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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

Web Development

Branding & Identity

Logo Design

Social Media Design

Web Services

Marketing & Advertising graphic design

Typography

Art and Illustration

Data Visualization

Photography

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

Teamwork

Customer Service

Organization Skills

Communication

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.

2016NOW

Wizarly, Design Service

Founder

  • Provide a full range of creative and quality photography, web, and graphic design services for individuals and businesses throughout the Chicago area. 

  • Photograph fashion, glamour, beauty, boudoir, headshots, portraits, family, maternity, weddings, marketing, and more. 

  • Offer High-End photo retouching services. 

  • Conceptualized and designed logos, websites, print collateral, infographics, social media campaigns, and online advertisements and banners. 

  • Research and develop content for a wide range of consumer advertisements and technical materials.

2013—2016

"Raspberry Cat" Photography Studio

 

CoOwner

  • Took portrait, wedding, event, fashion, and family photographs. 

  • Created lighting set-ups for studio and location-based shoots.

  • Produced images for print, web and advertising products.

  • Performed high end and magazine level photo retouching services for my clients and professional photographers.

  • Taught workshops and masterclasses in photography, design, and retouching strategies and techniques to photographers, editors, and designers with different experience levels. 

  • Tutored students in Adobe suite.

  • Led projects in print and digital media, packaging, corporate identity, and branding.

  • Took classes from famous Award-winning Russian photographers: Sergey IvanovAleksey Dovgulya,  Alexander Medvedev, Ural Gareev

2011—2015

"ProektStroyInvest", Full-Service Architecture Firm

Design Civil Engineer

  • Created structural and architectural blueprints with ARCHICAD as well as visualizations with Autodesk 3Ds Max. 

  • Worked directly with retail clients and commercial construction companies.

  • Produced sketches, developed construction work orders, established needs.  

  • Created proposals in line with budget, client preferences, and deadlines.

  • Performed quality control of construction and installation work in the field.

  • Developed and maintained web solutions, branding, and advertising campaigns for construction and interior design companies. 

  • 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

  • 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. 

  • Managed several concurrent projects with aggressive deadlines.

  • Performed user research and designed web site wireframes, flows, look and feel, typography, graphics, and social media content. 

  • Built Gif and Flash animations and banners.

  • Designed logos, brochures, newsletters, infographics, presentations, advertisements.

  • Captured, edited, retouched, and color corrected photographs for the corporate team and advertising. 

  • Assisted a wedding and fashion photographer in "The Fix Studio" Photography (2009-2011)

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