David Merin Email & Phone Number

Phnom Penh, Kh

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• Overseeing daily operations and design activities with meticulous attention to detail• Directing all designs for eight immediate countries in the Friends Alliance - Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, Myanmar, France, Switzerland and USA • Supervising, coaching, training, motivating, and mentoring personnel, setting clear goals and expectations, providing relevant feedback and discipline as required• Establishing, implementing, and overseeing effective systems, processes, and controls• Delivering a high product standard and marketing support• Planning and managing team performance, skills development, talent and culture to improve innovation, achieve efficiencies, and increase competencies• Designing all business brands, interior designs, fixtures and lighting for restaurants and shops including hair and nail salons• Conducting meetings with store managers and teams for sales numbers and effective customer growth, brand awareness and operational excellence• Reading and interpreting statistics and sales documentation to measure effective strategies • Designing and producing various campaigns, reports, brochures, websites, posters, advertisements, murals, animations, logos, presentations, correspondence and other documentation • Designing and producing shop products, restaurant menus, business fixtures, business signage and uniforms• Performing as a strong member of a cohesive team with strict adherence to health, safety and statutory regulations, service level agreements, quality standards, governance processes and compliance requirements

• Responsible for creating new brands, graphic design, art direction, videography, and directing final editing• Rebranding and maintaining corporate image by creating ads, banners, posters, marketing materials, logos, brand guidelines and reports• Directing an annual motivational video for the tri-state area of New York

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• Member of the proposal development team, developing marketing ideas for a major pharmaceutical company• Responsible for graphic design and page layout• Developing proposals and marketing concepts

• Responsible for videography, art direction and production• Developing a viral marketing campaign for the launch of the Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone, to show one second of nine hundred lives across the United States, using Nokia’s first ever Windows phone device• Filming video footage on location around New York City• Representing the creative team in San Francisco at the product launch event• Shooting footage of crowds and celebrities at the launch, selecting raw footage for final editing

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• Print and colour specialist; responsible for art direction, graphic design and photography• Planning and organising various high-end events • Managing marketing and procurement• Designing various reports • Liaising with print house and managing quality assurance• Working with the Communications Department of The New York Academy of Medicine to redesign and visually organize NYAM’s print media for eight divisions, to better attract their audience• Managing the development of a strong marketing plan for short-term and long-term development and brand goals• Implementing updated design guidelines to increase fellow memberships and allow research and development operations to shape public policy• Directing two professional photographers and creating dynamic stage lighting during the New York Academy of Medicine’s 2009 Gala at The Pierre, Taj Hotel in New York City• Conceptualizing, designing layout, selecting images, creating graphs and designing maps for “The Age Friendly Report”, an initiative by Mayor Bloomberg to make New York an age friendly city

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• Responsible for graphic design, photography and photo retouching, page layout, art direction and magazine cover creation• Liaising with wineries to build strong working relationships • Designing and maintaining websites • Mentoring and managing design interns• Designing a cover which was selected and featured in the motion picture ‘The Devil Wears Prada’• April ‘07 issue nominated for Best Drink Magazine by Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards