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Visual Communication Career - Mini Profile

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An adaptable college graduate with an MSc. degree in Medical Illustration, Makerere University. Served as an Assistant Medical Illustrator at the Department of Medical Illustration, Makerere University College of Health Sciences (2012-2019). 
My undergraduate degree, Bachelor of Industrial and Fine Arts (BIFA) (with sub-specialties like drawing special (animal & human anatomy), communication & advertising design, and painting), offered me a head start to the medical illustration discipline.

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Working with students, scholars, project managers and health service professionals has deepened my values of hard work, timeliness and personal discipline. My peers have, on several occasions, commended me as a hardworking and reliable individual.

Poised from a series of courses and training, I have worked on numerous public and private projects at various fora. Polished by a 3-Year training in servant leadership and also imbued with remarkable marketplace dynamics for exceptional service delivery.

Experience

More than 10 years experience in the field, working with students, scholars, project managers and health service professionals, both within public and private institutions in Uganda, including higher institutions of learning; Makerere University and Gulu Universities along lines of editorial design and illustration.

  • Enhancing scholars' data info-graphics to meet publication requirements of various scholarly journals like Acta-Paediatrica and Hindawi.

  • Creating education materials for both patients and university students (charts, posters illustrations etc.)

  • Editorial design, layout and graphics design for a series of conferences and symposia- including but not limited to the following; Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Joint Annual Scientific Conferences (JASH), One Health Central and Eastern Africa (OHCEA), ReBUILD, Lung Science Symposium, Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs), and a number of exchange students from Yale and Duke Universities.

Skills

Scientific and Medical Illustration

Editorial and Communication Design

Education Research

Teaching

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite; Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, InDesign etc.

Corel: Corel Draw & Corel Painter

Wacom: Cintiq Wacom Tablet, X-rite

Contact

Email - donjacobs.design@gmail.com

Tel -     +256 773068186 | +256 706 371126

View other sites from the following links

https://www.behance.net/NansinguzaJacob

http://canvas.pantone.com/NansinguzaJacob

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