Graphic Designer
Resume:
Irvine, CA
John Janghyuk Ko
********@*****.***
jhkoh.com
Professional Profile
•Senior Graphic Design Specialist with 10+ years of experience in project management, from conceptualization to delivery for printing and digital publications
•Excellent in interdepartmental coordination and communication
•Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Microsoft Office, and web design skills (CSS3, HTML5, Javascript, bootstrap, jQuery), and experienced in Dreamweaver, Flash/Gif Animation, 3D animation tools (Maya, 3D Max), film editing tool (Premier), and web development skills (ReactJS, Google Geolocation, MySQL, PHP, NodeJS)
Major Projects
Website renewal, Dreamtech (idreamtech.co.kr) live
•Successfully launched a multilingual website for a component supplier of Samsung Electronics Mobile Department at a given time
•Designed UI/UX and infographics, planned navigation architecture and contents with the client, and finalized the project through collaboration with an outsourced coding company
Annual Report, KB Financial Group (kbfg.com/Eng/ir/report/annual/list.jsp)
•Produced annual reports for a leading financial group in Korea for six years, including four years in a row, which was named as the world’s top 100 annual reports twice (2008, 2009) by League of American Communications Professionals LLC
•Managed project process with the client, and designed infographics and other graphic elements with other 5 members of design team, while supervising them on all aspects of the project
App development, nxtDoorChef (nxtdoorchef.jhkoh.com) live Github
•A homemade food-sharing application prototyped by a team consists of seven developers through agile process, and fine-tuned and converted into ReactJS and Redux version
•Participated as a web designer and front-end developer, mostly for DOM creation linking to scripts or programming languages, as well as consistent UI and UX styles
•Used HTML5 for basic skeleton; CSS3 and bootstrap for styling and UI responsive for various mobile device formats; APIs of Google Geolocation and Map through AJAX function calls
Professional Experience
Creative director, 2006-2017, INTEMA
•Founded and managed INTEMA, a design company which focused creating presentations of annual reports and other international investor relation materials that generated 50-100k of revenue per contract
•Designed and developed corporate websites, and promotional pieces including international expo booth displays as part of an integrated marketing communication approach
•Managed up to three projects simultaneously as a creative director and project manager by overseeing design process, ranging from conceptualization to delivery
Art director, 2000-2006, PAOS
•Hand-on experience to produce more than 10 annual reports every year and other corporate literature materials including brochures and presentations for overseas road shows, contributing the revenue growth of the company
•Led client communications and interdepartmental coordination as a creative team leader
Development team web designer, 1998-2000, JOYPIA
•Created, managed and updated up to 10 group-wide websites and banner ads, as working at a spin-off web agency of a corporate group in Korea
•Participated in complete web design process, ranging from conceptualization and visualization through comps to final launching
Education
•LearningFuze, an accelerated web development program, 2017
•Academy of Art University, San Francisco, 1997, MFA (incompleted) in 3D animation
•Academy of Art University, San Francisco, 1995, BFA in Graphic Design
Additional Skills
•Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop)
•Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite
•Working knowledge of HTML and CSS
•Bilingual in English and Korean, numerous translation experiences for corporate clients
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