Hello,
I'm Anna Barentz
Designer
I'm a designer and a photographer living in the Chicago area. I strive to create innovative digital designs for companies and capture the memories and emotions of my photography clients' life events.
Design Portfolio
Retouching
Hand & Digital Drawing
If you’re looking for a detail-obsessed, passionately strategic creator to help visually tell your brand’s story or communicate what makes you oh so special, get in touch and let’s make some magic together.
Skills
TOOLS
Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe InDesign
Adobe XD
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
Adobe Premier
Adobe After Effects
Flash
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Hadoop
Spark
Tableau
Matplotlib
Plotly
Seaborn
Sketch Up
INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE
Graphic Design
Web Design
Marketing & Advertising graphic design
Typography
Art and Illustration
Data Visualization
High End Professional Skin Retouching
User Interface Design
User Experience (UX)
UX Research
Gif Animator
Prototyping
Graphics
Poster Design
Sketch App
Presentation Design
Portfolio Management
CODING
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Python
SQL
CMS
WordPress
Joomla
Wix
1C Bitrix
Shopify
INTERPERSONAL SKILSS
RESEARCH SKILLS
Time Management
Organization Skills
Excels in the superior custom service skills
User Interviews
User Research
Requirement Gathering
Persona Development
Heuristic Evaluation
User Testing
Competitive Analysis
Experience
2019-2020
Metis
Data Scientist
Metis is an accredited 12-week immersive Data Science Bootcamp with a project-based curriculum focused on Python programming, statistics, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, data analysis, database management, and data visualization. Created five end-to-end projects utilizing real-world data.
2016—NOW
Wizarly, Design Service
Founder
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Provide a full range of creative and quality photography, web, and graphic design services for individuals and businesses throughout the Chicago area.
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Photograph fashion, glamour, beauty, boudoir, headshots, portraits, family, maternity, weddings, marketing, and more.
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Offer High-End photo retouching services.
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Conceptualized and designed logos, websites, print collateral, infographics, social media campaigns, and online advertisements and banners.
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Research and develop content for a wide range of consumer advertisements and technical materials.
2013—2016
"Raspberry Cat" Photography Studio
CoOwner
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Took portrait, wedding, event, fashion, and family photographs.
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Created lighting set-ups for studio and location-based shoots.
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Produced images for print, web and advertising products.
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Performed high end and magazine level photo retouching services for my clients and professional photographers.
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Taught workshops and masterclasses in photography, design, and retouching strategies and techniques to photographers, editors, and designers with different experience levels.
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Tutored students in Adobe suite.
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Led projects in print and digital media, packaging, corporate identity, and branding.
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Took classes from famous Award-winning Russian photographers: Sergey Ivanov, Aleksey Dovgulya, Alexander Medvedev, Ural Gareev
2011—2015
"ProektStroyInvest", Full-Service Architecture Firm
Design Civil Engineer
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Created structural and architectural blueprints with ARCHICAD as well as visualizations with Autodesk 3Ds Max.
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Worked directly with retail clients and commercial construction companies.
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Produced sketches, developed construction work orders, established needs.
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Created proposals in line with budget, client preferences, and deadlines.
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Performed quality control of construction and installation work in the field.
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Developed and maintained web solutions, branding, and advertising campaigns for construction and interior design companies.
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Trained customers in content management systems and other modern web tools utilized in the web solutions designed for them.
2005—2011
"Computer technologies"
Graphic Designer
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As a head creative designer, worked closely with the marketing & web development team to strategize, conceptualize, design, develop, and maintain new and existing web solutions and promotional material.
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Managed several concurrent projects with aggressive deadlines.
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Performed user research and designed web site wireframes, flows, look and feel, typography, graphics, and social media content.
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Built Gif and Flash animations and banners.
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Designed logos, brochures, newsletters, infographics, presentations, advertisements.
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Captured, edited, retouched, and color corrected photographs for the corporate team and advertising.
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Assisted a wedding and fashion photographer in "The Fix Studio" Photography (2009-2011)