Sahan Jayawardene

Art Director at The AGENCY Asia (Pvt) Ltd
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Sri Lanka, LK
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Sinhalese Native or bilingual proficiency

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It's my pleasure to convince about the competencies and valuable characteristics of Sahan who is very skillful in photography, videography and design industry. Sahan is very enthusiastic and energetic character who able to demonstrate advanced skills with the cameras,lenses and other materials and processes of photography and videography in wonderful way . His abilities to communicate ,understand,choose the best,design the best and implement their ideas and concepts are proved by him at my projects which i highly appreciate. Sahan's eye of creativity is ideal solution to us all the time to convey the message for the audience or selected market segment. And i'm sure he will be more creative and competent than this moment adapting various environments grabbing new technologies and designs worldwide.His contribution to the modern industry is a important fact. Genius Soft wish him good luck.

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Experience

    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Art Director
      • Jan 2019 - Present

    • Assistant Art Director
      • Dec 2017 - Jan 2019

    • Lead in Creatives
      • Jan 2016 - Dec 2017

      - Attend meetings to convey design concepts and communicate constructively with other parties for execution.- Oversee and participate in the development and execution of campaigns, projects and other creative efforts to ensure they are on strategy, on budget, on schedule and high quality.- Maintaining and updating own design skills and understanding of design trends, technologies and materials.- Collaborate on clear, insightful strategic development for assigned projects and brands.- Creating real business transformation for the clients and redefine their offerings.- Present work to clients and solicit feedback. Keep clients and client team informed of progress. Build and maintain strong client relationships.- Develop a deep understanding of clients’ businesses and provide proactive thinking to build their brands.- Developing ideas through producing stories, sketches and prototyping.- Defining every detail of design in line with the design, direction and manufacturing conditions.- Deploy resources in the most efficient way possible and identify freelance and permanent recruitment needs.- Generate innovative ideas across all existing and emerging digital platforms and inspire colleagues to create world-class, pioneering ideas.- Lead and inspire our team and support their professional development.- Convey the vision and values of the company.

    • Lead Graphic Designer
      • Aug 2015 - Jan 2016

      -Vector and Raster Graphics for Advertising.-Product and Brand Advertising in Newspapers.-Social Media Marketing and Management.-Innovative and Creative Advertising Techniques.-3D Modelling and Sculpting for event related presentations and proposals.-Event Management.

    • Graphic Designer
      • Jan 2015 - Aug 2015

    • Sri Lanka
    • Entertainment
    • Head of Event Planning
      • Jan 2017 - Present

      DCI Events & Entertainment was founded under the idea of putting on the best Live Concerts the island has ever seen. Bringing down the best artists in the world to Sri Lanka and putting Sri Lanka in the Entertainment map. • Negotiating fee, terms and communicating with the talent’s agent and management prior and post their arrival to the country.• Developing strategies for events in line with the company budget.• Hiring volunteers after personally vetting them.• Overseeing and carrying out the social media campaign for the event and keeping the general public well informed.• Overseeing the key pre event aspects such as transferring booking fees, ticketing process, airport pickup, meet and greets, press conference, seating arrangements, soundcheck requirements, production requirements, talent's and tour party’s requirements up until the end of the event and their departure.• Communicating and negotiating with the sponsors about but not limited to- perks, benefits, coordination, sponsorship values.• Assisting in designing and Overseeing all the Advertising/Print/Digital/Video Material for the Concert.

    • United States
    • Design Services
    • Freelance Designer
      • Mar 2010 - Dec 2017

Education

  • Limkokwing University of Creative Technology
    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Interior Architecture
    2012 - 2015
  • National Institute of Business Management (NIBM - Sri Lanka)
    Associate's degree, Computer Science
    2011 - 2012
  • School of Media Arts & Management Sri Lanka (SMAM)
    Associate's Degree, Foundation for Information Technology
    2010 - 2011

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