Zeina Saade CV

→ ZBUZZ - Founder

Feb 2018 - Feb 2021 / Full time

I opened a laser cut / laser engraving workshop in Kyiv, the aim of which was to make custom on-of-a-kind items. Before I opened the workshop I handled the construction in the site which was a challenge of its own. It was a solo mission, I was doing everything myself. It was a very experimental and educational project. While it didn’t reach a very profitable stage, I still had to get to better understand marketing, sales, social media.. and everything that was outside of the scope of what I was focused on before.

→ LIFT99 DAO - Project Lead

Jul 2022 - April 2023 / full time

LIFT99 DAO was a community of web3 builders and founders. We focused on building a community, hosting educational events, building an educational platform. But the most interesting part was building the DAO, alongside web3 specialists we worked on mapping out the tokenomics of our investment DAO. This was a very unique and educational experience.

→ Help99 - All thing web

Feb 24th 2022 - ongoing / part time volunteer

Help99 is a community driven NGO that started on the day russia started its full scale invasion on Ukraine. Eventually it became the 69th Sniffing Brigade charity fund which works on fundraising, organizing and delivering support to the Ukrainian army and the Ukrainian people.
I built the website & I’m solely responsible for maintaining it and all the content regarding all the projects on it. The website went through 3 different designs so far, all of which were my responsibility to work with the designers & to implement their designs.

→ Coaches for Ukraine - Event coordination & web development

Feb 24th 2022 - ongoing / part time volunteer

Coaches for Ukraine is Pro Bono expert-led coaching sessions for Ukraine’s business owners aimed at helping navigate their businesses in times of war. It featured 25 prominent coaches and founders with up to 1400 participants. I build and maintained the website, kickstarted & moderated the slack channel for the participants, moderated coaching sessions & coordinated with the coaches before and after their sessions.

→ LIFT99 Kyiv Hub - Hub manager

Oct 2021 - Jul 2022 / full time

LIFT99 is a startup community hub. As a hub manager I focused on improving the physical space. But since it was a community hub run by a small team, it was everyone’s priority to harbor a community vibe on the day-to-day and through events.
I was also part of the team working on developing an HR platform to match startups with talents, my role included web design, web implementation, user experience…
I was working at LIFT99 when Russia invaded Ukraine, it was at that time when we shifted our focus to make sure members of our community were safe. Quickly after we launched multiple projects to help Ukrainians, the Ukrainian army, and projects to support small businesses, entrepreneurs & founders of Ukraine. All under the banner of Helpp99.

→ Sudoculus - Game Designer

2020 -2021 / Part time

Sudoculus is a mobile math based puzzle game. It had a small team of 3 people working on it part-time for about a year, I worked mainly on the design, user experience & testing.

→ Freelancing:

For a while I worked as a freelance graphic designer on many projects with many companies, NGOs & individuals.

Clients that I worked most with during that time:
• AAAS
• AAZ Leonardite
• Kalyanchik
• AAZ trading company
• Art Bay of Scandinavia
• Arnaud De Decker
• NUMO ADHD
• SkyLux Avia
• Middle Litoral
• Walid Yamout Sports

→ The Council -3D modeling

2013 / Part time, Project base

The Council is an animation studio, I was hired to work on 3d modeling for an ad.

→ Side Gigs

→ International Mafia Club

Over a period of about 2 years I organized a community of expats in Ukraine with a weekly meeting over a game of Mafia. The community included over 700 members on Facebook (approx 15% monthly active members). Weekly show up was anywhere between 15 and 40 depending on the week, a combination of regulars and new comers. Tasks included:

• Social media management.
• Organizing the events & the community.
• Moderating the games.
• Photographing and sharing pictures of the events.
• Venue negotiations.

→ Adobe AI Masterclass:

2023
I lead an adobe illustrator masterclass totaling in 15 hours with 20 participants.

→ Workshops

I organized and led multiple workshops with different themes including pumpkin carving, crafting Christmas ornaments, painting workshops.

→ Game nights

Organized Game nights over the course of a couple of months in Kyiv.