Senior Editor
Luxury Publications
Total years of experience :26 years, 10 Months
Day & Night magazine is the principal monthly publication of Luxury Publications. Curating the best and the latest in the worlds of Haute Horlogerie and Joaillerie, Day & Night caters to the luxury aficionados of the Middle East. Other publications include Watch ME, Middle East Watches, and Jewellery World.
I write and edit content for all of these.
Mediaquest is a leading publishing company based out of Dubai, which publishes several market-leading magazines, including The Dubai Mall Magazine and TRENDS, in addition to B2B and B2C publications.
Key Responsibilities
• Ensuring that all written material is edited, error-free and appealing to the reader.
• Liaising with design teams and journalists wherever required.
Worked as a freelancer specialising in academic books on Humanities, especially for Palgrave Macmillan through their various vendors.
A leading publishing house in the capital city of Muscat in the Sultanate of Oman, Apex brings out five publications in English including a daily newspaper, in addition to Arabic publications.
Key Responsibilities
□ Complete editorial responsibility for Oman Today (monthly leisure magazine)
□ Planned content and prepared flatplan for each issue
□ Assigned stories to reporters and freelancers
□ Edited content submitted by reporters and freelancers
□ Created and edited content for 4 pages of a weekly news magazine, TheWeek
□ Edited assigned sections of the sultanate's yearbook, Tribute
Company: MPS Technologies, India
Duration: November 2006 - May 2007 (6 months)
Designation: Senior Associate - Copy Editing, Books Division
MPS, a 100% subsidiary of Macmillan India Limited, provides publishing solutions for international publishing houses, such as Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Random House Australia.
Key Responsibilities
□ Edited for content and format of academic publications, mainly Humanities
Achievements
Designation: Copy Editor
Cepha caters to all publishing needs of scientific and technical publishers from the U.S. and the U.K.
Key Responsibilities
□ Edited for content and format of academic books
Company: RR Donnelley, India
Duration: December 2001 - September 2005 (5 years, 10 months)
Designation: Lead Quality Controller
Originally named OfficeTiger Database Systems India, a very successful BPO set up by two investment bankers, the company was later acquired by RR Donnelley, a financial printing company.
Key Responsibilities
□ Managed the Quality Control team for the shift, ensuring 98.5% quality accuracy and On Time Delivery
□ Trained new personnel and prepared training material
□ Tracked and analyzed performance metrics of the team on a daily basis
□ Analyzed feedback and communicated to the team
Achievements
□ Was designated Star Performer twice (May and June 2002)
□ Received appreciation letter from client (March 18, 2004)
Designation: Executive - Resource Mobilization
HelpAge India, a founder-member of HelpAge International, is a national-level NGO that works for the cause and care of the elderly. It focuses on funding age-care projects and on advocacy of the problems and rights of the elderly.
Key Responsibilities
□ Developed new sources of funds from corporates and dealt with relevant administrative details
□ Trained new personnel and prepared training material
□ Oversaw team activities
□ Communicated with donors, corporates, public, and press
Company: Joint Research Program by Universities of Chennai, India, and Eastern Kentucky, U.S.A.
Designation: Research Assistant
Aimed at finding out the socio economic problems of the elderly in India, the program was funded by the Smithsonian Institution and conducted across various economic sectors in urban and rural Tamil Nadu.
Key Responsibilities
□ Communicated with the sample population
□ Compiled data from field investigators' reports
□ Wrote content presenting research findings
Conducted by the National Book Trust of India, this is a very comprehensive program that covered all aspects of the publishing industry.
This is a comprehensive training program on technical training and taught a number of technical skills and technical writing skills.
This is a certification in Business English, awarded by the University of Cambridge. I have been certified for a Level Three in this.
□ M.A. (Master of Arts) Anthropology, University of Chennai, India, June 1991
□ B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) English Literature, Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, India, June 1989
