Ahmed Shahem Shareef

Professional Arabic editor offering a wealth of experience in leading organizations and handling strategic projects and editorial and translation teams. Recognized as a reliable professional, decisive leader and result-oriented team player with a focus on quality and timely deliveries.

Experienced Arabic editor worked in myriad projects for private and government sectors, highly attentive to style consistency, spelling, grammatical and common mistakes, weak transitions and confusing language, etc.  My professional qualities include engineering and technical background with Arabic fluency, creative thinking, powerful analytical skills and deep understanding of media in business, IT, online content, research reports in a way that boosts success and growth of media, publishing, academic or government organization.  

Highlights of Expertise 

• Journalism                              • Online Publishing                        • Government Communications

• Arabic Translation                  • Project Management                  • IT/Engineering 

• Editing                                     • Proofreading                                • Team leading  

Professional Experience 

Dubai Future Foundation, Dubai

Manager- Content Quality Control (Nov 2019-Nov 2022) 

Editing, writing and proofreading the Dubai Future Foundation’s Arabic content. Leading the editorial team of Mostaqbal Portal (website and social media) to write, translate and proofread futuristic news and articles. Writing articles for local newspapers and editing and proofreading the full Arabic content for Museum of The Future. Editing and proofreading Dubai Future Academy digital courses. Writing, translating and proofreading emailers, PowerPoint presentation, speeches, DFF website content, social media posts, video scripts and reports including the DFF’s flagship report ‘Future Opportunities Repot: The Global 50’, Life After Coved-19 reports, Precision Medicine reports, etc. and developing Arabic glossary for future terminologies, among others.  

H+K Strategies, Dubai 

Arabic Editor (Sept 2017- Oct 2019) 

Translation of English press releases, PowerPoint presentation, speeches, reports and social media postsfor deferent clients in technology, health care, banking, government, sport, etc. Drafting Arabic press releases and opinion columns for clients. My responsibilities included drafting Arabic speeches for clients as well.

Active PR, Dubai 

Arabic Communications Consultant (Oct 2014-May 2015) 

Media pitching and media relations. Drafting interview pitches. Recommending how to target different media and customizing communications to them. Providing consultancy services for major Clients. Supporting the media relations teams with clients’ Arabic interviews. Translating and creating interviews pitches or short write-ups in Arabic. During my tenure, we have served a long list of clients including Arbor Networks, Aspentech, Commscop, Xerox, Ruckus Wireless, Safenet, Parrot, WatchGuard, NVIDIA, JP Morgan, Towers Watson, CEB, Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group.

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Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (du), Dubai

Editor (March 2010-May 2014)

 Defining CMS requirements for Anayou.com project and contributing to its development. Managing Anayou.com localization and content. Conducting interviews with celebrities to create videos and contents. Creating, editing and publishing entertainment, technology, health and beauty, business and society stories. Creating videos and photos of local events. Creating anayou.com YouTube, Facebook and Twitter content and managing it.

ITP Media Group, Dubai

Editor, ArabianBusiness.com/Arabic (Nov 2007- Feb 2010)

Writing, proofreading, editing and uploading daily business news stories. Leading team of journalists and editors their daily news stories. Updating main website page by selecting most important stories. Screening visitors’ comments and feedback.  Analysing website traffic. Improving website features and services.   

• Leveraged website traffic by 300%.
• Increased newsletter subscribers by 80%. 
• Created website style guide and formed the website team.

Dabbagh Information Technology (DIT), Dubai

• Managing Editor (Dec 2004 - Aug 2007)

Creating yearly and monthly editorial plan for magazines and supplements such as PC Magazine Arabia, PC Magazine N&ME, Arabian Resellers. Managing Editorial team and freelancers. Writing reviews and testing IT and consumer electronics products. Drafting articles, news, tutorials and monthly columns. Managing and supervising designers. Supervising PC Magazine IT products test laboratory.  Supervising PC Magazine Arabia website content uploading.           

• Technical Editor (Jan 2000 - Nov 2004)

Writing reviews and testing IT and consumer electronics products. Translating technical articles into Arabic. 

Editing and proofreading partly PC Magazine Arabia contents. Writing articles, news, tutorials for PC Magazine Arabia and Internet Arab World. Uploading PC Magazine Arabia web sites content.                 

• Assistant Technical Editor, (Sept 1997 - Dec 1999)

Providing insightful reviews for consumer electronics products. Translating technical articles from PC Magazine US and DIT Labs reviews into Arabic. Writing articles, news, tutorials for PC Magazine Arabia and Internet Arab World. Communicating with clients to get editorial information and attending their Press Conferences. Proofreading PC Magazine Arabia contents. Uploading PC Magazine Arabia, Internet Arab World content on the designated websites.                 

Other Experience 

Aleppo University Computer Centre, Aleppo, Syria

Development Manager (Sept 1993- August 1997)

Writing customized Database Applications using Visual Basic. Leading software development team. Teaching and training students and employees (DOS, Windows, Access, Excel, Macintosh OS). Technical Support for Aleppo University.

Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria

Programming Lab instructor, (Feb 1989-August 1993)

Hands on students teaching for IT introduction, programming languages (Pascal, Basic, Assembly) DOS, Networks, OrCAD and CAD.   

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Projects 

• mostaqbal.ae portal Arabic content translation/creation – Feb 2017-April 2021

• AL Sayegh Media Arabic Copywriter (social media) – Oct 2015-Jan 2016

• Bloomberg Businessweek Middle East Arabic Translator – Feb 2015-August 2016

• TRACCS PR Arabic Editor (Project) -Jun-July 2015

• Many Arabisation projects with Qordoba Digital Publishing - Jan 2014-2016

• GDRFA website, AEC technical documents, STC content, Arab Media Outlook Report (Strategy&) 

Education 

A Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering 

University: Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria

Faculty: Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 

Year: 1988