Kavinga Amaratunga, Management Assistant | Graphic Designer

Kavinga Amaratunga

Management Assistant | Graphic Designer

National Institute of Business Management – Sri Lanka

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, Certificate of Digital Marketing
Experience
16 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 7 Months

Management Assistant | Graphic Designer at National Institute of Business Management – Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 7
  • March 2022 to August 2023

•Coordinate schedules among executive team members and plan the logistics of each meeting.
• Organize and plan all company outings and events.
• Manage all administrative staff members, including
onboarding and training new team members.
• Producing consistently excellent visual work
• Communicating productively with management and clients to keep them up to date with project milestones.

Graphic Designer at CEO Magazine PVT LTD – Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 4
  • February 2021 to March 2022

• Illustrating concepts by designing examples of art arrange
ment, size, type size and style and submitting them for
approval.
• Preparing finished art by operating necessary equipment
and software.
• Coordinating with outside agencies, art services, web
designer, marketing, printers, and colleagues as necessary.
• Communicating with clients about layout and design

Graphic Designer at Copy Line PVT LTD – Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 4
  • June 2019 to January 2021

• Working with clients’ ideas and managing their expectations.
• Developing concepts, graphics, and layouts, including making decisions about fonts, images, readability, and readers’ needs.
• Determining size and arrangement of copy and illustrative material, as well as font style and size.
• Preparing rough drafts of material based on an agreed briefly.

Senior Layout Designer at Ceylon Newspapers – Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 10
  • October 2011 to May 2019

• Determining the size, designing the artwork, and deciding on the fonts and sizes for the words found in each advertisement.
• Developing the newspapers' mastheads as well as the headings, footers, and artwork found in each newspaper edition.
• Converting the newspapers' mastheads, headings, footers, and artwork into designs appropriate for websites

Graphic Designer at Wijeya Newspapers – Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 10
  • February 2007 to October 2011

• Coordinating with the publication team on projects including graphic designers, proofreaders, and
illustrators.
• Brainstorming new page ideas to incorporate advertisements naturally into the text.
• Arranging page elements for screens and printed media.
• Determining text and image size for each page.

Education

Diploma, Certificate of Digital Marketing
  • at Asia Pacific Institute of Digital Marketing.
  • June 2021
Diploma, Diploma in Graphic Designing
  • at Ingrin Institute of Graphic Designing
  • August 2008
Diploma, Graphic Design
  • at Ingrin Institute of Graphic Designing
  • July 2006

Specialties & Skills

Adobe Photoshop
Illustration
Layout Tools
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Acrobat
Creativity
Time Management
Flexibility
Innovation
Open-mindedness
Team Work
Problem-solving skills

Languages

English
Intermediate