Sunday, January 09, 2011

Designer's Resume

Katherin Meganis Phang

Contact Info
Address : BLK 175C Punggol Field #13-553, Singapore 823175
Mobile No. : +65 90511224
Email : katherin.phang@ymail.com

Personal Particulars
Date of Birth : 11 Sept 1981
Nationality : Indonesian, Singapore PR
Gender : Female
Marital Status : Single

Educational Background
Highest Education
Level : Bachelor Grade : 3.01 GPA
Field of Study : Art
Major : Visual Communication Design
University : Tarumanagara University
Located In : Jakarta Graduation Date : Feb 2004

Employment History
Company Name: Asia Apparel Pte Ltd
Address: 180 Paya Lebar Road #05-05, YiGuang Factory Building Singapore 409032
Industry: Publishing in books
Period: 1st July 2009 until March 2011

Work Description:
Manage every graphic work, make it applicable to the printer. Make advertising of tshirts and souvenirs like button badge, mug, wrist band, etc.


Company Name : Bhuana Ilmu Populer (Kompas-Gramedia Group)
Position Title : Graphic Designer
Industry : Publishing in books
Period : 15th June 2004 until 27th November 2008

Work Description:
Bhuana Ilmu Populer is a company under Kompas-Gramedia--one of the largest publishing company in Indonesia. Bhuana Ilmu Populer specializes in non-fiction books such as self-help, psychology, management, parenting, education and many more.
As a graphic designer in the company I am responsible with:
- Conceptualize design and layout of book covers, from pre-production to the final production where the book will be published.
- Conceptualize and involved in the process of advertising the published book in the local media, exhibition, banners and newspaper articles.
- As the company expanded, I am assigned to assist the HR department in recruitment and selection of freelance lay-outers. My duty is to manage their payment and brief them with the project details.
- Lead a team of designers consisting several lay-out artists, copywriters, book-cover designers, and editor to produce a yearly catalogue for the books published by the company.
- Doing market research for the books to understand the best design to be applied for each different book genres and titles.
- To monitor and check the progress of final artwork of coworkers.


Company Name : Tarumanagara University
Position Title : Lecture Assistant
Specialization : Illustration, Technical Drawing
Industry : Education
Period : 2003

Work Description:
As a lecturer’s assistant I am in charge of guiding the students with their projects from start to the completion.

Company Name : PT Inti Grafindo Mandiri
Position Title : Internship graphic designer
Specialization : Design of packaging, brochure, etc
Industry : Small advertising company
Period : February – June 2003
Work Description:
In my university, students are required to complete 2 months of internship before the end of their study.
In PT Inti Grafindo Mandiri, I am in charge of designing packaging, brochures, flyers, etc for a pharmaceutical client.


Additional Info

Computer Skills:
1. Adobe applications: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe InDesign
2. Macromedia Freehand
3. Microsoft applications: Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook

Activities/Interest:
1. Designer of best seller books: Conversation with God 1, 2, 3,
Staying Sane in A Crazy World, etc
2. Worker for social organization:
-HOPE Worldwide Indonesia: assisting the education of poor children
-CBN (Cahaya Bangsa Nusantara): involved in the making of advertisement
3. Worker for social events and exhibitions:
-Healthy Seminar: Food Combining Seminar
-Passion of Arts
4. Won 2nd place in an Easter drawing competition

Most people described me as:
Caring, cheerful, confident, energetic, giving, happy, friendly, religious
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