Mohammed Zahid, Graphic Designer & Prepress Operator

Mohammed Zahid

Graphic Designer & Prepress Operator

Asiatic Printing Press LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Diploma, Office Automation & Graphics
Experience
15 years, 0 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 0 Months

Graphic Designer & Prepress Operator at Asiatic Printing Press LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Ajman
  • September 2013 to June 2018

• Packaging Designing & Production Artist.
• Cigarettes Box, Promotion Box, Gift Box & all Types of Commercial Designing.
• Create customized graphics and prepare images for ad materials and magazine, performing extensive color and tonal corrections and retouching using multiple artwork applications.
• Collaborated to troubleshoot jobs, with RGB, CMYK, and spot colors and matched colors to customer-supplied samples.
• Prepared files for pre-press output, including color separation, trapping, bleeds and trim.
• Agreed with manager in publishing house about looking of finished files and delivered pages and cover in PDF format, ready for printing.
• Preparing digital artwork files to Pre-press specification.
• Expanded expertise on Pre-press techniques by attending advanced training and mentioned colleagues on newest technologies and processes.
• Developed and prepared layouts from client-supplied visuals, samples and sketches, producing effective final products.
• Scanning line artwork and color correction by using flatbed scanner.

Graphic Designer & Prepress Operator at Gulf Printing & Publishing LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2010 to June 2013

• Packaging Designing & Production Artist.
• Cigarettes Box, Promotion Box, Gift Box & all Types of Commercial Designing.
• Create customized graphics and prepare images for ad materials and magazine, performing extensive color and tonal corrections and retouching using multiple artwork applications.
• Collaborated to troubleshoot jobs, with RGB, CMYK, and spot colors and matched colors to customer-supplied samples.
• Prepared files for pre-press output, including color separation, trapping, bleeds and trim.
• Agreed with manager in publishing house about looking of finished files and delivered pages and cover in PDF format, ready for printing.
• Preparing digital artwork files to Pre-press specification.
• Expanded expertise on Pre-press techniques by attending advanced training and mentioned colleagues on newest technologies and processes.
• Developed and prepared layouts from client-supplied visuals, samples and sketches, producing effective final products.
• Scanning line artwork and color correction by using flatbed scanner.

Graphic Designer at Shruti Art Pvt Ltd.
  • India - Mumbai
  • March 2010 to August 2010

• Generated both cover and internal page layouts for magazine, brochure & books.
• Create customized graphics and prepare images for ad materials and magazine, performing extensive color and tonal corrections and retouching using multiple artwork applications.
• Collaborated to troubleshoot jobs, with RGB, CMYK, and spot colors and matched colors to customer-supplied samples.
• Prepared files for pre-press output, including color separation, trapping, bleeds and trim.
• Agreed with manager in publishing house about looking of finished files and delivered pages and cover in PDF format, ready for printing.
• Preparing digital artwork files to Pre-press specification.
• Expanded expertise on Pre-press techniques by attending advanced training and mentioned colleagues on newest technologies and processes.
• Developed and prepared layouts from client-supplied visuals, samples and sketches, producing effective final products.
• Scanning line artwork and color correction by using flatbed scanner.

Graphic Designer & Prepress Operator at Preview Print Zone
  • India - Mumbai
  • January 2006 to February 2010

• Prepress Co-coordinator, Pre-press Technician, Digital Printing & Packaging Designer.
• Graphic Designing & Package Designing
• Knowledge of all Graphic Software’s
• Design & Layouts, Template building
• Image Manipulation
• Color Correction & Color Separation
• Pre-Press Department Management
• Finalizing & Ripping Digital Files for output.
• Output ( Computer to Plate & Computer to Film )

Graphic Designer at Design Advertising
  • India - Mumbai
  • March 2005 to December 2005

• Carton box/Catalogue Book/Tag labels Layout,
• Interlocking
• Image Editing, Color corrections, etc.
• New Creative Design & Page layouts
• Sending for approval through mails.
• Approval responsibility of multilingual designs for labels was an added experience of special kind.
• Excellent hand on Photoshop for digital mixing and layouting.
• Scanning and processing the jobs for quality concern.

Graphic Designer at Roto Plast
  • India - Mumbai
  • March 2004 to February 2005

• Designs for Offset, Rotary, Flexo, Thermal and hot stamp printing
• Carry Bag & PP Bag Design
• Visualizing design, making layout, making proofing and finally supervising the printing department.
• Making preparation from execution of the design to final printing
• Making files for color separation of 4 color / 2 color / single, also for Special color printing.
• Involve in briefing and held in discussing the campaign.

Designer at Century Bag Works
  • India - Mumbai
  • March 2003 to January 2004

• School Bag Design
• Cartoon Characters Drawing & Preparing files for Screen printing.
• All Types of Design for Screen Printing.

Education

Diploma, Office Automation & Graphics
  • at Canera Education
  • March 2003

Corel Draw, Photoshop & Pagemaker

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Office
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Graphic Design
Computer Hardware & Software Troubleshooting
Graphic Designing
3D Modeling
MS Office
Box Packaging

Languages

English
Intermediate
Hindi
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Office Automation & Graphics (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2002
Valid Until:
March 2003

Hobbies

  • Reading books