Misha Miroshnikov

Product design, UX/UI, concepting and prototyping, design team management

I transform business ideas into scalable human-oriented web services. I have 20 years of a professional multicultural experience as a practicing human-computer interaction generalist, designer, manager.

Portfolio: misha.live

Email: mikoza@gmail.com

Fully authorized to work in the US.

Experience

HD🌀Cafe, a social platform for Human Design enthusiasts

Los Angeles, CA.

Founder, Product Designer and Manager, Front-end Developer

March 2023 → present
  • Designed a social network platform
  • Programmed front-end
  • Built a team and managed agile product delivery

UP.Labs, venture Lab

Santa Monica, CA.

Product Design Consultant

November 2022 - December 2022 (2 months)
  • Applied an user-centric approach to the product vision in two teams
  • Built two hi-fidelity web prototypes (webflow and ReactJS based), that enabled the team to present future product concepts to the partners and investors

General Symbol, knowledge platform for engineering and R&D

Los Angeles, CA

CXO (Chief Experience Officer), Product Designer

October 2021 - June 2022 (9 months)
  • Applied a user-centric feature prioritization approach
  • Developed a product concept and a hi-fidelity prototype, that allowed the CEO to present the future product to the investors.
  • Established an R&D workflow (development sprints that followed design sprints), that insured the consistent features delivery.

Xsolla, tools and services for gaming industry

Los Angeles, CA

Director Of Product Design

March 2019 - October 2020 (1 year 8 months)
  • Implemented correct design process in multiple product teams
  • Design-managed up to 5 product teams simultaneously
  • Hired and trained designers to gain new skills of prototyping and web development
  • Led a cross-functional project teams and produced concepts, prototypes, and specifications for new company's initiatives.
  • Art-directored a full-scale redesign of the company's website and products
  • Implemented a design review/design legacy refactoring framework
  • Established a design planning process and alignment with business goals

Product Designer, Art Director, Web Developer

May 2016 - March 2019 (2 years 11 months)
  • Initiated, designed and launched a SaaS product (Web site builder) that enabled the company to reach new audiences.
  • Art-directored ongoing marketing projects to align with the company's brand and style.
  • Designed numerous landing and other web pages for company's initiatives.

Buyon, e-commerce platform

Tallinn, Estonia

Senior User Interface Architect, Product Designer

April 2012 - August 2015 (3 years 5 months) 
  • Architected a large B2B / B2C e-commerce platform with complex B & C parties interaction
  • Designed an end-to-end e-commerce user experience
  • Managed the proper delivery of the design by a distributed team of coders

Art. Lebedev Studio, design powerhouse

Moscow, Russia

UI/UX Designer for Mobile apps

December 2009 - March 2012 (2 years 4 months)
  • Designed an end-to-end UX/UI of twelve iOS / Android apps in the areas of e-commerce, flight aggregation, property rental, plus a range of smaller apps.

Iconka.com, icon foundry

Moscow, Russia

Illustrator

May 2008 - December 2009 (1 year 8 months)
  • Created up to 200 vector illustrations, icons, and virtual gifts

Glasmedia, media

Moscow, Russia

Leading Web Designer

May 2008 - December 2009 (1 year 8 months)
  • Designed and supported all the company's websites
  • Led a team of illustrator, web-coder and flash-animator

Libria.ru, web agency

Ryazan, Russia

Web Designer / Web developer

2004 - 2006 (2 years)
  • Designed multiple websites, Flash-banners
  • Coded most of the websites and supported existing projects

Education

Ryazan State Pedagogical University

Ryazan, Russia

Bachelor of Computer Science

2000–2005

HTML Academy

Certificate, JavaScript programming

Online, 2015