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Ales Sokoloff
Hobbies/interests: travel, studying cultures, design, photography, snowboarding
Work: web development
Place of birth/current home: Minsk, Belarus (although I attended both high school and college in the states)
Website: http://alesandemily.com

1) Can you introduce us into your an ordinary work day?

I like to wake up early and get a good start on the day… my wife and I make breakfast and enjoy the morning and then we usually get to work. We work out of our house, so no commute makes life a lot easier. Depending what our projects are we distribute the work; I usually do more of the back-end programming while my wife takes care of the design end of things.

A lot of times I meet with clients or work on getting new ones throughout the work day.

2) Are you just a freelancer or do you rate yourself as a trade web developer?

Freelancer, and loving it.

3) When did you create your first web? Do you look back and think about it?

When I was 18 – so almost 7 years ago. I think about it some and think I’ve come a long way since then! I’m glad that I started early and learned as much as I could.

4) What are your goals? Do you want to reach some “webdesign” level in?

Well I am definitely planning on expanding the business. Our goals are to have up to 20 employees and free ourselves up to more traveling and choosing our personal projects.

5) Have you ever sold any photo to the photobank? Are you interested in taking a photos?

I haven’t sold any photos, hadn’t really thought about it much, but that is a great idea that I will be looking into.

And actually my wife is more the photographer of the family, although I dabble in it as well. My wife loves taking pictures and is very passionate about it.