Senior UX Designer, Personal Identity Protection at F-Secure Corporation

Igor Polyakov

Espoo, Finland

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Senior UX Designer, Creative Director, Concept Designer.

Extensive career designing winning user experience solutions, product conceptions and marketing visuals for both print and digital media. Approach design from a strategic marketing background and take pride in creating both attractive and effective communications designs. Work well in team and collaborative projects.

Specialties: UX visual and interaction design, art direction, layout, product style, brands, icons, advertising campaigns, production design, TV commercials, music clips, storyboards, decoration sets, industrial design, advertising installations, packaging design.
Education
- Bh
  
  College of jewelling, St. Petersburg, Russia
  
  1981 - 1983
- 144 School, Leningrad.
  
  1972 - 1980
Experience
- Senior UX Designer
  
  F-Secure Corporation
  
  2011 - Present (13 years)
  
  Working as a Senior UX Designer, creating visual style and interaction design for company's software titles.
- Creative Director
  
  Hot Snow Oy
  
  Jun 2006 - Present (18 years 5 months)
  
  Doing creative jobs to serve company's clients: identity, layouts, packaging, GUI, advertising, books etc.
- Owner, Editor
  
  Nordic Design Blog
  
  Jun 2005 - Present (19 years 5 months)
  
  I am editing and keeping Nordic Design Blog, an online source of information about design and life in Scandinavian Countries.
- Creative Director
  
  EKO-ENTERPRISES
  
  Jan 2010 - Dec 2010 (11 months)
  
  Product design, art directing, Leading of architecture vizualisation, GUI design, brand creation, package design and web design processes.
- Freelance Art Director
  
  Idean
  
  2006 - Dec 2010 (4 years 1 month)
  
  Created visual style of interface designs for company's clients. Worked as freelancer in Nokia Group for various UX projects.
- CEO
  
  VITRULUX OY
  
  May 2008 - Jan 2009 (8 months)
  
  Worked as CEO and Sales person.
- Freelance Art Director
  
  Hobby Hall AB Oy
  
  2006 - May 2008 (1 year 6 months)
  
  Layouts, photo session style, page plans.
- Art Director
  
  Interactive Partners Oy
  
  Aug 2003 - Aug 2006 (3 years)
  
  Worked as Art Director. Created layout and templates of web sites and online magazines. Produced animations for web and TV commercials.
- GUI Designer
  
  JSOP Interactive oy
  
  May 2000 - Dec 2003 (3 years 7 months)
  
  Employed by JSOP Interactive, a Finnish web and intranet development company, as a User Interface Designer. Created layout and user interface environments for clients' sites.
- Art Director
  
  Saku's Salmon safari
  
  Jan 2003 - Aug 2003 (7 months)
  
  Worked as Art Director. Creates layout and templates of web sites and online magazines. Created style and identity for company's facilities (Saku's Galley restaurant, Gran Canaria)
- GUI Designer
  
  Enfo Solutions
  
  2001 - 2003 (2 years)
  
  Created graphic user interfaces for company's online projects. Created flash animations and CSS and HTML templates for web sites and online applications.
- Art Director
  
  ETC-Web
  
  1997 - 2000 (3 years)
  
  Created on-line stores, Internet sites, Worked as leader of web developing team. Was responsible for company's brands style. Created advertising campaigns for clients.
- Art Director
  
  RECOR Inc.
  
  Dec 1997 - Dec 1998 (1 year)
  
  Designed advertising installations, interiors, billboards, and posters, web sites.
  Created decoration sets for musical and advertising clips for central Russian TV Channels.
- Advertising Designer
  
  RED LINE creative company
  
  1995 - 1997 (2 years)
  
  Created advertising campaigns, production style of advertising and music clips, desktop publishing, interiors. Created corporate identity styles for Companies.
- Production Designer, Animation Designer
  
  Lenfilm studios
  
  1993 - 1995 (2 years)
  
  Created storyboards, production art, animation, dress style for advertising and music clips. Created production style for TV shows.
- Founder, Artist
  
  the Battle Elephants
  
  Jan 1984 - Jan 1991 (7 years)
  
  Collaborated with Alexander Rappoport, founding "The Battle Elephants" Art group; Conceived and developed artistic credo of group. Created paintings, conceptual performances.
  
  Selected exhibitions:
  
  * 1984 "Informal art exhibition of St. Petersburg", St. Petersburg
  * 1985 "From Informal art to perestroika", Amsterdam, New York.
  * 1989 "St. Petersburg Art Biennial"
  * 1990 "Art olim", Jerusalem.
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