Saad Shakeel, Senior Graphics Designer

About

Create and design various materials for print and digital collateral. - Ensure projects are completed with high quality and on schedule. - Establish creative direction for the company as well as brand guidelines. - Prioritize and manage multiple projects within design specifications and budget restrictions. - Perform retouching and manipulation of images. - Work with a wide range of media and use graphic design software.

Experience

Gtv news

Jan 2021 – Present

Karachi, Pakistan

Senior Graphics Designer & Video Editor

• Coordinating with photographers, videographers, producers, and other staff members to ensure that they have all of the information they need to create their content • Managing the station’s social media accounts, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram • Conducting research to develop story ideas or angles on existing stories • Manipulating and editing film pieces in a way that is invisible to the audience • Trim footage segments and put together the sequence of the slide film • Input music, dialogues, graphics and effects • Illustrating concepts by designing examples of art arrangement, size, type size and style and submitting them for approval • Creating a wide range of graphics and layouts for product illustrations, company logos, and websites with software such as photoshop

Freelance

Mar 2017 – Present

Karachi, Pakistan

Freelance Graphics Designer

• Create products, website mock-ups, working alongside the developer to bring your designs to life • Prioritize, track, adhere to timelines and meet established deadlines of multiple projects at a time • Use own software resources to accomplish the most efficient and economic design solution for the project assignment • Brainstorm with the marketing team and management to determine the best art solution to maximize project impact • Prepare a cost estimate for the project within quality specifications, financial constraints, and deadlines • Mock displays and corresponding samples for merchandising and sales presentations • Prepare final print/digital files and deliver them according to production specification • Generate and manipulate graphic images, animations, sound, text, and video into functional multimedia files including but not limited to: web pages, flip-books, flash content, banners, etc. • Maintain all photography, digital graphic files according to company process and procedure specifications • Create, banners, emails, digital ads, social media graphics, presentation decks, and more from concept through production • Ensuring projects are aligning to strategy and existing brand guidelines of the client • Understand the specific objectives and challenges of projects, alternative solutions • Collaborate with client internal and cross-functional teams • Synthesize communication and data sets into clear, concise, and compelling marketing graphics and visual data, adhering to the company brand guidelines • Managing the end-to-end creative design, from start to finish, collaborating with the client to develop ideas and solutions • Proofread, edit and ensure the quality of deliverables • Any other project tasks as required by clients

Freelancer

Jul 2016 – Present

Karachi, Pakistan

Freelance 3D Modeling & Rendering

• Translate client’s vision into Photo-realistic Renderings. • Create and edit 3D models based on plans, specifications or reference images. • Apply textures and incorporate realistic lighting into a 3D model. • Produce photo-realistic renderings using 3DsMax and V-Ray. • Ability adapt to the company’s workflow.

Attire Trims Pvt Ltd.

Sep 2017 – Dec 2020

Karachi, Pakistan

Graphics Designer & Production Specialist

• Provides in-house graphic design, including but not limited to brochures, bar codes, advertising, product content, posters, packaging, and logos for all products. • Produce printed and digital proofs for edits and approvals • Revise proofs according to as dictated by project priority and deadline • Set up and run pre-pro meetings, ensuring that all teams have what they need to begin production on time, and on budget • Present work to internal groups and customers • Review quality of final product before release/file submission

Medicam Group Of Companish

Oct 2012 – Aug 2017

Karachi, Pakistan

Sales Merchandiser & Sales Executive

• Maintain and replenish products in store racks, shelves, displays • Build, change or remove product displays while adhering to company standards; maintaining product signage; cleaning product space and securing damaged or defective product • Maintain an orderly and clean work area in compliance with Company safety and sanitation requirements • Maintain professional relationships with co-workers and customers • Ability to repetitively grasp and manipulate objects of varying size and weight requiring fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination

Tokyo Institute Of Multi Media

Oct 2015 – Jun 2016

Karachi, Pakistan

Graphics & 2d Animation Teacher

• Conduct training for students on Designing Software like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Lightroom, CorelDRAW, In-Page, etc. • Conduct training in creating Logos, Brand Campaigns, Image Editing, Digital Painting, Color Correction 2d And Logo Animation, Sound Effects, Video Editing • Conduct training in concepts of Design Styles, Vector Graphics, Branding Material, Print Production, etc. • Hands-on Student Queries & Track and Monitor Student Progress & Performance • Mentoring Students towards their Portfolio Development

Education

Tokyo Institute Of Multimedia

Feb 2013 – Nov 2015

Advance Graphics Programing , Media Science

Saad Shakeel

Senior Graphics Designer

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