1. Profile
Name: Ananya Bhandarkar
Email: graphic.ananya1979@gmail.com
Contact No: (M)(+971) 508720741
Address: Al Nahda Area 1, ‘The Dubai Star’
Profile in Brief
Seeking to be Art Director/ Creative Designer/ E-Learning Consultant/ Senior Graphic Designer in IT/ GUI
Designer
Applying Design and User Experience since 11+ years to give businesses the edge
• Received appreciation and team awards for successful project execution & delivery throughout the career
• Working as a Freelancer (GUI Designer, Print media, Web Designer, Graphic Designer) for IT and e-learning
companies
• Visualize Interfaces and User Interaction through User Centered Design perspective
• Translate business requirements into compelling, usable products for the digital medium
• Manage groups of creative and technical people, and cross-functional teams
Career Highlights
• Received a Special Appreciation Award from Siemens for successful execution of one of the biggest project
• Received Kudos Award Geometric for excellent contribution and attaining deadline for one of the biggest project
of Siemens
• Received ‘Kudos’ (Internal award) for successful restructuring of an internal portal and ensuring timely delivery
(Geometric)
• Recipient of the Star of the Month Award (Hurix Systems)
• Received an award for a project for attaining 100% CSI (Customer Satisfaction Index) (Aptara)
• Worked on various eLearning projects for well known corporate companies
• Part of ‘ASE’ Events team as a Knowledge Worker for Capgemini (Freelancer for company events)
• Expertise in project documentation right from RFPs, project estimates, design guidelines till implementation
• Worked on prestigious projects like Deloitte, Lubrizol, Microsoft, Siemens, Morgan Stanley, CIGNA, Avaya,
Intellex, SAP, Merillyinch, Ricondo, Edpool etc.
Work Experience
Company Role & Tasks Duration

2. Raine&Horne Dubai
(Australia based Real
Estate Company)
• Graphic Designer – Designing marketing
material like press advertisements, flyers,
brochures, emailers, corporate stationery,
hoardings, muphis, unipoles, web-banners
etc.
• Marketing Executive – Co-ordination with
the printers, other marketing companies,
with Managers, Media Planning
10 months –till date
IHIS (Integrated Health
Information Systems)
Singapore
1. Designing Interface for Applications
2. Creation of HTML in CSS
3. Integration of html, css into SharePoint
(Basic level)
On contract basis for 1 month –
April 2013
Siemens Industry PLM
Software (India) Pune
• Senior Graphic User Interface Designer
(Graphic User Interface Designer for one
of the prestigious client)
• Reported to the Managers / Delivery Head
and created static application screens
(using Photoshop) for developing
storyboards
• Interfaced with Managers to understand
application requirements of various
projects and deliver requisite outputs
17th
May 2011– 30th
June 2012

3. Freelance Assignments
Worked as a freelancer on the following projetcs:
• MiSUMi online catalogue – Japanese
Company
• The Spa – Printed Brochure for a hotel in
Guwahati Assam
• Get A Cab – Online software for taxi
drivers – Worked for a client in the US
• Energy Future – E-learning project for
company Upside Learning (India) –
creation of screens for the entire project
• L’Oreal – E-learning project for company
Upside Learning (India) – creation of
screens for the entire project
• Plain sail website – Revamping of the
website for one of the Indian client
• OTCPwerUp portal – Creation of design
and converting into HTML
Geometric Ltd. , Pune
• Worked as a Senior Graphic Designer for
the Corporate Marketing &
Communications Team and reported to
the VP (Corporate Marketing &
Communications)
• Creating mailers, web banners and
diagrams
• Handled In-house print designing of
posters, banners, newsletters and
brochures
08th
Dec 2008 – 30th
Sept 2009
Hurix Systems Pvt. Ltd.,
Mumbai (e-Learning
Company)
Worked as Lead Visual Designer
• Led the Graphic team of 5-10 personnel
27th
April 2007 – 03rd
March 2008

4. and reported to the Project Manager
• Created design for e-learning courses and
later gave graphic inputs
• Coordinated with clients & understood
requirements and collated & conveyed
graphic inputs to the team
• Set timelines for the projects and ensured
quality assurance from graphic and
technical point of view
• Gathered clients’ feedback, designed
interface and made requisite changes
• Effectively handled few projects in the
absence of the Project Manager and
received appreciations
EQ – Technologic, Pune
(Software Company)
Worked as Graphic User Interface Designer
• Worked as a GUI Designer and created
interface, icons
• Print media like brochures, CD covers &
posters
• Worked on online magazines
18th
May 2004 – Oct 2005
Aptara (Formerly Maximize
Learning), Pune (e-Learning
Company)
Senior Graphic Designer / Graphic Designer
• Joined as Graphic Designer, rose to be
Senior Graphic Designer, led a team of 5-
10 personnel and reported to the Art
Design Manager / VP Design Head /
Delivery Head
• Involved in e-learning (creation of screens
in flash) and web designing (Interface
designing for websites & converting into
HTML through Dreamweaver)
15th
May 2000 – 15th
May 2005
(Rejoined as Sr. Graphic
Designer) Duration: 28th
Nov 2005
– 26th
Apr 2007

5. • Responsible for understanding clients’
requirements and creating RFPs
• Developed design guidelines documents
• Attended trainings and imparted training to
the team members
• Gained exposure in several softwares
• Received sevaral appreciations for
understanding client requirements,
delivering quality work
• Facilitated in acquiring new projects and
retaining existing projects in the company
Expertise
• Communication Skills
• Team work
• Html Skills
• Client coordination
• Event Management
• Project Management
• Graphic User Interface
• Web Interface
• Analyzing and Training
• Print Designing
• Worked on various e-learning projects for well known corporate companies
• Underwent several in-house trainings on improving design standards, team work, process optimization
Software Skills
• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Macromedia Flash
• Macromedia Fireworks
• Corel Draw
• Adobe Acrobat
• WordPress
• Sound Forge
• SharePoint
• InDesign
•

6. Academic Qualification
Course Name Year Institution
Graduate in GD Arts (Commercial
Arts)
1995 - 2000 Abhinava Kala Mahavidyalaya - Pune
Diploma in Photography 1999 - 2000 Fergusson College - Pune
DAPR (Diploma in Advertising and
Public Relations)
2001 - 2003 Symbiosis College of Business Management – Pune
Masters in Painting (M.A.) 2003 - 2005 SNDT College - Pune
Personal Details
• Gender – Female
• Date of Birth – 17th
June 1979
• Marital Status – Married
• Religion - Hindu
• Nationality - Indian
• Languages known – English, Hindi and Marathi
• Liking in travelling, paintings, handicraft, dance and music
*Note: References and project details will be furnished on request

7. Academic Qualification
Course Name Year Institution
Graduate in GD Arts (Commercial
Arts)
1995 - 2000 Abhinava Kala Mahavidyalaya - Pune
Diploma in Photography 1999 - 2000 Fergusson College - Pune
DAPR (Diploma in Advertising and
Public Relations)
2001 - 2003 Symbiosis College of Business Management – Pune
Masters in Painting (M.A.) 2003 - 2005 SNDT College - Pune
Personal Details
• Gender – Female
• Date of Birth – 17th
June 1979
• Marital Status – Married
• Religion - Hindu
• Nationality - Indian
• Languages known – English, Hindi and Marathi
• Liking in travelling, paintings, handicraft, dance and music
*Note: References and project details will be furnished on request