Nicu Zara

Experience

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  Larkin & Company

  Feb 2011 - Jan 2019

  Web Designer and Developer

  During this tenure, I created mock-ups of clients' future websites, mobile apps, and email marketing templates. My notable duties were developing custom and mobile-friendly websites by utilizing HTML 5, CSS 3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, and jQuery. Throughout my professional history, I planned, created, and coded web pages, including text with sounds, pictures, graphics, and video clips. Priority management has always been my primary focus and I conceptualized creative ideas with clients, while testing and improving the design of website.A section of my key contributions include:• Enhanced number of visitors by redesigning mobile-friendly websites.• Designed over 30 websites in various niches for productivity and profitability enhancement.• Produced user-friendly, effective, and appealing final designs through incorporation of changes recommended by clients/team members. Show less

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  Hope and Healing International

  Feb 2019 - Oct 2021

  UX Designer / Web Designer

  During my time over here, I utilized storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps to illustrate design ideas. I was responsible for facilitating corporate clients by designing weekly newsletters. One of my key tasks was to deliver positive user experience by analyzing and updating company's corporate website. What makes me stand out from the competition is my radical success in developing landing pages from inception to completion using WordPress, while optimizing for cross-browser compatibility and AODA compliance. Furthermore, I utilized HTML 5, CSS 3, and WordPress to create and maintain corporate website. I was entrusted with training and mentoring team of junior graphic designers. Not only this, but I also designed layout and graphics for email campaign while collaborating with marketing and web development team.My accomplishments within this role are the following:• Improved web interaction by 21% and email interaction by 28%.• Guaranteed accomplishment of design within time constraints by performing wide range of administrative tasks.• Met all user experience requirements while acting as primary point of contact during QA testing process.• Ensured seamless workflow by formulating system of responsive HTML Email templates (and custom emails) for corporate and customer emails. Show less

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  NIZA Web Design, (Remote)

  Oct 2021 - now

  Graphic Designer / eLearning Developer

  As a part of this job role, I leverage excellent technical skills in designing ads, infographics, articles, brochures, banners, logos, signage, social media assets, direct mail, sell-sheets, emails, presentations, and promotional material both print and digital formats. It is worth mentioning that I acquire clients' feedback and direction on product interfaces by communicating design vision. My duties comprise of developing and maintaining digital assets on multiple platforms. I establish a strong foundation for success by conceptualizing product ideas and refining finished product in collaboration with front-end developers.My achievements are as follows:• Optimized social media engagement by 32% through creation of robust graphics.• Improved brand consistency by establishing and proposing graphics design standards.• Created graphic design standards for motion graphic assets, resulting in improving brand consistency.• Acquired and retained new clients by producing sales/marketing materials such as magazines, flyers, and banners.• Collaborated with SMEs to develop and deploy online learning solutions, interactive eLearning modules, and training resources for employees.• Supported the LMS administration team with creating SCORM packages and loaded courses into various LMS platforms. Show less