Marina Krutchinsky

Current

Principal UI Designer at Webhues Web Productions

Past

Design Director / Director of Web Services at Civic Ventures
Webmaster at Air Unlimited, Inc (Canada)
Director of Technical Marketing at BURAN (St.Petersburg, Russia)

R&D Mechanical Engineer / Product Designer at Institute for Informatics and Automation (St Petersburg, Russia)

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Education

Sankt-Peterburgskij Gosudarstvennyj Politehniceskij Universitet
Continuing Education

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Industry

Internet

Marina Krutchinsky’s Summary

I am a results-driven UI/UX strategist with extensive hands-on experience in all aspects of web site/application development. Trained engineer who found true passion in architecting, designing and coding user-centered interfaces for online applications.

17 years of combined engineering and multi-disciplinary design experience covering industrial, technical, product, software, interactive and online media fields.

200+ site launches since 1997.

Exceptionally skilled in leading fast-paced online projects through their full development cycle while meeting budget/time constraints and keeping team spirits up.

Marina Krutchinsky’s Specialties:

user interface design for web-based applications, information architecture, information design, user experience engineering, usability, web standards, web 2.0, web 3.0, wikis, user-centered design, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, Flash, front-end design, project management, cross-functional team management.

Marina Krutchinsky’s Experience

Principal UI Designer

Webhues Web Productions

(Internet industry)

1997 — Present (12 years )

Webhues Web Productions is my user experience design studio that now works almost exclusively with technology companies and online publishers to design and produce user-centered interfaces for web applications and mobile products.

Services include:
* Information Architecture
* Interaction Design
* Interface Design
* Visual Design
* Front-end Coding

My past and present clients include WebMD, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments, Cornell University, Foundation Center, OTIS, Rockefeller University and HemOncToday among others.
Design Director / Director of Web Services

Civic Ventures

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

June 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 1 month)

Civic Ventures is an innovative national nonprofit working to engage millions of baby boomers as a vital force for social change.

As Director of Web Services, I've worked with the organization’s senior management team to leverage social networks and information technology to advance the organization’s strategy; built and led a high-performance web team; coordinated and managed the organization’s web sites, provided creative and technical direction for all web-related projects; coordinated feature and function launches and upgrades, as well as periodic overhauls and redesigns; gathered specifications and requirements; established project timelines and deliverables; monitored, measured and optimized web site performance using Google Analytics; analyzed, identified and proposed improvements to the user experience.

Previously, as Design Director, my main focus was on online brand development, UI design and development, and online advertising and marketing campaigns.
Webmaster

Air Unlimited, Inc (Canada)

(Industrial Automation industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Responsible for conceiving, designing and building the very first web site for Air Unlimited.
Director of Technical Marketing

BURAN (St.Petersburg, Russia)

(Machinery industry)

1991 — 1994 (3 years )

BURAN was a manufacturing company in St.Petersburg, Russia producing innovative CFC-free refrigerating devices based on Ranque’s vortex effect. “Vortex tubes” are broadly used for a wide variety of industrial applications.

Responsibilities included participation in development of the overall product line strategy; meeting target customers and partners to solicit input on product requirements; exploring new potential market opportunities, trends within the market, and technology requirements; working with the Engineering team on the proposed design trade-offs in the development of vortex tube-based product line; and collaborating with Sales to determine which new customer requirements to fold back into product line and future product requirements.
R&D Mechanical Engineer / Product Designer

Institute for Informatics and Automation (St Petersburg, Russia)

(Think Tanks industry)

1988 — 1991 (3 years )

Was responsible for a range of engineering activities starting with mathematical modeling of certain dynamic processes to product conception to product design to new product introduction into manufacturing.

Marina Krutchinsky’s Education

Sankt-Peterburgskij Gosudarstvennyj Politehniceskij Universitet

MSc , Engineering , 1982 — 1988
Continuing Education

Information Design

Edward Tufte: Presenting Data and Information 2002

Additional Information

Marina Krutchinsky’s Interests:

emerging web technology, social media, start-ups, networks

Marina Krutchinsky’s Groups:

eOffice
BayCHI
Women 2.0
NetSquared
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
Interaction Design Association
Drupal
Collaboration
UX Professionals
Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup
----- The Startups & Societal Ventures Network ----- Innovating more effectively
Tweeple
Web Standards Design + Development
Designers Talk
Social Media Marketing Group
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
WordPress
WeAreJustCreative (WAJC)
Fuel Brand Creative Network