You should also read my profound CV in Russian: http://goo.gl/NBIc5 My personal email: piskov at hey.com Also see “Professional development, courses” section below. Work process samples in Russian: https://clck.ru/35NtSb (mobile version p. 1) https://clck.ru/35NtSs (mobile version p. 2) https://clck.ru/35NtT4 (admin zone) https://clck.ru/35NtTW (admin zone, filters); https://clck.ru/35NtTi (admin zone, import); https://clck.ru/35NtTy (personal data and content optimisation) https://clck.ru/35NtUF (reports typography and layout) https://clck.ru/35NtUT (native swipe gestures emulation in browsers) https://clck.ru/35NtUe (form validation) Also you may be interested in some of my (very old) articles and comments in Russian on attention to details (Tinkoff, Uber): http://goo.gl/5WUgvG http://goo.gl/I0x9Hq http://goo.gl/OMzVTr Trend watching. See everything. Stay up-to-date on all the latest technology, design, psychology, social, environmental, and industry trends. Get inspired about what’s happening in the world and apply a unique lens to it. Research, planning, and project management. Uncover insights and behaviors that will drive the direction of a project. Planning out the tactics for capturing the right data during the elaboration phases of a project. Use agile (Scrum or Kanban) through lens of ITIL practices. Big experience in scoping, estimating, and scheduling of project development and producing detailed associated documentation. As in interviewing and hiring. A calm, organised, and coherent leadership style with an uncanny prescience. The ability to view projects from a high level perspective, drawing on knowledge from other members of the team in order to make strong, balanced, and clear decisions, whilst also communicating the consequences of these decisions to the team. Comfortable delving into the complexities of challenging logic and getting a handle on subject matter that may be foreign. Prototyping. Regularly proposing strategies and approaches is a core competency. Comfortable concepting from scratch, as well as responding to detailed agency briefs. Have a keenly developed aesthetic sense and a practitioners background in coding, design, and copywriting. Can lead while fostering a creative and collaborative environment that thrives on an exchange of ideas. Exceptional ability to communicate (written, oral, and telepathic) complex technical concepts in a way that is easy to understand, ensuring that non-technical colleagues and clients are able to understand approaches, issues, and risks. Can be very persuasive regardless of the opponent (proven experience with up to deputies in state ministries). Best in Russian of course, but I am constantly improving in my English skills (currently advanced as in C1 of Common European Framework proficiency levels). — a strong, unique design sense; — immense attention to detail; — understanding the relationship between visual design and software development; — ability to participate and lead in group collaboration (even in geographically distributed one, had experience with teams in Denver, Limassol, and Kiev); — strong sense of pride in my work. I can foster any tech project (I’m prefer projects where I can combine tech+product roles), but if you want to know what I can do with my “bare hands”, here’s the developer’s list: — .NET, C# (since 2006); — Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, SQL Reporting Services. Vast experience in database design; — LINQ (to SQL, Entities, XML, objects); — PLINQ, Tasks parallel library, Reactive extensions; — Entity Framework; — ASP Web API, WCF; — HTML and CSS, BEM responsive/adaptive layouts; — some experience in js stack: vanilla javascript, webpack, nodejs, mongodb, mongoose, express, celebrate, winston — know it all just enough to prefer C# and .NET for backend any day of the week; — WPF and Silverlight many-many years ago (vast experience in all fields from animation to custom controls); — Jetbrains Rider, Vim IDE plugins, Visual Studio, VS Code; — long-long time ago had some functional background with Erlang, SWI Prolog and Haskell; — Jira, Confluence, Basecamp, Highrise CRM. — basic ML and data analysis with: Python, NumPy, SciPy, scikit, etc. Personal bench press record: 145 kg. Jim Camp, Gavin Kennedy, Nigel Latta, Dale Carnegie, Robert Cialdini, Ogilvy, Jan Tschichold, Robert Bringhurst, and Edward Tufte are heroes that changed my life. As for the afterword, always remember Red Adair’s words: “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur”. Thank you.