Damu Nilesh Rao, Creative Head

Damu Nilesh Rao

Creative Head

Pemba Grafica

Location
Mozambique
Education
Diploma, Painting and Drawing
Experience
14 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 7 Months

Creative Head at Pemba Grafica
  • Mozambique
  • My current job since January 2015

1. Manage design projects from concept to completion.
2. Collaborate with clients to create vision. Motivate and direct team to meet results within budget and timeline.
3. Create highly persuasive sales and marketing presentations.
4. Develop story boards and illustrations for various print ads, and marketing materials.
5. Oversaw daily operations, prioritizing tasks while ensuring smooth and efficient workflow.
6. Develop and present production mock-ups. Generate new customers through cold calling.

Skills used:
Branding - Copy writing - Illustrator - Motion Graphics - Social Media Marketing - Team Mentor.

Layout Artist at Orissa Post, Dharitri Press
  • India
  • April 2013 to December 2014

1. Designed layout pages for newspaper supplement using Adobe InDesign and Quark Xpress.
2. Collaborate with editorial team and designed graphic components such as monograms, scientific posters and info graphics.
3. Manage an archive of photographs and image, which can be used for company's websites.
4. Responsible for assessing visual aspects, such as color, type face, position, and formatting, to be sure that the text and image appear in a visual enticing pattern.
5. Assist in the creation of templates that will be used by junior layout artist.
6. Participating in team effort to produce streamlined production of design manuals and educational materials for newly hired designers.
7. Cartoon designs and caricatures as assigned by Editorial team.
8. Manage and prepare schedule for junior designers and delegate projects according to their capability.

Skills used:
Editorial Design - Info graphics - Cartoon Caricature - Proof reading - Pre-press operations.

Sr. Graphic Designer at Eyes Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
  • India
  • June 2012 to March 2013

1. Presenting finalized ideas and concepts to clients, colleagues and senior managers and create graphic design solutions from rough concept through to final completion.
2. Develop and create both digital and print design for a wide range of print and online campaigns, publications, and advertisements (OOH, Print Ads, Brochures, Leaflet, Pamphlet, Logos and E-mailers).
3. Incorporate changes recommended by the clients in to the final design and review it for errors before printing or publishing them.
4. Business Identity Kit design, Mock Up design, and creating high quality design theme and graphics for marketing and sales presentations.
5. Preparing print files for large format printing machine.

Skills used:
Concept Development - Print promotional designs - Advertisement - Assist Marketing and Web team.

Jr. Graphic Designer at Central Chronicle Press
  • India
  • October 2009 to May 2012

1. Designed cover page and new layouts for kids magazine (32 Page) published once in a week.
2. Collaborate with Editorial team to develop individual concepts by applying layout principles.
3. Generate computerized layouts using Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop to create aesthetically appealing visual content.
4. Altering graphic elements and retouch images as necessary or converting it into correct formats.
5. Resize existing projects and designing new projects based on existing creative or established guidelines.
6. Provided assistance to other graphic design team members as needed.

Skills used:
Magazine design - Cover Page designs - Photo retouching - Assist Sr. Designers - Pagination.

Education

Diploma, Painting and Drawing
  • at Bangiya Sangeet Parishad
  • August 2012
Bachelor's degree, IT
  • at Punjab Technical University
  • March 2012
Higher diploma, Design and Printing
  • at Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education
  • June 2006

Specialties & Skills

Graphic Design
Digital Design
Digital Illustration
Video Cards
Social Media Marketing
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Flash
Adobe Premiere
Branding
Adobe Illustrator
Digital Design / Digital Arts
Poster Design
Adobe Cretive Suite
Flyer Design
User Interface Design
Adobe Indesign
Digital Greeting Design
Adobe Photoshop
Corel Draw
Catalogue Design
Graphic Design / Graphic Arts
Video Greeting Design
Brochure Design
Motion Graphics
Logo Design
Customer Relations
Copy writing
Digital Marketing
Editorial Design
Magazine Design
Concept Development

Languages

Hindi
Native Speaker
English
Expert
Telugu
Intermediate
Marathi
Beginner
Portuguese
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Certificate of Diploma in Pre Production and Sketching (Training)
Training Institute:
Frame Boxx Animation
Date Attended:
April 2014
Duration:
46 hours
Certificate in Graphic Design (Training)
Training Institute:
Arena Multimedia Bilaspur
Date Attended:
December 2008
Duration:
240 hours

Hobbies

  • Creative writing
    Making ad copies and write slogans are something which is not yet well shaped inside me but some where in my subconscious part I felt something constructing. I like to write stories and free up my mind whenever I get an opportunity.
  • Reading
    I am not very kind of a book worm but yes of-course reading is my another favorite pass time, which actually nourishes my knowledge too.
  • Singing
    My second all most favorite hobby is singing. I am awesome bathroom singer. LoL. I like to make parodies of the songs. Rhyming comes randomly in my minds and I performed on stage too whenever get a chance.
  • Drawing
    In early school days drawing at the last page of my note book. was one of my favorite time pass but due to negligence this talent got disappear in later years. But once I started my career journey as Graphic Designer gradually I gain command over drawing and doodling is something I love most which get reflects in my designing too. After all everything starts with drawing a Doodle.