Oksana Cyrus

Transformative products. Empowered teams.

Enabling operational efficiency through human-centered design and technology.

I help teams produce high quality software that improves peoples lives.

Generalized Specialist

professional-experience

Professional
Experience

Director of Product @ Blenderbox / EnrollWise™
CSPO® | PSM | Acquia Triple Certified Drupal Expert
Product Leadership, Strategy and Management, Enterprise Software Design & Engineering, Organizational Operations, helping humans and all things digital.

engaging the next human challenge

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Areas of
Expertise

Strategy

Product Strategy & Design, Service Design, Data Modeling, Information Architecture, Customer Experience (CX), Digital Experience (DX), Personalization, Content Strategy, Conversion Optimization, Change Management.

Design

Human-Centered Design, User Experience (UX) / User Interface (UI) / Visual Design, Branding, Marketing / Sales collateral

Team and Organizational Leadership

Team Building, Coaching and Mentorship, Modeling and management of technical and creative teams.

Technology

Enterprise Software, Headless, APIs, SOA, CMS (Drupal, WordPress), Systems Design and Delivery, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Quality Assurance

Business Intelligence

OKR / KPI Strategy, Custom BI Dashboards, Data Collection and Analysis

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Summary of
Qualifications

Refined competence in designing / engineering enterprise systems with a passion for building and empowering creative teams within dynamic agency environments

Design / development of scalable technical solutions that fulfill business layer objectives / dynamic needs of users

Demonstrated record of excellence in strategic planning / implementation of large scale system builds and phased solutions

Skillset

Polymathic

0 1

Creative

Discovery Workshops
Information Architecture
CX / UX Strategy
Brand Creation / Strategy
Content Strategy
Visual Design & Communication
Wireframing & Prototyping
Premium Responsive
Adobe Creative Suite
Color theory
Typography
Photography

0 2

Front-end / UX

UX / UI Design
Design Systems / Styleguides
ReactJS / Redux / React Native
GatsbyJS
Component-driven Development
Performance Optimization
HTML5 / CSS3 / SASS
JavaScript / jQuery / AJAX
Section 508 / WCAG 2.0
Heuristic Analysis
Usability

0 3

Back-end

Custom Software
Drupal CMS 12/11/10/9/8/7/6
Data modeling
Decoupled / SOA
E-commerce
Third-party Integrations
API Development
Cache Layers Architecture
Search Solutions: SOLR, Elastic, Swifttype, Algolia
Google Maps API, ArcGIS, Census
PHP / Symfony / SQL / XML / SOAP / JSON / GraphQL

0 4

Operations

Team Leadership
Team Building / Mentoring / Wellness
Operational Efficiency
Risk / Change Mgmt
Product Mgmt
Project Mgmt
Account Mgmt
Pre-sales Consulting
Lean / Agile / Waterfall

0 5

BI / Analytics

Business Intelligence Dashboards
Data Analysis
Conversion Optimization
Data Visualization
Tableau / D3 / Highcharts / Leaflet
Google Analytics / GTM
SEO / SEM
Email Mktn Automation

0 6

DevOps

Continuous Integration
Automation & Tooling
GitHub Actions / Jenkins / Travis
Acquia / Pantheon / Contegix
AWS Cloud / Azure / Custom Hosting
Docker / Custom Docker Images
Containerization
LAMP / WAMP / VMs
CLI tools / Composer / Task Runners
Automated Tests / VRT / E2E

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Featured Work

creative

A Creative Touch Visual / UX design outcomes

publications

Online
Publications

(04/13/2021) User Research in Human-centered Product Design: Getting Set for Success

(05/05/2020) Noteworthy Examples of Technical Documentation Built with GatsbyJS

(02/06/2020) Drupal 8 + Search API: Exclude Content from Index Based on Field Value

(01/02/2020) The Highly-Performant Remote Software Team

(12/06/2019) Stakeholders Unite! 5 Must-Haves for a Winning Software Discovery Workshop

(03/06/2017) Five Drupal 8 Tips to Empower Content Authors

(09/23/2016) Supercharged SEO with Drupal 8

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Oksana Cyrus

Professional Experience

Areas of Expertise

Strategy

Design

Team and Organizational Leadership

Technology

Business Intelligence

Summary of Qualifications

Skillset

Polymathic

Creative

Front-end / UX

Back-end

Operations

BI / Analytics

DevOps

Featured Work

EnrollWise

SaaS Product / Human-Centered Design / Operational Efficiency / Headless / API-driven Platform

International Foundation for Electoral Systems

Human-Centered Design / Information architecture / Editorial Experience / Drupal 9 CMS / Apache SOLR / Data Visualization / Multilingual

New York Blood Center Enterprises BI Automation

Google Analytics / Tag Manager / Data Studio / Business Intelligence Dashboards / Data Audit, Visualization and Analysis

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - VA.GOV Decoupled Content Management System

Drupal 8 / Decoupled Architecture / Modern CI/CD / Human Centered Design

Embedded BI and Analytics for medical research NPO

React / D3 / Data Visualization / Interactive Dashboard

GAO.gov – API Interface & Advanced SOLR Search Tools

API development / Apache SOLR / Drupal 8

App prototype using ReactJS, Redux, ArcGIS

UX/UI Strategy & Design / Rapid Prototyping / ReactJS / Redux / ArcGIS

Drupal 8 Migration & Regular Data Import for Duke Cancer Institute

Drupal 7 > 8 Migration / Regular Data Import / Custom Search Tools / Accessibility & UX Enhancements

Search Configuration for Academic Health Care Provider Organization

Apache Solr / Drupal 8 / Solr Suggester / Solr Spatial Search / Partial Keyword Matching / Spelling Suggestions / Live Results

Holistic Wellness Center’s Learning Management System

Matrix LMS / Drupal 7 / UX/UI / Custom SSO / E-commerce

Holistic Wellness Center's Progressively Decoupled Search Application

React / Apache SOLR / Analytics / UX/UI / Drupal 7

Drupal 7/8 Contrib Module - translation provider integration

External translation provider integration / Drupal 7 & 8 module feature development

Holistic Wellness Center’s Premium Membership Campaign

Drupal 7 / Strategy / UX/UI / E-commerce / Authorize.net / PayPal

Language Translation Management web application interface

Drupal 7 / PHP / MySQL / Translation Management Tool (TMGMT) and Lionbridge Modules

Digital Marketing Agency Website Redesign

Brand/Identity Discovery / Web design / Jekyll parsing engine / Liquid Logic / SASS

Multi-lingual membership website - international user base

Drupal 7 / PHP / MySQL / HTML5 / CSS3 / AJAX / Drupal Commerce

CMS / Custom e-commerce solution / BI Dashboard for business training and consulting firm

Drupal 7 / PHP / MySQL / HTML5 / CSS3 / AJAX / Drupal Commerce

Digital Marketing Agency CRM platform Project/Client Management application

Drupal 7 / PHP / MySQL / HTML5 / CSS3 / AJAX

2006-2014

IT Administration, App Development, Website builds / administration / maintenance / feature expansion, SEO audits & optimization, Design.

A Creative Touch Visual / UX design outcomes

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Professional
Experience

Areas of
Expertise

Summary of
Qualifications

Online
Publications