Freelance Designer Resume

Contact information

Ivan R. Atanasov

17 Street

Philadelphia

Career objective

Looking for a challenging position of the Freelance Designer Resume the reputed University with a view to use my wide experience for the benefit of the organization.

Professional, focused, experienced and passionate graphic designer who is a vibrant character and has a strong desire to succeed in life. With a proactive, action orientated approach to meeting challenges through an optimistic and enthusiastic outlook.

Copes well with working in fast paced, pressure intensive, customer servicing studio and office environments. Able to always meet deadlines under any circumstances and conditions with attention to detail.

A natural problem solver who thrives and works well in a team and on own initiative establishing trust and building long term working relationships with colleagues and customers.

My key strengths have derived from various influences and experiences, in particular one where the work involves designing and working on campaigns, graphic, DM, CI, advertising/marketing and concept generating.

Amongst software skills I also have skills in/including:

Budgeting

Print management

Project management

Marketing

Graphic and web design

Industrial design and technology

Creative and technical thinking

Verbal, Social, Visual and Written communication

I welcome learning new and developing existing skills and believe that my employment experiences, responsibilities and education knowledge in design, marketing and management would allow me to bring the level of expertise you seek to help expand your business, bringing in new creative ideas and offering new ways of thinking.

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DESIGN EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE

2010 - Current : Graphic Designer

CACI Limited UK : www.caci.co.uk

CURRENTLY UPDATING

2010 - Current : Freelancer Art Director and Designer : www.katieksli.com

Clients include mycar, Denne Constructions Ltd and King's College London

CURRENTLY UPDATING

2005 to 2009 : Design Specialist

NHS: and Medway Health Informatics Services : www.kmhis.nhs.uk

* Art directed, designed, developed and produced artwork for websites, print, corporate branding, templates, campaigns, exhibitions, merchandise, marketing materials and logos.

* Proficient technical knowledge on web design, print design, and Content Management Systems (CMS).

* Directly managed accounts and multiple projects including invoices and quotes for all NHS customers.

* Collaborated with team members, managers and printing suppliers to monitor workflow.

* Communicated and actively engaged with people at all levels to meet project brief.

* Written marketing strategies and produced reports to head of department, customers and directors.

* Managed and coordinated secondary school students on work experience and delegated work to team.

* Trained new staff to use Adobe Photoshop to manipulate images for internal print work and websites.

* Ensured designs complied with NHS Corporate identity, Accessibility (W3C), Usability, RNIB and the Disability Discrimination Act guidelines.

* Managed relationship with external agencies and the quality of the work that they deliver, devise local and national marketing campaigns and in-store promotions, provide ongoing competitor analysis and PR and press releases.

2004 to 2005 : Junior Designer

England Agency Ltd : www.englandagency.com

* Worked on active marketing and advertising campaigns and produced visuals.

* Managed projects, conducted market research, collected data and wrote literature reviews on competitors and market situation for the creative team.

* Generated concept ideas for new product/industry names, campaigns, adverts, logos, slogans and print.

* Proof read all written and visual content for print and technical proof check for web materials. This included general layout, typography, logos and photographs to ensure information was accurate.

* Multidisciplinary team work with professional industry bodies such as printing suppliers to obtain quotes and ensure all clients' promotional material are produced to the highest quality.

2000 to 2001 : Student Designer

Good Luck Chinese Restaurant : goodluckchineserestaurant.googlepages.com

* Project managed, designed and produced menu, business cards, promotional boards, and website.

* Liaised and collaborated with client and printers for cost and print production of materials.

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COMPUTER SKILLS

PC and Mac

QuarkXpress 6

Content Management Systems (CMS)

Internet, Basic HTML, CSS

ADOBE DESIGN PACKAGES: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, ImageReady, Acrobat/Distiller

ADOBE WEB PACKAGES: Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks

2D/3D CAD: Pro-Engineer, Wildfire2.0, Pro-Desktop, AutoCAD, 3D StudioMax rendering, Alias

MS OFFICE: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook Express, Visio, Publisher ___________________________________________________________________

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

2005 to 2006 MSc Marketing and Management : Loughborough Univeristy

2001 to 2004 Bachelors (hons) Industrial Design and Technology : Loughborough University

1999 to 2001 A-Levels: Design and Technology, Chemistry, Biology.

2000 to 2001 AS- Levels: Mathematics.

1997 to 1999 11 GCSEs, Grades A-C including: Design and Technology, Mathematics, English, Science.

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AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

2009

* NHS Staff Award based upon customer's commendation for 'Exceptional achievement by demonstrating cross boundary working and improving customer satisfaction'.

* Runner up for the East Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust: Innovation to Information Technology Team Award.

2007

* Nokia N-Series mobile phone design competition, design was displayed on Nokia website.

* NHS Cancer Awareness design nominated for an international Interreg Project Award.

2006

* Posters designed in-house are used by the National NHS incident awareness campaign.

* Runner up for Dover Council's Dover 2008 Festival Logo design competition.

* Distinction awarded for Masters Dissertation in Marketing and Management.

2005

* Design used on Loughborough University Design and Technology Department website.

2004

* Top 50 Runner up for Schuh Magazine Gift Card, 2005 Season Design competition.

* Industrial Design and Technology Degree Exhibition, Loughborough University.

* Design Week OEC Esprit design competition: New educational swimming pool game.

* RSA, Re-innovation design competition: Ideas Through Insight.

2003

* Hugo Boss Fragrance Dispenser was entered by Loughborough University Industrial Design Department for D&AD competition (British Steel Packaging Awards).

2002 to 2004

* Industrial Design and Technology Programme Representative, Loughborough University.

* Loughborough University Student Union Student Trainer for Course Representatives, Clubs/Societies, Athletics Union and students to further their personal achievements.

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ABOUT ME

Creative

My interests include photography, origami, bonsai art and reading historical literatures such as Ancient Egyptians and Chinese. I have a passion for playing the piano and have performed in the Grand piano concerts since 1994.

Travel

Besides socialising I thoroughly enjoy travelling to foreign countries and have a keen interest in learning and studying different cultural lifestyles, in particular Egypt, Hong Kong and Italy.

Language

I attended Chinese language school from 1988 to 2001 at the University of Canterbury and I am currently learning Mandarin. I am fluent in English and Cantonese.

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References

Ivan R. Atanasov

Manager

Wap Company.

Ivan_Atanasov@gmail.com