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Zyad Kamal Hamed

Hi, I am Zyad. I work full-time as the sole AI specialist at a mid-sized Sydney creative agency, I am in the final year of a Bachelor of AI at UTS, and I freelance as a designer and developer for small businesses that want a proper presence online and systems that run without them. Here is how I got here.

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  1. 2025

    The General Store icon

    AI Specialist, The General Store

    Surry Hills · Sep 2025 to present

    Sole technical hire at a 60-person creative agency. Shipped the staff onboarding platform, wrote automation that removed 39 weeks of manual documentation a year, and trained 50+ people on AI tools.

  2. 2026

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    Bachelor of Artificial Intelligence, graduating

    UTS · Aug 2024 to Dec 2026

    Distinction average. Final-year work includes a court keypoint detector at 0.994 mAP50 shown at UTS Tech Fest, and a RAG chatbot built for UTS FEIT students.

  3. 2023

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    Google UX Design Certificate

    Coursera · Apr 2023

    User research, journey mapping and stakeholder communication. Where the design half started.

  4. 2018

    Platypus Shoes logo

    Retail and customer service, Platypus Shoes

    Sydney CBD · Nov 2018 to Oct 2021

    Beat individual KPIs by 20% or more, trained new staff on POS and sales, and learned how people actually shop.

All of the above, plus the detail, on two pages.

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PDF · 2 pages · 123 KB · Updated 20 Sep 2026