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Alena Essina
CV
UX/UI designer

I have 6 years professional experience in mobile games industry.

The most part of this time I work as art lead.

I have experience in the different art styles. I worked and working with backgrounds, environments, characters and animations, but really passioned by UX and UI design.

I love my profession, I like connecting with artists and programmers and create a really good result.

 

Academic Qualifications

Omsk State Institute of Service (OSIS) , Russia

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Master of Arts (M.A.), Design

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2003 – 2009

 

Languages

  • English: Nivel excelente a nivel hablado y escrito

 

  • Spanish: B2, started level C1

 

  • Russian: native

 

Interests

  • Art

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  • Design and architecture

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  • Sports

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  • Psychology

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  • Video games

 

I have 6 years professional experience in mobile games industry. The most part of this time I work as art lead.

I prefer cartoonish projects but also I have experience in different art styles. I worked and working with backgrounds, environments, characters and animations, UI and AD banners.

I love my profession, I like connecting with artists and creating a really good result.

Skills

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  • Positive and effective communication

  • The ability to work as part of a team and independently

  • Imagination and creativity

  • Good at handling multi-level tasks

  • An energetic and flexible approach

  • Effective at interpersonal communication & relationship building with team and client

  • To be flexible in art style and practices

  • Competence in relevant art software:

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, CorelDraw, Sketch Up.

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Work Experience

                                        Signus Labs (acquired by EPAM Systems),

                                        St. Petersburg, Russia

                                        Art Lead

 

Based on the world famous cartoon game project. Duties: connecting with artists, managers and client’s reviewers,  tracking quality of art and animations, create with project schedules and resource planning, providing regular reviews and feedback to artists and PM.

 

Recommendations contacts:

Ekaterina_Astrakhantceva@epam.com Human Resource Specialist

Dmitrii_Svidlo@epam.com Art Director

 

                                       

                                        Signus Labs (acquired by EPAM Systems),

                                        St. Petersburg, Russia

                                        Flash Artist March 2014 - June 2014

 

Based on the world famous cartoon game project. Duties:  create Isometric environment and characters animations conformed to the style and quality of project.


 

                                        Grizzly Jr.,

                                        Novosibirsk, Russia

                                        Art Lead and Artist    July 2011 - February 2014

 

Art lead and artist in the indie studio. Duties:  Tracking of style and quality of projects, connecting with artists, producers and game designer, Creation  an art of characters, animations , locations and UI art.

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Achievements:

  • “Robber Rabbits” project became the mobile game of the week at AppStore in 72 countries

  • “Cute Heroes “ game was included in the AppStore list of recommendations and in the list “New & Hot”.



                                        Different companies in Russia

                                        Clothes designer and T-shirt prints designer    

                                        June 2011-2009

 

Clothes designer and T-shirt prints designer  in Cloth production companies. Duties: Creating style, construction and pictures for prints

2014

At the moment

2014

March 2014

2011

February 2014

2009

June 

yessinaalyona@gmail.com

+34 653 389  762

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