Aijaz Qaisar, Branding Consultant and Founder

Aijaz Qaisar

Branding Consultant and Founder

MEDIA ORACLE

Location
India
Education
Diploma, Graphic Arts
Experience
28 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :28 years, 0 Months

Branding Consultant and Founder at MEDIA ORACLE
  • India - Bengaluru
  • My current job since November 2009

MEDIA ORACLE is an Integrated Marketing and Communications Services Provider. We provide consultancy and implementation services to startups and small IT companies. We function as their outsourced Marketing Department.

Marketing Communications Manager at Microchip Technology Inc.
  • India - Bengaluru
  • October 2007 to November 2009

Role description in brief: I was part of worldwide marketing leadership team. My main responsibility was to take care of all India specific MarCom activities, which included:
- Preparing marketing plan and implementation.
- Corporate branding and compliance to corporate brand guidelines.
- Developing MarCom collaterals; brochures, advertisements, presentations, website, DMs, etc.
- Complete ownership of internal and external events.
- Hiring and managing external agencies.
- Planning and managing marketing budget.
- Measuring results and making recommendations for on-going improvement.

Major events organized: Microchip India new facility inauguration, Global MASTERs Conference (Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore), and ESC (Embedded Systems Conference) India 2009.

Internet Communications Manager at Open-Silicon Inc.
  • India - Bengaluru
  • May 2005 to October 2007

My role involved working closely with marketing and sales leadership team in USA for creating marketing strategy and developing marketing communications collaterals.
My major contribution was standardization of all the corporate templates (brochures, e-mailers, direct mailers, website, corporate and product presentations in all formats; PowerPoint, Word, PDF, HTML).
Also, redesigned the corporate website and developed Intranet and Extranet applications.

Major events organized: India new facility inauguration and participation in ESC India 2007.

Sr. Manager Communications at Convergent Communications (India) Pvt. Ltd.
  • India - Pune
  • November 2000 to May 2005

My role involved:
- Company branding, product and services branding, marketing strategy and execution.
- Preparing marketing collaterals including monthly newsletter, brochures and direct mailers.
- Preparing online communications strategies (website, e-mailers and web applications) and managing implementation.
- Managing, budget, vendors and overlooking the execution of various marketing programs.

Major achievements: Played a key role in branding and promotion of Wi-Fi products and services.
Managed e-enabling of key company processes - Intranet, Extranet and ECRM.

Key Accounts Manager at DBS Internet Services
  • India
  • September 1999 to November 2000

Role: Total management of web projects; websites, e-marketing campaigns, and web applications. Role involved understanding the brand and developing communications strategy for positioning on the web, in synergy with other mediums; print and TV (integrated communications), and execution.

Web Services Manager at Weikfield Mnemonix InfoNetworks Pvt. Ltd.
  • India - Pune
  • August 1997 to September 1999

Role: Responsible for the strategic planning, development, and management of the professional web services department, having strength 30 employees; graphic artists, developers and content writers.

Achievements: Successfully accomplished web sites for more than 100 national and international companies in varied business lines.

Visualizer at Market Missionaries (India) Pvt. Ltd.
  • India - Pune
  • July 1995 to August 1996

Role: Conceptualizing and executing advertising campaigns for both print and electronic media.

Achievements: Successfully accomplished a number of ad. campaigns for various clients.

Education

Diploma, Graphic Arts
  • at from C-DAC (Center for Development of Advance Computing)
  • October 1994

I have done Professional Diploma in Master’s Diploma in Advanced Computer Arts, from C-DAC (Center for Development of Advance Computing), Pune, India. (C-DAC is the premier R&D organization of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology) Their website is: http://www.cdac.in

Master's degree, Advertising and PR
  • at Symbiosis Institute of Media Studies
  • May 1994

I have Master’s Diploma in Mass Communication, from Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, Pune, India. (Symbiosis ranks No. 3 for Mass Communications studies in India) http://www.simc.edu

Specialties & Skills

Marketing Communications
Marketing Mix
Graphic Design
Microsoft Office
Adobe Creative Suite
MS Office

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Bangalore Chanber of Indystry and Commerce
  • Communications Advisor
  • January 2010

Training and Certifications

Leadership (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2010
Valid Until:
January 2013