Hossam Elbialy

Sr. UI/UX Designer

Springfield, VA, USA
Designing is figuring out the purpose of your product and how you orient everything around it.

Work Experience

Mbn

Sr. UI/UX Designer

Lead the development and design concept of all the digital properties with a focus on meaningful design and valued product interactions. Work closely with the Product Manager to translate requirements into designs that focus on the user experience. Develop sketches and mockup demos to help define the look and feel of the product and then to come up with the art direction and final
design that always has the users experience in mind.

• I revamped both Alhurra & Radio SAWA websites to improve the user
experience which increased the average session duration by 150% and
decreased the bounce rate by 25%
• I designed Radio Sawa App and Alhurra App
• I lead all of the online properties for both Alhurra & Radio Sawa and their TV
Shows and Radio Programs
August 2011 - Present Springfield, Virginia, United States

JWT (J. Walter Thompson)

Senior Digital Designer

Collaborate with creative director to produce design concepts and interactive experiences that meet strategic goals. Foster communication of concept within the client by creating moodboards, storyboards, prototypes, photoshop layouts & flash animations. Manage multiple role by participating in all phases of the project life-cycle: concepts, design, production, and maintenance.

ETA “Egyptian Tourist Authority”, Vodafone, Contact Cars, Nestle “Dolceca ice cream”, SARAY“rasidential compound” and 3031 “construction & development”
July 2009 - July 2011 Cairo, Egypt

JWT (J. Walter Thompson)

Senior Digital Designer

Provide web design and animation techniques for various clients in diverse industries collaborating with the whole team of the agency.

STC “Saudi Telecommunication”, SABB “HSBC Saudi”, Nadec Milk, Sunsilk, SACO, Chevrolet, Shell, SAPTCO, Tanmiyat and DTC, HSBC Dubai, Farah, Al-Dar Formula 1, Souria Holding and Audi.
December 2007 - June 2009 Saudi Arabia

Ripple

Head of the graphics department

Observe and direct the work of designers team in Cairo that supporting
marketing team in USA.

• Websites, Flash websites, Templates, Web applications GUI, Presentations,
Billboards, Post Cards, google Ads and SEO.
July 2005 - March 2007 Cairo, Egypt

Local Companies

WEB DESIGNER

Websites, 3D animations, Billboards, Brochures, Business Cards,Flyers, Short Cartoon Movies, CD Covers, Magazines and Web Banners
November 2002 - June 2005 Cairo, Egypt

Education

Almansourah University

Bachelor of Computer Science

The Faculty of Computer Science & Information Systems
September 1999 - May 2003 Mansourah, Egypt

Languages

English (Advanced),
Arabic (Native),

Awards

ITB Germany

Website

2010

GSMA

The Radio Sawa Music app has been short-listed as a finalist for Music App Of The Year by the Global Mobile Awards by the GSMA

2014

The Society For News Design (SND)

The redesign of the Alhurra News app won an Award of Excellence of Best Redesign.

2015

Appy Award

Radio SAWA app short listed as a finalist by Appy Award

2015

Skills

Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Charcoal Painting, CSS, Drawing, HTML, Painting, Photo Manipulation,