I’m an Independent Communications Professional, living in the vibrant City of Cairo. I’ve been working as a designer and communications strategist online and offline for the past 14+ years.

What I do Best
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I Design, Code, Teach, Consult, Strategize and generally stare at a Computer screen for most of my waking hours. I do climb the odd mountain now and then as well.

Career Objectives
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I Builds Brands … Ethically Friendly Brands that is, through my business the-colab.com. As an artist/designer who is always thinking deeply about finding and implementing creative solutions to societal problems, my aim is to develop myself more as a design thinker who develops sustainable solutions for business & society.

Ethical Profile
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I’m an ethical service provider preferring to focus on promoting products, services and causes which have a positive impact on people and society.

I feel that no matter what our skills or abilities each one of us has a responsibility towards humanity to add value to others lives, to be beneficial to people and to help create a beautiful future we can all benefit from in some way.

I'm ready for my next challenge and am looking forward to hearing from you!

1. WordPress Development
2. Web Strategy
3. Web Design
4. Graphic Design
5. Web Development
6. CSS
7. Logo Design
8. Illustration
9. Information Architecture
10. Brand Development
11. Blogging
12. Photoshop
13. Social Media
14. User Experience
15. HTML
16. Illustrator
17. SEO
18. XHTML
19. CMS
20. Adobe Creative Suite
21. Art Direction
22. InDesign
23. User Interface Design
24. Website Development
25. Wordpress
26. WordPress
27. jQuery
28. Advertising
29. Brochures
30. Joomla
31. Copywriting

• Arabic

  (Elementary proficiency)

• Afrikaans

  (Limited working proficiency)

• English

  (Full professional proficiency)

Interests:

I aim to develop myself in all aspects of media & communications.I have ambitions of using media in a ways which would serve to educate communities and spread awareness of issues affecting society. I believe in creating media & communications which is engaging, informative, rewarding and which has a positive effect on society. I wish to find myself within an organization which makes it it’s goal to be beneficial to those they serve and are always pushing the boundaries to find new and improved ways of doing things and solving problems for both their clients and society on the whole. Ideally I would like to constantly be improving my skills and learning new technologies and approaches of reaching creative solutions. I would like to be part of an organization which will make use of not only my design and creative skills but my strategic and conceptual skills as well.

Honors and Awards:

• I’ve attended an intensive Ogilvy training program in called the "Africa Training Program"(ATP) which focused on 360 degree Branding, Marketing, Strategy and client presentation skills.
• I was also given the “Employee of the Month” award in September 2000 for creating an animated interactive product for iafrica.com
• I had work nominated as Loeries advertising award finalists in 2003 & 2004