Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Highly motivated and engaging project manager in the event management and production arena with over 23 years of experience working on national and international-level events in the nonprofit, political, sport, fashion, and entertainment fields. I am known for my strong customer service orientation and delivery focus, as well as my active commitment to continuous improvement and upholding quality standards. Proven ability to manage full project lifecycles, from conceptualization to post-event analysis. Expert in venue selection, contract negotiation, on-site logistics, and managing third-party vendors. Skilled in coordinating cross-functional teams, including marketing, AV technicians, and external agencies. Event Planning, Stakeholder Management, Risk Mitigation, Project Management Systems
Manage communications with presenters and hosts to ensure they have the correct equipment and test internet connectivity, and liaise with management to procure equipment as needed. Schedule and execute rehearsals in advance of live events to ensure all parties are prepared for success. Offer assistance and guidance with any attendee connection issues, as well as basic technical support during an event. Problem-solving with internal and external teams on event day including attendee feedback, goal attainment, and recommendations for future event improvements. Liaise with client, speakers and co-organizers as needed. Process and retrieve webinar recordings. Editing and converting video and audio materials and uploading them for distribution.
Strategically planning and executing large scale & high-end events including trade shows, international meetings, corporate retreats, company outings, conferences across the country. Such as Corona Sunset Festival, Smirnoff Sound Collective, Forever Living Global Rally 2017, Long Drive World Series 2017-18, Abu Dhabi Classics 2017-19. Producing detailed proposals for event time lines, venues, suppliers, legal obligations, staffing and budgets. Finding suitable and commercially viable venues for events. Defining sales, revenue targets and performance objectives. Managing customer relationships. Dealing with Health & Safety reports and preparing Method Statements and Risk Assessments. Ensuring that Event assistants are properly briefed about their objectives, tasks and roles and bookings and arrangements were made in relation to confirmed events and projects. Organizing logistics of event preparation, including location scouting, stage design, venue decor, and program implementation. Ensuring that events are properly staffed and all extra costs are invoiced to clients in a timely manner. Managing all areas of events, from pre-planning, through the event day, and post-event activities. Supervising team of event planners and assistants, scenic and third party suppliers, while hiring support staff and other contract workers as necessary within given monetary parameters. Site visit with clients and create list about their technical requirements. Make plans about room set up, equipment installation and required crew members.
Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables. Lead the planning and implementation of project. Define project tasks and resource requirements. Interface comfortably with a range of clients, contractors, and consultants. Ensure Health and Safety, quality control procedures and compliance is carried out. Assemble and coordinate project staff, manage project budget and project resource allocation and interface comfortably with a range of clients, contractors, and consultants. Site visit with clients and create list about their technical requirements. Make plans about room set up, equipment installation and required crew members. Control approved budgets, credit applications and invoices for conferences and event-related expenditures and event closeout. Operate the NewTek TriCaster Multi-camera production system including three robotic cameras and additional sources for presentation during live broadcast and on-demand recordings. Edit the recorder footage and prepare it for the web streaming and archiving. Keep the archive up to date. Setting Up a full outdoor studio set for CNN Abu Dhabi the ''Connect World'' by Becky Anderson News. Profile lights and hair light, stage elements, teleprompter, preview monitors, talkback system.
Weekly project management. Create technical pull sheet and floor plan for the weekly events according to the agreement with the client. Supervise the rigging and de-rigging procedure of the set up. Health and safety check before and after the event. Develop full scale project plans. Plan and schedule project timelines, provide direction and support to project team. Manage Site and prepare work accordingly. Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to client and involved parties, and present reports defining project progress, problems and solutions. Provide key customer service and co-ordinate technical equipment on site and ensure client satisfaction. Manage, direct, and supervise the corporate events department staff and resources and provide close coordination with internal client account teams and other cross-functional departments. Conduct site visits as necessary for client conference and event locations, oversee negotiations, and participate in the decision-making and recommendation process. Manage the planning and execution of major customer-facing and internal events including customer conferences, annual internal events, and staff celebrations. Prepare and update invoice on a weekly bases related to past and upcoming events. Check and email invoices and quotes between client and third party av suppliers. Advise students and faculty on best practices and the effective use of a variety of digital media technologies to enhance teaching and learning. Identify tools to create e-learning materials. Collaborate with internal client teams and organizing committees to plan scope and format of events, to establish and monitor budgets, and to review administrative procedures and event progress. Negotiate and execute contracts with external event sites, hotels, speakers, transportation and other ancillary services for all client conferences and events and consult with client teams to determine objectives and requirements for the event.
Live Video and Audio Broadcasting from the on-site TV studio for Sky News, BBC 2, Channel 4, Bloomberg. Providing general support services (producing, directing, camera work and editing) on different productions during the absence of an Assistant Editor. Recording meetings and interviews in the on-site green room and multi site conferences via the Lifesize video conference unit and editing the final digital video file with Final Cut Studio Pro, Motion and Adobe Premier. Assembling the final video production sequence, consisting of shots taken from the raw camera footage, contacting directly producers and graphic artists to assemble video content for local television distribution, providing non-linear video editing, image manipulation and colour correction of all assigned productions. Receiving a brief, and sometimes an outline of footage or a shot list, or screenplay, assembling all raw footage with the camera shots either recorded or manually transferred onto high-format video tape in preparation for inputting into the computer. Assistance with the production & development of web logs and pod cast. Assistance in all video related projects undertaken by Barclays Media Team through its events and promotions.