Sales Design

EDUCATION: Savannah College of Art & Design (Atlanta Campus) Atlanta, USA

Master of Arts: Advertising Design.

Dec, 2009

Current GPA : 3.8/4.0

Bharati Vidyapeeths College of Fine Arts, Pune University Pune,India

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Major in Applied Arts

April, 2006

Merit Ranked Second at Pune University

WORK EXPERIENCE: Art Director Intern: Fitzgerald + Co.

Feb, 2010

Worked on global brands such as Coca Cola, Nutrilite and Dewalt.

Collaborated with seniors while pitching ideas to new clients & existing clients.

Contributed in art directing youtube page for Pergo & Dewalt.

Handled pre-press production requirements for Amway’s Orlando Magic Arena

Contributed in designing flash banner ads for Navy Federal and Cryovac.

Created designs & brand guidelines for Navy Federal, Dewalt and Old Dominion.

Freelance: Off-Air studios /Refmob.com Jan, 2010

Engendered front end complete website design layout for tatstheexperience.com,

Resulting in increase in ticket sales and website views with minimum bounce rate.

Worked as a web designer & creative consultant for Refmob.com.

Helped Refmob in getting new referral clients such as Gymboree

Design Intern: Cartoon Network June, 2009

Concepted and contributed in creating press kits, merchandise design and E-blasts

for the movie Scooby Doo-The Mystery Begins, Ben10 and various other CN shows

Created DVD menu for the Scooby Doo-The Mystery Begins.

Designed various banner ads for FlapJack cartoon.

Graphic Designer: Seagull Advertising, Pune (India) Aug, 2007

Responsible for retail and institutional branding for Greenlime tissues.

From press ads, packaging designs and brochure designs to their overall Visual ldentity

System. Implemented new designs resulted in increase in sales of Greenlime products.

Created logos and packaging designs for Health Fit brand.

Graphic Designer: Xebec Advertising, Pune (India) Feb, 2007

Concepted and Designed a billboard campaign for Soul Space.

Art Directed concept ads for Astrobliss.com.

Involved in creating a new brand identity/ style guides for Aarel Jewelers.

HONORS & AWARDS: Selected as the artist of the month by Scadmilaap.org.

One Silver National Student ADDY award winner (June, 2009)

One Gold Regional ADDY award winner (Mar, 2009)

One Gold and Two Silver Savannah ADDY award winner (Feb, 2009)

Gold Scaddy Award winner for Best Integrated Marketing Campaign (Jan, 2009)

Gold Scaddy Award winner for Magazine Campaign (Jan, 2009)

Silver Scaddy Award winner for Innovative Media(Jan, 2009)

Awarded Honors scholarship and Sue Rockfalusi scholarship through SCAD.

Ranked 7th in all in India CEED Design competition.

COMPUTING SKILLS: Adobe CS4: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Flash, Bridge, CorelDraw 14,

Proficient in Mac & Windows. Adept at using and setting up of various new social media.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Fluent in English, Hindi, Marathi & German (minimal fluency)

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