Media Manager
Sky News Arabia
Total years of experience :20 years, 10 Months
Sky News Arabia April 2012 - Present
Media Manager
(Launching Team) - Abu Dhabi
Duties & Responsibilities: * Setting the naming convention for the media being recorded by MCR or being archived by Library Researchers
* Setting the Media Deletion Policy and Media lifecycle policy for the channel
* Managing all types of media on different servers
* Managing and regulating media traffic between servers (online servers - archiving server)
* Monitoring and managing servers' spaces
* Recording incoming agencies' feeds and stories
* Following up with the daily news agenda and preparing footage for producers upon their requests, according to the daily events that the channel covers
* SETTING THE WORK FLOW FOR THE MEDIA MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
* BUILDING THE MEDIA ARCHIVING POLICY
* Ingesting media into server
- Al Aan TV February2011 - March 2012
Media Assets Manager
Duties & Responsibilities: * Building the archiving and media management department
* BUILDING AND MANAGING THE ARCHIVING TEAM
* MANAGING THE MEDIA FLOW ARRIVING TO THE CHANNEL
* CREATING A DATA BASE FOR ALL THE MEDIA RECEIVED
* VIEWING AND CATALOGUING THE MEDIA AND REPORTS
* MAKING THE SHOT LISTS FOR ALL THE MEDIA
* MANAGING SERVER SPACE
* MANAGING MEDIA DELETIONS
* MANAGING THE MEDIA TRAFFIC BETWEEN SERVERS
* MANAGING TAPES FOR PROGRAMS AND ITS CONTENT
* generating and setting the archiving policy for Al Aan TV and the Archiving Workflow Handbook for the Media Management Department at Al Aan TV (a copy can be presented)
Note: Al Aan Tv has been working for the past 5 years with no archiving or media management department and I'm the first media assets manager at Al Aan TV
- Endemol Middle east (English premiere league) May 2010 - January2011
Media Operations Manager (Fixed Contract and consultancy)
Duties & Responsibilities: * Preparing recording lists for recording media for acquisitions and feed recordings.
* Generating media ID's for feeds.
* Following up with scheduled recordings.
* Working as MCR point of contact in terms of receiving feeds.
* Following up with MCR for feeds being received.
* Quality checking media (audio & video) and feeds received on servers and log them for transmition.
* Adjusting audio channels to meet the protocols followed by Abu Dhabi Media company for Audio Languages.
* Doing simple Editing for media needs editing (if needed) on Final Cut Pro.
* TRANSFERRING MEDIA FROM INGEST SERVER TO PLAY OUT (TRANSMITION) SERVER.
* Working as Transmition point of contact regarding media going on air.
* Head of media logging and cataloguing team.
* Following up with editors and make sure that shows and other media are edited and ready on time for transmition.
* Selecting, cutting and creating new fillers to be used on breaks
* FOLLOWING UP WITH PROMO PRODUCERS AND MAKING SURE THEIR PROMOS ARE DELIVERED ON TIME FOR SCHEDULING.
* Assisting in scheduling and Planning.
* Following up with all operations of media.
* Managing the media from and to archive.
* Managing servers spaces.
* Creating the naming convention for archiving.
- Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) - UAE October 2009 - April 2010
Presentation scheduler
Duties & Responsibilities: * Filling the breaks on channels with proper promos assigned to each channel
* Pulling promos from the server and making them available for scheduling
* Sorting promos in a suitable order that can be run on air
* Time management through the scheduling process
* Following up with TX department to make sure that breaks are not under or overrunning
* Handling various channels at the same time
* One of the team members of the re-launch and merge between Orbit and Showtime
- Al Jazeera International - English Channel October 2006 - September 2009
Senior Specialist - Media Asset Controller (Archivist)
(Launching Team) - Qatar
Duties & Responsibilities: * Cataloguing and archiving agency footage, adding their description (shot listing)
* Following up with latest news on wires (Reuters, APTN, Ramatan )
* Cataloguing AJE output.
* Managing media at Storage Tek (digital archiving storage)
* Applying training to new staff join.
* Meeting the news room's goals on time.
* Restoring and archiving online media.
* Adherence to AJE metadata standards.
* Acting as shift supervisor.
* One of the team members who created and developed the archiving policy for Al-Jazeera English TV.
- CNBC Arabia July 2003 - September 2006
Archivist
(Launching Team)
Duties & Responsibilities: * Receiving and archiving Reuters' clips into tapes, writing their description (shot listing)
* Managing media in Storage Tek & Digital Storage Systems.
* Using AVID editing software (AVID express pro)
* Using AVID Pilot.
* Using AVID Flight Plan.
* Capturing from AVID Air Speed, and recording to it.
* Using IBIS and Quantel software.
* Working in ENPS.
* Receiving and archiving feeds from our bureaus.
* Managing servers and server spaces.
* Ingesting footage from and into server.
* Conducting training to new staff who join the DAM department.
* Acting as shift supervisor.
* One of the launching team members who started and created CNBC library.
* One of the team that created and developed OMAR (Online Media Asset Retrieval) web based data base for media archive licensed in UK.
B.A. in Business Administration, 2001 Faculty of Business and Economics, United Arab Emirates University Major: Business Administration Minor: Marketing Overall Grade: Good