Karim Haider, Sr. Digital Content Engineer (VAS Engineer)

Karim Haider

Sr. Digital Content Engineer (VAS Engineer)

Qanawat FZ LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronic Engineering
Experience
22 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 3 Months

Sr. Digital Content Engineer (VAS Engineer) at Qanawat FZ LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since April 2007

Role:
• Working on VAS digital platforms of over 45 Tier 1 Mobile Operators and maintaining technical quality of Digital Catalog
• Conceptualising and implementing technical standards of quality for ingestion of digital contents from over 400 Contents Suppliers and width range of type of digital contents (Audio, Video, SMS, MMS, Wallpapers, Images, Banners, etc.)
• Ensure that the content of tapes, CD’s, DVD’s & files meet the correct technical specifications.
• Ensure high quality of content through technical editing.
• Rendering assistance in determining performance measurement parameters such as data and collection frequency, etc.
• Reviewing customer’s technical specifications for over 150 different customers with different kinds of services such as RBT, RT, FT, BGM, video, SMS, MMS, WAP, etc.
• Maintaining hand-over documentation and training operational technicians
• Resolving formatting/editing issues and generating reports to anticipate problems and analyze the reason
• Delivering technical support to Product Specialist to modify contents before the delivery.
• Rendering technical reports to identify cause of problems and forwarding preventive guidance to avoid problems

Highlight:
• Functioned as a Specialist in digital & social media such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
• Successfully completed various projects on time and within budget and bagged appreciations for the same within organization
• Received appreciation from client for quality of the services delivered with zero defect

Digital Audio Visual Engineer at Viva Entertainment FZ LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2002 to March 2007

Role:
• Handled setting up and maintaining equipment used to enhance live events, such as microphones, video recorders, projectors, lighting and sound mixing equipment
• Verify that the content of tapes is correct.
• Logging tapes correctly in the system once received.
• Ensure all produced and acquired content available for transmission in advance as per the required timeline
• Ensuring sub-titling or dubbing is done for the tapes if required.
• Provide recommendation about the cutting and technical editing alternatives according to the distributing region.
• Monitored levels of inventory of equipment and prepared new digital master for DVD’s & CD’s replication using professional software as Adobe, Pinnacle Studio, Sony, WaveLab, etc.
• Recorded meetings & presentations with video cameras, operate spotlights, adjust amplifiers & graphics used in displays and provided technical support for teleconferences
• Managed assignments for reputed arabic artists like Ragheb Alama, Amr Diab, Shereen, Sameera Saied, Dianna Haddad and Aydah Almenhali

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronic Engineering
  • at Tishreen University, Lattakia , Syria
  • February 1996

BSc. Of Electronic Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Digital Video
Final Cut Express
Web Content Management
Web Content Production
Sound Forge Pro 10.0 & ACID studio 9
Final Cut Pro
Adobe Premier
Microsoft Office
Sony Vegas Pro 12

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Intermediate

Memberships

Syrian Engineering Association
  • Engineering
  • March 1996

Hobbies

  • Playing chess