Ernest Ziro
About Me
Experienced Designer with a demonstrated history of working in the design and digital media production industry. Strong traditional arts and design skills mixing it all up with new age mediums with a passion to impact and drive change. I work collaboratively in pursuit for growth and new ideas in the ever developing world!
My portfolio showcases my ability to translate creative concepts into engaging designs. I have collaborated with diverse clients, ranging from small businesses to large corporations, and have consistently exceeded their expectations by providing innovative and visually striking artwork.
Additionally, my strong communication skills have allowed me to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, including art directors, copywriters, and project managers, ensuring seamless project execution from conception to final delivery. As an experienced Designer, I have honed my abilities to manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring each one is completed on time and within budget. I am well-versed in preparing files for print production, including preflight checks, color correction, and ensuring proper file formats and specifications. I am confident in my ability to maintain brand consistency while bringing a fresh perspective to each project. I am particularly drawn to innovative design solutions and commitment to delivering exceptional results.
Education
University of nairobi
Work & Experience
Design Lead
Lola Studios
- Created, adapted, and advanced artwork for both licensed and own-brand graphic projects and ensured designs remained within scope, time, and budget. - Collaborated with sales and product development teams to align with retailers' requirements, and present final designs to satisfy customers' expectations. - Designed visually compelling graphics for packaging and labels, resulting in a 50% increase in sales - Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align graphic requirements, resulting in a 25% decrease in project turnaround time - Improved customer satisfaction ratings by 20% through effective communication and collaboration with external vendors, specialist, and product development - Developed draft concepts for customer meetings that led to an increase of 40% in new customers
Graphic Design Consultant
The Madvocate CBO
- Designed creative graphics for the organisation including print, digital, and branding, while ensuring timely delivery and effective communication for the programs. - Supporting efficient planning and management of projects undertaken in line with projects’ Detailed Implementation Plans (DIPs), as well as continuously adapting to the risks and opportunities posed by both internal and external changing environments. - Participating and contributing in partners’ coordination forums and further preparations of partner catalogue. - Collecting, and developing compelling multi-platform offline and online collateral. - Supporting the team in conducting documentation of project progress through high quality photography and videography production. - Supporting Communications Department in writing, editing and distributing content for a wide range of audiences and contexts. - Working closely with field-office programming staff to ensure powerful stories, best practices and lessons learned of the work are being chronicled with complementary video and photography. - Liaising with other vendors to develop and produce visibility material including IEC and promotional materials, and banners, t-shirts, IEC and promotional materials. - Ensuring branding and style compliance, in observance of communication policies and guidelines across all materials through observing brand guidelines that guarantee a coherent look and feel for all communication. - Supporting the expansion of digital dissemination outlets for information sharing such as websites, social media, videos, data visualizations, infographics and local media. - Assisting Communications Department in creating, editing and posting creative content on social media platforms to promote the work of the organisation in Kenya. - Supporting Communications Department in maintaining a collection of photos, graphics, infographics, raw video footage to use in various digital content. - Actively building relationships with key media people at the field level to raise the organisations profile.
Product Designer (Website & IEC materials)
Hapa Kenya Clinic
-Conducting research: such as competitors, gathering data on user needs, and identifying market trends. - Ideation and concept development: This involved coming up with new ideas for the website and IEC Materials, developing those ideas into concept sketches, prototypes, and mockups. - Designing user interfaces: This involved creating wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs for the website interface. - Collaborating with cross-functional teams: with teams of beneficiaries, and other stakeholders to ensure the products meet the needs of the market and users. - Testing and iteration: This involved testing prototypes and mockups with users and making iterative improvements based on feedback. - Ensuring design consistency: This involved maintaining design standards and guidelines and ensuring that all design elements are consistent across the product. - Staying up-to-date with design trends and technologies: being informed about the latest design trends and technologies and incorporate them into their work where appropriate.
