Lazar Petrakiev Product manager - CSM SUMMARY I am a product manager with more than 11 years of experience building mobile and web software. I could summarize myself as successful, innovative and passionate professional with solid experience in UX and UI design, with skills that span various disciplines and continue developing many others. EMPLOYMENT 11.2015 03.2018 MentorMate Sofia, Bulgaria Senior User Experience Designer On this position at MentorMate my role was to create UX and UI design for mobile (iOS, Android, Windows) and web applications. The software I used was Sketch or Illustra tor to create wireframes and visual design and Marvel app for prototyping. Conducting user research, competitive analysis, user interviews and usability inspection based on heuristic evaluation or usability testing with real users to ensure that the software provides the best possible user experience along with adhering to the principles of accessibility. Another area where which I was actively involved at MentorMate was the knowledge see next page Phone: 00359 878 23 06 88 Email: [email protected]Portfolio: www.petrakiev.work 03.2018 Present MobiSystems Sofia, Bulgaria Product Manager Managing the development of a desktop mail client with integrated calendar, web cloud storage app, partnership portal and the two websites presenting the flagship company's product and the corporate website. Conducting usability testing, user interviews, surveys and polls along with quanti tative user research in order to take informed decisions about current functional - ities, feature prioritization and usability improvement. Defining product specifications and appraising new product ideas, conducting competitive and market analysis. Working with designers, engeneers and stakeholders to define the product vision and direction of development. Maintain the staff job results by counseling employees; planning, monitoring, and and appraising job results. Currently I work as a product manager at MobiSystems, as my main responsibilities are the development of a desktop mail client with an integrated calendar, web cloud storage app, parthership portal, and the two websites that present the company and the flagship product. -
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Lazar PetrakievProduct manager - CSM
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Y I am a product manager with more than 11 years of experience building mobile and web software.
I could summarize myself as successful, innovative and passionate professional with solid experience
in UX and UI design, with skills that span various disciplines and continue developing many others.
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11.201503.2018
MentorMate Sofia, Bulgaria
Senior User Experience DesignerOn this position at MentorMate my role was to create UX and UI design for mobile (iOS,
Android, Windows) and web applications. The software I used was Sketch or Illustra
tor to create wireframes and visual design and Marvel app for prototyping.
Conducting user research, competitive analysis, user interviews and usability
inspection based on heuristic evaluation or usability testing with real users to
ensure that the software provides the best possible user experience along with
adhering to the principles of accessibility.
Another area where which I was actively involved at MentorMate was the knowledge
Product ManagerManaging the development of a desktop mail client with integrated calendar,
web cloud storage app, partnership portal and the two websites presenting the
flagship company's product and the corporate website.
Conducting usability testing, user interviews, surveys and polls along with quantitative user research in order to take informed decisions about current functional
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ities, feature prioritization and usability improvement.
Defining product specifications and appraising new product ideas, conducting competitive and market analysis.
Working with designers, engeneers and stakeholders to define the product vision anddirection of development.
Maintain the staff job results by counseling employees; planning, monitoring, andand appraising job results.
Currently I work as a product manager at MobiSystems, as my main responsibilities are the development
of a desktop mail client with an integrated calendar, web cloud storage app, parthership portal, and the
two websites that present the company and the flagship product.
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10.201411.2015
MentorMate Sofia, Bulgaria
Creative LeadOn this position at MentorMate my role was to build a design team of 4, as I was responsible for the hiring as well and lead this design team as provide guidelines to the 3 other designers and revise their work, manage the working process, prioritiz-ing and synchronizing the work load with the US design team. For the purpose of that I made some additions to the standard Agile process, namely including a real kandban process which helped me better organize the workload and delegate the current projects among the team members.
Another aspect of my responsibilities was leading a dedicated front-end team for an American client as my role was to create designs for web sites, ensure the designs are implemented correct (pixel perfect) and revise the code quality.
Those two additional duties were just an addition to the creation of user interface and user experience designs for web and mobile.
sharing between the design teams. I led an internal initiative for sharing knowledge and developing the skills of the team members, as for this purpose I led presenta -tions 2-4 times per month in front of the teams. Some of the things I spoke about were: Heuristic Evaluation, Cognitive Walkthrough, Accessibility for web and mobile,Affinity diagram, Usability Testing - practical examples and questions to ask,Triangulation etc.
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05.201310.2014
I started work at MentorMate as a senior web designer as initially I was actively involved in all internal web based projects, and mobile projects for iOS and Android for american clients. I started actively using tools like InVision and Marvel app for prototyping as well as Balsamiq, Illustrator and some other softwares for building wireframes.
MentorMate Sofia, Bulgaria
Senior Web Designer
07.201409.2015
In the summer of 2014 as one of the members of Interaction Design Foundation, I was promoted to country manager, as my responsibilities were to build a communi-ty of designers with all level of experience who want to share knowledge, ideas and discuss the new trends and technologies as help each other.
I started organizing meetings on which I was explaining what the idea of this foun-dation and this community is and soon I built a small group of like minded people who wanted to help each other, share and gain knowledge.
I started to invite start-ups on our group events as they were presenting us with their products and their business as our role as professionals from all levels were to try to help them with ideas, to brainstorm around a certain problem they have and give them guidelines how they could improve the user experience of their software.
Interaction Design Foundation (IDF) Sofia, Bulgaria
Country Manager
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My responsibilities in Rexintegra were to create designs for iOS using photoshop
and illustrator, as well as to create web sites for big clients as German magazines,
some of the biggest hospitals in USA (Mayo clinic) and other healthcare based
projects.
Other then this I was involved in the front-end work as part of that was to write some
xhtml and css as we mainly used preprocessors like scss or sass, and some basic
JavaScript.
Rexintegra Sofia, Bulgaria
User Experience Designer
10.201105.2012
Noavis is a small company where I was the only designer working closely with the
CEO and the developers as my responsibilities were to create websites for different
small businesses and organizations in Bulgaria like kindergartens, furniture stores,
Microsoft technologies providers and many others.
For a really short time I built dozens websites including the part of the creation of
the actual design and the programming into xhtml and css with some basic
java-script.
Noavis Sofia, Bulgaria
Web Designer
01.201110.2011
In WebMedia I worked closely with the CEO and the developers as my responsibili-
ties were to create websites for different small businesses and organizations in
Bulgaria like online stores for clothes, shoes, sport equipment etc. as well as hotels,
veterinary clinics and many others.
The work was very dynamic. Sometimes I had to create the design of the website
the one day and to complete it (xhtml and css) by the end of the other day.
The techniques and technologies which I mainly used were photoshop and illustra-
tor for design, paper wireframes, conducting competitive analysis, and adobe
dreamweaver for front end coding.
Webmedia Sofia, Bulgaria
Web Designer
05.201001.2011
WebFactory is a small to mid-size international company based in Sofia, serves
customers from the Bulgarian and European market.
My role was to create mainly design for websites (only design) as our clients were
WebFactory Sofia, Bulgaria
Web Designer
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Holland, United Kingdom, Bulgaria and other countries.
The techniques and technologies I used were mainly Photoshop and Illustrator with
competitive analysis and paper wireframes prior the actual design work.
I worked in a team with two more designers as one of them was our team lead from
whom I learned many things and developed different skills.
12.200805.2010
This is the company were I started my professional career. Here I learned how to
design websites and developed to a very good level at this time my front-end coding
skills. I worked mainly on projects for small businesses based in Bulgaria. As for the
time I worked at this company I was involved in more than 200 projects for many of
which I created the design and slice it into xhtml and css.
I worked closely with a project manager who was the point of communication
between me and the clients.
Webstart Sofia, Bulgaria
Web Designer / Front-End Developer
Product Management
People Management
Requirements Analysis
Scrum, Kanban
User Research User Research
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