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I am a Dubai base Graphics, Web and UI Designer with more than 8 years of diverse international experience derived from working with multinational conglomerates to skeleton crew startups, interspersed with freelance projectsfor clients in various countries. My design philosophy revolves around functional, intuitive, elegant and meaningful design, with my ideas reverberatingacross the entire spectrum of my skillset.I have developed functional solutions for businesses and media outlets such as web presence, logo design, Android, IOS, and Blackberry apps, interactive e-newspaper publishing and rich media advertisements. I have also been solely responsible for developing a marketing campaign for an application launch which centered around promoting the application on a roadshow vehicle in a super-sized representation of a smartphone. I was responsible for the industrial design, safety, testing and manufacturing of the smartphone mock-up; procurement of Porsche and Range Rover roadshow vehicles and hiring of female models. This was only the second such marketing campaign to be executed in Dubai after the world renowned RedBull campaign.Presently working for Sandcastles Investment Group, a subsidiary of Time GroupLtd (UK), as a Graphic Designer / lead UI designer. I am responsible for strategy andexecution of designs and ideas for Apple iOS, Android, RIM, and Mobile Webplatforms. I routinely work amongst multiple functional teams including productmanagement, software engineering, QA engineers, core UX design, and productmarketing.Specialties: HTML 5, Web Design/Mobile App UI/RIA/,Marketing and Multimedia Design, Web Design, Print, Epaper, News Oriented Websites, TV, Advertising, Email Marketing, Newsletter Designing, HTML, Graphic Design, Flash Animation, User Interface Wireframe, CSS, XHTML, Jquery, HTML 5 Animation

Listed skills include Html, Web Design, Css, Photoshop, and 46 others.