Pavan Teja

Pavan Teja

Character designer

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  • Timeline

  • Skills

    Photoshop
    Graphics
    Web design
    Social media
    Adobe creative suite
    Illustrator
    Storyboarding
    Graphic design
    Video editing
    Logo design
    Art
    Graphic desi
    Product visualisation
    Brand management
    Art direction
    Adobe illustrator
    Character animation
    Adobe photoshop
    Microsoft office
    User interface design
  • About me

    Experienced Visual designer with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Skilled in Marketing, customer data based decision making, problem solving, Graphic creation, illustration and Art. Strong media and communication professional with a Diploma in Japanese language focused in Japanese Language and Literature from Anna University.

  • Education

    • Anna University

      2012 - 2013
      Diploma in Japanese language Japanese Language and Literature

      Completed a Course on basics of Japanese language imparting me with enough knowledge to join in a conversation with Japanese personnel and manage well with the basics in Japan.

    • Anna University

      2011 - 2013
      Master of Science (M.Sc.) electronic media

      Activities and Societies: RJ in community radio, photo shoots, short films, designing, research Completed my Masters in Media Sciences which imparted me with the detail input on the best practices of Media industry and how to handle the outside world..

    • University of Madras

      2008 - 2011
      Bachelor's degree Design and Visual Communications, General A

      Activities and Societies: conducted college cultural functions. Completed my Bachelor's degree in Visual communication introducing me to the world of media, media management and Art.

  • Experience

    • Mindzen

      Dec 2010 - Apr 2011
      Character designer

      Initiated a new team, working on creating a new comic book. I was the artist for the book and my responsibility was to create high quality character sketches and comic panels.

    • Integrated Media Entertainment Limited

      Apr 2011 - Jun 2011
      Asst. Director

      Worked as an Asst Director, for a TV reality show. My responsibilities include, organizing the events and making sure everything is in place on a high fast paced environment.

    • Amazon

      Aug 2013 - now

      Responsible in introducing a new intake tool to simplify program management and intake globally, while working with marketers and addressing challenges in the current intake system.Responsible in introducing and maintaining intake and program management tool for ACES (Amazon Customer Excellency System), focussing on process improvement using Six sigma methodologies.Responsible in working and co ordinating with marketing teams globally to understand processes, recommend, facilitate and implement process improvement ideas addressing lead times and other challenges. Show less As a visual designer, I am responsible to pitch and bring in more creative projects for my team to work with, co-ordinate between on-site clients from various parts of the globe and team of designers to deliver high quality output. Provide feedback and mentor fellow designers to raise the quality bar. Work and deliver editorial creative projects, bring in customer data driven decisions to the table to come up with marketing strategies focusing on improving user experience and customer engagement. Work with global teams to promote automation tools. Show less Working for North America and Indian marketplace in the team called Global production services (GPS), my responsibilities included creating high volume of promotional graphics, handling editorial design projects and delivering high quality output, review designs created by other designers and provide them feedback to improve the designs, implement measures and actions to improve overall team’s design Quality. Provide data driven creative solutions to business partners. I was instrumental in streamlining the consumables graphic production and played a major role in driving up automation to an MoM increase of 23% for Indian The adoption increased from less than 300 in Q3, 2017 to more than 2000 from April, 2018. My work understanding and learning the automation tools, training merchandisers and optimizing categories to make them more automation friendly. I was also instrumental in streamlining categories like amazon business etc., by working with Art directors and creating styleguides for the category. Show less

      • Program Manager II

        Sept 2023 - now
      • Program Manager II

        Oct 2022 - now
      • Program Manager

        Jun 2020 - Sept 2022
      • Visual Designer

        Jul 2018 - Jul 2020
      • Design Assistant

        Oct 2014 - Jun 2018
      • Visual Design Associate

        Aug 2013 - Oct 2014
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • AWS Partner: Generative AI Essentials

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Aug 2025
      View certificate certificate
    • Foundations of Project management

      Google
      Jan 2023
      View certificate certificate
    • AWS Partner: Generative AI Essentials

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Aug 2025
      View certificate certificate
    • JlPT japanese N5

      Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
      Jun 2013
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Pavan Teja
      Impact performer of the mont Sangeeth Oct 2017 Was awarded impact performer of the month for streamlining categories like Amazonbusiness.in and Amazon now and driving them towards Automation.
    • Awarded to Pavan Teja
      Star of the Month Amazon Mar 2015 Awarded the "Star of the Month" award again for playing a major role in a process and helping the team collect enough data and find ways to take the right steps on Quality improvement.
    • Awarded to Pavan Teja
      Star of the Month Amazon May 2014 Awarded "Star of the Month" award for leading a new team and helping it increasing production from 8% to 80% without compromising on Quality.
    • Awarded to Pavan Teja
      Kizuna JICA Mar 2013 Selected as one among to the two students from the University and sent to Japan as an Ambassador, for the program "Kizuna" where we were exposed to the measures taken by Japan to secure it's citizens and their tourism after "The Great Earthquake" of 2011.
    • Awarded to Pavan Teja
      Goldmedal D.G. Vaishnav Apr 2011 Awarded 2 Gold Medals for being a topper in Sanskrit and also being the best out going student (over all topper).
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Ambassador from India

      Issued by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Mar 2013
      Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)Associated with Pavan Teja