Vijayakumar Velmurugan

Experience

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  Integra

  Jun 2008 - Mar 2011

  Sr.Graphic Designer

  As a beginner to this career company provide lot of scopes to learn every aspects of graphics tools, determinations, time management, quality aspects, team work, adaptability detailing etc. As an established corporate network, this company gives me a valuable training sessions and mentoring to growth.Worked for notable publishers from world wide such as Penguin, Springer, Pearson, Cengage Learning, Wiley Books, Elsevier Books and Journals.School books are given an opportunity utilize my creativity skills, through, gradiation, lighting, shadows and other graphic aspects. Show less

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  Scientific Publishing Services Pvt Ltd

  Mar 2011 - Jun 2013

  Creative Team Lead

  Worked as Team Leader, Springer Books Graphics Unit.Checkin about the current project and allocate to team members, check out for on time delivery, generating reports, reporting to DU manager. Maintain track records and team members productivity, responsible for On time Delivery of each and every projects with quality. Communicate with project manager regarding the feedback of produced graphics from clients.

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  Gulf Footwear

  Jul 2013 - Jul 2014

  Design Manager

  Worked with Marketing team, internal clients and vendors and agencies to help educate and ensure that branding was consistent across the all products. Review the creative produce internally and externally. Updated brand standards as needed. Collaborated and directed creative with internal/external designers. Designed creative for internal inclusive company publications catalog, Rack brochures, advertisements, web graphics, flyers, brochures, posters, e-mailers, PowerPoint presentations, and certificates. Trained the team members in Adobe Suites to improve the productivity amend an applications and macros to simplify the producing daily package needs such as packaging labels, barcode systems within the limit from customer branding guidelines. Show less

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  Media Advices DMCC

  Feb 2015 - Feb 2018

  Account Manager

  Deliberate planning and goal setting create brand awareness, following up with clients, getting data from them and integrate with internal team.Followup with sales team about leads and follow their for new business. Brainstorming sessions with clients.Manage deliverable's, workflow, quality, followupRecruited as a Sr. Graphic Designer and Promoted as Client Account Manager. As a Client Account Manager, regularly communicate with our clients regarding current orders and implementations, pitch ideas to them, along with the sales team. Update the requirements through CRM, andinform to the concern departments.* Interacting with clients to understand their business objectives* Understanding the brief and convey to internal creative team* Lead Point of contact with client and production team.* Manage Job trackers, deliverable's, workflow, cost estimates, invoice and following up for payments.* Organize internal meetings to met the quality standards.* Followup the previous clients and drive business with new leads from sales team. Show less

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  AlKalema Productions (AKP Advertising)

  Sept 2018 - Sept 2019

  Client Account Manager

  2018-2019Acheivements:Landmark Group Ramadan Window Elements - 2019for Centerpoint, revenue USD 2M worth with zero customer dis-satificationLead Point of Contact for company and clients and fulfilour client requirements. Getting inputs from clients anddemonstrate the output. Build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships.Co-ordinate with the team to produce the deliverables to make sure the deliverables are on time. Presenting the current market trends in marketing methods by efficient way to boost the sales with our clients. Handles project over $10m over through the production for Media production with maximum resource utilization and cost effective for temporary structures such us kiosk, podiums, exhibition stands, permanent structures, In Mall Signage and headers etc.NOTABLE CLIENTS:Emirates Red Cresent - Abu DhabiLandmark Group - DubaiMAF Hypermarkets - Dubai Show less

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  Atmosquare

  Jan 2019 - now

  Founder

  Providing unique selling proposition ideas to leading companies and playing vital role in their brand positioning and marketing activities.

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  Pichkaari Design Studio

  Jan 2020 - Aug 2021

  Client Account Manager

  Operate as the lead point of contact for any and all matters specific to our customers.Build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships Work closely with all internal teams, contribute in ideas and projects and ensure timely delivery.Communicate clearly the progress of monthly/quarterly initiatives to internal and external stakeholders.Identify and grow opportunities within territory and collaborate with sales teams to ensure growth attainment.Ensure quality of the final creatives produced for our clients and make sure that are reach upto the mark of our clients expectation. Show less

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  Talam

  Aug 2021 - now

  Co-Founder

  With a vision to create and guide 9999 SME entrepreneurs, and we are training them to sustain in this competitive industry and how they can take their product/service by nationally or globally.We found most of the cottage/micro industries are stuck to perform or doesn't showing interest to move into the next stage due to the fear of loss or competition. In this point #Talam took an initiative to taught them with the proven case-studies.

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  Talam.shop

  Dec 2021 - now

  Founder