Curriculum Vitae

Education

1989-1991

interior decorator, The N. Roerich School of Arts, St.Petersburg, Russia

1991-1998

interior designer, Baron Stieglitz State Academy of Industrial Arts in St. Petersburg (former the V. Mukhina High School)

2005-2006

3D CAD-programming for designers and architects, Espoo Education Center

2006

Business Foundations certificated, Espoo Education Center

Works from my student years

1989-1998

watercolour paintings, handicrafts

drawing series "The faces of Polish towns"

advert poster for "Intourfest" travel bureau; the scketches of private kitchens; full design of interior of a cafe; renovation of Health Centre's assembly hall

illustrations to fairy-tale of U. M. Williams Gobbolino the Witch's Cat (publishing house Raduga, Moscow, 1997)

illustrations to V. Shatsev's essay The Journey from Holland to Eugenia

series The Russian Alphabet

Employment history

1998-1999

instructor of High School of Applied Arts (St. Petersburg): architectural composition;

sketches and model of Wine-holding degustation hall

1999-2001

instructor of The N. Roerich's School of Arts (St. Petersburg): decorative composition; decoration skills

requisites for a school theatre; exlibrises

2000-2001

interior designer of a WILL construction company, St. Petersburg: interior project of Bavaria-brewery administrative building; facade renovation of Carburator mill administrative building; renovation project of department store Narvskij's halls and inventory; interior design of private apartments

2002-2004

maternity leave

2004

design of a hallway; shower room renovation

2005

watercolour drawing lesson for the class of Soukka school; the folk head-dress and dress

drawing series and three-dimensional Christmas picture for Soukankuja day-care centre;

puppet-show screen design, requisites for "Little Red Riding Hood" performance to Soukka school

2005-2006

practice in interior-design office, Espoo: public and private objects

2006

shower room tiling, living and children rooms design

business card for a hairdresser; watercolour paintings

2007-

registered OlgaDesign, interior design & art firm

Achievements

1998

Note of excellence for the graduation project (topic: St.Petersburg's Postmuseum renovation)

Grant in architectural class of The Muses of St.Petersburg personal grant program

1999

Graduation project is honored in the St. Petersburg art magazine The New World of Art

2000

watercolour paintings in the autumn painting exibition of St.Petersburg Artists' Association

2006 -

member of Finnish Watercolour Art Association

Language skills

Finnish

University of Helsinki advanced course of the Finnish language (2004), everyday use

English

intermediate

Russian

native language

Computer-related skills

Operating
systems

experience with Windows and Linux

CAD

Fluent: AutoCAD, Autodesk VIZ Render, Autodesk Architectural Desktop, BricsCAD; Known: ArchiCAD, Allplan, QCad.

Image
processing

Fluent: The GIMP; Known: Adobe Photoshop.

Personal data

Born in 1972 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg);

Children 1997 ja 2002 years born;

Relocated to Finland in 2001 due to family ties.