Otto Akbay
Skills
Timeline
Professional experience for Otto Akbay
- Current 1 year and 4 months, since Jul 2025
Senior Art Director
EasyCEP ( Corporate Company )
- 2 years and 1 month, Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
UIUX Product Designer, Motion Grapher
Vitamin Home & Seeders / UAE (Remote/Contract)
I worked on joint projects in Dubai, communicating in English with diverse international colleagues. My first remotely managed project, following prior international agency experience, proved to be a uniquely impactful challenge that truly tested my capabilities. PS: By actively and effectively utilizing Translate's support, our project development processes, which have continued seamlessly for over a year, have encountered no written discrepancies in communication or documentation.
- 10 months, Dec 2022 - Sep 2023
Design Team Lead
Tick Tock Boom ( Advertising Agency / Social )
Social Media & Pr Agency
- 1 year and 5 months, Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
UI/UX Designer
VMLY&R ( Advertising Agency / Digital )
Multidisciplinary Designer transitioned to UI/UX Design, garnered awards, and became Art Director. Leveraging 7+ years of experience and technical skills (wireframing, prototyping, UI design), they collaborated on projects at Vodafone, Ford Rakun, and more.
- 4 years and 2 months, Jun 2017 - Jul 2021
Founder / Advertiser, Senior Art, UIUX Designer, Motion Grapher
Inborn Progressive ( Advertising Agency / Traditional / Digital / Social )
Tradional Advertising Projects & Digital Focus Projects.
- 10 months, Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
Creative Group Head
Grey Agency, WPP ( Advertising Agency / Traditional / Digital )
- 9 years and 8 months, Jan 2007 - Aug 2016
Senior Creative Art Director (Core Team member) Digital
C Section, WPP ( Advertising Agency / Digital )
Educational background for Otto Akbay
- 4 years and 4 months, Jun 2001 - Sep 2005
Art / Graphic Department
Abant Izzet Baysal University
- 3 years and 4 months, May 1996 - Aug 1999
Art Department
Fine art High School
Languages
Turkish
C2 (Expert / native speaker)
English
B1-B2 (Good)
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