Riyad Nasralla, UCD and Creative Solutions Manager

Riyad Nasralla

UCD and Creative Solutions Manager

RAYA Data Center

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, very good
Experience
18 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 9 Months

UCD and Creative Solutions Manager at RAYA Data Center
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since June 2012

Managing user centered design, creative solutions and technical writer teams, leading team leaders and seniors.
User centered and creative design methodologies ensured that the portal, as a professional channel, will be highly-usable, exciting, interactive, innovative and informative to all visitors.

Develop and design internet portals, virtual tours, multimedia and application using the content management system (CMS) that supports managing large numbers of dynamic pages easily and efficiently. Understand very well the electronic social media (Facebook, Twitter, hi5, YouTube, Tedxcairo, Flicker, )

Applying Agile and CMMI processes.

Collaborating with various department heads to deploy usability engineering, creativity and content management system

16 years of experience in software delivery in various business domains: Government, Banking, Retail, Oil & Gas, Social Media, Information Technology, and Telco to customers in Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab of Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait & USA.

Management Skills
• Customer focus and problem solving
• Prepare and present the business plan and offering for the UCD dept
• Track and monitor the resource utilization
• Monitor the revenue and pipeline, prepare the skills required in advance
• Manage and supervise a large number of teams (team leaders, seniors)
• Plan and fulfill large projects in a limited time
• Scheduling, estimating the time plan for projects’ details
• Sales, Presales and marketing experience
• Excellent experiences in preparing proposals and scope of work
• Increasing productivity and components reuse
• Searching for new technologies and innovation solutions

Technical Skills
• Usability Experience in developing hierarchical classification systems for navigation and employing user-centered design process to ensure user’s satisfaction and ease-of-use with site features and functionality.
• Excellent knowledge web accessibility
• Expert website/portal usability review

Graphics and web design team leader at Sakhr
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 1997 to June 2000

•Attend client meetings and present creative materials and ideas
•Prepare client proofs for approval
•Create layout comps, rough and presentation material as requested
Designed logos, posters, brochures and letter heads
•Design Sakhr website Homepage and next pages including advertising Banners
•Prepare images using scanners and or digital photography
•Prepare all static Pages
•Designed all Marketing materials

Senior Graphic Designer at Minapharm
  • Egypt
  • February 1995 to March 1997

Designed brochures, magazine, posters and packaging
comunicated with printing agency and color separate
Created products logos and shared in company advertisements

Lecturer of Design & Printing Department at Faculty of fine arts
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 1993 to May 1995

Lecturer of Design & Printing Department in Faculty of fine arts

Education

Bachelor's degree, very good
  • at Faculty of Fine arts 1993
  • May 1993

Specialties & Skills

Graphic Design
Extensive experience in several generations of creative production tools, including raster, vector,
Wide knowledge and practice in several creative areas including graphic design, painting, photograph
Usability: Experience in developing hierarchical classification systems for navigation
Create Brand, Design and devepment Websites
Mastering of Adobe, Macromedia flash MX, DreamweaverMX, CorelDraw, Freehand and HTML
Excellent experiences in preparing proposals
Sales and Presales experience
Ability to tthink commercially and enterpreneurially
Management Skills
Technical Skills
Ability to work independently
Prepare and present the business plan and offering for the dept
Track and monitor the resource utilization
Excellent written and oral communication skills

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

SOS Egypt
  • Website Owner
  • December 2010

Training and Certifications

Usability Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2010
Valid Until:
July 2010
Graphics Courses for 3D & 2D, Movie, Internet and Advertisement (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2005
Valid Until:
May 2005
7 habits of highly effective people (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2007
Valid Until:
June 2007
Marketing for Non-Marketing Managers (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2004
Valid Until:
April 2004
Basic Supervisory Skills Training Program (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2005
Valid Until:
March 2005