TRAJECTRY

As the new Design Director at Trajectry, I am excited to lead our dynamic UX/UI design team. My role extends beyond traditional design; I am actively enhancing our capabilities to incorporate AI-driven content creation, ensuring our designs are not only visually compelling but also intelligently integrated. This innovative approach allows us to stay at the forefront of design technology and deliver exceptional user experiences.

Design Director

EY FABERNOVEL

As Design Director, I lead the charge in developing top-tier UX/UI design services tailored for the luxury market, with a portfolio boasting collaborations with esteemed clients such as LVMH, Christie's, Messika, and Clarins. My mission is to ensure that every project we deliver sets a new standard for excellence, seamlessly blending form and function to create unparalleled user experiences.

Key Contributions:

Luxury Market Expertise: Specialize in delivering high-quality UX/UI design services that meet the unique demands and expectations of luxury brands, ensuring their digital presence is as sophisticated and refined as their legacy.
Quality Assurance: Implement rigorous quality control processes to guarantee that all deliverables meet our high standard of excellence, enhancing the brand experience for clients like LVMH, Christie's, and Clarins.
Innovation Advocate: Actively promote Fabernovel's culture of innovation, pushing the boundaries of traditional design by integrating AI tools and processes. I lead the conceptualization and development of innovative design solutions that leverage technology to enhance user engagement and brand loyalty.
AI Integration: Pioneer the development of design concepts and ideas that harness the power of AI, ensuring that Fabernovel stays at the forefront of the digital transformation in the design sector.
Driven by a passion for excellence and innovation, I am committed to advancing Fabernovel's mission by delivering exceptional design services that elevate the brand experience for our luxury clients through strategic use of technology and creative excellence.

In my role as Creative Director, I'm ensuring all deliverables surpass our high standards. I lead by example, constantly pushing the boundaries of creativity while ensuring our work speaks to our audience and clients' needs.

Key Responsibilities:
Quality Assurance: Vigilantly maintain exceptional standards for all creative outputs, guaranteeing alignment with client objectives and brand essence.
Team Development: Actively expand and empower our creative team, fostering a culture of growth, creativity, and innovation.
Innovation: Drive the development of new services to meet evolving market demands, staying ahead of industry trends.
Advocacy: Represent our company's creative vision and capabilities, enhancing our market position and attracting new business.
Business Growth: Leverage creative excellence to cultivate client relationships, open new business channels, and contribute to the company's expansion.

My focus is on steering our creative direction towards groundbreaking ideas that resonate with our audience, ensuring our team's growth, and bolstering our business's success.

Creative Director

31Ten

31Ten is a Shanghai-based digital agency bridging together strategic thinking and technical expertise. We help multinationals and startups alike with our digital strategy, marketing, tech and UX-UI solutions. 

As the Head of UX-UI at  31Ten, I am responsible for what the digital product looks and feels like. I manage the usability aspects of all digital projects, collaborating with the strategy & development teams to make sure we build the best solution for the business challenge we’re facing. 

Key Accomplishments: 

➨ Revamped the free Wi-Fi portal of both Shanghai’s airports. This interface is receiving >2M visitors a year. 
➨ Entirely redesigned the user-experience, flow and interface of a consumer bank’s main internal web application.
➨ UX /UI design for a breakthrough startup B2B mobile app reinventing recruitment cooptation.

Partner, Head of UX-UI

Sharktopus

Sharktopus is a side project of mine to cover all my creative services out of 31Ten’s scope, namely branding and purely creative/artistic projects. Since inception, I have helped numerous clients from diverse industries with their corporate supports and visual identity. I tend to specialize in illustration based designs.

► Developed a series of illustrations for art events.
► Led and coordinated creative teams in various production phases.
► Designed and developed catalogs, brochures, advertisements, posters and signage.
► Brainstormed and developed concepts for promotional materials.

Art Director, Founder

Sekkei Studio

I came on board as Sekkei Studio’s Art Director to develop websites designs, logos, brochures and all the digital communication tools for our clients. 
I was in charge of a team of 2 designers and took the direction of all the visual and usability aspects of Sekkei’s projects, helping the company retain and gain more clients. 
Key Accomplishments: 
➨ Designed the official Chinese website and social media properties for one of the world’s biggest video game editor
➨ Created style guides, concept art, and maintained a consistent visual direction on the behalf of varied clients from very diverse industries : B2B, B2C, F&B etc.

Art Director

Arobase Communication

►Conceptualized and designed  various visual artworks, such as; book and magazine covers, websites, advertisements, product packages, brochures and logos
►Established trusting relationships with outside vendors, designers and key clients

Graphic Designer / UX-UI designer

I’m Vlad, a passionate UX-UI Creative based in Shanghai, China. I help companies committed to digital transformation to create memorable experiences through user centered design..
 
My unique and diverse background plus my years of experience have provided me an integral understanding on how to create intuitive and efficient design solutions for the Digital. 
Dropped school at 14. Been a stretcher bearer, a pastry Chef, a decorator on glass, before deciding to apply my craftsmanship to digital interfaces. Oh, and did I mention I have severe dyslexia?

I work most efficiently hand in hand with clients to create the best user experience, while keeping the business goals as a horizon. As a committed artist, I enjoy nothing more than to see my craft being live and used by thousand of users, stakeholders or consumers. Over the years, my vast expertise in conceptual Usability and Interface Design has enhanced the performance of several businesses in industries as diverse as banking, car brands, food & beverage, heavy industry, SaaS software, FMCG e-commerce etc.

With an eye on digital future, I have expanded my tentacles in researching and creating highly functional digital platforms, websites, Wechat “H5” mini-sites, apps, social marketing assets, tirelessly bridging the gap between business and technology.

BRANDS I’VE WORKED WITH :
Ubisoft, Shanghai Airports, Coca-Cola, Avene, Sofinco, Saatchi & Saatchi (Publicis group), Audi, JC Decaux.

SPECIALTIES:
UX/UI ● Interface Design and Implementation ● Graphic Design ● Website Design ● Digital and Branding Management ● Illustration

☛ Feel free to add me to your connections or contact me via email at vladimir@31ten.network or via Wechat at vladimirgarnele


Vladimir Garnele

Horizons

Spearheading the transformation of Horizons into a technology and product-driven leader in the EOR industry. Leading Engineering Department in building the SaaS platform for borderless teams.
Main achievements:
- Tripled size of the Engineering Team, revamped recruiting and talent management processes bring visibility into the career path. Implemented OKRs and KPIs at Department and Team level to drive performance and foster a culture of Engineering excellence.
- Introduced modern architecture principles including Domain-Driven Design and Service-Oriented Architecture, ensuring scalability and maintainability of the platform.
- Rolled out a more efficient and predictable Software Delivery Lifecycle, allowing the teams to continuously achieve their Sprint goals and increase the speed of features delivery without compromises on quality.
- Delivered major implementations such as Payment and Disbursement automation through Airwallex,  Payroll and Billing automation, Roll-out of a new design system on the platform.

Director of Engineering

SYSTEM in MOTION

Implemented agile methodologies to deliver high quality software solutions to customers, ensuring company revenue targets were met and growing a team of motivated result-oriented talents.
Contributed to to company strategy as part of the Leadership Team, planning yearly budget and reporting on results to other stakeholders.
Main achievements:
- Restructured scattered teams into a single Delivery Team, increasing occupancy rate from 60% to 90%
- Reduced overrun on projects under maintenance going from 150% to below 100% of budget utilization
- Implemented a culture of high performance and effective management through coaching, delegation, objective settings and performance tracking at all levels
- Delivered a clienteling mobile APP and a micro-service based CRM in 1 month to a customer in the Luxury industry
- Expanded scope of Pernod Ricard Traceability solution by adapting and rolling it out in Vietnam and Malaysia
- Lead design of a micro-service architecture back-office for Bureau Veritas and built a team of 7 from scratch working on the implementation, replacing a 15 years old legacy system

Delivery Director

Lead a team of 15, responsible for Business Plan redaction, Yearly budgeting and P&L tracking.
Created a new Supply Chain tracking business line and developed the System Integration and Consulting skillset to expand the scope of the Business Unit.
Maintained strong relationships with Fortune 500 key accounts.
Main achievements:
- Doubled the Business Unit revenue in 3 years
- Signed and delivered several 1M+ RMB contracts
- Lead successful deployment of Pernod Ricard Next Generation Traceability solution which
tracks 100 million of bottles with unique codes through the entire supply chain
- Kept employee retention rate high above market and company average

Business Unit Manager

Worked with startup to lead the design and development of a SaaS platform for connected consumer goods with a team of 5 engineers.
Delivered a production ready POC environment for 6 customers in less than 6 months.
Designed and developed the base of the SaaS platform, a micro-services architecture built with Java and Spring Cloud framework.

Acting CTO @ madeforgoods

In charge of 3 development teams working on large scale software development projects. Responsible for high quality of deliveries, solution design for new developments, coaching and training of team members.
Main achievements:
- Maintained strong long-term relationship with 3 key accounts from Finance industry
- Delivered a complete Big Data sub ledger data processing platform for major US housing loan agencies
- Designed and delivered multiple modules of Markit Loan Settlement platform, a financial application for the Loan market.
- Lead the development of a complete back-end insurance platform for BNP Paribas in Vietnam, matching BNP Paribas IT standards and supporting their aggressive growth.
- Implemented software development best practices: continuous integration, automated unit test execution and code quality tracking, code review, agile methodology

Senior Project Manager

Full Stack developer on Markit Clear, a modern Syndicated Loan settlement platform used by Investment Banks and Fund Managers to process real-time Loan Inventory and Trading data. Built a second dev team to work on Active Ledger, a Big Data Sub-ledger application allowing process of high volumes of accounting postings, and high performance in-memory data analytics.
Main achievement :
- Recruited a new dev team and successfully bootstrapped a new outsourcing project

Technical Lead

Responsible for accelerating development of both front-end and back-end of a loan market trading platform (now Markit Loan Settlement) to deliver new features faster to our customer, including GWT based user interface, message processing, rules workflow, state of the art real-time event processing engine, clustering, multi thread concurrent data processing.

Java Engineer

NETK5

Worked on Amplexio, a chat application for large corporate organizations developed in C++ using Qt framework. Developed the core system as well as a plugin system allowing to extend the application with additional features and widgets.

Software Engineer

Dassault Systemes

Joined the 3DVia team to work on the deployment of Virtools MP onto Windows Mobile. Implemented Windows Mobile and Direct3D Mobile support, and successfully completed the deployment of sample 3D animations within 6 months.

Embedded Software Developer

Shaanxi Key Lab for Data Acquisition and Management

Worked in a University lab to develop a data visualization application for 3D laser scanner to display and interact with scanned 3D models.

Software Developer

Software Engineering team leader on a mission to build value generating Enterprise Software Solutions.
15 years of experience in Enterprise Software Development and Team Management for Fortune 500 companies.
Based in Shanghai, China Permanent resident.

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