Aleya Chakravarty
829
Phone: 650-802-8828
Email: aleya_c@yahoo.com
Online Portfolio: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/aleyac/
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a creative and challenging position where I can
apply my product management, graphic and user interface design skills towards
promoting a product or service.
EXPERTISE
Software: Dreamweaver, Flash, D/HTML, XML, Photoshop,
Fireworks, Illustrator, Director, Visio, Corel Draw, Premiere, Quark XPress,
PageMaker, Wave Studio, Sound Edit Pro, 3D Studio, Microsoft Office, Microsoft
Project
Platforms: Windows and Macintosh
Painting: oil, acrylic, watercolor, crayons, photo-inks,
etching and sculpting on wood, marble, and clay
EXPERIENCE
Freelance Consultant,
Interacted with clients to understand their needs and design marketing material. Designed look and feel to create a seamless user experience. Design and conceptualize websites, with a clear call to action, information architecture and consistent and intuitive navigation. User interface for web-based applications, graphics and marketing demos for trades shows with music and voice over in Flash. Designed corporate logo, business cards, brochures and other print collateral.
Product Centric,
Varian Medical Systems,
Tavant
Technologies,
Telserra,
Pinnacle Physical Therapy,
Winner of Logo Design Contest.
Senior Product
Manager: Multimedia Content, Oracle Corporation,
Oracle Online
Services – Site providing Customer Relations Management with
sales and support services. My responsibilities included interacting with
internal clients to understand the business goals, market segment, customer
needs and analyzing competition. Translated the findings into a website
redesign, providing field sales representatives and executives with the right
tools to increase revenue and profitability. Created look and feel, graphics,
user interface and usability surveys. Designed marketing demos and prototypes
for application tutorials using Flash. Defined innovative ways to showcase
seminars and demos on related products. Managed project plans.
Senior User
Experience Designer, Providian Financial,
GetSmart - E-Commerce
site offering financial products and services such as credit cards and
mortgages. Responsible for integrating customer needs with business goals and
providing solutions for seamless online customer experience and customer retention.
Authored user interface standards for consistent design throughout the site.
Developed information architecture, site map, user scenarios, user interface
design, screen templates, heuristic analysis, and usability tests.
Led meetings with marketing teams to determine cross-selling opportunities. Wrote business cases and competitive analysis.
Freelance Consultant,
Interacted with clients to conceptualize and design web
sites. Created the look and feel, interaction, interface, information design,
and graphics and HTML for these sites. Other responsibilities included site
registration and uploading (FTP). Websites:
Rocket8 - interactive
design for online ad agency
Santina's Catering -
website for a catering business
TreasuredArt -
website to sell paintings
AdexIndia - media
exchange portal
ISACA - professional
organization's website
Multimedia/Web
Developer, ArrayComm,
Redesigned the intranet site. Related design work to overall
business goals of the company. Developed interactive CD to train
sub-contractors on wireless local loop networks for basic telephony. Interacted
and brainstormed with senior marketing and communication executives.
Freelance Consultant,
Macro Multimedia,
Created interactive CD used to identify organizational
behavioral types. Designed corporate brochures, annual reports, direct mails,
and leaflets. Used my creative and interpersonal skills with the team. Worked with sales and marketing teams, to
determine target market and selling points for creating effective literature to
send to customers.
Art Director/Project
Manager, Cyber Multimedia, New
Managed production of an interactive edu-tainment CD: "Buddha - the Great Legend". Designed
the graphics, interface of the CD. Integrated different types of content
(script, design, video, audio, photo, etc.). Created storyboard for animation
and video shoot. Directed a team of eleven consisting of programmers,
animators, writers, and researchers to develop and deliver the product.
Creative Director,
Virtual Wizards,
Created and conceptualized interactive B2B CD for some of
the leading corporations in
Teaching Assistant,
School of the
(January 1995 – May 1995)
Designed assignments to explore different aspects of
multimedia: interactive video, sound, animation, graphics, and text.
Intern, Corey
McPherson Nash,
Graphic Designer,
Repro Press,
Worked on corporate communication in print media. Interacted
with clients to understand their marketing needs. Designed corporate brochures,
annual reports, direct mails, and leaflets for clients. Acquired extensive
print design experience.
EDUCATION
·
Multimedia
Studies Program,
·
Certificate
in HTML, Aptech Computers,
·
Certificate
in Multimedia, School of the
·
Bachelor
of Fine Arts, Sophia Polytechnic,
INTEREST
Exhibited paintings in CA and