personal info
- Age
- 46
- Nationality
- Romanian
- Current location
- Sibiu, Romania
- Languages
- Romanian (native), English and some poor French
summary
great team player if the team knows the game
career goals
- Availability
- Project Based, Contract, Part time, Full time
- Activity domains
- UID, UXD, PDD, Software branding, Online branding
- Activity locations
- On-Site in Sibiu, Romania
Remote from Sibiu, Romania (any timezone)
On-Site Worldwide (Relocation) - Willing to travel
- Yes, Moderate
summary
great team player if the team knows the game
awards
- 2006 "Golden EFFIE"
FOOD PRODUCTS Category, for KRAX Relaunch Campaign, Star Foods/PepsiCO
(design/dtp & production/printing)
work experience
I'm a seasoned UX/UI Designer and relatively fresh Product Designer, ex advertising professional, creative and results oriented, pretty good analyst and strategist, proficient IT geek.
Designing for a better experience, I literally consider myself a firefighter, but wish there will come a day when no fires are left to be extinguished.
All these with a little UI Development cherry on top, meaning i did quite a lot of coding on personal or small projects. Although I worked modern UI Development for quite a few large scale enterprise projects, I'd estimate that somewhere around 90% or more of the production code i delivered for those projects was actually design/interaction implementation with HTML/CSS/JS. I also have experience working design/interaction implementation with HTML/CSS/JS on large scale web-apps built with PHP, Java and .NET.
Even so, i prefer my relationship with hardcore UI/Frontend Development to go as far as developing functional prototypes with React/Next/MUI/HTML/CSS, including, but not necessarily limiting to, moking up data endpoints with public mocking APIs, json-server or Directus and SQL DBs.
- 2001–now
Freelancer
UX/UI and Web Design and Development (mostly)
Responsibilities:User Interface & User Experience Design, Software Product Design & Development, Business Analysis for Software Product Development, CMS Development & Integration, Frontend modules & components for Joomla & OpenCart, Custom ReactJS+MUI/Bootstrap/MDL/PHP Interfaces, Branding, Art directing, Print & DTP
- 2020–2021
UX/UI Designer, ReactJS Frontend Designer
Quantum Alchemy, Sibiu
USA Healthcare Insurance Software
Responsibilities:User Interface & User Experience Design, ReactJS Frontend (Design, Development, Training & Support)
Clients:Autism Technologies, Inc., KADEN Health (Healthcare Software), SERVICE 800 (Customer Experience)
- 2019–2020
Product/UX Designer, ReactJS Frontend Advocate
DTF, Sibiu
Responsibilities:Product & User Experience Design, ReactJS Frontend Design, Development & Support, Branding, Graphic/Web Design
Clients:eSports.com, empaction GmbH, GuiltyLiquids GmbH, NEROTX A.S.
- 2018–2019
Product/UX Designer
eSports.com
eSports Media
Responsibilities:Product & User Experience Design, Frontend Development Support
Client:eSports.com
- 2018–2018
Lead UX/UI Designer
Ascendia, Bucharest
eLearning
Responsibilities:User Interface & User Experience Design, ReactJS Frontend Design, Development & Support
- 2016–2016
Lead Frontend Designer
SIVECO Romania, Bucharest
eAgriculture Apps
Responsibilities:User Interface & User Experience Design, Frontend Development for a LPIS (Land Parcel Identification System) Web-Based App
Clients:Agenţia de Plăţi şi Intervenţie pentru Agricultură (APIA)
- 2014–2015
Lead Frontend Designer
SIVECO Romania, Bucharest
eLearning Apps
Responsibilities:User Interface & User Experience Design, Frontend Development, Product Design & Development, Branding, Graphic Design, WEB Design
Clients:Ministerul Educației și Cercetării Științifice (MECTS), Ministerul Tineretului şi Sportului (MTS), Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools (Kazakhstan), Ministry of Education (United Arab Emirates), Ministry of Education (Oman), Agenţia de Administrare a Reţelei Naţionale de Informatică pentru Educaţie şi Cercetare (AARNIEC), Agenția de Plăți și Intervenție pentru Agricultură (APIA), Agenţia pentru Finanțarea Investițiilor Rurale (AFIR), Administrația Națională Apele Române (ANAR), Agenția Națională pentru Protecția Mediului (ANPM), Institutul Național de Cercetare - Dezvoltare pentru Fizica Pamântului (INCDFP), Institutul Național de Hidrologie și Gospodărire a Apelor (INHGA), Centrul Național de Evaluare și Examinare (CNEE), Universitatea Politehnică Bucureşti, Universitatea Spiru Haret, Universitatea Ștefan cel Mare Suceava, Colegiul Tehnic Matei Corvin Hunedoara, Universitatea Dunărea de Jos Galați, Consiliul Județean Suceava, Inspectoratul Școlar Judeţean Brașov, Inspectoratul Şcolar Judeţean Prahova, Inspectoratul Şcolar Judeţean Botoșani, Inspectoratul Şcolar Judeţean Teleorman, Inspectoratul Şcolar Judeţean Neamț, Centrul Județean de Resurse și Asistență Educațională Maramureș, Fundația Filocalia, Asociația Doctor Haralambie Teodoru, Alianța Sindicatelor Timiș
- 2011–2014
Senior Web Designer
SIVECO Romania, Bucharest
Customized Apps
Responsibilities:WEB Design, User Interface Design, Frontend Development, Branding & Graphic Design
Clients:Office of Publications (European Comission), Arcellor Mittal, Ministerul Educației și Cercetării Științifice, Ministerul de Comunicații și Tehnologia Informației, Agenția de Plăți și Intervenție pentru Agricultură, Autoritatea Electorală Permanentă, Agentia Nationala pentru Ocuparea Fortei de Munca, Consiliul Județean Timiș, Consiliul Județean Harghita, Philips Research, Ministerul Dezvoltării Regionale şi Construcţiilor al Republicii Moldova, Spitalul Obstetrică Ginecologie Ploieşti, Spitalul de Psihiatrie "Gh. Preda" Sibiu, Spitalul de Pneumoftiziologie Botoșani
- 2007–2008
2010–2011Senior Art Director
badcat_ production, Bucharest
Responsibilities:Art Directing, Branding, Graphic Design, Packaging, Advertising campaigns (Print, Radio & TVc, ATL & BTL Advertising Projects, Outdoor & Indoor), Web Design, Interior Design
Clients:Intecontinental, Janssen/Johnson & Johnson, Jolidon, Sain-Gobain Glass, Hollywood Multiplex, Otto Broker, Latteco
- 2007–2007
Graphic Designer
Bridge Communication, Bucharest
Responsibilities:Art Directing, Graphic Design, DTP, Outdoor & Indoor, Multimedia, Packaging, Print, ATL Advertising Projects
Clients:Petrom, Heidi Chocolats, Interact, Collini
- 2004–2006
Graphic Designer
PEPSICO International - Star Foods E.M. Ltd., Bucharest
ArtWorker for the Romanian food division.
Responsibilities:Graphic Design & Concept Design (Package Design, Print etc.), DTP, WEB Design, Package/POSM/Outdoor production etc.
Promotional campaigns under international licences (Marvel, WB etc.)
- 2001–2003
Web Designer / Part Time
KAORE COM, Bucharest
Responsibilities:Graphic Design, WEB Design, Photo & Photo Processing, Linux Server Management (E-mail, WEB, File Sharing, FTP, Security-Firewall etc.), Linux (KDE) & Windows (95-XP) Office Network Management & Help Desk, Hardware Engineer
- 2001–2002
Web Designer
RenbraNET, Bucharest
Responsibilities:WEB Design, Concept & Graphic Design
- 2000–2001
Graphic / Multimedia / Content Designer
ETRIX Technology, Bucharest
Responsibilities:Concept & Graphic Design, DTP, Multimedia Design & Development, WEB Design
- 2000–2000
Video Editor
IMAGINA Video Studio, Bucharest
Responsibilities:Video Editing, Animation, Post Processing
- 2000–2000
Graphic Designer
DIO Advertising, Bucharest
Responsibilities:Concept & Graphic Design, DTP
- 1999–2000
Graphic Designer
PUBLIROM Advertising Agency, Bucharest
Responsibilities:Concept & Graphic Design, DTP
- 1999–1999
Graphic Designer / Consultant
"Stirea" Newspaper, Slobozia, Ialomita
Responsibilities:Concept & Graphic Design, DTP
- 1998–1999
Graphic Designer
"Pod Peste Suflete" Printing House, Slobozia, Ialomita
Responsibilities:Concept & Graphic Design, DTP
- 1998–1999
Marketing Consultant
"ADIAL" Foundation, Slobozia, Ialomita
Responsibilities:Marketing Strategies, Concept & Graphic Design
References:"CARL" PHARE Project (Local Business Consultancy And Human Resources Center)
- 1997–1998
Graphic Designer
"Gazeta de Sud-Est" Newspaper, Slobozia, Ialomita
Responsibilities:Concept & Graphic Design, DTP, Investigative Reporter
- 1995–1996
Freelance Editor
"Hermes Press" Newspaper, Slobozia, Ialomita
Responsibilities:Freelance Cultural Column Editor for "Hermes Press" Newspaper
education
- 1996–now
Self-educated
- 1999–now
No academic title
in UID, UXD, Web & Product Design, Graphics, Programming, Marketing, PR, Communication TechniquesWas charmed by Psychology, Philosophy, Journalism, Fine Arts, Communication Sciences, Marketing, Computer Science, but no college proved to be what i was expecting, so I ended up learning what I liked the most out of each and every one of them. On my own.
- 1992–1996
High School
"Mihai Viteazu" National College, Slobozia, Ialomita, Romania
Mathematics and Physics,
Intensive French Courses - hated it
recommendations
- What I most appreciated in Robert’s work was his creativity and innovation approach. He never followed to fulfil only the minimal or the compliance requirements. I recommend Robert for his ability to bring new ideas and perspectives that really add value.
- Robert is a very professional developer, always able to find creative solutions to complex requirements. His skills in everything Joomla! are a valuable asset to any project.
- Very easy and fun to work with, Robert provides creative solutions for technical problems. For example, he is always updated with new products, plugins, apps emerging on the market, so our products look so fresh and updated - and that is so important in the fluid, ever changing field such as IT is.
- It was a pleasure and a nice surprise to work with Robert. He e is very charismatic, good professional, and a fair team player. I appreciate his sense of fairness and his fight against unfair players regardless the team they are part of. I would be glad to work with Robert again in any project.
- I worked with Robert in many international projects for web portals and platforms. I recommend him as a great designer/ graphic designer, a serious and trusted team member, quality oriented and innovative.
- Robert is a savvy designer and also great to work with, therefore a true asset to any team. He is always in the quest for new solutions, he is innovative and brings fresh ideas to the table. I highly recommend Robert as a valuable designer for any project due to his design skills, openness to solving problems and high technology awareness.
- Robert is a good team member with initiative an sparkly inovative ideas
- Robert is a very creative, inspired and talented graphic designer... From POS materials to packaging, every project we worked on was a challenge to deliver the best artwork ever in couple of days... His proven experience of graphic production from start to published/printed product with knowledge of printing processes (offset and digital) and color management and his ability of adding personal valuable insights to each project recommends him as the best graphic designer I ever worked with.
- Robert is a creative mind. Hard to manage like most independent and free thinking people, but once you gain his trust he can really be a good source of ideas and bring fresh perspective. He does what he does well when priority is content and uniqueness.
- I had the opportunity to work with Robert Vasile in two different situations, while I was the Marketing Manager of StarFoods/Pepsico and as an Entrepreneur who runs his own marketing outsourcing company (www.zanescu.ro). Robert Vasile approaches his customers with equal attention and care for details. While creativity and technique are employed by him in every instance, business sense is the corner stone of his proposal architecture. I recommend Robert Vasile and I will ask for his service again and again.
- We have worked closely together during the time that he was a PepsiCo employee and in that time whatever I needed he always looked to bring innovative ideas accordingly per project type and he helped us to make the difference in a very competitive FMCG market. Robert is extremely well informed in all aspects and this is helps him in the projects that he runs. I welcome the opportunity to work with him in the future.
- When you need a good solution for developing any advertising materials (Packaging, POSM, web, etc), Robert is the right person to call. He’s fast, proactive, flexible and very creative. I was very pleased with the outcome of our collaboration in all the projects we worked together during the past five years, as colleagues and collaborators. I can always count on him!When you need to achieve your business/brand objectives within tight time frames and not having all solid marketing processes to support your plans, you need to find flexible and professional solutions, especially in the creative/DTP areas. Robert was for me the solution of developing great consumer materials (packaging, POSM etc) overnight, delivering every time the expected communication objectives for each material. Robert is working great with professionals who know exactly what they have to achieve and use solid arguments along the advertising materials development process.Robert is an excellent designer, a great team player, charmingly suborned when it comes to getting the perfect result... He is a great asset for any company or a trustworthy freelancer for any type of project.Robert is intelligent and talented, experienced, hard working, sometimes stubborn and difficult, but in the end a team player. Besides art direction, Robert has a wide range of other skills, from DTP to IT or video editing, which made us call him “the Swiss army knife”. I highly recommend him to any ad agency or creative department.
top skills
- UI Design9.5 / 10
- UX Design9.5 / 10
- Product Design7.5 / 10
- HTML9.5 / 10
- HTML59.5 / 10
- CSS/CSS39.5 / 10
- JavaScript8.5 / 10
- Material UI9.5 / 10
- Bootstrap9.5 / 10
- Tailwind8.5 / 10
- MDL8.5 / 10
- Semantic UI6.0 / 10
- Foundation5.0 / 10
- Metro UI CSS4.0 / 10
- Adobe XD10 / 10
- Sketch8.0 / 10
- Figma8.0 / 10
- Adobe Photoshop9.5 / 10
- Adobe Ilustrator9.0 / 10
- Adobe Creative Suite8.0 / 10
- ReactJS8.5 / 10
- Next JS7.5 / 10
- jQuery/jQueryUI7.5 / 10
- Vue JS6.5 / 10
- Node JS5.0 / 10
- Sencha Ext JS (v2-v5)5.0 / 10
- Backbone JS4.0 / 10
- Angular JS3.0 / 10
- Polymer 23.0 / 10
secondary skills and interests
- Human Computer Interaction
- Content Management Systems
- E-commerce
- Web Design
- Web Interface Design
- Web Development
- Web Applications
- Mobile Applications
- Mobile Interface Design
- Google Analytics
- Web Analytics
- SEO
- Social Media
- Product Design
- Graphic Design
- Creative Direction
- Art Direction
- Branding & Identity
- Corporate Branding
- Packaging
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Copywriting
- Brand Architecture
- Digital Marketing
- Online Marketing
- Social Media Marketing
- Advertising
- Online Advertising
- Team Management
- Strategic Thinking
- Business Strategy
- Business Analysis
- Marketing
- Marketing Strategy
- Marketing Competitive Analysis
- Marketing Communications
- Integrated Marketing
- Market Research
- FMCG
- Management
- Project Management
- Performance Coaching
- Career Coaching
- Recruitment / Employer Branding
- Learning and Career Development
- StartUp Development Coaching
hobbies
- science-fiction literature
- jazz
- blues
- classic rock
- rpg & mmorpg gaming
- growing chili
- cooking
- cheese
- red dwines
- fine drinks
- cigarillos
- coffee
- deco, bauhaus & abstract art
- drawing
- vintage & classic sund sistems
- vintage & classic cars
- smarthomes
- home automation
- home gardening
- home decoration
brands i love
- blizzard
- ccp
- glenfiddich
- hennessy
- moods
- lucaffe
- cartwright & butler
- aurelia visinescu
- maranc
- tefal
- sharp
- dalfour
- galbani
- panzani
- cirio
- mustang
- camaro
- datsun
- triumph
- samsung
- denon
- technics
- sony
- gibson
- martin
- takamine
- casio
awards
- 2006 "Golden EFFIE"
FOOD PRODUCTS Category, for KRAX Relaunch Campaign, Star Foods/PepsiCO
(design/dtp & production/pinting)