Resume

Resume

  • Understanding client’s background, vision, stakeholders, targeted audience, and vision
  • Strategizing, conceiving, overseeing, and producing a wide range of creative products
  • Developing unique and consistent branding across a range of materials
  • Managing design projects and supervising designers and art directors
  • Researching and developing knowledge of emerging and state-of-the-art technologies to meet project needs
  • Incorporating best practices, processes, and procedures
  • Developing culturally sensitive and culturally relevant designs; creating multilingual products
  • Preparing and managing budgets
  • Digital and software skills: Adobe (After Effects, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premier Pro), Final Cut Pro, HTML, project management systems (Basecamp, RoboHead), WordPress
  • Language skills: English, Mandarin, Cantonese
  • M.F.A., Integrated Design, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, 2016
  • B.S., cum laude, Corporate Communications, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, 2008
  • Diploma, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore, 1994
  • November 2014 – May 2018: Palladian Partners (Silver Spring, MD), Senior Art Director
  • July – November 2014: Discovery Communications (Silver Spring, MD), Senior Designer/Art Director
  • March – July 2014: Center for Applied Linguistics (Washington, DC): Senior Designer
  • July 2011 – February 2014: International Arts & Artists (Washington, DC): Design Studio Director
  • September 2009 – June 2010: KTD Creative (Washington, DC), Intern
  • August 2006 – May 2011: University of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD): Graduate Assistant
  • December 2000 – January 2006: eadc (Singapore), Co-founder and Director
  • 2002 – 2007: WOMAD Projects Singapore (Singapore), Operations Manager
  • July 1994 – November 2000: Singapore Armed Forces (Singapore), Army Officer
  • 2 Platinum, 2 Gold and 1 Honorable Mention, AVA Digital Awards, 2018
  • 2 Bronze Awards, Vega Digital Awards, 2017
  • 1 Gold Award, Hermes Creative Award, 2017
  • 1 Bronze Award, 38th Telly Awards, 2017
  • 1 Platinum and 2 Honorable Mentions, dotCoMM Awards, 2017
  • 3 Award of Distinction, The Communicator Awards, 2017
  • 1 Silver, 1 Bronze and 1 Merit Award, Digital Health Awards, 2017
  • 2 Award Winner awards, Graphic Design USA, Health + Wellness Design Award, 2017
  • 1 Award Winner award, Graphic Design USA, American Web Design Award, 2017
  • 1 Bronze Award, Vega Digital Awards, 2016
  • 5 Award Winner awards, Graphic Design USA, Health + Wellness Design Award, 2016
  • 1 Silver Award, 11th Annual W³ Awards, 2016
  • 1 Honorable Mention, MarCom Awards 2016
  • 2 Award of Distinction awards, The Communicator Awards, 2016
  • 3 Award Winner awards, Graphic Design USA, Health + Wellness Design Award, 2015
  • Silver Award and 5 Honorable Mentions, Creativity Awards, 2013
  • Award Winner, Creative Quarterly, 2012
  • 2 Silver Awards and Honorable Mention, Creativity Awards, 2012
  • Gold Award, Graphis New Talent Annual, 2011
  • 2 First Place and 1 Third Place, International Design Awards, 2010
  • Excellence Award, UCDA Design Competition, 2010
  • Silver Award and Honorable Mention, Creativity Awards, 2010
  • 2 Award Winner awards, Graphic Design USA, American Inhouse Design Awards, 2010
  • 3 Merit Awards, AIGA/Flux Student Design Competition, 2010
  • 2 Runner Up awards, Creative Quarterly, 2010
  • Award Winner, American Graphic Design USA, American Inhouse Design Awards, 2009
  • Second Place and Third Place, American Design Awards, 2009
  • 2 Merit Awards, AIGA/Flux Student Design Competition, 2009
  • 2 Honorable Mentions, Creativity Awards, 2009
  • Award Winner, Good Design, 2007
  • Gold Award, American Design Awards, 2005
  • Standard of Excellence, Web Marketing Association WebAwards, 2005

Simon Fong
Creative + Art Direction

simon@simonfong.com
+1.202.230.6041

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Simon Fong