Natalie Chaykina

Natalie Chaykina has over 20 years of work experience in media design and IT management. Natalie began their career in 1991 as a Designer at the International Educational Foundation (IEF), where they were responsible for publishing and design, layout, photography, photo clipping, and creating Internet applications. In 2001, they worked as a Designer at Silver Print. From 2002 to 2003, they worked as the Web Design and Programming Director at Seabird Group. During this time, they developed custom-built ColdFusion/SQL Server/Hibernate and/or MySQL/Access applications and XML/HTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP websites. From 2007 to 2008, they worked as a PHP Programmer at Robert Half Technology. From 2008 to 2017, they worked as the Media Design Manager at AMD LASERS, LLC, where they managed design, programming, maintenance of web projects, web applications, and media streaming. Natalie also created graphic assets, captured, imported, edited, and exported video content, researched online presence and SEO/organic ranking, tracked, reported, and analyzed website analytics and PPC initiatives and campaigns, provided site audit and SEO analysis, optimized images, videos, and tags, and performed keyword discovery, expansion, and optimization. Finally, from 2017 to present, they have been working as the Media Design and IT Manager at Blue Marble Cocktails, where they utilize Adobe Creative Suites and other design, illustration, and video editing software to innovate and create marketing/advertising content to support the brand.

Natalie Chaykina attended Arts School #3 in Saint-Petersburg from 1981 to 1984, where they studied drawing and composition. Natalie then completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Sculpture and Art from the Saint-Petersburg State Academic Arts Lyceum of Iohanson, of the Russian Academy of Arts Saint from 1985 to 1988.