EXPERIENCE

June 2001 - Present
AOL FRANCE, Neuilly, France
     PRINCIPAL DESIGNER (January 2007 - Present)
     • Worked closely with the French product managers and the English and German design team in order to harmonize              the French, English and German Home Pages and websites (grid, modules, icons, look and feel...),
     • Worked closely with the Welcome Experience product manager in order to harmonize AOL FRANCE, NEUF,                    CEGETEL, CLUB-INTERNET and DARTY Home Pages,
     • Created a "website pack" based on blog technology in order to produce editorial content websites in 2 weeks at                 low cost (ex: Women),
     • Brainstormed and realized the user interface of Pop Place, a website based on user generated content
     DESIGNER (April 2005 - December 2006)
     • Played a major role in the creation of the AOL France websites ( People, Mobile, Weather, Finance etc) considering          the SEO and W3C constraints,
     • Graphic person in charge of Branding: applied the new AOL's brand expression to current online content, in                 association with the UK, De and the US; created the French Online style guide,
     • Worked closely with web designers in order to create AOL's modules catalog,
     • Created AOL's French mobile portal which offers various services (mail, weather, chat...),
     • Worked closely with Product Manager in order to realize the visual design of AOL TV's user interfaces
    GRAPHIC DESIGNER(June 2001 - March 2005)
     • Graphic person in charge of the AOL marketing areas and "member education" areas: AOL 9.0 Launch,                    product guide, Workflow for new subscribers, New prices (fall, winter, spring and summer), AOL Security, Sign on a            friend area, Network area, Welcome screen for new members...
     • Designed AOL's event areas: movie launch of THE TWO TOWERS, SCOOBY-DOO 2, miss AOL 2003 etc,
     • Created smaller websites for AOL's partners such as PEPSI, LASTMINUTE.COM,
     • In charge of the graphic development of AOL 9.0 in association with the US graphic team

January - February 2001
ARGONAUTE, Paris, France
     GRAPHIC DESIGNER
     • Realization of sales pitch for WINSTON and CASTELLANE,
     • Designed DADDY's sales pitch and technical note,
     • Realization of ESPADON's stationery

July 2000
BATES ROUGE, Beirut, Lebanon
     GRAPHIC DESIGNER
     • Designed the packaging for AL KARRAM red wine,
     • Participated in a contest organized by LA BANQUE LIBANO FRANCAISE

EDUCATION

     • May 2001: Certificate, Visual Communication,
     • 1998 - 2001: Student at CREAPOLE ESDI, school of design management in visual communication

SOFTWARES AND LANGUAGES

    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Adobe Illustrator
    • Adobe InDesign
    • QuarkXpress
    • XHTML
    • CSS

LANGUAGES

    • French: mother tongue
    • English: good working knowledge