Ismaiel El-Qerm – Senior Reviewer / Content Writer at Diwan Studio

Work Experience

Sep 2015 - Present -9 yrs, 10 months

Egypt , Cairo

Job Details:• Translate a wide variety of texts (promotional material, product information, professional/ corporate communications, sales presentations, training materials, etc.) pertaining to the following categories: legal, financial, technical, and marketing. • Review translations done by other translators and freelancers. • Manage projects, priorities, and negotiate deadlines. • Support internal customers by providing expert advice, and serve as go-to person for all questions related to translation projects (administrative and linguistic). • Translating important texts for government. • Proofread and edit final translated versions. • Contribute to creating and enriching an in-house terminology database. • Contribute to developing and coaching other translators in a less senior role.

Dec 2012 - Aug 2013 -8 months

Egypt , Port Said

Job Details:Classroom management. • Planning, preparing and delivering lessons to a range of classes and age groups. • Preparing and setting tests, examination papers, and exercises. • Marking and providing appropriate feedback on oral and written work. • Devising, writing and producing new materials, including audio and visual resources. • Organizing and getting involved in social and cultural activities such as sports competitions, school parties, dinners and excursions. • Attending and contributing to training sessions. • Participating in marketing events for the language school. • Preparing information for inspection visits and other quality assurance exercises. • Freelance teaching on a one-to-one basis. • Basic administration, such as keeping student registers and attendance records.

Etisalat Misr

Jul 2011 - Dec 2012 -1 yr, 5 months

Egypt , Minya

Job Details:• Sell all the company products. • Fulfill all the customer needs. • Perform all the customer services and customer care. • Monitoring the workflow to make sure that everything is going according to the schedule. • Acting as store manager assistant when needed.

American Language Center

Oct 2008 - Oct 2010 -2 yrs

United Arab Emirates , Abu Dhabi

Job Details:• Translate all correspondences, reports and memos. • Organize and develop, or obtain, training procedure manuals and guides and course materials such as handouts and visual materials. • Produce training materials for in-house courses as appropriate. Amend and revise materials as necessary, in order to adapt to changes that occur. • Prepare and mange the participants’ attendances form and record. • Managing inventory of assets and supplies, monitoring critical level of stocks, sourcing for suppliers and submitting invoice(s). • Referring to reference sources as needed to insure accuracy of translated works • Adapting documents from one language to another. • Scheduling and coordinating meetings, interviews, events and other similar activities. • Ensure relevant trainer evaluations are conducted appropriately. • Preparing business correspondence (often using word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation computer software). • Performing multifaceted general office support. • Preparing meeting minutes, meeting notes and internal support materials.