Objective Employment as an Art director in Print / Broadcast / Interactive advertising.

Professional experience

Wunderman Cato Johnson / Impiric Manhattan, NY
www.wunderman.com
Art Director ( Current) Currently working as an art director for Wunderman, New York, part of Young and Rubicam Inc. Job involves art direction for ads, mail, television and the interactive media for direct response.

CGI Network / Applied Theory Syracuse, NY
www.appliedtheory.com
Art Director ( April 99 - June 2000) Worked as an art director for The Communigration Group Interactive, now part of the Applied Theory Group LLC a firm involved with interactive marketing and communications. Job involves conceptualization and art direction for websites and the interactive media.

Grey Advertising International Pune, India.
www.grey.com
Consultant Art Director. (Apr 97- Aug 98) Worked as consultant art director at the Pune branch of Trikaya Grey International in India. Job involved conceptualizing and designing of advertisements for print. Clients handled: Black & Decker, Mastech Corp., Thermax Cogen, Tata Autocomp ltd, Toyo Radiator, Klein Schanzlin & Becker Pumps ltd.

Bozell Worldwide Pune, India.
www.bozell.com
Consultant Art Director. (Aug 97- Mar 98) Worked as consultant art director at the Pune branch of MAA Communications / Bozell Worldwide in India. Job involved conceptualizing and designing of advertisements for print. Clients handled: TetraPak.

Pune University Pune, India Visiting Faculty.(Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communication (Acad. Yr. 97-98)
Visiting faculty for course involving Advertising Design for graduate students in the Master of Mass Communications program.

Silicon Meadows Pune, India. (Aug 97-Dec 97)
Instructor
Worked as lecturer at Silicon Meadows a premier computer graphics institute imparting training in various software including raster and vector based programs and 3D modeling and animation.

Delta Signs Ltd Pune, India. (Mar 94 - Jun 94)
Graphic Design Intern
Worked as intern graphic designer assisting the art director in the designing of corporate identity programs, architectural signage and super graphics.

Other work Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Interface design work for CDACÕs* online land management system for the State Govt. of Maharashtra. (*Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing, Pune University).

Education

Syracuse University Syracuse, NY M.F.A.- Ad Design. - Current. Related Coursework: Professional Practices in Advertising Design, Portfolio Development, Creative Advertising Concept Development, Internet Advertising Strategy, Television Commercial Production, Electronic Illustration and Design, Technology and Effects on Art, History of Design in America, Communicating with computers.

Directorate of Art Bombay, India. G.D.Art, Applied Art. Concentration- Advertising Design March 1997. Related Coursework: Principles in Design, 2-D design, 3-D design, Graphic Design in Advertising, Education & Social Welfare, Typography, Calligraphy, History of Art in India, History of Art (Western)

Datapro Informatics Pune, India. Diploma in Digital multimedia. Concentration: Image Processing - April 1995.

Board for Vocational Examinations , Pune, India.
Certificate course in B/W Photography. - March 1991.

Computer Skills

Platform/OS: IBM/Dos, IBM Windows, Apple/Mac OS.
Image Processing: Adobe PhotoShop, Corel Photopaint, Fractal Design Painter, MS Picture Publisher, KaiÕ Power Tools, Julia Set Explorer,
Illustration / Layout: Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Quark XPress, MM Freehand,Adobe PageMaker, Harvard Design Studio.
Web Design and HTML: MM Dreamweaver, BB Edit, Micrografx Webtricity, Softquad HotMetal, Harvard Publisher, Web Express, Netscape Composer.
3D Modeling: Autodesk 3D- Studio, Harvard Simply 3d, Calligari Truespace, Corel Dream
Office: MS Office, MS Word, Corel Office suite.

Awards

Awarded First place at Creative Track Awards 1999 for excellence in advertising design.
Awards for Best visualizer and copywriter at the annual exhibition of the graduating class 1997 at Abhinav Kala Vidyalaya.
Captained School teams that won the overall championships at MOOD INDIGO 95 and the fine arts trophy at MOOD INDIGO 96
First Prize in Advertising Competition ÔHue & CryÕ at MOOD INDIGO 95. Wrote and designed three ads for group competition in advertising winning 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize for the School.
Assisted Prof A.S Lamba, H.O.D, Dept of Ad Design, in the research, design and manufacture of Scraptures (sculptures from Metal Scrap) for which Prof. Lamba received an award from the President of India. (* MOOD INDIGO is the largest cultural youth festival in India represented by over 150 participating colleges and Universities and attended by over 150,000 students from all over India and with competitions in five disciplines viz Fine Art, Literature, Dance, Drama and Music).

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