About me

Hi! My name is Anna, and I like cats, good words and weighted blankets. I dislike hypocrisy.

My background lies in teaching, investigative journalism and classics. But for the past 10 years, I have been working in the tech sector as a UX writer and product manager. I advocate for inclusion, especially on the neurodiversity front. I read legal documents for fun (my favourite areas of the law are labour and immigration).

For six years, I worked at Booking.com as a UX writer, technical product manager and an elected member of the Works Council. I have a Professional Scrum Product Owner I certificate.

Currently I am volunteering with VluchtelingenWerk, learning to paint and open for new (paid) opportunities. I also offer catsitting services in Rotterdam, and make various stickers.

Portfolio

Short bio / consulting elevator pitch for Lukas Vermeer
UX writing at Booking.com
Internal (informal) communication promoting a new tool
Personal blog

Product management

Other work

News. I worked with Lenta.ru (pre-2014) and Holod.media as a news editor. Monitoring sources (from official agencies to telegram channels), fact checking, prioritising, writing — and maintating balance between speed and quality.
Feature articles. I worked with Lenta.ru (pre-2014), Holod.media and others and wrote on a variety of topics from education to maternity leave to TV shows to, of course, the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Teaching. Private language tutoring (Ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish) and middle school (Latin and Classics).
Interpreting. No way I am a professional, but I volunteer my language skills for refugees at VluchtelingenWerk.

Contact

Technical note

This website is powered by Jekyll and GitHub pages. It might not look like much, but I am proud of building and deploying it all by myself.