Resumé

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Design
UI design, app design, icons, games, wireframes, web design, logos, advertisements, banners, corporate identity, flyers, brochures, posters, magazine spreads, photo manipulation.
Extremely creative, good sense of composition and colour, attentive to details, able to multi-
task effectively, meet strict deadlines and work under pressure; excellent organizational,
communication and problem solving skills.

Illustration
Technical illustration, vector art, info graphics, isometric and perspective drawings, exploded view drawings, orthographic and oblique illustrations, ghosted and cutaway illustrations, scientific illustration, anatomy; highly developed hand-drawing and sketching skills.

Software
Proficient in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Bridge and Microsoft Office; 3D Modeling: Sketchup, Strata, ZBrush, Bonzai, Form-Z; knowledge of Adobe Dreamweaver, Jira, Confluence, Tortoise SVN.

Languages
Fluent in English, Italian, Russian, Belarusian; basic knowledge of French.

EMPLOYMENT
Fuel Industries, Ottawa, ON
Jan. 2011 - present
Designer
UI design, game design, app design, graphic design, web design, illustration, sketches, wireframes, posters, logos, t-shirt design, pitch work, ideation.

Sheridan Student Union Inc., Oakville, ON
Sept. 2008 - Sept. 2009
Graphic Designer
Design and page layout for TRAVIS Magazine; branding, advertising, posters, brochures, flyers, banners, photography.

Carleton University, Ottawa ON
Jun. 2008 - Aug. 2008
Graphic Artist
Poster design, murals, ideation, sketches, research.

FREELANCE
Client: Canadian Heraldic
Feb. 2010 - present
Freelance Artist
Authority Preparation of final artwork of armorial bearings with headings; coat of arms design. Drawing and painting.

Client: Astute Graphics Limited
Jan. 2012 - Feb. 2012
Illustrator
Vector architectural illustration to showcase Drawscribe, a newly developed Adobe Illustrator plugin.

Client: Mark Dennis Graphic Designer
Aug. 2011 - Oct. 2011
UI and logo design for Swearport, an iPhone app.

Client: Legion Magazine Technical Illustrator
Jul. 2011 - Aug. 2011
Map illustration and graphics for an article.

EDUCATION
Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
Sept. 2006 - Apr. 2010
Bachelor of Applied Arts – Technical and Scientific Illustration
High Honours Graduate, 3.96 GPA

Canterbury High School Visual Arts Program, Ottawa, ON
Sept. 2002 - Jun. 2006
High Distinction Graduate

ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS
Dwell Magazine
Aug. 2010
Design Competition Finalist

Sheridan College
Jun. 2010
Award of Excellence – Silver Medal Recipient

Sheridan College
Apr. 2010
BAA Illustration Graduation Show Best in Show – Bronze

Studica Skills
Jun. 2008
Studica Skills Student Art Competition Semifinalist

Projects by Palina Klimava