GLnet - User Interface Designer - George Levchenko

Passion for designing User Interfaces; understanding a user scenarios, while designing a user flow; prolific; ability to manage multiple projects; creation of high quality concept graphics.

My experience includes core concept development, storyboarding, and web site content management by using my skills in illustration, logo design, graphic design, page layout, animation, HTML, CSS, ASP, XSL, and JavaScript.

Professional Experience

Yahoo!, Inc. 2007 – Present
Santa Clara, CA
Yahoo! Labs/Research is the central advanced research organization of Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide.

Sr. User Interface Designer - Yahoo! Labs

• Designed and successfully launched brand new Yahoo! Labs website - labs.yahoo.com that provides information on Labs organization.
• Designed and successfully launched brand new Yahoo! Sandbox - sandbox.yahoo.com - a virtual playground that gives users a sneak peek at Yahoo! Research projects in the works.
• Developed UI from inception for series of machine learning ranking competitions, such as Learn to Rank Challenge, Symantec Search and KDD Cup, with use of unique Yahoo! Webscope datasets. User Interface included end-to-end user flow: registration, submission and leader-board component. The Learning to Rank Challenge has been a huge success with more than 1000 teams registered!
• Worked on storyboarding and prototypes for numerous Research projects such as AppForge, MapChat, Yootls, Correlator, Guides, Recomovies, Goldrush, Garçon, Clues, Cyclopes, Fresh, InStore, Zync, Haystack, Centvote, Political Search Trends and many others.
  (You can learn more about these projects on labs.yahoo.com and sandbox.yahoo.com)

Andale, Inc. 2005 – 2007
Mountain View, CA
Provider of the most superior services for more than 2 million online merchants around the globe.
(Acquired by Vendio)

UI/UX Manager
Analyzed client feedback on product usability, referral statistics and internal data. Recommended and facilitated changes in the current implementation process, working with product management team to accomplish company's goals. Managed a team of web developers and designers in the US and India in the design and implementation of Andale software.

• Developed storyboarding and product prototype for Andale's next generation application.
• Designed User Interface for Honesty.com - search tool for eBay Bargain hunters.
• Created guidelines and templates.
• Simplified navigation for Research tools, Action Tools and Store Tools.
• Organized, simplified product features.
• Created product Demos for eBay Life 2005 and 2006 trade shows.
• Designed graphics and booth layout for eBay Life shows.
• Designed company Brochures and Collaterals.

Encover, Inc. 2003 – 2005
Mountain View, CA
Market leader in managing, marketing and selling service contracts on behalf of high technology manufacturers and their channel partners.

Senior User Interface Designer

• Designed user interface for web based products as part of the product development team.
• Designed standards, brand guidelines, and toolkit development.
• Created prototype of the application, resulted in a 45% improvement in development process in US and India outsource center.
• Designed company brochures, collateral.

Recommind, Inc. 2001 – 2003
Berkeley, CA
Information management software company, provides accurate and automated tools.

User Interface Manager

• Managed a team of web developers in Germany in implementation of MindServer Categorization.
• Designed user interface for award winning products: MindServer Retrieval, Categorization, SDK.
• Architected user flow and designed UI for email search and categorization.
• Created company's identity, graphics and web site.
• Collateral design, package design and CD-ROM interface design.

123Signup, Inc. 2000 – 2001
Milpitas, CA
Leading membership and event management software company for associations.

Sr. User Interface Designer

• Analyzed client feedback on product usability, referral statistics and internal data. Recommended and facilitated changes in the current development process, working with product management team. New process resulted in improvement in product development and customer satisfaction.
• Provided user interface design and guidance for the company's ASP application.
• Created company's identity, graphics and the web site.
• Designed company's brochures, collateral.

AudioHighway.com 1999 – 2000
Cupertino, CA
One of the largest publicly held online music companies.

Sr. Web Designer

• Responsible for creating and maintaining the UI to organize and dispense a 120,000+ track database. Site traffic increased from 300K to 2.5M per month during my tenure.
• Orchestrated development and subsequent maintenance of ecommerce audio store. Complimented this with AudioHighway's huge free downloadable music library.
• Designed company ecommerce web site, massmusic.com, and user interface for email services.

Network Assosiates (McAfee), Inc. 1998 – 1999
Santa Clara, CA
Leading provider of network security, help desk and availability technology.

Graphic / User Interface Designer

• Designed, coordinated and managed artwork and execute creative concepts for Net Tools projects, including Magic TSD - Enterprise and Standard Edition, Network Informant Suite and Net Tools Console.
• Responsible for researching, testing, and developing user interface.
• Designed and wrote internal NAI Customer Service web site, coordinating site design flow.

Education

MS Degree of Arts 1985-1991
Graphic Design. Fashion Design. History of Arts
Kiev National University of Technology and Design, Ukraine



Additional Information

• Publications: WYSIWYG Development of Data Driven Web Applications. (Download)
• Received award for "Outstanding work in Yahoo! Labs" in 2008
• Patent pending
• PDF version of the resume (Download)