Ihab Dawood, Senior Product Designer

Ihab Dawood

Senior Product Designer

Unifonic

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Political Science
Experience
18 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 1 Months

Senior Product Designer at Unifonic
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since August 2021
Senior Product Designer at Majid Al Futtaim Carrefour
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2017 to July 2021
User Experience Team Leader at Etisalat Misr
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2016 to July 2017
Freelance, UX and UI Designer and front-end developer at Freelancer
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2016 to August 2016
UX Design Manager at Vezeeta by Dr.Bridge
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2016 to March 2016
User Experience Designer and Customer Experience Supervisor at The Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (Mobinil)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2012 to December 2015

1. Responsible for Assessing and proposing customer journey through web, mobile and Social media mainly, other streams included.
2. Identify obstacles, drawbacks and provide solutions to overcome them in most adequate means putting the customer as priority.
3. Develop required wire frames, mockups and prototypes to communicate a near-to-actual experience to different stakeholders.
4. Work closely with designers and developers to ensure proposed journey are well reflected.
5. Design, setup, and perform user experience testing when possible through focus groups or relative software.

Freelance Web/Graphic Designer at freelance
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2010 to December 2015

My work as a freelancer covered the following aspects:
1. printing materials such as brochures, flyers, banners and business cards.
2. Websites.
3. Email newsletters (Design and development).
4. Mobile applications.
5. Touch panels for entertainment systems.
6. Social Media customization.
7. Basic logo design.
8. Infographics.

Brand and Quality Senior Specialist at The Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (Mobinil)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2009 to January 2013

1. Ensure Mobinil Brand guidelines are respected all over possible mediums such as formal and informal documents, high level presentations, ATL and BTL materials, etc…
2. Promote Brand awareness inside and outside the company through initiation of awareness materials, courses’ instruction.
3. Create artworks meant for print, digital, web, mobile and email newsletters.
4. Establish Brand guidelines for new arising trends such as web and mobile applications guidelines
5. Enhance the look and feel of high level presentations targeted for National and International company events.
6. Work on the customization of company digital products such as mobile applications, web applications.
7. Work on the customization of company’s physical products such as mobile handsets, tablets, USB modems and routers.
8. Manage company’s forms and templates.
9. Maintain the company’s intranet specifically the brand section.
10. Coordinate on providing photography assets for company’s designs, dealing with international suppliers such as Getty images.
11. Images’ retouching to be utilized in internal or external artworks.

Corporate Governance Specialist at The Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (Mobinil)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2007 to December 2009

. Assist in drafting Board and Committees meetings minutes.
2. Manage the preparation and finalization of company Annual Report and any other formal reports.
3. Responsible of the Corporate Governance section in Mobinil website.
4. Review the editing of Corporate Governance formal documents and ensure consistency, appropriateness of minutes of Board and Committee proceedings in terms of recorded decisions and issues with broader implications.
5. Translations from English to Arabic and vice versa for:
a. ECMS, Mobinil Telecommunications Board of Directors meeting minutes
b. Correspondence letters between ECMS and relevant governmental authorities
c. Any other documents requiring translation

Adminitrative Officer at Legal and Institutional Framework Project (UNPD project)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2005 to April 2007

1- Managing all administrative tasks
2- Managing all expenditures and financial tasks
3- Setting the budget of the project
4- Performing secretarial tasks
5- Acting as procurement officer
6- Acting as a liaison officer for the project

Trainee at Abn-Amro Delta
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 1998 to August 1998

1 -Assisted in daily transactions
2- Monitored stock changes and reported them
3- Assisted in entry of data into computer system

Education

Bachelor's degree, Political Science
  • at The American University in Cairo (AUC)
  • July 2005

Specialties & Skills

Cascading Style Sheets CSS
Adobe Software
User Experience
Detail oriented
Work under pressure

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Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert
French
Expert

Training and Certifications

Introduction to PHP and MySQL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2012
Valid Until:
September 2012
Web Design Diploma (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2011
Valid Until:
August 2011
UX-Labs Certified Usability Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2012
Valid Until:
December 2012