I am a strategic visual designer with 10+ years animation and design experience across the advertising, gaming and tech industries.
I have extensive experience working and collaborating with international creative teams in fast-paced environments and building strong partnerships with a diverse group of stakeholders (from designers, developers and business leaders) internally and externally.
I have proven ability to lead creative decisions and deliver global complex design projects across various media types, screens and technologies whilst meeting tight deadlines and generating significant return on investment. I have a passion for collaborating with people from different backgrounds and disciplines and am always keen on learning and growing my design skills.
Work history
Design ManagerCheil
- Dubai, United Arab EmiratesFull Time
• Successfully aided and lead creative executions and product launches for international campaigns within Samsung, including the S9, S9+ mobile devices, Galaxy Note 9+10, and the latest S10+S10+ Mobile devices. All of which have received great success in Asia and the Middle East.
• Proposed and built a new design strategy framework within the creative department which included file and project structure, video and animation templates for quick easier work flow. Introduced cheaper and faster software/plugins to the work flow and new ways to pitch and showcase work to external and internal clients. This led to faster work production with enhanced design quality and enabled us to create a quarterly profit that had increased significantly from previous years. And despite a decrease in the UAE market, client demand for creative animation and video production from my department has increased by 60% due to this.
• Lead, produce and delivered all animation/motion graphics/videos for the company
• Consistently delivered innovative design solutions in a faced-paced environment for leadership across multiple departments
• Presented and sold ideas/creative strategies to clients, account teams and Leadership
• Define design best practices and standards to be used across the company
• Successfully produced TV, Retail, Cinema, Social, Public and Online videos/adverts/promotion from conceptualization to production
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Senior CreativeHavas Life Medicom
- United KingdomFull Time
• Responsible for overseeing design projects across the design team and acted as a leader and mentor to the team (4 designers in total)
• Organized the function and responsibilities of the team
• Responsible for interviewing and recruiting a multi-disciplinary team to function as part of a broader production network (this included copywriters, video producers, designers, freelancers and project coordinators)
• Created a business plan for Leadership which proposed how the organization can increase profit by offering clients design services that are split across a 3-tier system
• Lead storyboarding of animation videos and represented the design team in client meetings and presentations, selling ideas and creative strategies, providing rationale for concepts and design approaches and winning new business
• Created and successfully launched “Moving Image” an independent business unit within the company for the first time in their history
• Defined design best practices and successfully rolled these out across the company
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Skills
- 3D Animation
- 2D Animation
- Illustration
- Storyboarding
- Adobe Create Suite
- After Effects
- Premiere Pro
- Maya
- Cinema 4D
Education
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1st Class HonoursRavensbourne College of Design and Communication
- United Kingdom