Ovidiu Boc's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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I'm a left-brained designer (the "analytical, strategic and realistic" type of guy) always advocating for the user needs while meeting the business objectives. Therefore, I love to design user-friendly, conversion-oriented interfaces having a well defined information architecture, an intuitive and affective interaction design and, overall, a great user experience. Background: Over 8 years experience in developing Rich Internet Applications, more than 10 years experience in User Interface and Interaction Design and over 6 years experience in coaching and managing small to medium development teams. Specialties: User Interface, Interaction and Experience Design, Information Architecture and Product Development Strategy.Head of User Experience @ From June 2015 to Present (7 months) Senior UX Designer @ From September 2014 to June 2015 (10 months) Bucharest, RomaniaUI / UX Designer @ Redesign for www.okazii.ro, the largest online marketplace in Romania. -- From April 2012 to July 2014 (2 years 4 months) UI / UX Designer @ Complete redesign for www.vreaucredit.ro, Romania's leading financial comparison website: IA (content and feature inventory, taxonomy, labeling, url schema) & UI (sketches, wireframes, mockups, design). -- From May 2011 to April 2012 (1 year) UI / UX Designer @ Designed various low-to-high fidelity concept representations (sketches, wireframes, mockups, prototypes), identified personas and user scenarios, performed content and features inventory, labeling and taxonomy for clients like: ING Romania, Johnson & Johnson, Renault, AVON Cosmetics, UPC, Ferrero, Orange, Forever Living Products, Greenfield Residence, Clal Romania, Farmaciile Dona and Maguay. -- From April 2008 to March 2011 (3 years) Development Manager @ Defined and implemented agency’ development strategy, procedures, workflows, guidelines and methodologies; managed, trained, coached and supervised both front-end and back-end development teams; provided technical assistance and information exchange with other departments; directed project landing, setup and team assignment; performed unit and final project testing and quality assurance; supervised project’s development life-cycle ranging from small presentational websites or social media campaigns integration to complex B2C, B2B and MLM ecommerce platforms. -- From February 2008 to March 2011 (3 years 2 months) Lead Developer @ Built up, trained, coached and supervised a small development team capable of fulfilling the company's main objective: create the first comprehensive B2C online lead-generation platform covering most of the financial mass-market products in Romania (loans, debit and credit cards, lease, deposits). Integrated two out of four projects (www.vreaucredit.ro - loans and www.vreaucard.ro - debit and credit cards), built the online business strategy, designed and implemented the websites' IA, UI and UX to ensure a user friendly, SEO ready, standard compliant (W3C, WCAG) interface, developed the platform's engine, key features and database architecture to meet high reliability, scalability and security requirements. After two years and two major revisions, the company’s leading project, www.vreaucredit.ro became a leader and a trendsetter for the online financial services market, generated more than 50.000 unique leads for top 30 banks in Romania, won two awards for "Best financial services website" (Internetics, 2006) and "Best user experience" (Microsoft, 2007), ranked #1 in SERPs for most of the popular financial keywords and delivered an average of 600.000 page views / 120.000 unique visitors / month. -- From January 2006 to February 2008 (2 years 2 months) Web Developer @ Designed, developed and coordinated several small to large projects. Eg: www.acms.ro (constructions), www.formula-as.ro (publishing), www.adnba.ro (architecture), www.pizza-venetia.ro (FMCG) -- From January 2004 to December 2007 (4 years) Web Developer @ Developed and maintained company's publishing websites: www.revistavip.net , www.vacantesicalatorii.ro , www.cuvantul.ro. -- From July 2005 to December 2005 (6 months) Bachelor of Science, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers @ "Politehnica" University of Bucharest From 2001 to 2006 Ovidiu Boc is skilled in: User Interface Design, User Experience, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Web Design, Usability, E-commerce, Web Applications, User-centered Design