Yousef Qatanani, Design and Development Manager

Yousef Qatanani

Design and Development Manager

AxiTrader

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
Éducation
Baccalauréat, Graphic Design
Expérience
18 années, 2 mois

Partager Mon CV

Empêcher usager


Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :18 années, 2 mois

Design and Development Manager à AxiTrader
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • Je travaille ici depuis septembre 2015

Key Responsibilities:
• Participating in the weekly project development team meetings to discuss project status, project resources, and other needs.
• Implementing Web solution by monitoring project progress, conducting design and implementation reviews. Responding to team members concerns and coordinating requirements with interested departments.
• Assuring quality Web solution by developing and completing test plans, maintaining project and technical documentation.
• Entrusting with the accountability to maintain quality of creative solutions while respecting the different styles, approaches and skills of each team and staff.
• Helping establish and manage the design strategy - ensuring that it is expandable, flexible and scalable globally. Ascertaining compliance with regulatory and quality assurance requirements globally.
• Administering multiple complex projects with competing deadlines. Interacting effectively and professionally with and for others throughout various levels of the global organization.

Vice President Graphic Design à ADS Securities
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Abu Dhabi
  • septembre 2014 à septembre 2015

Key Responsibilities:
• Directed the creative staff in effective and efficient use of design development phases. Developed and maintained relationships with outside promotional agencies, vendors and customers.
• Entrusted with the accountability to monitor staff operations, business planning and budget development.
• Assured services are in compliance with professional, company policy standards and brand execution requirements.
• Formulated strategies for designing and developing innovative HTML based solutions. Created web page infrastructure and application related to pages with more advanced graphics and features.
• Monitored, trained and guided team members and extended adequate support to other members of the design team.
• Extended adequate support to High quality GUI design and front end development. Created landing pages for company, including graphics, animation and functionality.
• Prepared Company Magazine Ads, brochures, Business Cards, greeting-cards and newsletters. Created Flash banners in varies languages and sizes.

Web Administrator / Web and Graphic (Designer & developer) à Alpari UK
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • juillet 2011 à septembre 2014

Key Responsibilities:
• Met with clients or the art director to determine the scope of a project. Advised clients on strategies to reach a particular audience. Created images that identify a product or convey a message.
• Developed graphics and visual or audio images for product illustrations, logos, and websites. Created designs either by hand or using computer software packages.
• Designed landing pages for company, including graphics, animation and functionality. Created Flash banners in varies languages and sizes.
• Shouldered accountability to develop web page infrastructure and application related to pages. Entrusted with the responsibility to administer Web hosting and domains.
• Introduced search engine optimization strategies. Prepared Company Magazine Ads, brochures, Business Cards, greeting-cards and newsletters.

Freelancer à Dubai Petroleum
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • août 2013 à août 2013

Key Responsibilities:
• Designed and developed the company entitled E-Magazine.
• Submitted efficient and accurate reporting, detailed results of each web marketing campaign and possible improvement.
• Shouldered accountability to establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards. Managed web server and site technical performance.
• Prepared design briefs by gathering information and data to clarify design issues. Worked on design and web projects from concept to completion while adhering to the brand standards.

Web Administrator / Web Designer & Developer à Best Food Co.
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • novembre 2010 à juin 2011

Key Responsibilities:
• Entrusted with the accountability to design company web pages, including graphics, animation and functionality. Developed web page infrastructure and application related to pages with more advanced graphics and features.
• Administered web server and site technical performance. Increased online affiliate opportunities and revenue generation for the brand (with possibility of widening affiliate advertising schemes).
• Managed new revenue generating online marketing opportunities. Developed the company e-catalogue and show reels.
• Engaged in activities entailing Drupal layout themes design and development, front end web design, flash animation, Dreamweaver, fireworks and Photoshop.
• Provided advice to Director on the improvement, results, competition and new direction in technology to assist with marketing of the brand.

Web Administrator / Web and Graphic Designer, Developer à Untitled Studios
  • Jordanie - Amman
  • mai 2008 à octobre 2010

Key Responsibilities:
• Executed all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering. Conceptualized original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks.
• Created wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas. Presented and defended designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders.
• Introduced search engine optimization strategies. Promoted client websites online to increase prominence within their web community as and when possible.
• Entrusted with the accountability to work closely with the Operations Director to set and ensure marketing campaigns achieve budgeted commercial targets.

Web and Graphic Designer à New Era Web
  • Jordanie - Amman
  • juin 2006 à mai 2008

Key Responsibilities:
• Created and developed website pages, microsites, banner ads, emails, e-newsletters and collateral. Developed graphic and image assets for both content marketing and digital marketing efforts.
• Supported overall website design, and translate business and marketing objectives into designs that are clear, compelling, visually exciting and emotionally engaging.
• Implemented design requests and provided ongoing website maintenance including troubleshooting to existing websites.
• Worked on Dreamweaver, fireworks, Photoshop and Corel drew. Accountable to execute website search engine optimization best practices.

Graphic Design Teacher à AL Kashif for information technology
  • Jordanie - Amman
  • février 2006 à juin 2006

Key Responsibilities:
• Taught Corel drew and Photoshop. Strived to develop effective and essential leadership skills in students and student groups through comprehensive leadership education and diverse experiences.
• Motivated and stimulated student’s learning abilities and further boosted student’s morale to participate in extracurricular activities.
• Fostered the success of all students by facilitating the development, communication, implementation and evaluation of a shared vision of learning that reflects excellence.

Éducation

Baccalauréat, Graphic Design
  • à Al - Zaytoonah University
  • décembre 2005
Diplôme, Flash
  • à Macromedia Flash
  • juin 2005
Diplôme, Supervision
  • à McDonald's Corporation
  • juillet 2001
Diplôme, Hospitality Supervision
  • à American Academe for hotel & motel Association
  • décembre 1999

Specialties & Skills

Web Design
Cascading Style Sheets CSS
WordPress
Flash Animation
Design and Development
Customer Relationship Management
Web Server Administration
Drupal, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects
Project Management
Web Page Development
PC assembling and maintenance
SEO Marketing
Analytical Skills, Critical Thinking, Conflict Resolution, Group Dynamics Decision Making
Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML & CSS, Web Design, Wordpress
Basic JavaScript
Team Management
Business Planning
Budget Development
Design Strategy
Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe InDesign, SEO, Webmaster
Leadership, Training, Knowledge Transfer, Communication & Interpersonal Skills
Hand coded CSS/HTML (compatible with IE6, IE7 and standards compliant browsers)
Intermediate level action script
A thorough knowledge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques
Frameworks PHP (Drupal) (Joomla) (Wordpress) (Magento) theme design and build CMS sites
GUI Design and Front End Development
Expert PHP designer
Advertising
Adobe CS3 - CC 2014, Corel drew, MS Word

Langues

Arabe
Expert
Anglais
Expert