Swabreen Bakr

Graphic Designer

Excellent Graphic Designer with a thorough and demonstrated understanding of current trends and technology to enhance social media and multimedia learning platforms. Over six years of solid design experience on projects from concept to completion. Ability to work across multi-faceted teams to garner best ideas, budgets and optimal solutions for end product design. Innate ability to develop effective user interface design tailored to a variety of audiences for optimal user interaction.

Resume

Swabreen Bakr
Philadelphia, PA 19147
Tel: 215-888-1317
Email: swabreen@gmail.com

PORTFOLIO: http://swabreen.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Apex Learning, Philadelphia, PA
Lead Multimedia Designer, 2006-Present
• Led visual development on a variety of user-interface projects
• Coordinated team assignments to enable optimal project deadline
• Developed captivating typographic schemes to enhance user learning
• Produced flash animated graphics and developed user-interface designs for instructional multimedia content targeting secondary education students with a variety of learning styles.
• Met deadlines for multiple and concurrent projects

Purple Sky Magazine, Philadelphia, PA
Freelance Graphic Designer, 2007-2008
• Designed editorial layouts and promotional materials
• Assisted Art Director in development of magazine layout and design
• Copy-edited print materials
• Met quarterly deadlines

Drexel University, Design & Merchandising Magazine, Philadelphia, PA
Assistant Graphic Designer, 2006
• Created and designed multimedia companion for magazine
• Designed editorial layouts for magazine spreads
• Photographed locations for magazine spreads

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS
• Hardware: PC, Mac
• Software: Adobe: Illustrator, Flash, InDesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver. Microsoft: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

LANGUAGE SKILLS
• Bilingual: English/Spanish

EDUCATION
•Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
°Bachelor of Science in Digital Media

Location

Philadelphia, PA

Specialties

  • Illustration
  • Print
  • Motion Graphics

Experience

6 years

Education

Drexel University

Website

http://swabreen.com