george awad, Senior Graphic Designer

george awad

Senior Graphic Designer

RMGS

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, applied arts,advertising section
Experience
20 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 4 Months

Senior Graphic Designer at RMGS
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since September 2016

Responsible for:
• Meeting with clients for presenting ideas and adjusting designs to fit their needs or taste.
• Ensure that all designs meet the minimum requirements for usability standards & design centric.
• Delivering high quality front-end designs.
• Brainstorming UI/UX & active participation in brainstorms and other idea-generating sessions.
• Digital advertisement & social media designs.
• Performs color correction and has the ability to do basic retouching of digital images.
• Develop concepts into layouts.
• Translate user requirements and complex business problems into highly usable designs.
• Cultivate an understanding of industry trends and regularly use this information.
Projects that I worked on with RMGS:
1.CallerReady mobile site design for all pages & worked on other desktop pages design
2. RMGS social media designs for company Facebook page & the internal monthly newsletter & Linkedin hiring posts

Graphic Design Team Lead at Online Modern Solutions (OMS)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2015 to June 2016

Responsible for:
• Lead the graphics team & coaching them to become professional with their output.
• Meeting with clients for presenting ideas and adjusting designs to fit their needs or taste.
• Ensure that all designs meet the minimum requirements for usability standards & design centric.
• Delivering high quality front-end designs and implementing them
• Brainstorming UI/UX & active participation in brainstorms and other idea-generating sessions.
• Creating product-based requirements for Web and Mobile-apps
• Digital advertisement
• Performs color correction and has the ability to do basic retouching of digital images.
• Develop concepts into layouts.
• Translate user requirements and complex business problems into highly usable designs.
• Cultivate an understanding of industry trends and regularly use this information.

Senior UX Designer at Linkdotnet
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2008 to February 2016

Responsible for:
• Meeting with clients for presenting ideas and adjusting designs to fit their needs or taste.
• Analyzing client`s requirements and information to come up with a design that fulfills the client`s need.
• Brainstorming and mocking up design ideas.
• Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts for:
1- Online materials (websites, mailshots and banners).
2- Printed materials (posters, flyers, brochures, etc.), illustrations and logos.
 Doing all prepress works and preparing all printed materials for printing purposes.
• Using a wide range of media, including photography and computer aided design.

prepress & finalizer at photo litho mina
  • Egypt
  • October 2003 to February 2008

Responsible for:
• Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts for Printed materials (posters, flyers, brochures, etc.), illustrations and logos.
 Doing all prepress works and preparing all printed materials for printing purposes (color separation and In/Out Door Printing).
• Using a wide range of media, including photography and computer aided design.

Education

Bachelor's degree, applied arts,advertising section
  • at faculty of applied arts
  • September 2003

Specialties & Skills

Printed Materials
Graphic Arts
Presenting Ideas
Adobe LiveCycle Designer
Wide Format Printing
Adobe Photoshop CS5
Microsoft Office 2010
Flash CS5
Illustrator CS5
Macromedia Freehand

Languages

English
Intermediate
French
Beginner
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

Zamalek Club
  • Active Member
  • August 2008

Training and Certifications

Digital Marketing (Training)
Training Institute:
edrak.org

Hobbies

  • Reading, play station games, travelling, listening to music