Senior Web Designer at Wachovia
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Senior Web Designer at Wachovia
- Past
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- Senior Web Designer at World Savings
- Senior UI Designer/Developer at opt4
- Senior Web Quality Assurance Engineer at OneStop
- Quality Assurance Engineer at Siebel Systems, Inc
- Quality Assurance Engineer at InsWeb
- Education
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- Silicon Valley College
- 14th School
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Galina Pasternak’s Summary
* Extensive experience in website and web application front-end design and development, user interface graphical layout, typography and presentation.
* Full project lifecycle experience including gathering and validating requirements, prototyping, coding, testing, implementation, updating and maintenance.
* Expert with bitmap and vector graphics, hand-coded HTML/XHTML, XSL/XML, DHTML/CSS, JavaScript, proficient with Flash.
* Portfolio available at www.keencat.com.
Galina Pasternak’s Specialties:
Languages: HTML/XHTML, DHTML/CSS, JavaScript, XSL/XML
Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady, Flash, Dreamweaver, QuarkXpress, Visio, Communiqué, Vignette CMS, Optimost
OS: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP
Galina Pasternak’s Experience
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Senior Web Designer
Wachovia
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WB; Banking industry)
October 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)
World Savings was acquired by Wachovia (the official transition took place in October 2006)
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Senior Web Designer
World Savings
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GDW; Banking industry)
February 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 9 months)
* Designed, prototyped, developed and maintained different sections of public web site and online banking applications in compliance with company style guide and web design best practices.
* Worked with an interdisciplinary team to redesign corporate home page for World Savings, to develop new web site for Home Loan Experts division, and to migrate World Savings public web site onto Communiqué, content management system by Day Software Holding AG.
* Successfully led design projects through various stages such as gathering requirements, providing time estimates, allocating resources, designing and prototyping pages, making revisions, and getting approvals.
* Enhanced process by implementing effectively coded prototypes that significantly improved projects’ turn-around and shortened development time.
* Initiated use of latest cutting edge DHTML/CSS techniques. -
Senior UI Designer/Developer
opt4
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2004 (4 years)
* Designed, prototyped, developed, maintained, and updated GUI front-end of an Opt4 web-deployed trading platform using XSL/XML, HTML, DHTML/CSS and JavaScript.
* Gathered and validated requirements from marketing and project management departments, translated requirements into user flow diagrams, wire frames, and prototypes to ensure quality, ease of use and compliance with UI standards of the end product.
* Designed and implemented Opt4 platform’s front-end, so the platform interface could be easily customized based on specific client’s requirements.
* Designed, developed and maintained company web site as well as multiple product demos.
* Performed leading role in two rounds of company re-branding effectively communicating company message through visualization.
* Produced various Power Point presentations, Flash presentations, business cards, stationary, flyers, conference displays, etc. -
Senior Web Quality Assurance Engineer
OneStop
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
* Created icons and adjusted photo images to be placed on OneStop web sites.
* Performed automated regression test using SilkTest and load test using SilkPerformer.
* Provided black box testing of web sites targeting specific needs of small business owners.
* Set up and supported SilkRadar as company Issue Tracking System.
* Created and implemented test plans using functional specification as a primary source of information about features. -
Quality Assurance Engineer
Siebel Systems, Inc
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
April 1999 — June 1999 (3 months)
* Provided black box testing of Siebel enterprise applications such as “Communications” and “Utilities”.
* Performed installation of different application components.
* Completed following Siebel training courses: “Using Siebel 99”, “Siebel 99 Server Administration”, “Siebel 99 Remote Administration”, “Configuring an Application Using Siebel 99 tools”, “Applying Siebel Visual Basic and COM Interfaces Concepts”. -
Quality Assurance Engineer
InsWeb
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
July 1997 — April 1999 (1 year 10 months)
* Provided black box testing of web applications developed to help consumers receive quick and accurate insurance quotes.
* Performed database testing of MS SQL Server backend.
* Performed automated regression test using Silk.
* Created and implemented test plans using functional specification as a primary source of information about features.
* Used Issue Tracking System to enter bugs, updated bug status and generated bug reports.
Galina Pasternak’s Education
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Silicon Valley College
A.A.S., Computer Graphics, 2000 — 2001
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14th School
Junior, Middle and High School, 1981 — 1991
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