Kaja Muhaideen

Lead Digital / Product / UI / Graphics / Brand / Media Designer

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
I am bright, talented, ambitious and self-motivated Senior UI / Graphics / Brand / Media Designer with a strong technical background who possesses self-discipline and the ability to work with the minimum of supervision.
Able to play a key role throughout a sites development to ensure maximum accessibility, customer experience and usability.

A good team player, who thrives on creating engaging creative solutions, is deadline orientated and has the ability to produce detailed technical specifications from client requirements.

Now looking for a new and challenging position, one which will make best use of my existing creative skills and experience and also further my personal and professional development.

Work Experience

Abdul Zahir Bashir Automotive LLC

Lead Digital / Product / UI / Graphics / Brand / Media Designer

Develop and implement design solutions including images, Videos, charts, infographics, and multimedia elements used for marketing sale decks, advertising, sales, and other communications.
Roles and Responsibilities:

Oversees and manages art preparation and plate-making layout, guiding as needed.

Establishes and implements a work order process through which design consultation can occur, specifications can be collected, and projects can be assigned and prioritized.

Calculates project cost estimates based on materials and resources required; maintains pricing list or system for recurring or standard projects.

Ensures finished projects align with customer and project requirements before the product leaves the department for printing, delivery, and/or distribution.

Schedules and leads regular departmental meetings to discuss projects and priorities for team members and to address questions or concerns regarding company policies and procedures.

Maintains departmental equipment and supplies; may research and negotiate with vendors to secure competitive prices on required materials and equipment.

Maintains a portfolio of exemplary work samples.

Attends design consultation meetings for unusual or large-scale projects.

Collaborates with internal sales and marketing departments, customers, and outside vendors and contractors to ensure all expectations are sufficiently met.

Assists team members with projects as needed.

Performs other duties as required.
June 2022 - Present Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Aureole Technologies Private Limited

Senior UI / Graphics / Brand / Media Designer

Responsible for art direction and graphic design, seeing all projects through from concept, design, production, completion and delivery.
❖ Work closely and collaboratively with the design team, marketing team and business team on all creative and corporate requirements.
❖ Personally, work on graphic development. Follow the company’s brand identity standards and guidelines.
❖ Interprets company needs and develops concepts to suit specific guidelines while working within budget constraints.
❖ Provide accurate time and cost estimates for each tactic.
❖ Present design work at various stages to stakeholders for review and final approval.
❖ Supports the Marketing and Corporate teams, in creating sales materials. Advise stakeholders on all technical visual recommendations and/or issues.
❖ Assist in training of Graphic Designer interns and new joiners.
March 2017 - May 2022 India

Svasam Soft Solutions ( AKGS Inotech)

Senior Graphics Designer

Guiding the designing for advertisements, Banners, brochures, handouts, flyers and online graphics.Designing & creating marketing & e-marketing materials on a range of projects.
❖ Working with a range of media, including photography, to create final artwork. ❖ Create and implement campaigns for branding and marketing including presence on social medias.
❖ Creating original artwork for short and long term projects
February 2014 - February 2017 Karaikkudi, India

Open Source Models

Graphic Designer

Ongoing design and maintenance of new and existing websites.
❖ Promotion of websites both organically and using Google Adwords.
❖ Interacting with programmers and clients.
❖ Designing websites that are easy and effective to use.
❖ Designing web campaigns for online initiatives, editorials, emails & banners.
❖ Building affiliate white-labels websites, promotional banners & creative material.
June 2009 - January 2017 Chennai, India

Education

Alagappa Govt Arts College ( Madurai Kamaraj Unversity )

B.A., Economics

June 1995 - April 1998 Karaikkudi, India

CADD Centre

Professional in Building Design

Student ID : A121015159
November 2012 - December 2012 Karaikkudi, India

Languages

English (Fluent),
Tamil (Native),

Awards

Svasam Soft Solutions ( AKGS Inotech)

Outstanding Performance

2015

Svasam Soft Solutions ( AKGS Inotech)

Svasam Star Employee

2015

Skills

2D , 3D Max, Adobe CC -, After, Autocad, Branding, Brochures, Communication, Corel Draw, Creativity, CSS, Delivering Presentations, Graphic Design, HTML, Illustrator, Indesign, Industry Infographic, Infographics, Logos, Mobile Applications, MS Office., Perfect Widgets Designer, Photography, Photoshop, Pre Press, Premiere Pro, Presentation, Sketch Up, Social Media, Solution Architecture, Typography, UI, Video Editing, Web Templates, XD,