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Name: James Zamin Shah Born: Sydney - Northern Beaches & Western Suburbs Background: 5th Generation Australia Email: jzshah-at-thecurve.com.au [ replacing 'at' with the symbol ] Resume: jzshah-res07.pdf HIGHLIGHTS: Studied Fine Arts at Liverpool Tafe in the early '80s - Freelance Artist creating a range of T-Shirt designs - Artist / Screenprinter in the late 80's with Brian Rochford's Swimwear setting up a print shop within his fashion house / factory From there I joined Walt Disneys TV Animation studio in Sydney - During this time I studied Architectural Drafting, and moonlighted alittle - after Disneys, I studied a Desktop Publishing moving onto an Advance Diploma of Graphic Design.


\| Design Industry Experience \| 2008 \| 2007 \| 2006 \| 2005 \| 2004 \| 2003 \| Software Applications \| Pre-Industry \| Education \| Personal \|

	2008 - Freelance Designer / Sub-Contractor DoctorGas \| Website Redesign and Implementation via CMS Western Filters \| Website Design & Build - Create new online presence showcasing company projects. Elsmore Constructions \| Website Design & Build - Create new online presence showcasing company projects. Wiceedo - Carbonculcha \| Logo Design 318 Advertising Agency - Web Design & Build / illustrator - Design online magazine & email, illustrator safety sheets Aboriginal Counselling Services - Website Design & Build plus finished art Remma - Website Design - develop a concept for possible launch ROSS Tuffbond \| 4 page Catalogue & Package Labelling \| Website - Develop a product logo along with a catalogue presenting their latest products. Boley Holdings - Branding & Regent St Website Cornerstone Design \| Web Design - Create or work with existing styles, editing sites. NetMastery \| Web & Interface Design & Build - Create or work with existing styles, editing sites.

	2007 - Inhouse Senior Designer with Cornerstone / Freelance Designer / Sub-Contractor Cornerstone Design \| Web Design - Create or work with existing styles, editing sites. Cyrius Media Group \| Web & Print Design - Create or work with existing styles, editing sites. NetMastery \| Web & Interface Design & Build - Create or work with existing styles, editing sites. ACH.Clifford \| Website Design& Build - Redesign existing site Wiceedo \| Website Design, stationery and Branding i-Net / Internet Solutions \| Web Designer - subcontract Western Front 2007 \| Website Design & Build - Adapt existing style for web, online gallery with venue information ROSS Tuffbond \| 4 page Catalogue & Package Labelling \| Website - Develop a product logo along with a catalogue presenting their latest products. Embellish Creative \| Web Designer - Create or work with existing styles, editing sites. Forbiz Technologies \| Designer [branding] - Create or work with existing styles, editing sites. AT2 Creative \| Designer - Create or work with existing styles, branding.

	2006 - Freelance Designer / Sub-Contractor NetMastery \| Web & Interface Design - Create and work with existing styles, editing sites. Cyrius Media Group \| Web & Interface Design & CD Presentations - Create and work with existing styles, editing sites. Suyama \| Web Interface Template Design Create a template for eBay sales Zodiac Poolcare \| Promotional Websites - Create 2 sites following promotional/advertising styleguides. Atomic Performance \| Brochures & Branding - Design styleguide and create 2x 4page brochures for the auto industry. Redwell Audio Booksl \| Website and flyer - Design styleguide and adapt to php templates / follow up with flyer. Zodiac Poolcare \| CD/DVD Flash Presentation - Develop '5 Step' presentation, transitions, links to multimedia & other files. Zodiac Poolcare \| Brochure Range Conceive and implement a brochure template. Sportsology \| Logo, Stationery, Flyer & Website - Create logo, apply to stationery - design and build website. Trafalgar First Aid Supplies \| Packaging Redesign - Conceive and develop artwork for existing packaging. ROSS Tuffbond \| 4 pageBooklet / Package Labelling - Develop a logo and catalogue presenting their latest products. HEVAL Music \| CD Artwork - Conceive & develop artwork/layouts for their album. Continue to develop their website. CAAMA Music \| CD Artwork - Conceive and develop artwork and layouts for CAAMA's latest artists and albums.

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	2005 - Inhouse Senior Designer with Zodiac / Freelance Designer / Sub-Contractor Zodiac Group Australia \| Web & Print Design - Offering inhouse support during a promotion - generating posters, ads, promotional material using existing style guidelines. Develop other a new range of marketing material including generic ads for the Local Area Marketing [LAM] strategy website. Project manage new LAMP website design / collaborate with developer. Oversee build & uploading of new material. Converse with sales and marketing teams, distributers, aswell as printers, newspapers and other advertising publishers. UWS \| WebCT Page Templates- Developlayouts and page templates for staff and students for instructional purposes. CAAMA Music \| Print designer - Develop artwork and layouts for 3x CAAMA's latest artists and albums. Blacktown Artists Network[BAN] \| Website Project Manager / Designer & html/css templates. Work with developer Relocateme.com.au \| Website Project Manager & Designer & html/css templates. Work with developer. Future School E-Learning - Flash Designer / Illustrator [vector & traditional] - Flash layouts within training modules. HEVAL Music \| Flash Website Designer / Animator - Create a Flash website including mp3's and movies. Jacks's Body Maintenance \| Flash / Html / Css Designer / Animator - Create a website of mixed components. FLD Fairlight Design \| Flash & Html / Css site builder - Create/work with existing styles, editing sites. HedgeFundPatrol \| Designer / Web & Print - Develop & maintain website, produce all print material. Cd-rom presentation Future School E-Learning - Flash Designer / Illustrator [vector & traditional] - 12x30second Flash animations

	2004 - Inhouse Designer with Trafalgar / Lesd Designer with HFP /Freelance Designer Future School E-Learning - Flash Designer / Illustrator [vector & traditional] - create 10x30second Flash animations ROSS Tuffbond \| Designer / Web & Print - Invigorate logo & branding, redo website and all marketing material. HedgeFundPatrol \| Website Project Manager / Designer- Employed by Hedge Fund Patrol as a Graphics & Web Designer, my position included creating a branding identity, web site and all other required graphics, including graphs, advertisements and other documentation such as a 12 page Memorandum and CD Rom prototype. Essentially corporate, the position allowed me to continue to develop both as a Print & Web Designer. A varied position, I produced web test for Developer/Programmer who we were seeking to convert the protoytype Html site into a dynamic server based website. All applicants were given the opportunity to complete the test which was to ensure our future Developer could achieve and maintain the integrity of the HFP website I had already created. Accidental \| Trafalgar First Aid Supplies - Print Designer - The brief, to create a modern / fresh / user friendly booklet which has the customer in mind. Using colour and sections as visual aids, I conceived and designed the 36 page, colour document. I also redesigned safety signs, labelling aswell as investigating possible packaging solutions. There were many opportunities at Accidental although no room for utilisation or skill development outside of print work. This lead me to seeking additional freelance webwork where I was then able to continue to develop my web skills and eventually I was able to resign in order to work on a regular basis on both web and print projects.

	2003 - Inhouse Designer with Ainsworth & later Trafalgar / Freelance Designer ROSS Tuffbond \| Designer / Web & Print - Invigorate his logo & branding, redo website and all marketing material. Ainsworth Gaming Technology \| Inhouse Branding Designer - Responsibilities covering all facets of Corporate I.d and advertising, my post was within the Marketing Department. Within the first 2 days I had to come up with a cover design for the industry magazine, Hotelier Australia. DL cards, 4 page booklets, exhibition bags among other projects, I worked closely with the printing team at Corelian in Sydney's inner suburbs to obtain the desired results. As a first job it was great and when another Freelance designer came on board, I was required to set style guidelines in order to maintain consistency. Toni Janke \| Web Designer [html/css] - Create a website promoting her latest album - include mp3.s. Use exisitng images ROSS Tuffbond \| Web Designer [html/css] Website and all marketing material. Galyan Property Developers \| Flash Website Designer / CD-Rom Looped Animation - Create a Flash site to present their latest project and to highlight all aspects of the company's activities.

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	SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS Adobe: Illustrator, Photoshop, Imageready, Indesign, Acrobat, After Fx, Atm, etc. Limited experience only: - streamline, premier, Macromedia: Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Limited experience only: Director, Contribute, Extreme 3d Other: Quark, MS Programs, Quicktime, Sorenson Squeeze, Sound Forge, FTP Operating Systems: Mac & PC PRE-DESIGN EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 1999 : Olympic Park Hotel Construction - 6mths working as a trades assistant at various locations. 1991-1999 : Walt Disneys TV Animation - The experience of working for Disneys allowed me to meet some great people. It also allowed me to improve my drawing technique and illustrative skills, along with teaching me the 'do's & do nots' of good animation. Working on cartoon TV series and 'straight to video' movies including; The Lion King II, The Goofy & Another Goofy Movies, Goofy TV series, Bonkas, Duck Daze, Mouse Works, Darkwing Duck, Alladin - Return of Jafar & King of Thieves, Hercules TV series, Enchanted Xmas - Beauty & The Beast, Gargoyles, along with others. I worked with some great animators and made some good friends. 1988-1990 : Gellen Printing / Brian Rochford Swimwear - Fashion/Textile/ Screenprinting Industry - I had started screenprinting and selling some of my designs out of a community art centre at Brookvale in the mid '80s, after achieving some success, I decided to seek a fulltime position. Footing it around Sydney's inner suburbs, I landed a start at Arcade Printing which was part of the Albion Hat Company in Chippendale - offering my services as an artist/designer keen to learn all facets of screen printing. Building on from existing experience, I excelled in the trade and was offered a position with Brian Rochford swimwear company to setup and run a Screenprinting Department within their existing building. Co-ordinating the electrician, carpenter and others, I setup the workspace to function aswell as could be expected within the confines of the alotted space. After a couple of months, we were up and running. 1985-1988 : Artist / Screenprinter - Freelance

	EDUCATION :: Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design :: - Apple Macintosh 1999-2002 Started in 1999, had some Freelance work with Disneys, deferred until 2000. Learning Adobe & Macromedia products along with others. 13 Distinctions / 11 Credits. :: Desktop Publishing :: - PC Pagemaker 1998 - After leaving Disneys, I started a part-time course in DTP which lasted 18wks as an intro to Graphic Design. :: Architectural Drafting :: 1994 & 96 - While working for Disney's either in a Freelance or Inhouse capacity, I studied Arch. Drafting part-time for ywo years with the aim of changing from the Animation to Building industries. I worked for a few clients, carried out home additions and built a couple of pergolas. :: Environmental Management :: 1990-92 - Through OTEN, I studied Environmental Management achieving an A Grade pass. :: Fine Arts :: 1981 & 84 -Studied for the Diploma of Fine Arts at Liverpool Tafe in the '80's. Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography[B/W], Colour & Design, Art History.

	PERSONAL Aim & Goals: To utilise and develop existing skills. - Learn more about programming languages. - Spend more time in multimedia programs such as After FX, Director and 3d apps. - Achieve great results everytime. Interests: Art, music [listening / playing], knowledge, beach, bikes, birds, kids, books, comics, buildings, photography, bridges, films, computers, trees, sci-fi, biographies, geography, documentaries, reality / fantasy, cartoons, footpaths with PMG stamped into them and old cars which look cool but stink. Fav People: Family & friends, Salvador Dali, Dalai Lama, John Lennon, Robert Plant, Michael Franti, Michael Hutchence, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Gough Whitlam, Brett Whiteley, Leonardo Da Vinci, Bruce Lee, Tim Burton, Kahlil Gilbran, Rupert Murdoch, Pink Floyd. I enjoy meeting people and experiencing other cultures from around the globe.
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\| Design Industry Experience \| 2008 \| 2007 \| 2006 \| 2005 \| 2004 \| 2003 \| Software Applications \| Pre-Industry \| Education \| Personal \|

	2008 - Freelance Designer / Sub-Contractor DoctorGas \| Website Redesign and Implementation via CMS Western Filters \| Website Design & Build - Create new online presence showcasing company projects. Elsmore Constructions \| Website Design & Build - Create new online presence showcasing company projects. Wiceedo - Carbonculcha \| Logo Design 318 Advertising Agency - Web Design & Build / illustrator - Design online magazine & email, illustrator safety sheets Aboriginal Counselling Services - Website Design & Build plus finished art Remma - Website Design - develop a concept for possible launch ROSS Tuffbond \| 4 page Catalogue & Package Labelling \| Website - Develop a product logo along with a catalogue presenting their latest products. Boley Holdings - Branding & Regent St Website Cornerstone Design \| Web Design - Create or work with existing styles, editing sites. NetMastery \| Web & Interface Design & Build - Create or work with existing styles, editing sites.

	2007 - Inhouse Senior Designer with Cornerstone / Freelance Designer / Sub-Contractor Cornerstone Design \| Web Design - Create or work with existing styles, editing sites. Cyrius Media Group \| Web & Print Design - Create or work with existing styles, editing sites. NetMastery \| Web & Interface Design & Build - Create or work with existing styles, editing sites. ACH.Clifford \| Website Design& Build - Redesign existing site Wiceedo \| Website Design, stationery and Branding i-Net / Internet Solutions \| Web Designer - subcontract Western Front 2007 \| Website Design & Build - Adapt existing style for web, online gallery with venue information ROSS Tuffbond \| 4 page Catalogue & Package Labelling \| Website - Develop a product logo along with a catalogue presenting their latest products. Embellish Creative \| Web Designer - Create or work with existing styles, editing sites. Forbiz Technologies \| Designer [branding] - Create or work with existing styles, editing sites. AT2 Creative \| Designer - Create or work with existing styles, branding.

	2006 - Freelance Designer / Sub-Contractor NetMastery \| Web & Interface Design - Create and work with existing styles, editing sites. Cyrius Media Group \| Web & Interface Design & CD Presentations - Create and work with existing styles, editing sites. Suyama \| Web Interface Template Design Create a template for eBay sales Zodiac Poolcare \| Promotional Websites - Create 2 sites following promotional/advertising styleguides. Atomic Performance \| Brochures & Branding - Design styleguide and create 2x 4page brochures for the auto industry. Redwell Audio Booksl \| Website and flyer - Design styleguide and adapt to php templates / follow up with flyer. Zodiac Poolcare \| CD/DVD Flash Presentation - Develop '5 Step' presentation, transitions, links to multimedia & other files. Zodiac Poolcare \| Brochure Range Conceive and implement a brochure template. Sportsology \| Logo, Stationery, Flyer & Website - Create logo, apply to stationery - design and build website. Trafalgar First Aid Supplies \| Packaging Redesign - Conceive and develop artwork for existing packaging. ROSS Tuffbond \| 4 pageBooklet / Package Labelling - Develop a logo and catalogue presenting their latest products. HEVAL Music \| CD Artwork - Conceive & develop artwork/layouts for their album. Continue to develop their website. CAAMA Music \| CD Artwork - Conceive and develop artwork and layouts for CAAMA's latest artists and albums.

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	2005 - Inhouse Senior Designer with Zodiac / Freelance Designer / Sub-Contractor Zodiac Group Australia \| Web & Print Design - Offering inhouse support during a promotion - generating posters, ads, promotional material using existing style guidelines. Develop other a new range of marketing material including generic ads for the Local Area Marketing [LAM] strategy website. Project manage new LAMP website design / collaborate with developer. Oversee build & uploading of new material. Converse with sales and marketing teams, distributers, aswell as printers, newspapers and other advertising publishers. UWS \| WebCT Page Templates- Developlayouts and page templates for staff and students for instructional purposes. CAAMA Music \| Print designer - Develop artwork and layouts for 3x CAAMA's latest artists and albums. Blacktown Artists Network[BAN] \| Website Project Manager / Designer & html/css templates. Work with developer Relocateme.com.au \| Website Project Manager & Designer & html/css templates. Work with developer. Future School E-Learning - Flash Designer / Illustrator [vector & traditional] - Flash layouts within training modules. HEVAL Music \| Flash Website Designer / Animator - Create a Flash website including mp3's and movies. Jacks's Body Maintenance \| Flash / Html / Css Designer / Animator - Create a website of mixed components. FLD Fairlight Design \| Flash & Html / Css site builder - Create/work with existing styles, editing sites. HedgeFundPatrol \| Designer / Web & Print - Develop & maintain website, produce all print material. Cd-rom presentation Future School E-Learning - Flash Designer / Illustrator [vector & traditional] - 12x30second Flash animations

	2004 - Inhouse Designer with Trafalgar / Lesd Designer with HFP /Freelance Designer Future School E-Learning - Flash Designer / Illustrator [vector & traditional] - create 10x30second Flash animations ROSS Tuffbond \| Designer / Web & Print - Invigorate logo & branding, redo website and all marketing material. HedgeFundPatrol \| Website Project Manager / Designer- Employed by Hedge Fund Patrol as a Graphics & Web Designer, my position included creating a branding identity, web site and all other required graphics, including graphs, advertisements and other documentation such as a 12 page Memorandum and CD Rom prototype. Essentially corporate, the position allowed me to continue to develop both as a Print & Web Designer. A varied position, I produced web test for Developer/Programmer who we were seeking to convert the protoytype Html site into a dynamic server based website. All applicants were given the opportunity to complete the test which was to ensure our future Developer could achieve and maintain the integrity of the HFP website I had already created. Accidental \| Trafalgar First Aid Supplies - Print Designer - The brief, to create a modern / fresh / user friendly booklet which has the customer in mind. Using colour and sections as visual aids, I conceived and designed the 36 page, colour document. I also redesigned safety signs, labelling aswell as investigating possible packaging solutions. There were many opportunities at Accidental although no room for utilisation or skill development outside of print work. This lead me to seeking additional freelance webwork where I was then able to continue to develop my web skills and eventually I was able to resign in order to work on a regular basis on both web and print projects.

	2003 - Inhouse Designer with Ainsworth & later Trafalgar / Freelance Designer ROSS Tuffbond \| Designer / Web & Print - Invigorate his logo & branding, redo website and all marketing material. Ainsworth Gaming Technology \| Inhouse Branding Designer - Responsibilities covering all facets of Corporate I.d and advertising, my post was within the Marketing Department. Within the first 2 days I had to come up with a cover design for the industry magazine, Hotelier Australia. DL cards, 4 page booklets, exhibition bags among other projects, I worked closely with the printing team at Corelian in Sydney's inner suburbs to obtain the desired results. As a first job it was great and when another Freelance designer came on board, I was required to set style guidelines in order to maintain consistency. Toni Janke \| Web Designer [html/css] - Create a website promoting her latest album - include mp3.s. Use exisitng images ROSS Tuffbond \| Web Designer [html/css] Website and all marketing material. Galyan Property Developers \| Flash Website Designer / CD-Rom Looped Animation - Create a Flash site to present their latest project and to highlight all aspects of the company's activities.

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	SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS Adobe: Illustrator, Photoshop, Imageready, Indesign, Acrobat, After Fx, Atm, etc. Limited experience only: - streamline, premier, Macromedia: Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Limited experience only: Director, Contribute, Extreme 3d Other: Quark, MS Programs, Quicktime, Sorenson Squeeze, Sound Forge, FTP Operating Systems: Mac & PC PRE-DESIGN EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 1999 : Olympic Park Hotel Construction - 6mths working as a trades assistant at various locations. 1991-1999 : Walt Disneys TV Animation - The experience of working for Disneys allowed me to meet some great people. It also allowed me to improve my drawing technique and illustrative skills, along with teaching me the 'do's & do nots' of good animation. Working on cartoon TV series and 'straight to video' movies including; The Lion King II, The Goofy & Another Goofy Movies, Goofy TV series, Bonkas, Duck Daze, Mouse Works, Darkwing Duck, Alladin - Return of Jafar & King of Thieves, Hercules TV series, Enchanted Xmas - Beauty & The Beast, Gargoyles, along with others. I worked with some great animators and made some good friends. 1988-1990 : Gellen Printing / Brian Rochford Swimwear - Fashion/Textile/ Screenprinting Industry - I had started screenprinting and selling some of my designs out of a community art centre at Brookvale in the mid '80s, after achieving some success, I decided to seek a fulltime position. Footing it around Sydney's inner suburbs, I landed a start at Arcade Printing which was part of the Albion Hat Company in Chippendale - offering my services as an artist/designer keen to learn all facets of screen printing. Building on from existing experience, I excelled in the trade and was offered a position with Brian Rochford swimwear company to setup and run a Screenprinting Department within their existing building. Co-ordinating the electrician, carpenter and others, I setup the workspace to function aswell as could be expected within the confines of the alotted space. After a couple of months, we were up and running. 1985-1988 : Artist / Screenprinter - Freelance

	EDUCATION :: Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design :: - Apple Macintosh 1999-2002 Started in 1999, had some Freelance work with Disneys, deferred until 2000. Learning Adobe & Macromedia products along with others. 13 Distinctions / 11 Credits. :: Desktop Publishing :: - PC Pagemaker 1998 - After leaving Disneys, I started a part-time course in DTP which lasted 18wks as an intro to Graphic Design. :: Architectural Drafting :: 1994 & 96 - While working for Disney's either in a Freelance or Inhouse capacity, I studied Arch. Drafting part-time for ywo years with the aim of changing from the Animation to Building industries. I worked for a few clients, carried out home additions and built a couple of pergolas. :: Environmental Management :: 1990-92 - Through OTEN, I studied Environmental Management achieving an A Grade pass. :: Fine Arts :: 1981 & 84 -Studied for the Diploma of Fine Arts at Liverpool Tafe in the '80's. Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography[B/W], Colour & Design, Art History.

	PERSONAL Aim & Goals: To utilise and develop existing skills. - Learn more about programming languages. - Spend more time in multimedia programs such as After FX, Director and 3d apps. - Achieve great results everytime. Interests: Art, music [listening / playing], knowledge, beach, bikes, birds, kids, books, comics, buildings, photography, bridges, films, computers, trees, sci-fi, biographies, geography, documentaries, reality / fantasy, cartoons, footpaths with PMG stamped into them and old cars which look cool but stink. Fav People: Family & friends, Salvador Dali, Dalai Lama, John Lennon, Robert Plant, Michael Franti, Michael Hutchence, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Gough Whitlam, Brett Whiteley, Leonardo Da Vinci, Bruce Lee, Tim Burton, Kahlil Gilbran, Rupert Murdoch, Pink Floyd. I enjoy meeting people and experiencing other cultures from around the globe.
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