Owner at BittenNails Design & Illustration
Barnstable/Yarmouth, Massachusetts Area
- Current
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- Owner at BittenNails Design & Illustration
- Past
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- Art Director at Cape.Com Inc.
- Senior Designer at MMI Inc.
- Webmaster at Shalin Impex Pvt. Ltd.
- Owner at Bitten Nails Illustration Pvt. Ltd.
- Design Consultant at Business Today Magazine
- Design Consultant at The Economic Times Internet Project
- Staff Illustrator at The Economic Times
- Education
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- Academy of Art University
- Sydenham College of Commerce & Economics
- St. Pauls School, Darjeeling
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Apaarjeet Chopra’s Summary
I have 15 years of real world experience, I’ve done print and illustration since I graduated in 1993, I was first published in 1994, by the Times of India and did my first website in 1995 for The Economic Times of India, the second newspaper online out of India. I’ve done websites since the web appeared and print even longer, and I still work in both mediums having lost none of my love for either. Notable clients other than the above have included, The Smithsonian Institute, The Nobel Museum, Macworld, My Jewish Learning, Harper Collins Publishers and Business Today Magazine.
Apaarjeet Chopra’s Specialties:
Wordpress & Drupal custom themes & custom development/installs, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Web design, Graphic design, Print design, Logo's & Banners.
Fully conversant with a variety of traditional mediums as well:
Acrylics, Watercolors, Pen & Ink, Oils, Charcoal, Batik & Woodcarving.
Apaarjeet Chopra’s Experience
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Owner
BittenNails Design & Illustration
(Design industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
Current clients include:
Adlife Marketing & Communications : http://www.adlife.com
Communication Management Inc. : http://www.cmiglobal.com -
Art Director
Cape.Com Inc.
(Internet industry)
August 2003 — April 2009 (5 years 9 months)
Responsible for all front end design, html/css markup, cms themeing, project management, corporate identity, logo’s and interactive marketing for cape.com client websites. Continued maintenance of over a hundred & fifty hosted client sites. Additionally responsible for Capecom’s internal web requirements, web application user interface development, and voip application user interfaces, as well as all marketing, print and multimedia advertising.
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Senior Designer
MMI Inc.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
September 1999 — November 2002 (3 years 3 months)
Responsible for all front end design from conception through execution. Original mockups through to production graphics. All related print materials, and/or corporate identity creation based on clients needs. Continued front end maintenance of a large number of client sites. Coordination of all front end design requirements for all projects between programmers, project managers and clients to provide cohesive targeted solutions. The projects varied over the three years from complete website solutions to targeted interactive applications.
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Webmaster
Shalin Impex Pvt. Ltd.
(Consumer Goods industry)
June 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 3 months)
Shalin Impex Pvt. Ltd. - Webmasters for one of the earliest if not the earliest online retailer in India, with no physical stores. The sites have been successful from the start and continue to thrive. Both sites were Ecommerce enabled and accepted online credit cards. Duties included complete planning and creation of both websites. All web graphics and Html coding, Implementation of all forms, javascript and credit card functionality. Marketing of the site which included all the SEO for the time, implementation of an Affiliate program, and targeted mailing list newsletters.
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Owner
Bitten Nails Illustration Pvt. Ltd.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
May 1996 — August 1999 (3 years 4 months)
Projects undertaken include:
Dec. ‘96 - Oct. ‘97 Design consultant, Harper Collins Publishers
July ‘96 - Oct. ‘96 Corporate Identity and Launch for the United Services Institute Residency, New Delhi. -
Design Consultant
Business Today Magazine
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Media Production industry)
August 1995 — May 1996 (10 months)
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Design Consultant
The Economic Times Internet Project
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Newspapers industry)
December 1995 — May 1996 (6 months)
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Staff Illustrator
The Economic Times
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Newspapers industry)
August 1994 — December 1995 (1 year 5 months)
Apaarjeet Chopra’s Education
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Academy of Art University
1990 — 1994
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Sydenham College of Commerce & Economics
BCom , Business, Major in Marketing , 1986 — 1989
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St. Pauls School, Darjeeling
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Apaarjeet Chopra’s Groups:
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Arts Foundation of Cape Cod -
Academy of Art San Francisco
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