Ilya Sitnikov (Sitnikovi@hotmail.com)

Current

Quality Assurance Assistant at MetaCarta

Past

Freelancer at Tippingpoint Labs
Production Intern at Morris Visitor Publications
Customer Service Representative at Innovation First Notice

Store Clerk at Shaw's Supermarkets

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Education

New England Institute of Art
University of Massachusetts Boston

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Information Technology and Services

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Ilya Sitnikov (Sitnikovi@hotmail.com)’s Summary

Goal-driven, passionate worker based in New England region, who is equally comfortable working as part of a team environment, as well as producing results on my own.I am capable of dealing with deadlines and stressful situations at work.

Currently, I am involved with Cambridge, MA based MetaCarta, where I started out as as intern during the summer of 2007. This position is a huge step for me in terms of understanding the principles and core values that lie behind every successful company.

On a technical side, I have a thorough knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Dreamweaver and Quark XPress, as well as basic design/production skills. I have an enormous interest in web and graphic design and I'm on my way towards completion of web development certificate from New England Institute of Art.

Russian is my native language, but I also speak English fluently, so I can always provide help with all kinds of translation/localization projects.

Technical Skills:

Adobe Photoshop

Dreamweaver

Adobe InDesign

Quark XPress

HTML / XHTML / CSS

Microsoft Office Suite (Word / Excel / Powerpoint / Outlook)

Ilya Sitnikov (Sitnikovi@hotmail.com)’s Specialties:

-Image editing / retouching

-Proofreading

-Translation of material from English to Russian and vice versa

-Data Entry

Web Design:

- Able to create website from mock-up

- Can explain why using tables for layouts is bad for your business

- Can code/create standard-compliant web sites without using WYSIWIG editors, although I can also use industry-standard tools like Photoshop and Dreamweaver

Ilya Sitnikov (Sitnikovi@hotmail.com)’s Experience

Quality Assurance Assistant

MetaCarta

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)

In the summer of 2007, I was invited for an internship at MetaCarta. In the beginning I was responsible for compiling lists of potential contacts, giving calls to contacts and adding new information to the database.

Eventually I was offered a part-time position and currently I am still involved with the company.

Duties:

- Data Acquisition

- Quality Assurance

- Geotagging

- Data Editing

Tools/software used:

- Microsoft Excel
Freelancer

Tippingpoint Labs

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

October 2007 — October 2007 (1 month)

In October of 2007, I was invited for a freelance opportunity at TippingPoint Labs, company located in Newton, MA.

I completed a project related to typesetting, using Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Excel.

Duties:

- One project which involved creation of text for business cards and subsequent proofreading

Tools/software used:

- Adobe InDesign

- Microsoft Excel
Production Intern

Morris Visitor Publications

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Publishing industry)

March 2007 — July 2007 (5 months)

In the summer of 2007, I was invited for an internship with a Boston division of Morris Visitor Publications, company responsible for producing Where Magazine, a tour guide available all over the world.

My main role was to recreate Quark Xpress ads in Adobe InDesign, as well scanning/editing images in Adobe Photoshop and creating slide libraries.

Duties:

- Creating slide libraries

- Recreating ads which were originally done in Quark XPress by following supplied dimensions/size

- Editing images

Tools/software used:

Adobe InDesign

Quark XPress

Adobe Photoshop
Customer Service Representative

Innovation First Notice

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Insurance industry)

November 2006 — December 2006 (2 months)

In the late 2006, I started working for a company called First Notice Systems (now called Innovations First Notice), which is located in Newton, MA.

For a month, we were taught how to provide a great customer service and then we were allowed to work in an actual customer service environment.

While eventually I decided to search for a different opportunity, I still learned a great deal from training and subsequent work with First Notice.

Tools/software used:

Non-technical position
Store Clerk

Shaw's Supermarkets

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Supermarkets industry)

December 2003 — September 2005 (1 year 10 months)

My first job was working at Shaw's store in Belmont. It provided me with an chance to learn about customer service and general work ethic.

Software/tools used:

Non-technical position

Ilya Sitnikov (Sitnikovi@hotmail.com)’s Education

New England Institute of Art

Certificate, Web Development, 2008 — 2009 (expected)
University of Massachusetts Boston

Bachelor, Psychology, 2001 — 2006