Pradeep

Curriculum vitae PRADEEP K S # 34, Kirloskar Colony 3rd Stage, Lakshminagar, Bangalore-560079 Mobile: - 9480579884 Four plus years of experience as “Graphic Designer” Certified “Web Designer” from Arena multimedia Career objective- To utilize the skills and abilities to enhance the growth of the company and myself. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1. Organization: Paprika Media Pvt Ltd (Group of Essar) Magazine: Timeout Bengaluru Designation: Designer Working period: June 2 2008 to till date Job description: Designing the layout using quark express (5.5) and selecting the appropriate images for the article. Coordinating with the editorial team. Ø Image cutout, Image scanning, Color correction of images and finally checking the mode of images and doing save as TIFF format for print purpose. Ø Creating new style sheets Ø Designing Posters, Streamers and Ads for the marketing team. Ø Proof reading Ø Taking the responsibility for the pagination and creating the high resolution PDF for the printing. Software worked on: Quark Express (5.5), Illustrator, Photoshop Corel Draw. 2. Organization: Pindar Graphics Bangalore Designation: Graphic Designer Working period: Oct 2006 to June 1 2008 Job responsibilities: Department Worked in: • Yellow Book Ø Designing Ads for yellow book US Ø Understanding proofs and making necessary changes as per customer requirement Ø Creating ads using the appropriate image selection and editing it as per the customer Specification Ø Designing web ads for yellow book US Ø Ensuring quality in each ad delivered Software worked on: Dream weaver, Illustrator, Photoshop (All Version). • Catalogue Projects worked for 1. Fisher scientific. 2. Chinese catalogue. 3. Argos. 4. PC World. 5. Moss 6. Little Woods 7. Norbain 8. Reid 9. Speedy Hire Job description: Designing Catalogues in Quark Xpress by using the Oracle Database as a backend process & linking the data with Quark through the extension CMS (Catalogue Management System) & Agility CMS Macintosh Quark 4.1 & 6.5 is used for these catalogues. Data Capture: Capturing the content from the quark document and updating to Agility database using the corrections and markups provided in PDF and managing the content of the tables including images are linked to the database Ø Paginating books and Journals in Quark Xpress, Adobe Indesign & Page Maker. Ø Redrawing, color correction & labeling in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Ø Designing Catalogue, Image Cutout, Image Color Correction & Image Editing. Ø Conversion of images RGB to CMYK & editing color layers. Ø IG Flow & save as using CMS (Catalogue Management System). Ø Handling Customer corrections and ensuring necessary changes are carried out as per customer specification. Ø Updating team members about different projects and taking care of allocation of job. Software worked on: Adobe Indesign, Quark Express (4.1, 6.2, and 7) Photoshop (CS2) 3. Organization: GETIT Infomediary Ltd. Designation: Publishing assistant Working period: May 2005 to September 2006 Job responsibilities: Ø Ad Designing Ø Data entry Ø Proof reading Ø Handling multistation data for publishing Ø Quality check Ø Pagination: Proof reading of AD proofs, Dummy, laser and positive checking and finally packing data for printing. Operating System- Windows 98, Windows Vista, Macintosh OS 10.4.10 Software skills- MS office, Dream weaver, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Quark Express (4.1, 6.5, 7) Hardware skills- Diploma in Hardware and Networking (Microsoft certified system administration), Windows 2003 Server. Education Qualification Institution Year B sc (Computer Science) K.L.E. College (Bangalore university) 2003 P.U.C (PCMB) Vivekananda College Rajajinagar 2000 S.S.L.C St Mary’s High School Kurubarahalli, B`lore-86 1998 Project Details (Bsc): Project title: Hotel Management Team size: Five Members Project Details: The project is based on computerizing the management of the hotel. The key objectives that guided us to bring out software packages are *To atomize the manual, complex calculations of the hotel. *Generating comprised bill *Maintenance of all records Software Specification : Operating System; Dos on Windows 3.1 or any other Windows OS. Languages; FoxPro 2.5 Dos or FoxPro 2.6 Win Editor: Microsoft Word Personal details: Father Name: Suresh.K.P Marital Status: Married Languages known: English, Kannada, Hindi. Hobbies: Reading books, listening to music, playing cricket Place- Bangalore Date- (PRADEEP K S)