Reshad Karim
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About
Artinmotion67@gmail.com 713-392-4369
In search of my next roll as a strategic graphic designer in a forward thinking and highly motivated company too match my motivation and drive. Organized and pay close attention to detail, creative and a great eye for art and design. Design can follow branding guidelines as well as thinking out of the proverbial box.Brainstorm and conceptualize, utilizing branding and corporate look and feel as well as insight towards theme, product or service. Gather information and research, if there is not enough information regarding a job, I will find it. Project management, once assigned to a job, it is seen through from beginning to end, concept to layout from approval to pre-press to production, managing artists to managing vendors and workflow with vendors. Several years of experience in the oil and gas industry designing collateral for Weatherford, Smith(Schlumberger), Halliburton, Tejas oil and gas, Dow chemical, KBR, School districts, Samsung, Law firms, Qualcomm, Fossil exhibits, Excalibur Exhibits.
Technical Qualifications
Discussion to vision, strong experience with the creative process of design and typography layout and wow factor. Associates degree from the Art Institute in Design & Desktop publishing. Create traffic through a tradeshow/exhibition, drawing people into the areas of interest visually and artistically.
Technical Skills
Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Outlook, Power Point, Sharepoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Macintosh and PC Platforms, Very little Web Experience, Large Format Graphic Production, Photography -
Education
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Associates MultimediaArt Institute of Dallas1996 - 1998
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Experience
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Graphic DesignerAIM Conceptual designsJul 2013 - Present (11 years 4 months)Freelance Graphic Designer. AIM Conceptual. Design all Print collateral from Concept to print. Tradeshow exhibition graphic design, from design to production and delivery.
Graphic design, photography, Web design, Logo design, print pre-press, tradeshow graphics and more -
Graphic DesignerWeatherfordSep 2011 - Jul 2013 (1 year 10 months)Brainstorming and conceptualize from material and information provided by client internal or external, take information provided and conceptualize a layout for approval, find Images, dig and research for content from Marketing managers and their clients, and assemble pieces of design to come together as a cohesive collateral
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Graphic Designer Owner/OperatorEMRJ Marketing2009 - 2011 (2 years)Owned and operated EMRJ Marketing, a full service graphic design and production facility.
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Graphic DesignerSmith International2007 - 2009 (2 years)Graphic designer responsible for concept to production of company literature, brochures, welcome guide, flyers. Handled various job duties including data organization, overseeing final design product to print, handled customers internal and external. Received inner company Awards for brochure design
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Graphic DirectorThe Freeman Company1999 - 2007 (8 years)Graphic director job duties included and not limited to, management of several employees in the graphic department, scheduling graphic production work, meeting with clients, consulting with clients on their graphic requirements and needs. Invoicing completed graphic production work to various clients and inner company departments.
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Graphic ManagerThe Trade Group1996 - 1999 (3 years)Responsible for look and feel of exhibit booth graphics and design. Management of several employees in the graphic department, scheduling graphic production work, meeting with clients, consulting with clients on their graphic requirements and needs. Invoicing completed graphic production work to various inner company departments. Responsible for designing graphic themes etc.
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Graphic ManagerSkyline Exhibits1991 - 1996 (5 years)Skyline Displays
Management of people in the graphic department, scheduling graphic production work, meeting with clients, consulting with clients on their graphic requirements and needs. Invoicing completed graphic production work to various clients and inner company departments.
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Awards
2007 Smith International, Brochure award most creative and sales beneficial.
2009 Best of Show Ribbon Award for Art Piece "Skittles" -
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AIGA
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@rkarim1, member since 2013
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