Saira Aslam, Project Manager

Saira Aslam

Project Manager

Google India via vendor

Location
India - Delhi
Education
Master's degree, English
Experience
13 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 0 Months

Project Manager at Google India via vendor
  • India - Delhi
  • My current job since January 2017

Handling a team of 15 Language Experts for Google India’s ambitious Localization programme, ensuring
On Time Delivery and keeping a check on the quality standards; being a team player and effective
communicator to the standards considered best by one of the world’s leading tech companies; learning
international best practices to organize work; while being a mentor to the team that has a varied agegroup.
Association with Omnicom group has also introduced me to the growing digital media space.

Principal Copy Editor at Press Trust of India (PTI)
  • October 2011 to January 2017

During the 5 years I have spent in PTI, I have reported and edited stories on political and human interest
issues besides features. I have earned three promotions, of which two have been double promotions and I
was serving as the organisation’s youngest Principal Copy Editor. I have reported and edited stories
which have been picked up by nearly a dozen newspapers, many of them on their front page. In my
capacity as a shift in-charge for over 3 years, I was an independently transmitting hand managing a
team

Editorial Assistant at All India Radio (AIR)
  • India
  • August 2011 to March 2012

● Summer training in The Hindu MetroPlus, New Delhi and earned about a dozen bylines in a month’s time
(2010)
● Worked on the Layout and Design of two tabloids of the class called ‘Insight’ and ‘YouThink’ (2009-11)
● Prepared a number of television and radio news packages as well as photo stories on topics
surrounding CWG, introduction of BRMS course, World Book Fair, RTI, Tibetan settlement at Bylakuppe
(Karnataka) and many others under veterans like Pablo Bartholomew, Magdalena Herrera etc

Co-Producer at Asian News International (ANI)
  • May 2011 to September 2011

Education

Master's degree, English
  • at Jamia Millia Islamia
  • January 2016
Master's degree, Convergent Journalism
  • at AJK Mass Communication Research Centre (AJKMCRC)Jamia Millia Islami
  • July 2011
Bachelor's degree, Communicative English with Media Studies
  • at Patna Women’s College (Patna University)
  • June 2008

Specialties & Skills

Public Relations
Reporting
News Writing
Copy Editing
Skilled Communicator
COPY EDITING
DELIVERY
FEATURES
FRONTPAGE
MANAGEMENT
MENTORING
NEWSPAPER
QUALITY
STORIES

Languages

English
Expert
French
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Hobbies

  • Traveling
    my name means a "vagabond". Hence, I love travelling and the sight of the unaccustomed earth.