sales. Without a doubt the new

release makes our job in sales much easier. Here is some feedback for you:

The feedback from everyone is that the look and feel of Product is now much professional and slick. It shows

much better, even for features that we had before such as flowcharts and business modeling. It is amazing the

change that a new GUI can make to people s perceptions about a product and what it does

Paul A. Smith - Senior Vice-President, Blueprint Inc.

Online Portfolio

www.embedpixel.com

software design, selected projects: www.embedpixel.com/soft_portfolio

Computer Skills

Software Skills

Adobe products: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Home Site, Dreamweaver

Microsoft Office & Visio

Azure

Programming Skills

HTML

CSS

JavaScript for prototyping purposes

Flash Actionscript intermediate

Languages

Russian mother tongue

English & Hebrew - fluent

French & Spanish - basic

Artistic Activities

Selected Exhibition

[9th] Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan, 2005

Art Addiction Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 1998

Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 1995, 1996

Agora Gallery, New York, US, 1994

Hobbies & Interests

Music, Literature, Motion design, Information Architecture, Information Design, Visual Communication Design,

Design Methodologies & Process, Art & Art Theories (http://www.embedpixel.com/research/)

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