Sam Anvari

Current
  • Senior Graphic Designer at Juice Wireless
  • Creative Director at SAM Arts Internet Developers (Sole Proprietorship)
Past
  • UI Graphic Designer at Spark Networks plc. (JDate.com / AmericanSingles.com)
  • TA at OTIS College of Art & Design
  • Senior Graphic Designer at American Idol Underground
  • Creative Director at MedTech USA Inc.
  • Network Supervisor / Design Consultant at Agence France-Presse (AFP)
  • Graphic Designer at SEEM Graphic Studio
Education
  • Otis College of Art and Design
  • University of Judaism
  • IT Technology Institute
  • Azad University , Tehran
Connections
144 connections
Industry
Design
Websites

Sam Anvari’s Summary

- JuiceCaster has been nominated for "Best Mobile Social Networking" at the 2008 Webby Awards. It's an honor to be a member of Juice team.

· Professional graphic designer with 12 years hands on experience.
· Concept oriented in design with great attention to the details.
· Deep knowledge of Math/Statistics to analyze efficient marketing campaign design.
· Experienced in Flash, hand code HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Sam Anvari’s Specialties:

· Competitive design analysis and site architecture design.
· Ability to handle large scale projects from scratch and manage the team of developers.
· Meticulous in design while having a vision on project expansion possibilities.
· Problem solver.
· Fast learner.
· Great experience on business marketing and customer orientation.
· Well experienced with algorithm logics and statistics analysis.


Sam Anvari’s Experience

  • Senior Graphic Designer

    Juice Wireless

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    February 2007Present (1 year 8 months)

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    Graphic Designer.
    Web / WAP / iPhone Designer.
    Cell Phone Application Interface Designer (Qualcomm, Alltel, Nokia)
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    About Juice Wireless:
    Juice Wireless was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Los Angeles. Juice has a talented highly motivated team members focused on delivering JuiceCaster -- the next evolution in mobile and online social media. Juice Wireless has developed and executed award-winning mobile marketing programs for clients such as Qualcomm, Alltel, Nokia, AOL, Sony and many others.
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  • Creative Director

    SAM Arts Internet Developers (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)

    March 1999Present (9 years 7 months)

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    I have designed and developed more than 60 web sites / web database projects both overseas and here in Los Angeles.
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  • UI Graphic Designer

    Spark Networks plc. (JDate.com / AmericanSingles.com)

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; LOV; Internet industry)

    August 2005February 2007 (1 year 7 months)

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    Senior Graphic Designer.
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    About Spark Networks:
    Foreseeing the potential impact of the Internet on the personals industry, the precursor of Spark Networks established itself in 1997 with the introduction of JDate®, now the leading online personals website amongst Jewish singles. Driven by the success of JDate, the company went on to launch a variety of online personals websites and now operates a network of religious, ethnic, special interest and geographically targeted online singles communities including, among them: AmericanSingles®, BlackSingles.com®, ChristianMingle®, and LDS Mingle®.
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  • TA

    OTIS College of Art & Design

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Graphic Design industry)

    February 2005February 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  • Senior Graphic Designer

    American Idol Underground

    (Music industry)

    February 2005August 2005 (7 months)

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    Graphic Designer.
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    In March 2005, Fluid Audio Networks created American Idol Underground under a license from FremantleMedia (www.fremantlemedia.com) who, in concert with 19 Entertainment Ltd. (www.19.co.uk), produce television's American Idol. The democratic spirit of the television show and its power to make any artist into a star prompted us to seek a partnership with the American Idol brand. Our goal in creating AIU is to use the popularity of American Idol to help emerging artists in all genres get their music heard.
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  • Creative Director

    MedTech USA Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Medical Practice industry)

    December 2003February 2005 (1 year 3 months)

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    About MedTech USA:
    Physicians and other health care professionals have a critical need to stay abreast of the latest medical information and developments -- and they face a chronic shortage of time in which to do it. MedTech USA was founded to help medical professionals to take advantage of new technologies that facilitate education and research, and MedTech dedicated itself to be a single, reliable source for these technologies.
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  • Network Supervisor / Design Consultant

    Agence France-Presse (AFP)

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Media Production industry)

    May 2003October 2003 (6 months)

    AFP Middle East Office
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    With years of experience at the heart of the news industry, AFP is able to cover breaking and general interest news from around the world, around the clock. The AFP brand guarantees editorial quality and reliability - a reputation built since the agency was founded in 1835.
    AFP's worldwide network spans 165 countries, 110 of which are home to bureaus, and 50 of which are covered by local correspondents.
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  • Graphic Designer

    SEEM Graphic Studio

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)

    January 1995October 1998 (3 years 10 months)


Sam Anvari’s Education

  • Otis College of Art and Design

    Certificate, Graphic Design, 20052007

    Typography I & II, Drawing and Composition, Life Drawing, Digital Print Production, Lighting Techniques, Letter Press.

  • University of Judaism

    Certificate, Hebrew Language I, II, 20052006

    I took Hebrew language courses at U.J. in order to perform a better job at JDate.

  • IT Technology Institute

    CCNA, CISCO Networking, 20032003

    In order o perform better job at AFP, I attended this class to know better about Routing and Networking.

  • Azad University , Tehran

    BFA, Graphic Design / Communication Arts, 19941998

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    Bachelor of Graphic Design and Communication Arts.
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Additional Information

Sam Anvari’s Websites:

Sam Anvari’s Interests:

graphic design, UI design, user experience design, effective marketing, campaign design, mobile UI design, WAP

Sam Anvari’s Groups:

American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)

  •    Mobile Telecoms industry group
  •    Web Standards Design + Development
  •    AIGA | The Professional Association for Design

Sam Anvari’s Honors:

JuiceCaster has been nominated for the 2008 Webby Awards. It's an honor to be nominated for "Mobile Social Networking".
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JDate won the 2006 Webby Awards for "Social Networking". It was an honor o be a member of the winning team.
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BENETTON COLORS magazine (Italy) printed one of the photographs taken by me in their magazine, Issue 54 - Year 2003.

http://www.benetton.com/colors/issues/food54/colors54/colors54.html


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