Estuardo Rodriguez Heer

Design Director & Digital Product Lead

Singapore, Singapore
I am a Digital Product Designer with a background in Advertising, currently living and working in Singapore.

My passion is in solving problems in a creative way. I like to be focused on strategy and I love engaging storytelling to create memorable experiences. I have +10 years of experience working as a Senior Designer and Creative/Art Director in product design and interactive media.

In the past few years, I had the pleasure to work for international companies like EF Education First, BBDO, DDB and DRAFT FCB where I had the chance to develop projects for Smirnoff Ice, KFC, Pizza Hut, Pepsi, VolksWagen, Brahva AmBev, Lipton Ice Tea, UNICEF, BDF Nivea, Fanta, Gatorade and more.

Feel free to drop me a line for more information.

Work Experience

EPAM Systems

Associate Director Experience Design

March 2019 - Singapore, Singapore

Supernova

Design Director

Supernova its an incubator company. With their own 360º product development process and it goes from product ideation & development, branding & packaging, social media marketing, e-commerce storefront, international shipping and customer service.

My role as Design Director was to provide creative solutions for all the existing and upcoming brands under the Supernova umbrella by leading the team and creating unique customer experiences.
August 2017 - March 2019 Singapore, Singapore

HeathWallace

Creative Lead

Heathwallace is part of the WPP Group where I have the pleasure to lead the UI Team with 9 talented designers from different parts of the world. We are responsible to craft unique experiences applying the best user centred design methods.

At Heathwallace I also engage face to face with our Clientes to ensure a better understanding of each project. Collaborating with the Design Team we come together with art direction, concepts and
interactions for our current/new projects and pitches.

Achievements:
At Heathwallace I coordinate the design team that was involve in ManulifeMOVE. I was also working directly with the designers creating the Art Direction and visual assets for the application.

Business Performance
Manulife's rank increased from #8 to #6 with an increase in new business premium market share from 3.7% to 4.4% in 2015 Q3 QTD vs 2015 Q2 QTD*

Sales increased(contributed) by 14.1% ahead of market growth of -2.2% (2015 Q3 vs 2015 Q2)*

Engaged and Converted Gen Y
57% of Manulife MOVE enrollees is Gen Y vs 37% for the same products for 2014+

Consumer research showed that among Gen Y, Manulife’s brand awareness increased from 64% to 74% and brand consideration increased from 20% to 28% (Mar 15 vs Oct 15)
February 2015 - Present Hong Kong

EF Education First

Head of Design EF Education First - English Centers

Coordinate and Design materials and new products such as mobile/desktop Apps, explore the use of new technology (beacons) and prints for all the EF English Centers in China, Russia and Indonesia.

Manage the Design Team for EFEC and train them about the EF Branding and Online GUD, quality control for our 3 markets.
December 2013 - Present Shanghai, China

EF Education First

Lead Designer - China Market

Coordinate and design Online and Mobile marketing materials for the China Market.
Train and guide new designers about the EF Branding and Online GUD, supervise quality control for all new online marketing projects in China.

Achievements:
At EF Education First I design the first Pro Website for the China Market in 2012 and with the new design we improve the leads perform by 43% and months after in 2013 we decide to improve the design and the structure of the website improving the leads by another 33%
December 2012 - December 2013 Shanghai, China

EF Englishtown

Global Web Designer

EF Englishtown is the Number # 1 Online English Learning School and I have the pleasure to be part of this great company where I'm responsible for the graphic development for the global e-commerce and website, designing for different markets such as: United States, Mexico, Brazil and Europe.


Achievements:
At EF Englishtown I design the Pro Website for the China Market and with the new design we improve the leads performance by 43%

In charge of the design for the Mobile website for Englishtown that convert more leads than the desktop version - 19.5X - 3 times more leads.
June 2011 - December 2012 Hong Kong

Dos Puntos Crea | Draft FCB

Digital Unit Director

Dos Puntos Crea is part of Draft FCB one of the newest Advertising Agencies where I was in charge of different areas of the Digital Unit like: Quotations, budgets, media buyer, creative direction, design and managing the team (developers and designers)

Also I use to visit al the clients of the Agency to work next to them the strategy and planning the online projects and campaigns.

Some of the brands I work with:
BDF Nivea
Cerveza Brahva
Pans & Company
Volks Wagen
Lipton Ice Tea
Fanta
June 2010 - June 2011 Guatemala

EBclosion

Art and Digital Director

Create new ideas for different clients and projects, also I was in charge of a 6 designers team.

Research of new technologies to be applied in creative projects and creative solutions to clients problems and demands!

Between me and a fantastic group of other 6 talent designers and animators we create Milk and Cookies, another division in the Company producing Motion Graphic Projects. www.milkncookies.tv/

During the time working for EBClosion I have the pleasure to create projects for:
Pepsi
Mirinda
Doritos
XL Rum
Claro
FC Barcelona
January 2008 - June 2010 Guatemala

Red Pixel | BBDO Digital Unit

Art Director and Planner

I was in charge of create and design all the online projects like websites, ads banners and online campaigns working next to Jose Benitez the Director of Red Pixel.

Red Pixel was the digital unit of the Advertising Agency BBDO where I create projects for:
Pepsi
Gatorade
Mirinda
BBDO
Banco G&T
January 2007 - January 2008 Guatemala

.FOX Networks

Senior Designer

Web designer and ads designer and also I was in charge of monitoring the banners in the ads server, checking the conversion rate and design efficiency. (Only in the campaigns I was in charge of the design)
August 2005 - December 2007 Guatemala

Languages

Spanish (Native),
English (Fluent),

Awards

Heathwallace

ManulifeMOVE Best Use of App - Markies Hong Kong

2016

The FWA - Favorite Website Awards

Site of the Day

201004

Skills

Adobe After Effects, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe Flash CS5, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Advertising, Branding And Identity, CSS, Digital Photography, HTML, Online Marketing, Product Design, Team Management, User Experience Design, User Interface Design, Web Design,