Address: 14 Al Naqueeb Said, Al Sudan St.

, Al Mohandessen Cairo, Egypt Home Phone: 00229720385

Email: karim_f@ymail.com Cellular: 0020187387275

Karim Mohmed Farid

Objective
Seeking a challenging position in a reputable company where my academic backgrounds are well developed and utilized. Exploit my interpersonal skills to the farthest extent in order to climb the corporate ladder where I can be a decision maker. 19972001 Bachelor of Commerce Graduation grade GOOD Cairo University Cairo, Egypt

Education & Certification

Experience
2007-2009 ES, Cairo Cairo, Egypt
Senior Desktop Publisher & Artwork Designer:

Produce user guides, quick start guides, pamphlets, leaflets, brochures among other printable and online material in the course of localization projects. Recreating complex artwork, inclusive of charts, illustrations, schedules, charts, graphics and icons to be included in localized material in right-to-left or left-to-right format. Designing and formatting ES' internal prints, including business cards, logos, brochures and Web site material. Engineering the extraction of text from native DTP files for the convenience of the translation teams, and then importing the text back to its DTP application in order for the DTP process to be carried out. Applying a total quality management approach to ascertain that all material are shipped to the client at the highest possible level of quality. Organizing and taking part in DTP department's regular meetings to ensure the best interpersonal communication is achieved, as well as holding regular phone conference calls with colleagues in the Istanbul Headquarters to establish standards for artwork and documents. Process several DTP/artwork assignments for multiple Western/Eastern European languages as well as the more challenging right-to-left languages. Future Group Cairo, Egypt

20052007

Desktop Publishing Trainer (Part time)

Design training courses and programs and preparing training on DTP tools
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such as Adobe Indesign, Framemaker, QuarkXpress and Ms Word to meet company's training needs. Ensure all training activities and materials meet with relevant organizational policies and needs. Monitor, report and develop the training process and activities. Plan and deliver training courses personally. Evaluate and follow up the trainees and prepare reports by their levels. Develop self, and maintain knowledge in relevant field at all times. Maintain awareness and knowledge of contemporary trainees needs and requirements. Future Group Cairo, Egypt

2005

Desktop Publishing Team Leader

Standardize DTP steps and methods so that we can ensure the best performance and consistency among various DTP operators in the company. Report the need for new guidelines, and the need to modify existing ones; also participate in creating the needed guides, and check lists. Guide DTP team members closely through projects ensuring that the defined DTP steps and guidelines are followed. Supporting DTP staff concerning both technical problems and publishing issues. Enhancing the current work cycles, invent new ones. Awareness of localization models and workflows, and project scheduling. Provide production and quality reports that can be input for many things among which is deciding the need to hire new employees. Evaluate team members, encouraging people and motivating them. Participate in deciding the training needs. Future Group Cairo, Egypt

20032004

Desktop Publishing Specialist

Evaluating, and setting up the documentation project. DTP jobs using the most popular applications, e.g. Adobe InDesign, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXpress, Interleaf (BroadVision QuickSilver), Corel Ventura, MS Word and others. Typesetting Arabic, Farsi und Urdu files in Adobe InDesign. Work DTP tasks in all Latin and western languages (FIGS). Fixing the layout of translated material, and localizing graphics. Performing quality checks on finalized translated material. In-depth Knowledge of international layout issues and DTP fundamentals such as style sheets, graphics and templates. Understanding of language and characterset issues in multilingual documentation. Typesetting Operating Manuals for Nokia, Siemens, Sagem, Motorolla, Canon, Lexmark, Opel, Epson, BabWin, Toshiba and others.

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Professional Skills

Computer Skills

Excellent Usage of operating systems: Windows 2000 Professional & Server, Window XP, Macintosh OS 9, OS X. Ms Office 2000, Ms Office XP (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Outlook). Microsoft Project, Internet Explorer, and Web Designing.

Tools & Application

Adobe FrameMaker 7.0, 8.0 Adobe Indesign 2.0 ME, CS ME, CS3 ME Quark Express 5.0, Passport 6.0 (PC & Mac) Corel Ventura 10.0 Interleaf (BroadVision QuickSilver) Adobe PageMaker 7.0 Adobe Acrobat 5.0, 9 Adobe Photoshop 7.0 ME, CS3 Adobe Flash CS3 Adobe Illustrator 10, CS 3 Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4.1 Trados 6.5 LSP

Language Skills:

Arabic: Mother Tongue English: Good command of both written and spoken Spanish: Good command of both written and spoken

Interests Personal Information

Reading, Walking, Traveling, Web browsing and Football.

Date of Birth: Nationality: Marital Status: Military Status:

10/01/1980 Egyptian Married Exempted

References

References are available on request.

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