Shantanu Chaturvedi

Profile

A freelance digital product designer specializing in web, print, video, based in Dehradun, India

Summary

Digital product designer living and working in Dehradun, India. Focused on the digital space and exploring all it has to offer. Extensive experience designing for small, medium and large businesses, agencies and brands.

360 degree Digital Marketing experience, leveraging and combining all media to promote a brand. Strength in leading a creative team through a variety of projects across all platforms in digital, UI/UX and responsive design, and print.

Skilled in hiring, training, supervising and mentoring talent. Holds a passion for typography, color, and digital illustration. Offers strategic thinking for marketing advertising initiatives. Expert in Adobe Creative Cloud (CC).

Having multidimensional experience of corporate, startup and freelance worlds, understanding clients at different levels and their requirements.

Skills

Design

Conceptualising and directing product designs from ideation till launch

Branding Wireframes UI/UX Video Presentation Design Print

Development

Creating product models in-line with business, development best practices and user experience

Prototyping HTML CSS Javascript PHP MySQL Wordpress

Business, Leadership, Management

Understanding challenges, defining strategies & processes and successful projects execution

Business Processes Team Building L&D Training Communication

Experience

Design experiences and career highlights

Freelance Product Designer
2006 - Ongoing

Working on different website and mobile app design projects and developing new digital experiences while evolving and strengthening the ones already in place.

  • Understanding client/project requirements and provide consultancy to achieve right solutions to problems.
  • Provide services for conceptualising, design, UI/UX design, mock-ups, including responsive, mobile and tablet-friendly interactive sites and social media integration.
Product Owner at Kamkazi.com
Jan 2018 - Present | www.kamkazi.com

Kamkazi.com (currently in Beta), is an online platform and a one-stop solution for freelancers who often struggle with various problems with business development, project management, invoicing and tax compliances, etc.

  • As product owner, responsible from conceptualisation to market-ready product delivery.
  • In phase 1, responsible for designing a world-class user interface and defining user experience based on well-researched data points and best practices.
  • Responsible for defining the future path and success metrics for product.
Director of Technology at StepOut Solutions Pvt Ltd
Aug 2013 - Jan 2018 | www.stepoutsolutions.com

Was part of the core founding team since beginning of the business and experienced the journey of establishment of a business starting from recruitment, team building, counter challenges by setting up the processes in place and enforcing them.

  • Worked in capacity of decision maker for business setup and it’s smooth operations.
  • Responsible for identifying business challenges, designing effective solutions, defining and implementing processes.
  • Defining scope and market position, branding and designing promotions of in-house products.
  • Led team of 16 members in creative design and web development.
  • Headed HR, payroll and recruitment processes, office administration and operations.
Product Designer at Visualr Software
Aug 2013 - Jan 2018 | www.visualrsoftware.com

Visualr is data visualisation tool developed by StepOut Solutions Pvt Ltd. As Product Designer, my role was to help development, sales and marketing teams to maintain brand communication.

  • Responsible for setup brand guidelines and defining visual language (color palette, logo, font, design) across a range of media.
  • Worked closely with product head and development team to design UI/UX for the product.
  • Responsible for defining correct UI/UX treatment for new features.
  • Worked on conceptualising, design, UI/UX design, mock-ups, including responsive, mobile and tablet-friendly interactive sites and social media campaigns for the product.
  • Worked with the sales and marketing teams to visualise content while maintaining a consistent quality and branding of communication products across all media channels.
Web Developer at CEB (now Gartner)
Mar 2007 - July 2013 | www.cebglobal.com

Designed and developed web products to support company’s core business - Corporate Research. These include on-line decision support centres, benchmarking tools, interactive info-graphics, etc.

  • Worked with internal teams to establish style and UI guidelines for content, including complex assets.
  • Created visual mockups and wireframes to serve as visual templates for all unique product types.
  • Designed flexible and scalable style templates that can aid site standardisation and easy adoption by junior web publishing staff.
Graphic Designer at CS Direkt Events & Exhibitions Pvt Ltd
July 2006 - Feb 2007 | www.csdirekt.com

Handled graphic design for print, web, 3D animations and videos for various corporate and product launch events for clients including Microsoft, Pepsi, Canon, LG, Bharti, British Airways, Amway, CISCO, HP, TCS, Hyundai, Widex, Mahindra, and more.

VFX Artist (Intern) at Prime Focus Ltd
Jan 2006 - June 2006 | www.primefocus.com

As intern, worked on animation and special effects for various TV commercials and Bollywood movies. Got recognition by having name appeared in end-titles of various Hindi & Tamil movies of 2006 including a major release - Pyare Mohan.

Education

Design Graduate
National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), New Delhi
2002 - 2006

4-year diploma in Fashion & Information Technology

Graphics & Animation
Arena Animation Academy, New Delhi
2001 - 2004

3-year certificate in Print, Web and Motion Graphics

Microsoft Certified Professional
Web Application Development
2013

Web Application Development using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript

Tools & Software

Design, UI/UX
  • Fluent in Adobe CC, Affinity Photo & Designer
  • Wireframing and Prototyping: Sketch, InVision, OmniGraffle, Balsamiq
  • Expert-level knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript
Web Development
  • Intermediate-level knowledge of PHP, MySQL, Angualrjs
  • Expert-level knowledge of Wordpress
  • Code management, cloud hosting and web analytics with GIT, Google Cloud and Google Analytics
Motion Graphics
  • After Effects, Final Cut Pro, GoAnimate

Activities

  • Awarded with the Community Services Award for assisting 10 under-privileged children in learning Hindi language. True achievement was 8 of them were able to get admission in private schools.
  • Awarded with the CEB EPIQ India Emotional Excellence Award for Spirit of Generosity.
  • Awarded with the Indira Award (2002) for Best Student in Zone-17, Delhi by Ministry of Education, Govt. of Delhi.

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