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Designer
Location
New York, NY, United States
Toptal Member Since
November 17, 2016
As a creative leader with over 15 years of experience, Eduard's expertise encompasses a variety of mediums and communication channels, working across a wide range of both client industries and creative teams. He's passionately creative, quality-driven, and motivated to create the best design solution. Combined with an in-depth approach to research and analysis, he's able to focus on the target audience and engage design in the most effective way.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Creative Director
2014 - PRESENT
Digital Dialog
- Served as the creative director, successfully engaging, inspiring, and activating audiences to drive demand for brands for a decade.
- Led the creative direction for Digital Dialog, a multi-disciplinary creative studio based in New York City. It is known for creating consumer-centered, imaginative, and conceptual designs with a love for storytelling.
- Created products that have a great impact and solve real-life problems.
Technologies: Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Prototyping, Sketch, SaaS Design, User Interface (UI), Product Design, Dashboards, Finance, B2B2C, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), User Flows, Mockups, Interactive Prototypes, User Experience (UX), Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web UI Design, Instructional Design, Desktop
Head of Design and Experience
2017 - 2017
Thuzio
- Managed the design team for Julius—a marketing platform that gives users access to more than 100,000 influencers.
- Led the user experience and design of Julius' consumer-facing platform.
- Worked with my team on user research to execution for experience design, visual design, and strategy related to the user experience.
Technologies: InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Principle, Sketch, Dashboards, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), B2B2C, User Flows, Mockups, Interactive Prototypes, User Experience (UX), Dashboard Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web UI Design, Desktop
Director of Product Design
2015 - 2017
Digitas Health
- Oversaw all the product design and user experience—achieving business and product goals.
- Drove collaboration across departments that contribute to the product value chain to ensure that product solutions have high adoption rates and maximum usage.
- Developed and maintained consistent brand identities across all media.
- Designed for a variety of clients such as Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi, AbbVie, Genentech, and more.
Technologies: Sketch, Principle, InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Wireframing, Data Visualization, Dashboards, B2B2C, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), User Flows, Mockups, Interactive Prototypes, User Experience (UX), Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web UI Design, Instructional Design, Desktop
Lead Creative
2012 - 2015
Digitas
- Served as a digital creative lead for clients and new business initiatives.
- Managed and was responsible for the creative direction and campaign allocation for a team of six people. The team was composed of art directors, copywriters, and production artists.
- Designed for a variety of notable clients such as Nielsen, Aetna, SunTrust Bank, Amex, Accenture, and more.
Technologies: Axure, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Dashboards, Finance, B2B2C, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), User Flows, Mockups, Interactive Prototypes, User Experience (UX), Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web UI Design, Instructional Design, Desktop
Senior Interactive Art Director
2011 - 2012
eScholastic
- Managed multiple projects from concept to completion by giving creative direction for the entire line of online services, including websites, mobile apps, and email marketing.
- Worked with the account team to develop concepts for new business initiatives.
- Created numerous email concepts for Scholastic's eCommerce platform that reached millions of teachers and parents.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, User Flows, Mockups, Interactive Prototypes, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web UI Design, eCommerce Design
Senior Art Director
2008 - 2011
Ogilvy & Mather
- Assisted in managing the creative development, design, and production of rich media banners, microsites, direct email promotions, and various online creatives.
- Collaborated with the creative director on campaign allocation and oversaw multiple art directors.
- Gained extensive experience creating brand identities.
- Worked for a variety of clients, including TD Ameritrade, Time Warner Cable, Barclays, Sears, Kmart, Amex, DuPont, Perrier, and more.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Finance, User Flows, Mockups, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web UI Design
Senior Art Director
2008 - 2008
Education Dynamics
- Conceptualized and developed marketing campaigns from the ground up, working with clients and Education Dynamic's production team.
- Created and managed content in Drupal, Magento, and WordPress.
- Designed and coded emails for various marketing campaigns for top US colleges and universities.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, User Flows, Mockups, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web UI Design
Art Director
2007 - 2008
Hill Holliday
- Produced and directed a wide range of deliverables, including kiosk presentations, CD-ROMs, websites, and motion graphics for the web, broadcast, and print mediums.
- Designed and coded emails for Sirius.com, Chilli's, and many other clients.
- Worked for a variety of clients, including Sirius, Chili's, and Verizon.
Technologies: CSS, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, HTML, User Flows, Mockups, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web UI Design
Education
2016 - 2017
Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA)
Touro University - Los Alamitos, CA, USA
1998 - 2002
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication
Tirana University - Tirana, Albania
Certifications
JUNE 2017 - PRESENT
Remote User Research
Nielsen Norman Group
MAY 2015 - PRESENT
Psychology for Digital Behavior Change
Behavioral Design Academy