Graphic Designer Design

Abdal Rhman

(Adam)

708-***-**** ***.*********@*****.*** www.abdaburagheb.com

Profile

Graphic and Digital Designer with over 5 years of extensive experience in print design along with skills in digital design, UI/UX design, and web design within multimedia, marketing & advertising, and print design companies.

Thrive in creating visual concepts to communicate ideas; involved in strategic planning, designing, producing materials, and exposure to inspire, inform, and captivate consumers at large.

Competitive team player who consistently strives to positively contribute to overall team performance and the achievement of web coding and UI/UX design objectives.

Skilled in translating subject matter into concrete designs for a wide range of marketing, promotional, and informational materials with broad and deep knowledge of HTML, CSS, and CMS.

Exceptional collaborative and interpersonal skills; able to build exceptional rapport, driving successful product life cycles and coordinating graphical and design changes.

Experience

Designer/Proofreader, Shure Inc; Niles, IL 2016-2017

Accurately proofread and translate over 90 user guides from English to Arabic while assuring completeness and comprehensiveness; worked on updated content in a CCMS XML database application.

Successfully triaged over 150 user guides, made revisions as needed, and finalized layout and design of over 60 guides using InDesign.

Effectively planned and illustrated concepts by studying information and materials to design rough layout of art and copy regarding arrangement, size, type size and style, and related aesthetic concepts

Identified issue affecting graphics at the time of exporting from DITA to HTML or print format (InDesign)

Created DITA and XML files to correct user guides or to replace missing user guides.

Assisted developers with script writing for Illustrator and InDesign.

Production Graphic Designer, FASTSIGNS; Chicago, IL 2015

Demonstrated expertise in design and computer applications to review final designs and layouts while suggesting improvements and modifying formats to increase the quality of production.

Tasked with scaling, cropping, retouching, repositioning and preflighting, or eliminating defective and excessive imaging; worked on Image retouching and editing, prepare files printing or make Print ready files.

Proofed, designed, and installed graphic art and promotional materials such as flyers, banners, and vehicle wraps while establishing new vendor relationships for outsourcing purposes.

Graphic Designer, Reesha Printing; Bridgeview, IL 2013-2015

Managed project timelines and budgets for numerous clients at a time

Created, edited, and added graphics to company WordPress website

Designed and maintained company advertisements on Facebook and Instagram

Designed flyers, signs, vehicle wraps, etc. using Adobe Creative Suite

Maintained relationships with large client base covering multiple industries

Graphic Designer, Frontrow; Amman, Jordan 2012

Layout design and managed photo editing for several company magazines

Collected advertisements and collaborated with marketing department for client projects

Worked closely with copywriters to obtain and review articles

Graphic Designer, Trinet; Amman, Jordan 2011-2012

Designed large-scale projects, such as billboards, store-front window stickers, and other advertisements

Created marketing materials and handled layout for Trinet

Education

Petra University, Amman, Jordan B.A. Graphic Design

Skills

Adobe Photoshop – Dreamweaver - InDesign - Illustrator - Adobe Acrobat Pro - Muse – Microsoft Office - HTML5 - CSS3 - JavaScript - Bootstrap – WordPress – Front-end development – Responsive Web Design - XHTML – XML – XSLT - Mac & PC Platforms

Fluent in Arabic – UX Design - Graphic Design - Print Design - Web Design – Web Development - Project Management - Content Management System - Client Relationships - Team Leadership

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