Suraj (Lakshh) Gontla

Design Manager

San Francisco, California, United States9 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

5 years of experience in graphic and visual design
Worked with notable clients like ITC and Wikipedia
Former actor in 30 films and 40 TV soaps

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Graphic Designer with expertise in branding and user experience design.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

User Experience Design (ued)Product DesignCreative DirectionBrand ManagementTeaching

Other Skills

Design ThinkingEditingCreative Problem SolvingPhotographyMentoringMagazine Layout DesignResponsive Web DesignVideographyResearchUser Interface DesignIllustratorMobile DevicesSocial MediaSoft SkillsWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

About

-- GRAPHIC & VISUAL DESIGN -- BRANDING -- TYPOGRAPHY -- UX/UI -- ILLUSTRATION -- PROBLEM SOLVER -- CONCEPT ART -- LAYOUTING ------ I’m Gontla (Lakshh) Suraj a recent graduate from Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California, USA. As a Graphic designer, actor, explorer and entertainer I have an ease to learn and experience to contribute my artistic skills for a vibrant Corporate / University or an Organization. ***HIGHLIGHTS*** *5 years of experience working in the Graphic and visual design, Branding, Typography and Illustration industries with many freelance projects for clients like ITC, Akademia Pvt Ltd, OATS and many more. *Done Internships with Wikipedia Club Pune 2013, and TEDxPune 2014. *Former actor worked in 30 films and 40 Tv soaps from Tollywood Film Industry, India. -- LET’S ART & DESIGN TOGETHER TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER --

Experience

Inizio evoke

4 roles

Senior Visual Designer

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

Evoke is a global brand, experience, and communications platform, purpose-built to make health more human™. Powered by amazing people working together in practice areas and specialty agencies, we unlock the potential of our people, our clients, and the communities we all serve.

Design ThinkingEditingCreative Problem SolvingPhotographyMentoringMagazine Layout Design+61

Visual Designer

Feb 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

Design ThinkingEditingCreative Problem SolvingPhotographyMentoringMagazine Layout Design+59

Associate Visual Designer

Jan 2020 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

With the rapidly advancing and growing design universe, I'm really fortunate to be working on multidisciplinary design projects focusing on branding and UI/UX and visual experience. Developing a color palette, to creating logo marks, to building the full design system keeping the integrity through consistency and an eye for detail. Also websites, emails, apps, interactive screens, videos, and animation. In short, designing the artwork and layouts for digital projects based on creative briefs and client meetings.

Design ThinkingEditingCreative Problem SolvingPhotographyMentoringMagazine Layout Design+59

Presentation designer/ Studio Artist

Nov 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

Healthcare rebranding presentation pitch decks, building assets, RFI forms, mechanical design setups in Indesign, animation builds, video editing and communication design using Adobe creative cloud and Keynote in a fast and deadline oriented environment, under the supervision of the Studio manager and art directors and design department.

Design ThinkingEditingCreative Problem SolvingPhotographyMentoringMagazine Layout Design+56

Cocentra medical center

Freelance Graphic Designer

Oct 2018 – Oct 2018 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Redesigned and reformatted the Curriculum Vitae with a concept art using infographics, graphic elements and iconography of Joyce Overbeck, Director of Sales, Northern California.

Design ThinkingCreative Problem SolvingUser Experience Design (UED)ResearchUser Interface DesignIllustrator+35

Jai ho indian grocery

Freelance Brand and Graphic Designer

Jul 2018 – Oct 2018 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Developing strategies, concepts and artwork, creating graphic design solutions from concept through to completion.
Responsible for developing and creating both digital and print design for a wide range of aisle separations and for the new brand design of the store extension. Currently working on their Corporate Brand Identities.

Design ThinkingCreative Problem SolvingMentoringResearchIllustratorCreative Direction+30

Academy of art university

Graphic Designer and Academy Orientation Leader

Jul 2016 – Jun 2017 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Academy Resource Center - Designed various deliverables like Name Cards/Tags and Posters for their freshmen jump start oreitnation program by playing a multitsking role as a Graphic designer and Academy orientation leader.

Design ThinkingEditingCreative Problem SolvingMentoringResearchIllustrator+42

Open air training solutions pvt. ltd.

Brand and Graphic designer

Feb 2015 – Mar 2015 · 1 mo · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

OATS, A Soft Skills, and Self Development Corporate Training Company were looking for a new logo design for their sister company and I designed it for them. It was quite challenging to study their corporate summary but the final output came out really good. Indeed I was a brand designer for them.

Design ThinkingCreative Problem SolvingMentoringResearchIllustratorCreative Direction+33

Tedxpune

Graphic Designer and Event Organizer

Jun 2014 – May 2015 · 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

The aim of this internship position was to produce several design deliverables like logos, event campaigns, posters, standee designs, backdrops, for the local communities to motivate people to translate the videos into local native languages thereby spreading the achievements via TEDx Pune open dubbing project.

Design ThinkingCreative Problem SolvingMentoringMagazine Layout DesignResponsive Web DesignResearch+38

Wikipedia club pune

Graphic Designer and Event Organizer

Jun 2013 – May 2014 · 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

I designed various deliverables like posters, route maps, backdrops, flyers and many more for the monthly events to spread the awareness of editing and providing the authentic content on the world popular encyclopedia.

Design ThinkingCreative Problem SolvingMentoringResponsive Web DesignResearchIllustrator+38

Hazi gulam mohammed azam college of education

Graphic Design Instructor

Jan 2013 – May 2013 · 4 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

The role is a graphic design instructor. The skills that B.ed Students wanted to complete their art major units in order to graduate. I tried teaching them the proper understanding of a problem solver responsibilities, Brains storming process, mood boards, style guides, Color theory, using Adobe tools like illustrator for vector art and flash for basic animation. In this process as an instructor, I learned many new design rules and I got to experiment with many deliverables like course completion certificate design and appreciation letter designs, Visual systems. Indeed it was an exciting time being a graphic designer.

Design ThinkingCreative Problem SolvingMentoringResponsive Web DesignResearchIllustrator+38

Visual element design academy ( veda)

Trainee Graphic and Web Designer

Jan 2012 – Mar 2012 · 2 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

As a trainee graphic and web associate, I got to learn and explore many design principles, design web icons, hierarchy control, Placement and typography skills for this educational institute and studio.