Head of Department (Creative Design & Web)
Protege Global
Total years of experience :25 years, 3 Months
• Development of creative strategies for all marketing / business communications.
• Responsible for the overall creative direction and audience experience on all Interactive/web/print/Mobile campaigns and project elements
• Various Day to day tasks include Creative Direction, Work Estimation, Task Allocation, Resource capability assessment, Output-Quality Control, Monthly Quarterly Work reports, Requirement Gathering & Analysis, Brief Preparation, Market/Trend Analysis, Creative R&D, Concept Generation, Team Supervision, High Level Storyboards, Resource/Work Allocation.
• Providing higher level creative hands-on services to different groups, supervisors and leads where needed. Developed a high level business/marketing plan for the Creative Department with target oriented strategies.
My Latest Short CV (pdf)
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http://www.dermamour.com
http://www.dwcexchange.com
http://www.lieningedge.com
http://www.olympusmedcap.com
http://www.abundantyogi.com
Animated Intro:
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• Development of creative strategies for all marketing / business communications.
• Responsible for the overall creative direction and audience experience on all interactive/web/print campaigns and project elements
• Main concepts for Graphics, web, print and multimedia designs.
• Concept generation, storyboards, brain storming as well as providing higher level creative hands-on services to different groups, supervisors and leads where needed.
• Major clients: FC College and NUST.
• Development of creative strategies for all marketing / business communications.
• Responsible for the overall creative direction and audience experience on all interactive/web/print campaigns and project elements
• Concept generation, storyboards, brain storming as well as providing higher level creative hands-on services to different groups, supervisors and leads where needed.
• Responsible for the overall creative direction and audience experience on all interactive/web campaigns and project elements
• Collaboration and communication with production teams, clients and Account Managers
• Providing trouble shooting services to team leads in case of issues/problems
• Development and execution of training programs based on pre-determined job specifications to ensure all Interactive Design team members meet and are capable of implementing products at a high level of quality.
• Giving a good focus to the HR in preparing a long term plan / road map for future needs and hiring.
• Management / Supervision of a team of 15 individuals of different skill sets upon the objectives, requirements, expectations and commitments of the allocated tasks.
• Concept generation, storyboards, brain storming as well as providing higher level creative hands-on services to different groups, supervisors and leads where needed.
• Proposal writing, project planning, scope definition & management, contingency planning, product scheduling, budgeting, market research, trend analysis, requirement analysis, client coordination, work plans/definitions, business planning, team staffing/monitoring/supervision, quality plans & assurance, tacking & managing & resolving project issues.
• Concept development, Idea generation, Creative direction, Conceptual visualizations & Interactive Storyboards
• Preparation of creative multimedia & web development guidelines
• Video & Audio Direction Graphic design for all mediums including Web, Print, CDroms & CBTs
Key Achievements
• Established a full scale multimedia department, providing services for Web, CDROMs & Print. Produced major chunk of Print work in-house saving the organization 0.1 million every quarter.
• Designed an effective reporting system for daily logs, weekly activities and monthly progress ( implemented )
• Provided production solution for Audio & Video shoots, recording & non-linear editing on a crises moment saving 1 million in the Biotechnology CBT project.
Teaching Graphic Design & Concepts, Multimedia Design & Development, Multimedia Project Development
• Concept generation & Story Boards. Development & implementation of the creative processes.
• Supervision of design & multimedia team.
• Acted as Program Manager for the organization in ITCN Asia 2002.
• Creative designing for Web, Multimedia and Print. Supervision of Junior designers.
• Formulize & Implemented the graphic design process for the department
• Conducted a successful workshop on Time Management Skills.
• Managing the work flow and plans of the multimedia department
• Supervision of the design and development team, Visualization, scripting, storyboarding
• Interface, layout & graphic designing, Multimedia authoring & development
• Formulized the First Interactive CD Course for COMSATS. Formulated a course on Interactive Designs.
Achievements
• Introduced Multimedia in the organization, took part in establishing a full scale multimedia department. Also developed the Business Plan for the department. ( implemented )
Masters in Multimedia
A 2 year diploma - Affiliated with NCC (UK)