PROFILE

 

I am a graphic designer with a passion for print-media and competent in multiple digital graphic programs (both 2D and 3D). As the de-facto official designer for my high-school, I spearheaded various publicity campaigns. Together with freelance work I’ve done, I have produced a fair amount of published work.

 

 

EXTRA-CURRICULARS

 

• High-school News Magazine “Muse” that represents student views both on current events and school-wide politics (Grades 11-12) as Creative Director (Grade 11): In charge of 5 designers and

Editor-in-Chief (Grade 12): In charge of 30 editors, writers, and designers.

 

• Initiated and led the “Vitaku Project”, a safe intra-school online trade platform for students and teachers to encourage community and sustainability! (Grades 11-12) as Project Manager: Led a team of 7 staff to write proposal, secure school-board approval, design, program, and market the website.

 

• Graphic Designer for multiple school events (Grades 9-12), producing promotional materials for school events such as logos, posters, flyers, banners, etc including:

 

- Annual Chapel Theme publicity

- Band/Choir Christmas and Spring Concert publicity

- School relocation/New Campus Opening Ceremony publicity

- Won school-wide competition for a redesign of the school graduate Diploma

- Annual Cultural Day event publicity

- Bi-Annual Theatre/Performing Arts production publicity

- Permanent banners of School-Values in the Auditorium & Gymnasium

- The high-school Advisory system publicity

- Others (Camp Booklets, Overseas Trip Tshirts, Summer-School program Publicity etc..)

 

• Participated in the High-school Media Production Team (Grade 10), which creates videos and short films that play around campus about current-events & school-happenings.

 

• Participated in Model United Nations; MUN (Grade 11 & 12) as a Delegate (Grade 11) and as Design Director of the Press Corps (Grade 12), in charge of 7 others and tasked with reporting the process and the final publication.

 

• Participated in several Sports Teams -- the Tennis Team (Grade 9), the Cross Country Team, the Track & Field Team (Grade 10), was a Soccer Team Manager (Grade 11) and was a Photographer in the Sports Leadership extra-curricular (Grade 12).

 

• Played the Saxophone for the Concert Band (Grades 8-10), sang in the Choir (Grades 8-11) and played the Guitar for the weekly Chapels (and in a band with my friends, but we're not going to talk about that).

 

 

EXTRA / CERTIFICATE COURSES

 

• Adobe™ Certification in Photoshop. (2007)

• Adobe™ Certification in Illustrator. (2007)

• Adobe™ Certification in Dreamweaver. (2010)

• Adobe™ Certification in AfterEffects (L2). (2010)

• Adobe™ Certification in Flash (L2). (2010)

• Intense Animation Academy: Introduction to 3D with Autodesk Maya. (2008)

• Lynda course on Cinema 4D Graphics & Animation Software (2010).

• Lynda course on Carrara 5 Graphics & Animation Software (2010).

• Crashcourse to Blender 3D Animation Software (2010).

• Introduction to iPhone programming (2010).

 

 

ACADEMIC / OTHER AWARDS

 

• AP (Advanced Placement) Art Chosen (2011): One of the pieces from my 2D Design portfolio was selected for inclusion the annual AP Studio Art student exhibit.

 

"Nearly 42,000 portfolios (24 pieces each) were submitted this year; from them, 30 pieces have been chosen for the exhibit. So far, the exhibit schedule includes the AP Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA; the Chauncey Conference Center in Princeton, NJ; the College Board Regional Forum in Chicago; the National Art Education Association Annual Conference in New York City;  and the AP Studio Art Faculty Colloquium in Chicago. The exhibit will also be shown at a number of schools that have large gallery spaces, including the Booker T. Washington School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas."

 

• AP Scholar Award (Grade 12) for Academic Achievement on AP courses.

• ACSI Award (Grade 12) for Outstanding Achievement in Leadership.

• ESLR Award (Grade 12) for Thinking Independently, Creatively and Analytically.

• ESLR Award (Grade 9) for Identifying and Developing God-given Abilities.

• Honor Roll (Grade 11 & 12) for Academic Achievement.

• Merit Roll (Grade 9-10) of Academic Achievement.

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE & INTERNSHIP

 

• Client: Emplify Business Training Center, Singapore as a Graphic Designer, working on corporate ID, branding and document layouts (2011).

 

• Client: Whispering Hearts Family Center, Singapore as a Graphic Designer, doing a publicity campaign for their program including banners, posters, fliers, brochures etc (2011).

 

• Client: Labdoo, United States as a Graphic Designer. T-shirt and mug designs! (2011).

 

• Client: Covenant EFC, Singapore as a Graphic Designer, working on a publicity campaign materials for fundraising events for East Timor (2011).

 

• Client: Advantage English Learning Center, Hong Kong as a Graphic Designer. Corporate ID, branding and publicity for Advantage English Language Center, Hong Kong (2010) including logos, fliers, banners, posters, leaflets, etc.

 

• Client: National Trade Union Congress, Singapore as a Graphic Designer. Publicity for an annual themed dinner (2011) and a redesign of their in-house publicity materials (2009).

 

• With VOXLab Adobe Training Center, Singapore (2011) as an Intern/Graphic Designer, both taking courses and handling designs for a new web-form for OCBC Bank, Singapore, product-visualization for Meyer Engineering, India and tags and vector-work for HoltenCo Fashion, Singapore.

 

• With Onoko, Hong Kong (iPhone and Facebook applications) as a Intern/Graphic Designer to create web advertisements, including a pitch for Nike, H&M, Microsoft xBox, movie launches for "Letters to Juliet" and "Twilight: Eclipse" movies. (Summer 2010).

 

• With Archurban Architects Management Services, China (Summer 2010) as an Intern/Graphic Designer to experience the Architecture field and do some simple designwork.

 

• With Foxconn, Shenzhen China (Apple's primary product manufacturer) as an Intern to better understand product design, material science and the manufacturing process. (Summer 2010).

 

• With YFC Media and Design Department, Singapore as an Intern/Graphic Designer. Helping to create some publicity materials, postcards etc. (Summer 2009).

 

 

SPECIAL PROJECTS / COMMUNITY SERVICE

 

• Sichuan, China Earthquake-Relief Fundraiser: Recorded, cut and sold a CD at school as part of a fundraising initiative for the victims of the Sichuan Earthquake.

 

• Uganda, Africa Service Trip (Summer 2008): A week of building homes, teaching English and doing sports with the Watoto organization.

 

• Philippines Service Trip (Grade 9): A week of intensive construction of an orphanage building, as well as outreach to the local children there.

 

• Cambodia Service Trip (Grade 11): A week of cleaning/painting/fixing up a school building in a local village, as well as teaching English to the local children.

 

• Kaiping, Guangzhou, China Outreach (Summer 2009): Biked from village to village on a week-long service trip.

 

• Indonesia Service Trip (Grade 8): A week of outreach to local children teaching English to the locals!

 

 

 

To Be Continued...

I vow to continue the learning and creative processes for as long as I live!