Here is my professional
Curriculum Vitae
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Professional experience
Apart from numerous freelance design projects done for various individual clients in the last 20 years, here are some of the major companies and clients that I worked with (or I’m still working with) along with my movie and TV work:
2005 — present
Swan Multimedia Ltd.
Freelance Creative Director and Graphic Design Consultant
Responsibilities:
As a freelance Creative Director and Graphic Design Consultant my responsibilities include creating the design and the visual representation of their Health & Safety courses, producing printed and online versions of the courses, and keeping their online Content Management Systems up to date.
2011 — present
StangaOne1
Freelance Graphic Designer & DTP Localiser, DTP Team Leader and QA
Responsibilities:
April 2011 — August 2013: In-house team leader of the DTP localisation team.
August 2013 — present: freelance DTP localiser and leader of StangaOne1’s DTP team.
A localisation DTP artworker works with translated documents to make their appearance as close as possible to the original document. The major client I work with via StangaOne1 is Sajan — a translation company with branches in USA, Ireland, Spain and Singapore. Apart from DTP artworking my responsibilities are: graphic design of websites; FB apps; email newsletter; QA of different mobile apps, video editing and subtitling.
2003 — present
Damyan Yakov publisher
Freelance Graphic Designer — Book: cover and body design.
Responsibilities:
March 2003 — October 2005: In-house graphic designer.
October 2005 — present: Freelance graphic designer.
I’ve designed more than one hundred books and book covers for this publisher alone.
2011
Crash Time — short Sci Fi movie (language English)
Screenwriter, Producer, Director and Cinematographer, Editor
2010
LightCraft — short animated machinima movie (language English)
Screenwriter, Producer, Director and Cinematographer, Editor
2009 — 2011
Essence Marketing Ltd.
Creative Director
Responsibilities:
Essence Marketing Ltd. is an advertising and marketing agency. As a creative director my responsibilities were to manage the entire projects from the clients’ briefs through to final artworks — printed or published online; to create and implement design concepts as well as to supervise a team of junior and mid-weight designers and artworkers.
2007 — 2009
Worldwide FX
2D animator and composer
Responsibilities:
After acquiring a Certificate of Proficiency with Eyeon Fusion 5.01 (2D composing software) as a 2D artist, animator and composer I was a member of a VFX post production team for several movies — The Gene Generation, Mega Snake, Hero Wanted, Leaves of Grass and Rambo (IV).
2005 — 2007
TV Zdrave
Producer & Director
Responsibilities:
Two years of producing and directing various TV shows – both live and pre-recorded.
2005
The Magic Sarcho — documentary (language Bulgarian).
Scriptwriter, Executive Producer, Director and Director of Edits.
The film was aired by Bulgarian National Television on 10.o1.2006
1999 — 2002
Borsa Imoti — Real Estate weekly magazine
Graphic Designer and Artworker
Responsibilities:
Graphic design and DTP of a magazine related to the Real Estate market.
1997 — 1998
Lucky Time
Graphic Designer and Artworker
Responsibilities:
Lucky Time was a creative studio and an advertising agency. I was responsible for the graphic design and artwork of various products — BCs, logos and corporate identity materials as well as press adverts, diplomas and certificates, stamps and office materials.
1993 — 1996
Bondo
Graphic Designer and Artworker
Responsibilities:
Bondo was a creative studio specialized in magazines and newspapers design as well as brochures, leaflets and printed adverts.
Software proficiency:
DTP & Design:
Adobe CS packages (currently working on CS6) — both for MAC and PC:
Adobe InDesign (and its predecessor PageMaker)- excellent
Adobe Photoshop — excellent
Adobe Illustrator — excellent
Adobe Flash — excellent
Action Script 2.0 & 3.0 — good
Adobe Dreamweaver — good
Adobe FrameMaker — excellent
QuarkXpress (Mac and PC) — excellent
CorelDraw — excellent
Video and audio editing and VFX composing software:
Adobe:
Premiere Pro — excellent
After Effects — very good
Audition — excellent
Sony:
Vegas — excellent
Sound Forge — excellent
DVD Architect — excellent
Eyeon Fusion — excellent
Final Cut Pro (MAC) — very good
Motion (MAC) — good
Imagineer Mocha and Mokey — good
Nuke — good
MS Office:
Word- excellent
PowerPoint — excellent
Excel — very good
Platforms
PC — excellent (software and hardware management and maintenance)
MAC — very good — (software management and maintenance)
Languages:
English — very fluent
French — fluent
Russian- very fluent
Bulgarian — native
Driving licence — yes