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Team member of the Qatar National Project Management Initiative (QNPM), a comprehensive program to review and strengthen project management in Qatar's public service
Duties included:

• Worked with a team of local and international experts to design, build, and facilitate 5-day training workshops on:
  - General project management (beginner and advanced)
  - Project management for construction projects
  - Policy development
  - Strategic planning
  
• Worked in collaboration with external communications, design and website development professionals to create online and offline promotional materials
  
• Adapted QNPM materials for the needs of the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Interior and delivered 7-day project management training workshop
  

Provided strategic direction and development plan for creation of an online-only book club aimed at a progressive audience
Duties included:

• Directed efforts of senior management to develop a realistic but ambitious strategic plan for the launch of the bookclub website
  
• Worked with outside vendors to deliver on the strategic plan, including creation of site IA and design, functional specifications, build schedule, hosting requirements, and email marketing strategy
  

Managed national self-advocacy campaign to get children and young people involved in the development of government policy
Duties included:

• Translated government documents into appropriate language and format for distribution to children and young people across the UK (e.g., BBC Charter Review leaflet)
  
• Provided training to government employees and trade associations on effective means of working with and writing for young people
  
• Conducted human rights workshops in schools
  
• Worked with a young freelance designer to reorganize and redesign the campaign website
  

Developed and directed programs to help develop the business and to train school children how to use computers and the internet
Projects included:

• Acted as Business Manager for BusyAccess, a wireless ISP startup
  
• Created and implemented Internet for Schools, a program to train 1,000 local students how to use the internet
  
• Updated and taught a monthly HTML class to staff and customers
  
• Worked with local program staff and IICD coordinators in The Netherlands to develop and lead a training program for the Global Teenager Project to teach students and teachers from five local secondary schools how to plan, design, build, and publish websites

AOL
Senior Producer
September 2000 - March 2003

Managed the production, design, and software development procedures and staff for all movies and television content on the AOL service and related websites (e.g., moviefone.com)
Duties included:

• Managed the scheduling, staffing, design and production of over 300 websites promoting movie releases and television programs
• Oversaw a thorough redesign of the moviefone.com website
• Worked with internal and external stakeholders to ensure all requirements were addressed in each project

Planned the development of a first-generation online publishing tool that allowed users to quickly and easily make WML websites browsable on mobile phones

Barnes & Noble.com
final position: Acting Editorial Director
December 1996 - September 2000

also served as nonfiction manager and features editor

Supervised a staff of 12 editors responsible for the updating of over 25 fiction and nonfiction content areas and the purchasing of inventory
Duties included:

• Managed the creation and publishing of content promoting new releases in all fiction and nonfiction subject areas
• Worked with senior management to expand subject areas, including development of special academic press pages
• Consulted on the development of content management tools
• Responsible for ordering all adult trade book inventory

Shift Magazine
Columnist, Shift.com
June 1997 - March 1998

Wrote a weekly column focusing on new media technology and the culture of technology

Prodigy
Editor-in-chief, Living Digital
July 1995 - December 1996

Managed permanent editorial and production staff, regular contributors, and freelancers working on the daily publishing of an online magazine
Duties included:

• Assigned and edited daily content
• Coordinated site redesign
• Scheduled and lead weekly chat sessions with Prodigy members
• Promoted the content across the service

This Magazine
Story Editor
June 1994 - September 1997

Edited features from first draft through final copy stage for Canada's leading alternative politics and culture magazine

CIUT-FM
Internet Co-ordinator
May 1995 - July 1995

Set up a website for Toronto's largest community radio station
Duties included:

• Researched streaming technologies
• Wrote HTML code for all pages

McKinsey & Company
Junior Editor
March 1992 - May 1994

Copy-edited and consulted on structure of client reports

Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
English and Computer Skills Instructor
February 2002 - March 2003

Taught twice-weekly English classes and helped program staff set up the computer lab and computer skills classes

MOUSE
Computer Skills Instructor
March 1996 - April 1998

Taught weekly computer skills classes to parents of New York City high school students