Currently running the Social Media strategy for the Doha Tribeca Film Festival

Responsible for setting Volantis’ first ever Social Media strategy and ran all the company’s social media initiatives.

As a member of the New Media team at Al Jazeera I was heavily involved in setting and driving forward their Social Media strategy.

Ran Social Media campaign for a Hostage In Qatar. Included setting him up with a blog and on Twitter and guiding him on how to use them effectively to get his message to the world. (http://hostageinqatar.com)

Currently leading the development of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival’s Mobile Website

Worked on the creation and launch of Al Jazeera’s first Mobile Website (http://m.aljazeera.net)

Spent 2.5 year with Volantis System, an industry leader in Mobile Web technology where I became an expert in Mobile Browser technology.

Expert knowledge of mobile devices and operating systems stemming from my experience in managing Volantis’ Mobile Device Database and carrying out extensive device testing.

Expert Knowledge in Mobile Technologies: Device Independent Development, UAProfile, User-Agent Parsing, wcss/css-mobile, xhtml-mp, wml

Mobile Web evangelist at Volantis Systems where I enhanced the companies visibility in the mobile developer community and spread my enthusiasm for the mobile web.

New Media services evangelist at Al Jazeera, along with the rest of the New Media Team. Helping spread the word about Al Jazeera services and interacting with online communities.

Product Manager for Al Jazeeras Mobile Web service and Mobile Reporter Application.

Project Manager for various New Media services at Al Jazeera including a Mobile Application and tools for enhancing the way the newsroom interacted with online communities.

Managed all projects related to the Mobile Device Database at Volantis, a key component to all their products.

Good knowledge of HTML and CSS after having created, maintained and edited various web-sites since 1997.

Working knowledge of apache, mysql, csv, xml, rss, java, javascript, Eclipse, perl, python, php

I have been blogging since 2002 and have set-up and run a variety of blogs both for personal use and for corporate use. Wordpress, Typepad and Blogger.

I am a regular user of Twitter, the micro-blogging social network. (http://twitter.com/tarek)

I currently blog at my personal site (http://www.tarekesber.com)

Running Social Media strategy for the Doha Tribeca Film Festival on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Vimeo and other networks.

Project Managing the development of the DTFF Mobile website and community outreach initiatives.

Representing DTFF on the Social Web. Getting involved in and initiating conversation about what we’re doing.

Producing New Media content for our website and networks covering Doha, Film and the Festival.

Updating and maintaining the DTFF website – http://dtff.com

Senior member of the team that sets New Media strategy for Al Jazeera

Worked on the creation and launch of Al Jazeera’s first Mobile Website (http://m.aljazeera.net)

Initiated & lead a project to allow Al Jazeera to engage with various online communities, request content & pull content directly into the newsroom for use on TV and online

Rolled out a Mobile Reporter application which allowed journalists to create and send content directly into our Newsroom

Designed & managed an Al Jazeera application that would be created for various mobile operating systems

Worked on a project involving the launch of a Live Streaming application for the iPhone

Initiated & lead a global mobile content deal with a major Operator

Developed guidelines for improving Al Jazeeras interaction with online communities & its use of online tools.

Involved in various other mobile and social media projects including projects revolving around the War on Gaza, various major elections and other major news stories

Concentrated on online and mobile campaigns specialising in New Media and Social Media.

Heavily involved in Digital campaigns and pitches for Nokia, Action Aid, Sunny Delight, SpreadEx, Pfizer and others.

Mobile analyst contributing to the Mobile Messaging 2.0 blog.

Wrote regular opinion pieces about what is going on in the Mobile Industry.

Developed and ran Social Media strategy for the company. Assisted on the campaign to increase awareness of the company & its products in the market & media

Drove forward a Community project revolving around an Open Source product and generated interest within the developer community

Created useful dialogue with our target audiences in order to reinforce Volantis’ position as a market leader and industry expert.

Ensured the company was kept up to date with developments in the market and was able to reflect its knowledge and expertise in its communications

Kept the company executives up-to-date on relevant & industry trends and internally blogged about relevant industry happenings

Hired, Trained & Managed the Junior Device Team based in Poland to be responsible for Device Information Repository

Helped new and current customers with mobile device related issues, creating test-cases for various low-level properties of mobile browsers

Kept the customer informed on the current industry landscape and helping create strategies for the companies products and road-maps based on the latest mobile device technology being released.

Supported sales and crisis meetings

Hostage In Qatar - http://www.tarekesber.com/?p=352

Social Road Trip Around California - http://www.tarekesber.com/?p=236

#Awesome09 - http://www.tarekesber.com/?p=257

Organised Twestival Doha in February 2009

Have played many sports at team level both at school and at university. These sports include football, tennis, basketball and volleyball. I also do cross-country running on a regular basis.

Reading: I am currently reading books on politics and Japanese Culture.

Journalism: This interest was rekindled during my time with Al Jazeera where I had the opportunity to experience real journalism and regularly interact with various journalist, correspondents and anchors. My specific interest is in investigative journalism with a view to producing documentaries.