Design Portfolio of Aparna Sikkil

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	Experience
	“Learn Windows 8” - Instructional app design July 2012 – Dec 2012 Worked with a team of engineers to conceptualize the end-to-end user experience Designed UI layouts, flows, logo and marketing material App has been downloaded over 300K times App has been pre-installed in educational institutions and featured in tech blogs Indus Creations – Marketing / Media design April 2012 – July 2012 Worked as designer for a non-profit theater group Designed the poster, teaser and the ticket Produced the promotional teaser video and did event photography Quest – Website design Feb 2012 – Aug 2012 Worked with a team of developers on a website for a location-based social app Designed the UI layouts and graphics for the website Applied Metro UX design principles to the website Clueless Creations – Branding/Media design June 2013 – Present Member of the Seattle-based creative group Designed the logo, posters and other promotional materials
	Skills
	Adobe Photoshop HTML5 Adobe Illustrator CSS3 Adobe InDesign Javascript Adobe Dreamweaver jQuery
	Other Experience
	Executive Copy Editor, SPi Global, India Aug 2009 – Dec 2010 Responsible for copyediting international journals, books and magazines Television News Reporter, New Delhi Television (NDTV), India June 2008 – May 2009 Worked as News Reporter and Anchor for English news channel Roles – Identify news, research stories, write scripts and conduct interviews Worked closely with news production teams to drive the end-to-end newscast Television Reporter (Intern), CNN (Indian Bureau News), India Summer 2007 Assisted Senior Journalists on-field with production and news reporting Conducted relevant public opinion interviews for news stories Worked with production teams on different aspects of the news broadcast Reporter (Intern), The New Indian Express Summer 2004 Worked with Reporters on collecting news stories and conducting interviews for National Daily Published Consumer Market stories and got by-lines for the same Worked on copywriting and editing Classified ads section for the newspaper Audio Production (Intern), Seventh Channel, India Fall 2006 Assisted the audio production team on sound mixing, recording and editing Reporter (Freelance), Chennaionline.com 2005-2007 Reported on cultural events and city happenings Voiceover Artist (Freelance), Kaapionus Entertainment, India 2007-2009 Gave voice for Advertisements in Radio spots
	Education
	Web Design Certificate Program Bellevue College Aug 2012 – July 2014 Graphic Design Certificate Program Bellevue College Aug 2012 - Dec 2013 Sales and Marketing Management Certificate Loyola Institute of Business Administration, India Jan 2011 - March 2011 Masters in Broadcast Communication University of Madras, India Major: Television Production June 2006 - April 2008 Bachelors in Journalism University of Madras, India Major: Print Media and Design June 2003- April 2006
	Achievements
	Winner, Lateral Thinking Conference, India Recognition Award – Script Writing Awards – Best Music Video and Best Broadsheet (Academic) Sangeetha Bhaskara Title, Singing, Classical Indian Music

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