Karim Muhtar

Address: Beirut, Lebanon

Phone: +961-**-******

Email: adaz4f@r.postjobfree.com

Portfolio: www.karimmuhtar.com

Education: 2 Bachelors

Digital Design

Lebanese American University 2006 - 2009 Bachelor’s Degree

Operations & Information Management

American University of Beirut 2001 - 2004 Bachelor’s Degree Experience: 10 Years

Senior UX Designer

Freelance (Intentional)

For clients in Lebanon, UAE, UK, & USA

Apr 2011 - Present (except during Presella & Fetchr periods) Duties: Designed websites, web apps, mobile apps, & games.

Senior UX Designer

Fetchr

Dubai, UAE

Aug 2015 - Nov 2015

Duties: Designed the app and the website’s new UX.

UX Designer / Product Designer

Productra

Beirut, Lebanon

Feb 2014 - Aug 2015

Duties: Prototyped & designed various web and mobile apps.

UX Designer / Product Designer

Presella

Beirut, Lebanon

July 2012 - Apr 2013

Duties: Created & designed the online startup.

Web Designer

Firefly Multimedia

Beirut, Lebanon

Sept 2010 - Apr 2011

Duties: Designed and developed websites.

Web Designer

Metaform X

Beirut, Lebanon

Sept 2009 - June 2010

Duties: Designed and developed websites.

Digital Designer

Leo Burnett

Beirut, Lebanon

July 2009 - Aug 2009

Duties: Worked on various digital design projects.

Graphic Designer

Promo I

Beirut, Lebanon

Dec 2008 - Jan 2009

Duties: Worked on branding and corporate identity. Certifications

Scrum Fundamentals Certification (Feb 2019)

Brainbench Web Design Concepts Certification (Aug 2014) Other Experience & Achievements

Co-founded BeirutBuy.com, an online shop. (2017)

Founded MinimalSite, a low-cost websites business. (2016)

Founded Productra, a product think tank. (2014)

Co-founded Presella, an online ticketing startup. Won seed funding and was accelerated by Seeqnce, a tech startup accelerator in Beirut. (2012)

Co-founded Azkatec, a mobile apps development startup. (2011)

I create games as a hobby. Two of the games I made, “Escape The Office” & “Escape The Prison”, have reached more than 2 million plays each. Languages

English (fluent), Arabic (fluent), French (moderate), Spanish (basic). Computer Skills

Wireframing & Rapid Prototyping:

Invision, Lunacy/Sketch, Justinmind Prototyper, usability testing, UX research & analysis, others (most software/tools are similar and I can master them quickly)…

Design & Animation Software:

Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro), 3DS Max…

Programming:

HTML5, CSS3, Flash Action Script 2 & 3, XML, PHP

Audio Editing & Composition:

Adobe Audition, Soundbooth, Fruityloops Studio, EJay

Administration/Management:

Asana, Teamwork, Zoho, MS Office, Project, CRMs

SEO Services, Online Advertising, & Social Media Strategy: Google & Facebook ads / PPC, SEO, ASO, SEM, Analytics, Hootsuite, Communit & others... Interests

Design, apps, software, games, art, technology, online marketing, business, entrepreneurship, music, movies, reading, writing, sports, psychology, people… Portfolio

www.karimmuhtar.com

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