India

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Motion Design

Branding and Identity Design

Multimedia Design

3D Design

Product Design

Scriptwriting

Interaction Design

UX Research

Bachelor of Business Administration

Mahesh Ravi

Chief Academic Officer (CAO)

Typography

Communication

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Presentation skills

Leadership

2D Animation

3D Animation

Design systems

Video editing

Trello

Youtube

Canva

ChatGPT

Figma

Maze

Miro

Notion

Adobe Creative Suite

Collaboration

Team player

Organisation skills

Customer service

Conflict resolution

Project management

Brand positioning

Branding

Conversational AI

Content editing

Content research

Brand strategy

User research

Usability Testing

Quantitative research

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

Heading the Academic Department and Programs.
Managing the creative outlook of the brand.
Managing Social Media Operations of the brand.
Teaching Design and Multimedia.

Working as the Creative Head and the Course Manager at Wiztoonz Academy of Media & Design, Bangalore and Hyderabad.

Roles and Responsibilities:

* Managing the creative outlook of the brand
* Heading the VFX and Design Academic Programs
* Curating Syllabus, Delivery Guide Line and Assessment Benchmarks for the programs
* Managing academicians for programs
* Creative collaterals for SM  and Websites
* Curating and Creating copy for SM and Websites
* Curating and Building Content for WizBlog
* Corporate Branding
* Heading Wiz Workshops 
* Driving Wizfilms Annual Short Film Festival
* Driving Wiz Contests 
* Promotion Strategies and Sales Support
* QC-ing all brand outlook creatives/content
* Heading Corporate Photo Video-Shoots 
* Managing Internships of Students

Working with Wiztoonz Academy of Media & Design as the Head of Film Making and Photography Departments.
 
Wiztoonz Academy of Media and Design embraces a rich experience in the field of Media, Animation and Design for almost a decade now. Being a division of Wiztoonz Animations Pvt. Ltd., it started off its operations in 2007. From its inception, Wiztoonz has always strived to provide quality learning & connect students to their passion.

Functions:

- Heading departments of Film Making and Photography
- Setting up Curriculum and Managing Infrastructure.
- Heading WizFilms Annual Short Film Festivals
- Managing Lecturers

Working for Raffles Millennium International as the Lecturer of Multimedia and Visual Design.

Raffles Education Corporation Limited (“RafflesEducationCorp” or “the Group”) is a premier private education provider, owner and manager of education assets and facilities, and education-linked real estate investor and developer. Since establishing its first college in Singapore in 1990, RafflesEducationCorp has grown to provide a full spectrum of education services through a vast network of 30 colleges and universities in 28 cities across 13 countries globally: Australia, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Switzerland and Thailand.

Functions:

- Filmmaking and Visual Effects
- Design Principles
- 3D Techniques
- Marketing on Web
- New Media and Interactive Environments
- Digital Photography
- Animation Principles
- Advanced Image Processing

Worked as the Faculty of Multimedia for Wiztoonz Academy of Arts and Design. 

WIZTOONZ College of Media & Design was started to unify Multimedia Academics with Multimedia Industry. The combination of academics and Industry provides a perfect platform to gain knowledge and graduate to apply this knowledge.The principle of ‘Applied Learning’ is implemented at Wiztoonz throughout its Career programs.

Functions:

-	Teaching Multimedia for Msc & Bsc Multimedia
-	In-Charge of Mentoring Student-Made Short Films
-	Value-Added Sessions, Workshops and Field Trips
-	Preparing Multimedia Course Content

Worked as the Graphics Designer at Kairali TV, a Leading Television Channel of South India. Work involved: Media Graphic design, 3D Animation, Photo and Video Editing for TV

Mahesh Ravi🇮🇳