Creative Designer / Merchandise Sample CoOrdinator

Anand, Satti

Merchandise Sample Coordinator

Phone: 630-***-****

**** * ******** *** #***, Villa Park, IL 60181

Expertise in working flexible schedule with strong merchandising skills, a team player with overall operation of all photography projects, to support business needs, including nights and weekends, attention to detail, process oriented, collaborate with Store Operations Merchandise Presentation to ensure clear understanding and execution of presentation strategy, drive fashion, trend, brand & value through features.

Strong computer skills, Microsoft Office and Outlook, basic retail math knowledge, daily decisions regarding product placement and specific merchandising in stores, periodic assessment of training needs and implementation of training strategies and procedures, track quality product samples through various workflows and projects, meeting deadlines and ensure data is recorded and secured. Conduct thorough quality checks on samples as per standards,

Creative and obsessed with delivering customer centred services, having great experience in working with Agency, Translating marketing language to creative designs, core expertise in creating all print & web based marketing designs, working with cross-functional teams across the company. Core digital media experience in creating images, audio and video.

Tools/Applications

Adobe Creative Cloud-Illustrator-Photoshop, CMS – Salesforce, Advendio, SharePoint, In-Design, Adobe XD, Adobe Dimension, DocuProof, Figma, Sketch, QuarkXpress, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Office, Adobe Premier, After Effects, Video editing. WordPress, Jira, GoogleDocs.

Work Experience :

Healthcare Financial Management Association, Downers Grove, IL Aug 2021 to Till Date

Sample Coordinator

Project 10: MapApp 2.0

MAPApp 2.0 provides a comprehensive revenue cycle strategy designed to help customers their performance, apply evidence-based improvement strategies, and to perform the highest standards.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate and support cross functional teams

Define roadmap for financial processes for Digital Media

Co-Ordinate with Sales and Accounts team

Responsible for Website and Social media presence

Capturing requirements, understand product specifications and business goal.

Conduct market and product research.

Define the right design solution and evaluate its success, develop sketches and designs around customer needs.

Present and communicate design ideas to key stake holders.

Creating corporate collateral print materials for the product.

Create Email templates/Email Marketing using Sales Force “SFMCI”

Run Proof read and quality checks

Creating PPT presentations and templates.

Image Editing/Photo retouching

Collaborate and deliver assets aligned with design system.

Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Albany, NY Jun 2019 – Jul 2021

Sr. Digital Media Co-Ordinator

Project 9: GTW- Global Tax Workspace

GTW is a platform in which financial applications can be built. GTW is a rapid development platform, which allows business functionality to be built by configuring the underlying system components. GTW is built to consolidate most of IST’s Federal Application Suite into one Tax Application built on top of the GTW Platform and tool set. Also, GTW is a next generation application for tax reform.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate and support cross functional teams

Define roadmap for financial processes for Digital Media

Co-Ordinate with Sales and Accounts team

Responsible for Website and Social media presence

Consult with clients to understand their goals

Conduct user research and competitor analysis

Explaining design theme, user research results to internal and external stakeholders

Create corporate collateral print materials for the product.

Create Email templates/Email Marketing using CMS-Wordpress and KNAK

Image Editing/Photo retouching

Run Proof read and quality checks and deliver

Creating PPT presentations, creating and formatting templates.

Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT Jul 2018 to May 2019

Sr. Visual Designer

Project 8: TDW – Tax Data Warehouse

Tax data warehouse is a specialized repository designed to support the corporate tax reporting and compliance process. It consolidates large amounts of tax data from many different sources and stores in one centralized location.

Responsibilities:

Conduct User research and empathise

Share insights from the research with the Product Team

Identify customer needs and pain points, ideate to find solutions with product team

Develop wireframes, prototype ideas, test with real users

Iterate, collaborate, design and deliver assets to dev. team.

Transportal LLC., Oakbrook Terrace, IL Mar 2018 to Jun 2018

Visual Designer

Project 7: Trans-Portal – Global Transfer Pricing Management Platform

TransPortal provides a central platform to collect data, consolidate research and analysis and collaborate with colleagues across the globe. It comes complete with transfer pricing project management tools, including data collection templates, progress tracking and communication.

Responsibilities:

Plan and conduct user research and competitor analysis

Interpret data and qualitative feedback

Create user stories, personas and storyboards

Determine Information architecture and create site maps

Develop prototypes and wireframes

Conduct usability testing

Xtream IT People Inc., Albany, NY May 2013 – Feb 2018

Visual Designer

Capturing requirements, facilitate collaborative design sessions including sketching and ideation.

Lead design reviews and drive decisions, present design solutions to partners through demonstrating traceability in the design thinking.

Represent the design team brand and deliver a consistent design process to stake holders.

Visualize ideas in a clear form lo fi & Hi fi wireframes – prototypes.

Provide appropriate level of documentation, set expectations with the project team, and prioritize activities.

Create and maintain design schedules, communicate status and agreements with project team.

Review work with Managers and keep them updated on project status and deliverables.

Projects Worked on:

Project 6: Section 987

Client: Deloitte, Chicago, IL

Project 5: Maritz CX

Client: Maritz, Fenton, MO

Project 4: EMR365

Client: Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Project 3: Sage 50,100,500 plugin

Client: Thompson Reuters Corp., Chicago, IL

Project 2: iCast

Client: Marketforce Information, Denver, CO

Win Information Technology-Hyderabad, India. Nov 2010 – April 2013

Sr. Designer

Project 1: Open

Client: American Express

Worked closely with product managers to understand Stake-holder’s requirements

Convert the business requirements to design initiatives and functional requirements.

Built a scalable design system to create a simple and consistent brand identity

Provide a common language and unite the design and development team across the company on a variety of projects.

Conduct Heuristic evaluation.

Produce high-quality solutions through flow diagrams, storyboards and site maps.

Provide guidance on the implementation of UX research techniques and testing activities to assess user behaviour.

Maintain a competitive edge against competitor products and industry trends.

Perform tests on user interface elements such as CTAs, layouts, target links, landing pages and banners.

Understand product specifications and user psychology and deliver design solutions.

Education & Certifications

Bachelor of Commerce

Diploma in Digital art and Web Designing

Adobe XD Certified

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