Work Experience
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July 2005 till date : Self employed/ Part-time freelance

Consulting engagements includes assignment in various areas including:

• Multimedia Designing,
• Web Designing,
• e-Mailers
• Print Designing

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May 2002 to June 2005 : eGain Communications (P) Ltd., Pune

eCRM product company - Sunnyvale, CA

Job Profile : Visual Designer

Job Content

• Leading the visual design (part of corporate communication department) function for eGain worldwide.
• Job responsibility included Multimedia Designing, Web Designing, e-Mailers and Print Designing from conceptualization to execution and maintenance.
• The deliverable included designing the initial flow charts and navigational structures based on information architecture as well as creating prototypes and templates based on principles of GUI design.
• eGain corporate website production support and minor enhancement from design standpoint.
• Interaction with teams from multiple countries to design, develop and maintain web sites.

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Jan 2000 to May 2002 : DishnetDSL Ltd., Pune

Leading ISP (acquired by Tata VSNL in ’04) - Chennai, India

Job Profile : Sr. Visualiser

Job Content

• Worked on various projects with multidisciplinary teams to design and develop web applications and web sites under tight deadlines.
• Documented strategic decisions using diagrams, design, creation and procedures.
• Provided the initial flow charts and navigational structures based on information architecture. Designed prototypes and templates based on principles of GUI design.
• Constructed style guides and design procedure guidelines based on individual project requirements.
• Maintaining and constant development on DishnetDSL website and other Portals (Education, Transformation, Heritage, Multilingual, eCards).
• Client interactions and translating the requirement into Web Based Innovative Solutions.
• Provided a strategic and sustainable aesthetic look and feel that elevated the utility, and usability of the product. Translated complex concepts in convincing and compelling visualizations while focusing on building core elements & corporate identity.

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May ‘99 to Aug ‘99 : C-DAC, Pune

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing - Pune India

Job Profile : Associate ship

Job Content

• Research, report and analysis on the CDAC Web site.
• Redesign of the site.

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Aug ‘98 to Nov ‘98 : SNR Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Pune

Job Profile : Consultant

Job Content

• Worked on their web site design.
• Worked on other in-house projects.

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Education
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July ‘96 – July ’98 : A Two Years Masters Program
M.Des - Visual Communications at Industrial Design Center: IIT, Powai, Mumbai.

Academic Achievements

• Sponsored to Germany under the Students Exchange Program to do the fourth semester at Fachhocschule Mannheim , Germany , in the Department of Communication design. The execution of the third project was done here.
• Excelled in courses such as: Visual Design, Reproduction Techniques, Photo-communication, Advanced Typography and Advanced Illustration Computer Graphics.
• Topped all the four semesters in the Visual Communications Department and earned the highestcredits for the Cumulative Performance.

Projects

• Plus Channel ( India) Ltd. Mumbai, Computer Graphics Department
• The project involved the Redesign of the Title Video Graphics for the program, ‘Ek Din Ek Jeevan’. (Summer Training Project. Duration - One month)
• Chetana Book Shop, Mumbai
• Redesign of the Book, ‘Sermons and Sayings of the Buddha’, (Duration - 2 Months)
• University of Fachhocshule Mannheim , Germany - Conceptualization and designing of a Book on Folk tales for Children’. (Duration – 4 Months)

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June ’91 – June ’96 : A five year course in Applied Arts from Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya, Pune.

Academic Achievements

• 1st Award in the Communication Circle’s Exhibition of Advertising and Designing (Cead ’95), for Illustration in the students’ category.
• Raviraj Award for the ‘Best Campaign of the Year’, in the final year.
• Selection and award for a T-shirt design for the National Games.
• Topped in the Foundation Examination throughout Maharashtra.

Project

An Advertising Campaign done for ‘Palace on Wheels’, Rajasthan Tourism. It is an illustrative campaign covering all the media’s in print.

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Trainings
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August ‘01 to October ‘01 : Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver

• Course Name - Macromedia Certification Course

• Course Name - Advanced Diploma in Web Multimedia.
• Course Content: Illustrator 8.0, PhotoShop 5.0, FrontPage 2000, GIF Animator, Macromedia Director, Macromedia Flash, Sound Forge, HTML, DHTML, Java Script.

• Course Name - Diploma in Web Multimedia.
• Course Content: HTML, DHTML

• Course Name - Diploma in Photography.

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Computer Skills
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• Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0 (Expert Level), Flash 5.0 (Expert Level), Fireworks, Director
• Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (Expert Level), Illustrator, PageMaker
• 3D Studio
• Sound editors - Sound Forge
• MS Office (Word, Power Point, Excel, Access, Project),

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Other Interests
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• Sketching, Drawing, Rendering (all media)
• Painting, Experimental Printing, Typography, Ceramics and Photography.

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