Igor Aronov

1713 8th Avenue Suite 2-72 Brooklyn, NY 11215 USA
Website: http://getfar.com
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Professional Experience

I am a co-founder of FAR Creative, a Brooklyn-based web design and development agency. We're designers and builders of web sites and applications that enable organizations and individuals alike to reach, educate and connect with their customers, readers and peers. We believe that a straightforward and elegant interactive design creates a positive and lasting experience for the end-user. Equally, we strive to provide our clients with technologically-driven cost-effective solutions that streamline their daily operations. To learn more about us and see samples of our work, please visit: http://getfar.com

Expertise

Art Director
10 Years
Web Developer
13 Years
Web Designer
17 Years

Industries


Broadcasting - News - TV (National)
11 Years
Advertising, client side
7 Years
Online/new media
17 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

20 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Random House (10+), Hearst Television Inc. (3-5)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Consumer Reports (10+), Open Society Foundation (3-5), Stony Brook University (1-2), Verizon (1-2)

Technical Skills

Art Direction and Visual Design Interactive Design Content Design CMS Development Front End Development Back End Development E-Mail Marketing Mobile Applications SEO

Foreign Language Skills

Fluent in Russian

Unions

Freelancer Union

Computer Skills

CMS: Magento, Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla; Technologies/Languages: Mobile Development, HTML 5, CSS 3, Unix, AJAX, Javascript, PHP, LAMP, SEO; Programs/Applications: Adobe CS5, MS Office; Operating Systems: Mac OS 10, Windows XP/7;

References

Available upon request

Associations

AIGA

Showcase

General

Pixie Market E-Commerce Site
(Pixie Market 3/1/2013)
Pixie Market is the 24/7 online fashion supermarket for fashionistas everywhere. The site was designed and built based on Magento Community platform.
Young Adult Ministry in a Box
(Busted Halo 2/1/2012)
Young Adult Ministry in a Box is a subsribers-only, paywall web site aimed at church and community activists seeking to establish young adult parishes. For this challenging and interesting project, we designed both web and mobile WordPress themes, e-mail communications, as well as provided all necessary development services.
Mostly Grace E-Commerce Website
(Mostly Grace 4/1/2012)
Founded in 2012, Mostly Grace launched a t-shirt line that rapidly gained loyal fans looking for a seamless blend of luxe and casual. To grow their business online, the company approached us to design and build a Magento-based e-commerce web site and blog. Having at our disposal gorgeous product photography, we centered the site’s design around it, letting it become the main selling point. On the development side, we built the site on Magento Community Edition to save the client money in annual service fees and expenses.
Peter Bergen Official Website
(Peter Bergen 5/1/2012)
Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist and author; the director of the national security studies program at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C.; a research fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security and CNN's national security analyst. We redesigned Peter's site
Regional News Network Website
(Regional News Network 3/28/2012)
A TV broadcaster whose programs and channels reach more than six million homes throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, RNN had asked us to re-organize and re-design its website, RNNtv.com. The main goal of the project was to focus the site's design on strengths of RNN's broadcasting capabilities and its delivery methods of news and talk programing. With that goal in mind we organized design of the site's main page around a carousel element giving the viewer an interactive walk through.
Roman Leonidov & Partners Website
(Roman Leonidov & Partners 3/15/2012)
Design and development of Leonidov.com, web site of a prominent Russian architecture firm setting out on establishing a strong global presence. The project included building out English (pilot) version of the site, soon to be followed by Russian and Spanish sites. To meet these requirements, the site was developed in Drupal, using multi-site approach, thus allowing the client to update all three versions from the same CMS.
Mondo.com Website
(Mondo 10/1/2013)
With 40,000 worldwide placements, Mondo is the undisputed leader in providing IT and marketing departments of the world's most prestigious companies with the most critical resource: people. We've redesigned and built Mondo.com using Drupal CMS.