Photographer
Moe Shamseddine Photography
Total years of experience :21 years, 3 months
• Worked closely with clients on projects ranging from portraits, weddings, documentaries, editorial, and commercial/social media headshots & products.
• Thrived under stressful deadlines for timely turnaround on editing, retouching and printing.
• Collaborated with local photographers, organizations, and researchers to provide custom photography for research purposes and documentaries.
• Covered the revolution & protests that took place in Lebanon on October 17, 2019, a project which landed me my first solo exhibition in Barcelona.
• Built and maintained a professional website as well as a vast social media presence. https://www.moeshamseddine.com/
• Responsible for setting up photo equipment- lighting screens, backdrops and maintaining light readings in outdoor shoots.
• Maintained all equipment and responsible for transporting gear to mobile locations and setup.
• Assisted in arranging large groups for portraits and answering questions from students.
• Ensured that all computer software was installed and tested prior to processing photography assignments.
• Ensured all content is on-brand, consistent in terms of style, quality, and voice with the corporate editorial standards.
• Identified new content opportunities from incoming story ideas, organizational and professional current events, regional and national news, trends and matters of interest in the world of Tourism.
• Mentored staff content producers and serve as an arbiter of best practices in grammar, messaging, writing, and style, and ensures proper formatting, tagging and categorization of content.
• Increased engagement with Dubai brand while maintaining a consistent user experience across all channels.
• Assisted in developing real time content feed for special media and owned media on what is happening at Dubai via real-time team.
• Collaborated with content / copy writers, subject matter experts and content creators of all types and/or third-party vendors to deliver against content strategies.
• Managed content creation and planning for micro-sites under visitdubai.com, I worked on Dubai Food Festival, Dubai Motor Festival, Dubai Summer Surprises and more.
• Produced the YouTube web-series ‘In a Dubai Minute, which uses influencers to promote events happening in Dubai and targeting GCC and KSA region. The series is on YouTube on this link http://bit.ly/1LsUg7z.
• Managed all operational communications and information flows, while coordinating with compliance team and play-out provider to minimize service disruptions due to content related issues.
• Managed and established all procedures related to content delivery from international departments and local companies.
• Managed all content issues for special programming events including live feeds, and international events.
I held the title of Content Manager at MTV
Arabia from January 2011 and retained this position following the change in management.
My responsibilities included:
- Creating daily logs.
- Compiling a monthly list of themed hours.
- Following broadcasting regulations during programming of schedule channel elements.
- Keeping a record of all new acquired videos, playlists and themed hours/countdown for future
reference.
- Maintaining the music master database
Responsible for subtitling all the English-speaking shows that air on MTV and Nickelodeon. Duties include coordinating with different departments at the channels to receive the media and sending it to the subtitling house. After the episodes are subtitled, I review them, rectify any errors and send the episodes for broadcast.
• Photographed and edited daily assignments, including but not limited to breaking news, features, and sports.
• Covered ministry of Labor and Education news as well as court cases of different jurisdictions such as criminal, misdemeanor, juveniles, family, real estate, civil, labor, commercial and others.
• Developed story ideas and produced segments covering breaking news, technology, and entertainment while juggling multiple stories and projects at once, and demonstrating exceptional time-management skills by meeting all deadlines under extraordinary pressure.
My work can be found on: https://gulfnews.com/search?query=mohammad+shamseddine
Worked in the paper's office in Lebanon. Responsible of news writing (politics, economics, arts), attending and participating in press conferences, doing interviews and preparing questions for them.
