Radik Shvarts

NY-based Visual/Graphic Designer

Radik Shvarts

NY-based Visual/Graphic Designer

Radik Shvarts

NY-based Visual/Graphic Designer

www.linkedin.com/in/radikshvarts
email: [email protected]
Brooklyn, NY

NY-based Visual/Digital Designer. Creative professional with 20 years of industry experience and strong production skills. Looking for a Visual, Marketing, Editorial, Junior UX/UI, or hybrid Designer role.


TOOLS

  • Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate, InDesign, PowerPoint. HTML, CSS
  • Trained in Figma, Sketch, After Effects, Blender
  • Proficient in building dynamic CMS websites on WordPress platform with Elementor and JetEngine
  • Familiarity with hand-coding interactive animation with JS and GSAP


EXPERIENCE

03/2021 – 11/2022
GRAPHIC DESIGNER – CareAR, a Xerox Company, remote

An augmented reality support app company, part of the Xerox Corporation software unit

  • Responsible for building a library of design assets: including page layout and content of playbooks, white papers, and slide decks; creating static and animated social media and website images, trade show booth banners, infographics, illustrations, and icon sets.


07/2020 – 03/2021
WEB DESIGNER – Self-employed

  • Creating WordPress websites. Have taken Interaction Design Foundation bootcamp, learning UX/UI tools and processes: conducting user research, creating personas, designing user flows, site maps, UI kits, design systems, wireframes, and prototypes.


05/2010 – 06/2020
VISUAL DESIGNER – American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), NYC

International non-profit membership and standards-setting organization, formed in 1880

  • Instrumental in the launch of the revamped website in 2012, and again in 2019. Created internal pages of ASME.org, including the entire ‘Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks’ section.
  • Played a key role in re-branding of ASME Training and Development Courses, which led to higher clickthrough and purchase rates, and increased sales to about 20% in 5 years, to over $7 million.
  • Expanded content engagement by crafting illustrations and infographics for articles published on ASME.org and its subsections: biomedical at AABME.ASME.org; student competitions at EFests.ASME.org.
  • Developed a branded look for events landing page images.
  • Advanced the company’s social media engagement by creating dynamic imagery targeting a young audience.
  • Played a key role in the visual makeover effort of mass emails: attractive headers paired with clean responsive HTML templates contributed to a revenue increase of marketing mailers and gave a click rate boost to Mechanical Engineering Magazine newsletters.
  • Streamlined the entire graphics production process by creating UI components, event and program logos, and technical drawings, eliminating the need for outside contractors.


04/2008 – 05/2010
FREELANCE DESIGNER – Various Clients

  • Featured in the Design category of “Taschen’s 1000 Favorite Websites” book with Ycrop.com, a web portal that promoted events and showcased creative Russians in the US.
  • Created websites, Flash intros, DVD/CD/book covers, and logos.


06/2001 – 04/2008
SENIOR WEB DESIGNER – Thirteen WNET, NYC

Primary PBS member television station for the NYC

  • The lead designer of an award-winning team for Thirteen’s Cyberchase Online.
  • Grew Cyberchase Online from 20 million to 30 million page views per month in just one year, making it the most visited of all Thirteen.org websites.
  • Designed websites and landing pages for films and TV programs produced by Thirteen/WNET and PBS. Using Flash, created animated screensavers, games, and other interactive features. Produced illustrations, logos, icons, banners, and other creative assets promoting WNET/PBS programming.
  • Lead designer on most of the Thirteen.org projects since 2006, managing production artists and working directly with content producers.


01/2000 – 03/2001
WEB DESIGNER – Promotions.com/ Webstakes.com, NYC

  • Created landing pages, mini-games, HTML emails, animated intros and scratch cards for online sweepstakes and promotions hosted by Webstakes.com and external clients.


EDUCATION

09/1987 – 05/1991
BACHELOR OF ARTS – Minsk School of Visual Arts, Minsk, Belarus

CareAR is an augmented reality support platform company, a part of the Xerox Corporation software unit.

A large share of my responsibilities was to put together in-situation images of people in various industries using CareAR apps on their devices. These images were used in print and digital projects produced by the Creative Department.

From 2014 to 2020 I created hero images and prepared editorial images for articles published weekly on ASME.org. Some of these also appeared in ME Magazine. Featured examples demonstrate my color sense, composition, storytelling, and illustration skills.

CareAR is an augmented reality support platform company, a part of Xerox Corporation software unit. I’m involved in their brand identity development and responsible for creation of social media images.

CareAR is an augmented reality support platform company, a part of the Xerox Corporation software unit.

I was responsible for the design and the page layout of playbooks, white papers, and slide decks; creating social media and website images, trade show booth banners, infographics, illustrations, and icon sets.