Hesham Esmail, Senior Content Producer

Hesham Esmail

Senior Content Producer

TwoFour54

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accountiog
Experience
13 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 8 Months

Senior Content Producer at TwoFour54
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since March 2019

Create concepts and designs for new digital projects.
Brainstorm and produce viral content and original feature videos.
Develop new avenues of content to increase unique
visitor numbers, page views, newsletter, subscriptions and community engagement.
Develop and manage client relationships.
Supervising a staff of writers and distributed assignments.
Create and develop multimedia (audio/video) content for customer stories, internal company announcement videos, external promotional social videos, product marketing videos

Freelance Features Writer at Manshoor.com
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2017 to February 2019

- Generating ideas for articles and features.
- Writing and researching features and articles.

Senior Editor / Content Manager at Sarmady
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2017 to January 2019

Supervising a staff of writers and distributed assignments
Working on several campaigns at once, sometimes under pressure and often to tight deadlines.
Overseeing the content creation process, and manage junior editors.
Create and develop multimedia (audio/video) content for customer stories, internal company announcement videos, external promotional social videos, product marketing videos.
Developing creative ideas and concepts, often in partnership with the art director.
Checking with all sources to assure coverage is comprehensive, on time and accurate.
Proofreading text and improve its clarity, spelling and punctuation.
Maintaining consistency, readability and accuracy.

Freelance Contributor at Kharabeesh
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2017 to June 2018

- Conducting extensive research on the Internet to help with providing factual statistics into
the articles/blogs.
- Writing interesting posts for the company's various clients' Google+ Social Media Accounts.
- Writing regular articles & features for Kharabeesh's Egyptian section.

Editor / Social Media Executive at Sarmady
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2013 to December 2016

- Writing regular sports articles & features;
- Evaluating and calls on story tips;
- Determining each week’s coverage by reviewing mail, faxes, and story tips;
- Keeping board informed of ongoing athletic news and issues;
- Maintaining own sports calendar;
- Checking with all sources to assure coverage is comprehensive, on time and accurate;
Proofreading text and improve its clarity, spelling and punctuation;
Maintaining consistency, readability and accuracy;
Expediting content development while ensuring the content’s quality.
Monitor news-gathering operations to ensure utilization of all news sources, such as press.
Editing and posting content from the website to social platforms.
Monitoring social media & digital impact and reporting it.
Create original content for engagement purposes. Ensuring coverage is consistent across all social

Scriptwriter at Cairo Film Production
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2015 to June 2016

- Creating the idea for a script
- Writing scripts for the season’s episodes and sketches
- Conducting research to get information
- Revising scripts under the direction of producers and directors

Creative Copywriter Intern at JWT
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2012 to December 2012

- Liaising with clients and interpreting their briefs;
- Developing creative ideas and concepts, often in partnership with the art director;
- Presenting ideas to colleagues and clients;
- Familiarizing themselves with their clients’ products and services, the target audience and their competitors’ activities;
- Writing clear, persuasive, original copy;
- Proofreading copy to check spelling and grammar;
- Amending, revising or redeveloping adverts or campaigns in response to feedback from the creative director, account team or clients;
- Overseeing campaigns through the production stage to completion;
- Working on several campaigns at once, sometimes under pressure and often to tight deadlines;
- Keeping up to date with popular culture and trends;
- Monitoring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

Co-founder & Senior Sports Editor at EParena
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2008 to January 2011

- Overseeing the content creation process, and manage junior editors;
- Determining editorial content;
- Creating a long-term editorial calendar that details articles, editorials, photography and art needed;
- Creating submission deadlines and timetables for advertising copy, proofreading, and layout;
- Providing direction to graphics and layout personnel with regard to the look and feel of the website;
- Making recommendations for pagination, or layout order, and the photography to use with articles

Education

Bachelor's degree, Accountiog
  • at Alexandria University
  • May 2011

Specialties & Skills

Production
Creativity
Social Media
Copywriting
Journalism
Microsoft Office
Social Media
Journalism
Publishing
Writing
Photoshop
Online Media
creative writing
marketing communications
web content management
content strategy

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert