Ahmad El-Shiekh Khalil, Digital Art Director

Ahmad El-Shiekh Khalil

Digital Art Director

BRAINSTORM

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Master's degree, MINI MBA
Experience
23 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 8 Months

Digital Art Director at BRAINSTORM
  • My current job since February 2016

1-Responsible for developing and managing Google activities (SEO, SEM, GDN, Analytics, etc…)Optimizing our clients’ websites for search engines.
2-Manage and monitor social media activities, track online conversations Evaluating, organizing, managing and contributing to all social media channels.
3-Manage the company image in a cohesive way to achieve our marketing goals.
4-Collaborate with designers and team members to prepare digital campaigns in line with brand guidelines.

Art Director at Teamwork
  • Jordan - Amman
  • My current job since January 2008

Originally hired as a Art Director for our company, my position with TEAMWORK has grown to where I am responsible for design process.
In this role I had the opportunity to create national graphic campaigns for a wide range of demographics in an environment where brand was always evolving.

DESIGN MANAGEMENT
-Managing creative team focusing on encouraging task based performance, strategic exploration and personal creative development.
-Lead and management the team with ability to multi-task and direct many projects simultaneous.
-Make decisions on a daily basis that ensure both profitability and creative quality
-Work collaboratively with partners, participate in company strategizing, and make recommendations for changes to the creative function to meet market changes, competitive threats or to support strategic plans
-Conceptualizing / Creating creative campaigns, corporate identities, brochures, packages, magazines and posters
-Constantly compose creative ideas and artistic visual presentations for
communications media in close concert with writer, customer, and editor depending on source of project

BRAND AND CREATIVE DIRECTION
Understanding strategic goals and brand; analyze the creative team, environment, processes, technologies, etc., to determine areas needing improvement; and build and direct a creative function aligned with and supportive of those goals.

Study the creative marketplace, assessing where work stands against competitors’, as well as our clients’ competitors’ creative work.

WEBSITE DESIGN & MULTIMEDIA
Developing an overall visual concept that communicates to a target audience throw online & offline tools
-Create Full Content Management website .
-Interface for website.
-Full Flash site.
-Animated presentation.


Major Clients :
UNICEF, ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL ARAB BANK, SAMSUNG, OPTIKOS SHAMI, Vestel, ABmaritime, Jordan Dubai Capital, DIVA Jewelry, Istiklal Mall, Nutridar, Sahha.

Art Director at Eyemedia group
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2007 to January 2008

Working as a senior member of a design studio within an advertising agency, creating integrated design solutions for lifestyle brands across a broad spectrum.

-Participated in creating ideas for various advertising campaigns.
-Art directed and designed ads for outdoor signage.
-Handled 80% of branding and re-branding tasks for many clients.
-Create interface, graphic treatment, animation and website
.

Freelance Flash Animatour at Maktoob.com
  • Jordan - Amman
  • May 2007 to July 2007
Senior Graphic Designer at MacroWide
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2005 to January 2007

Designing across variety of disciplines, including interactive and print design for a celebrated real estate company, working closely with the Creative Director.

• Developed brand position and guidelines to be followed in advertising and media production.
• Designed different types of media, including flash presentations and story boarding.
• Managed the Arabic copyrighting process.

• Came up with ideas to improve websites and created visual look for redesigns

Graphic Designer at TEAMWORK
  • Jordan - Amman
  • October 2000 to January 2005

Graphic designer working as part of a team of designers integral to the marketing department of a small, fast growing advertising agency.

• Designed logos & corporate identity.
• Handled scanning, photos retouching, and printing out.
• Designed a local commercial advertisement.
• Designed print media, press ads, out door ads and interactive presentations.

Education

Master's degree, MINI MBA
  • at Change Zone
  • November 2016
Diploma, FINE ART
  • at Studio 11 For fine art
  • November 2013
Bachelor's degree, computer science
  • at philidelpia university
  • August 2005
Diploma, Computer Science
  • at Arab Community Collage
  • August 2000
High school or equivalent, High school
  • at Aljamah High school
  • August 1998

Specialties & Skills

Art Direction
Web Design
Advertising
Graphic Design
Drawing
Web design
Painting
Photography

Languages

Arabic
Intermediate
English
Intermediate
French
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Arts, painting, Drawing (Training)
Training Institute:
studio 11
Date Attended:
October 2005

Hobbies

  • Painting, Drawing, Reading
    create my first solo exhibition at 2013