Kalakar Ni: Intro

"You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile good."

Experienced from the past, living for the moment and planning for the future; until now this was the mould I was wrought into. The right execution and commitment to achieve a goal makes a person surpass the rest; my career starts with my commitment to learn and search the intangibles.

I was in creative field of paintings and sketching right from my childhood. Though my post secondary education was in sciences, I took up my interest for designing as a hobby at my Art Teacher’s Organization for young and children.

By the time I finished my under graduation in Genetics, I also finished my Advance Diploma course in Multimedia Applications, and soon started working at a Multimedia Institute as a faculty member. My professional career started when I entered an MNC, 'Codelinks Data Services' as a Web Designer. Here I started with designing web graphics and flash animations. Two years later I moved to 'Frontlinesoft' as Senior Graphic Designer. Here I had worked intensely on web interfaces from diverse fields like corporate, personal, travel, e-commerce, e-learning etc. After a year and a half currently I am with Triniti Corporations doing Graphic User Interfaces.

I feel every person is an artist by himself. Every child grows up in imaginations and express it to the world through different means. My imaginations were supported by my family, friends and my art teacher, Mr. B.A.Reddy, a pioneer artist of my country. He also runs an organization, Sanskrithy, dedicated for a noble mission to promote Art and Culture among rural children. Apart from my regular job work, I also help this organization in developing skills and livelihood of underprivileged kids.

There is no end to exploring ideas and creative thoughts. Every part of life is a learning process, and one leaves marks of experience in their own lifestyle. I always desire to keep myself busy with crafting ideas. One will not find me idle at home. All my free time is put in designing, paintings, sketching, handicrafts, or designing my own casual wears. Well, these jobs together with my hobbies gave a wide range of knowledge, respect for art and culture and also an understanding for life. In the whole course I learnt, taught, shared ideas and above all made good friends. Just enjoying every part of it.

Knowledge
Here is a brief description of most common multimedia tools I know…

Graphics / User Interface
· Adobe Photoshop - the best 2D program I know, handy to create interface prototypes.
· Adobe ImageReady - to create templates and small gif animations.
· GIF Construction Set – to create gif animations
· Macromedia Fireworks - like Imageready.
· Fractal Painter
· Adobe Illustrator – to create vector graphics.
· Macromedia Flash – great for 2-D animations.
· Infini-D – for 3-D animations.
· 3D Max - been a long time saw the 4 view screen.

HTML Editors
· Macromedia Dreamweaver – a good HTML visual editor.
· Microsoft Frontpage - used it initially to learn.
· Adobe PageMill

Programing Languages
· HTML
· CSS
· COBOL

Education/Studies
· IGNOU [Indira Gandhi National Open University] – Masters in Computer Applications (61% marks; 2004)
· Institute of Communication Management – PG Diploma in Advertising (77% marks; 2000)
· Arena Multimedia – Advance Diploma in Multimedia Applications (Distinction; 1999)
· St.Anns College – Under graduation in Genetics (82% marks; 1999)
· Kendriya Vidyalaya Golconda – Secondary education and 10+2 (72% marks; 1996)

Personal Info
· Real Name – Nisha
· Nationality – Indian
· Status – Single
· E-mail – kalakar_ni@yahoo.com
· Languages known – English, Hindi, Telugu, Punjabi. (Learnt German for a month, Learning Japanese-Level 3)

Thoughts:
Earth is beautiful in its natural green, and animals when being free. We humans have come a long way with our own pace of advancement. While we took inspiration from nature, at the same time disturbed its natural balance. As each drop coalesce to form the big ocean, why not we do our own part of responsibility and make this place a better place to live..