Amr Kamel, User experience Lead

Amr Kamel

User experience Lead

Thomson reuters

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, Web and Interactive Media Diploma
Experience
20 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 1 Months

User experience Lead at Thomson reuters
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2013

responsible for the UX team Delivery

User Experience and SEO Manager at MSN Arabia, North Africa and Pakistan
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2010 to December 2012

Initiating, monitoring and managing link acquisition strategies and the social media campaign.
• Fluency on all onsite elements (CSS, XML Sitemaps, Canonical Tags etc.).
• Conduct keyword research, analysis, recommendations and execution to increase page rankings.
• Develop, analyse and report on overall Search Engine Marketing program success with regard to keyword ranking, indexed pages, backlinks, etc.
• Perform competitive analysis to help drive future Search Engine strategies.
• Development of Search Engine friendly content via internal blogs and website copy.
• Link building through contacts, partnerships, content generation, and other campaigns.
• Create keyword rich, on-site copy and work with editorial and marketing teams to drive SEO in content creation and content programming.
• SEO Copywriting, manage content creation and syndication.
• Publications and clients to better understand overall scope, schedule for major product launches and programs.
• Create great web experiences that meet user & business needs.
• Work closely with the Content and Conversion Manager to understand our website user behavior and implement change
• Implementing the New Rich Media templates in ConnectAds agency and create their guidelines and Media Kit .
• Ensures the highest quality work is produced & the creative vision is on target with latest design trends.
• Understands & transfers web technologies & limitations to the team to enhance web designs.
• Preparing business requirements for updating portal services & products.
• Preparing competition analysis report.
• Closely monitor all local & international competitors and provide management with periodical competitor's reports.
• Recommend new services/features/enhancements based on competition analysis.
• Deliver effective creative work and clean code.
• Handles tight deadlines and a large number of concurrent projects.

Web User Experience lead. at Linkonline
  • Egypt
  • July 2005 to November 2010

* Providing direction to a team of Designers and Usability Specialists.

* Staff supervision and coaching, internal client satisfaction.

* Assigning design leads to projects matching their skills and experience with project requirements.

* Estimating level of design effort required for projects.

* As Asynchrony's UX lead, l ensured a high level of quality across all portal’s projects.

* Completes annual performance reviews, monthly written reports providing insight into projects, Performance of design team and workload.

Multimedia Developer & Instructor. at Inform (IBM Authorized Education Center)
  • Egypt
  • May 2003 to June 2004

Develop Flash Games, Multimedia CDS, Flash presentations, web sites. Plus teaching Web courses.

Education

Diploma, Web and Interactive Media Diploma
  • at IBM
  • September 2003

IBM Certification for 900 Hours in Web and Interactive Media Diploma (March2003).

Bachelor's degree,
  • at faculty of tourism & Hotels
  • June 2002

Specialties & Skills

User centered Design
Social Media Marketing
Online User Experience
Digital Marketing
User Experience
Digital Online Marketing
Leadership :
Web Performance Optimization
Online Advertising

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Dutch
Beginner

Training and Certifications

CIW410 Certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2004
Valid Until:
December 2004
Adobe Flash Certified Expert (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2004
Valid Until:
November 2004
IBM Diploma for 900 Hours in Web Design and Online Media (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2002
Valid Until:
July 2003