Design Technician

Umer Mobeen Qureshi DESIGN TECHNICIAN

Malik Building, Opposite Al Hafiz College,

Mohni Road, Lahore - Pakistan.

Voice: +92-322-*******

E-mail: ****.*******@*****.***

Skpye: umer.mobeen

Portfolio: http://www.coroflot.com/umer_mobeen

Career Objective

A challenging career, which utilizes my existing knowledge, provides job

satisfaction and an environment to establish myself as a professional, also

an arena to nurture creativity and a support for my ever increasing passion

for anything to do with executing visually powerful work.

Professional Employment History

Currently I am employed at Tetrapak since 2012, as part of the Cluster (in-

house) Repro Hub Team; a Global cost saving venture which looks after

International Repro Jobs from Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Saudi Arabia &

other Middle Eastern countries. Interacting with international clients and

working on international brands has helped me learn more and become a

better professional.

I have an over-all working experience of more than 14 Years (PC cum MAC)

platform with different organizations in different capacities. I have real

flair of learning more.

Summary of standard duties include:

Receiving various packaging design files for the Dairy Products packaging

industry.

* This involves analysing incoming designs regards to suitability with

Tetra Pak printing techniques and specifications.

* Making sure that all required info is available and provided digital

files are in the right format.

* Advising customers on modifying incoming designs to get the best

possible print results.

* Organising regular orientation sessions for customers and their design

agencies to explain Tetra Pak print capabilities/requirements.

* Preflighting and preparing electronic art files.

* Taking customer original art and producing press ready electronic

files.

* Ensure all graphic elements are consistent with individual customer

packaging specifications.

* Color separating via ArtPro, PackEdge, Illustrator & Photoshop.

* Trapping and stepping.

* Interfacing and working with various Esko Artwork workflows.

* Imaging prepped graphics for plate production.

PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

SYRIAN CYLINDER HOUSE, Damascus, Syria.

www.syrianch.com

As Design Technician:

May 2010 - July 2012

I worked as a Design Technician in Prepress Department of SCH, Damascus,

Syria.

Responsible for understanding the brand positioning, its Purchase Order

Management & day to day communication with customers, buyers, suppliers and

production staff to ensure full production of orders according to

requirement and to maintain and develop the business volume between company

and the customer.

Responsibilities:

. Converting all types of input provided by the customer into Artpro for

print ready files according to Flexo Graphic & Roto Gravure printing

limitations.

. Responsible for making the proofing & final output of every design

which include Gravure & Flexo process.

. Responsible for color separation needed in every Job.

. Responsible for color correction & image manipulation

. Duties include creating the best output possible in every design

through final production on any material.

PACKAGES LTD, Lahore, Pakistan.

www.packages.com.pk

As Prepress Designer:

July 2007 - March 2010

Worked as a Prepress Designer and mechanical converter in Art Department of

PACKAGES Limited.

Responsibilities:

I was responsible for the Followings.

Developing art-work according to Roto, Flexo, Offset and Corrugated

packaging designs & printing limitations, including Colour Separation,

Steps & Repeats, Trapping, Multiple Layout, CDI Plate making concepts,

Printing Methods (Direct/Reverse), Development of Film

(Negative/Positive) concepts of Embossing and UV having command on

other printing issues as well.

Jahangir Book Depot (JBDPress) Pakistan.

www.jbdpress.com

As Team Leader:

April 2005 - July 2007

Worked as Team Leader in an established publishing house (JBD Press) with

enormous graphic designing and printing capabilities.

Job demands conceptualizing creative and innovative advertisements,

visualizing, art working, image retouching, artwork finalizing (pre-press)

and supervising photo-shoots for magazine.

Responsibilities:

Leading the Art & Design Department with a team of four designers.

Primary responsibility, to develop cover titles for magazines

Jahangir's World Time and books based on a given theme by Creative

Director or straight from the clients.

Designs developed by our group competed in international book fairs

(India, UK, and Malaysia)

Also responsible for imparting in-house training to the new designers

and conducting their performance reviews.

Dar-Us-Salam Lahore, Pakistan.

www.darussalam.com

As Page Layout Artist:

Sep. 2003 - March. 2005

It is an Islamic Multinational Publication with multifarious graphic

designing capabilities.

Assisting the Creative Art Director in:

Layout designing of children stories colorful books, cover titles &

inner pages

Job involved manual page making, type setting, cutouts, spray painting

color marking etc. Developed Calendars, Publicity Posters, Brochures,

Business Cards, Letterhead designs & office stationery for company

clients. Scanning the freehand art work & conversion to colorful

computer illustrations in Adobe Photoshop. Practical use of Digital

Camera for getting the Natural illustrations to match the themes.

I learnt a lot as a fresher under guidance of senior Art Directors.

Art Tech Advertising Lahore, Pakistan.

Graphic Designer:

April. 2000 - July. 2003

It is an advertising agency and marketing firm with strong graphic

designing capabilities

Responsibilities:

Developed multiple Packaging designs for different clients

Developed Logos, Calendars, Publicity Adds, Posters, Brochures,

Business Cards, Letterheads, office stationery & marketing stationery

for company.

KEY TECHNICAL SKILS

ESCO Graphics Tools:

Esko Artwork is a global supplier and integrator of innovative solutions

for packaging, commercial printing and professional publishing. Its

products and services help customers raise productivity, reduce time-to-

market, lower costs and expand business.

Proficient in both Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platform with the

following Prepress software's

ArtPro. 12

PackEdge 12

Plato 12

Backstage Pilot 12

SAP

Computer Short Courses/Office Automation, Adobe Suit CS5 (Illustrator CS5.

Adobe Photoshop CS5) Adobe Dreamweaver Adobe In Design, In Page, Also excel

in various PC and MAC environment applications, based on a varied range of

related software's with typing speed of 50-60 wpm.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Certificate in "Fire Fighting Plan" under the management of Packages

Limited.

As an assistant Incharge of "Emergency Drill/Rehearsal" regarding Fire

Fighting in Art Dept of Packages Limited: Fire Fighting, Emergency Action

Plan, Use of Extinguishers, Having knowledge of Fire Fighting instruments,

Safety Audit, Environment System Procedure, Emergency Response Plan etc.

ACADEMIC CARRIER

Bachlor of Technology (B-Tech Honors)

2001

Mechanical with Specialization in HVAC from University of Engineering &

Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.

Diploma of Associate Engineer (DAE)

1995-98

Mechanical with Specialization in HVAC from Punjab Board of Technical

Education, Lahore, Pakistan.

Matriculation (Science)

1995

Govt. Islamia High School, Mohni Road, Lahore, Pakistan

COMPUTER CARRIER

(PGD) - One year

(Practical Graphic Designing) CCG. Mecleod Road, Lahore.

(DDP) - 6 Months

(Diploma in Desktop Publishing) FJCC. Queen's Road, Lahore.

(PDCH) - One Year

(Practical Diploma in Computer Hardware) FJCC. Queen's Road, Lahore.

SKILLS

V Languages: Fluent in English.

V Photography both films and digital.

V Excellent organizational abilities.

V Creative mind and a quick learner.

V Ability to thrive under pressure with attention to detail.

PERSONAL BEHAVIOR

I have proved abilities to deliver good work even under immense pressure.

I like to work in a team this help as a contributing factor towards the

achievement of team's target and the fulfillment of the overall

organizational objectives.

Besides showing honesty and commitment to work by meeting time lines.

I always eager to know about customer needs.

I like to be the careful eye that recognizes customer needs and sees to it

that they are met.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 22/10/1979 Languages: English & Urdu

Nationality: Pakistani Health: Excellent; non-

smoker

Marital Status Married Visa Status Work Visa

REFERENCES

Available as and when required.

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