Supervisor - Web & Digital Media
MBC Group FZ LLC
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :18 years, 7 أشهر
• Setting and planning the annual budget for the web & digital media department by estimating all required CAPEX and OPEX.
• Implementing the social media campaigns, tools integrations and widgets customization for AlArabiya.net on Twitter and Facebook.
• Provide leadership, coaching and supervision to team members in web development.
• Managed to hand over the 2010 revamp project of Alarabiya.net which focused in integrating and revamping real time TV services with the online portal (i.e. VOD, Live streaming, Breaking News, News Tickers, Forecast Weather Service)
• Using state-of-the-art web technologies like Cloud-Hosting, Cloud-Files, CDN, Amazon EC2 to save bandwidth consumption that resulted in a huge cutting cost in my department.
• Resolved the scalability issues faced the website by implementing MVC design patterns, template engine, routing, configuration and caching engines.
Social Media Qualifications:
Facebook:
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• High experience in integrating the following Facebook social plugins:
Like Button, Activity Feed, Recommendations, Like Box, Login Button, Registration, Live Stream.
• Excellent experience in employing Facebook Ads for marketing and to boost website traffic.
• Experienced in Integrating Facebook comments system and authentication systems.
• Outstanding knowledge and experience in developing Facebook fans pages.
• Experienced using Facebook Insights for users and interactions analytics.
Twitter:
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• Experienced in building business reputation, and customer's trust by utilizing Twitter to quickly share information, gather market intelligence and insights, and build relationships with visitors.
• Outstanding experience in Twitter API Integration to create a richer consumer experience (i.e. Tweet Button, Follow Buttons, Live stream widgets.
• Excellent experience in Twitter business and advertising tools for boosting web traffic (i.e. Promoted Tweets, Promoted Trends, Promoted Accounts)
• Leading a team of 4 web developers and communicating with the project manager to deliver projects on time and according to system requirements specifications.
• Employing pingdom.com to monitor and report the websites availability.
• Building and designing a new hosting architecture to suit the scalability requirement of AlArabiya.net
• Enhancing the user experience and the website usability by implementing Ajax services.
• Successful handover of the multilingual interface of AlArabiya.net (English, Persian, Urdu)
• Integrating the Breaking News service on the TV to be synchronized with the online portal.
• Emphasizing OOP model to be used as much as possible across all source code.
• Adopting Wiki as a practical tool for source code documentation.
• Resolved the performance issues resulted by the high traffic on the websites by implementing frontend-engineering best practices such as tweaking Apache servers configurations, op-code caching, FileSystem Caching, using Memcache servers, minify JS/CSS, domain splitting, expire required headers, Gzip compression, and reduce DNS lookups.
• Resolved the organizational complexity by using Git as a distributed version control system to organize and manage the source code among diverse workflows between the team members and different application environments such as “development, staging, testing and production”
• Ensured strong optimization and functionality of the websites.
• Optimizing websites with keywords for search engine ranking and handling projects for all the activities of Search Engine Optimization.
• Successful hand over for the project "Alaswaq.net, " a huge financial news and GCC stock markets information portal (http://www.alaswaq.net) “the website is now merged under AlArabiya.net”
• Launching the online coverage of the World Cup 2006 on Alarabiya.net
• Implemented ways to reuse code and functions-base across projects.
• Participated as a key programmer in developing the current contents management system of Alarabiya.net with high attention to usability standards. The CMS comprises over 25 fully integrated functional modules, and the project has been handed over after 6 months of extensive development efforts. Technology used (Linux, PHP, MYSQL, and APACHE).