Imam Abdelwahab

Imam Abdelwahab

SENIOR PROGRAMMING AND CONTENT LOCALISATION @ Abu Dhabi Media (ADM)

About

Enterprising IPTV, OTT & TV content and news senior specialist with 14 years of media experience where i help in setting a workflow of the news library at Bloomberg Asharq at the start-up phase, developed the digital content programming strategy at Iflix-MENA, performed decisive TVOD sales analysis at Intigral. Enhanced the archiving process of Sheikh Zayed library at ADTV and created assurance filter tapes workflow (traffic) at MBC. Specialities: • Content strategies. • Structuring content workflow. • Curation. • Content & rights management systems. • Market research. • Conducting different types of analysis. • Solid understanding of PR and Media relations.

Country

United Arab Emirates

City

Dubai

Industry

Entertainment

Skill

Project Management, Programming, Strategic Planning, Business Strategy, Business Process Improvement, Risk Assessment, Decision-Making, Research Skills, Analytical Skills, multi-task skills, Exceptional Analytical skills , Problem Solving, Communication, IT Holder, M-S Package, Problem Solving using C, Visual Basic, PhotoShop, Computer Internet Working, Basic Internet Service

Experience

Abu Dhabi Media (ADM)

SENIOR PROGRAMMING AND CONTENT LOCALISATION

Abu Dhabi Media (ADM)

LinkedIn
2022-10 - Present · 4 yrs

Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

• GUI journey experience tailoring on Majid App. • Help with kids content acquisition and selection. • Business and viewership reports' analysis. • Publishing process onto Majid VOD service. • Production consultancy. • Scheduling and planning on FTA channels. • Manage censorship codes and editing process.

Asharq الشرق

Senior News Librarian

Asharq الشرق

LinkedIn
2020-4 - 2023-1 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Set the new workflow across the company. • Manage the team across daily and monthly tasks and targets. • Market researches and business analysis reports monthly. • Conduct recommendations for Budgeting, Marketing and strategic decisions.

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Programming Senior Specialist

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LinkedIn
2018-7 - 2020-4 · 1 yr 10 mos

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Create new business modules. • Content localization. • Content Plan and schedule grid monthly. • Conduct Content viewership performance analysis each quarter based on Genre, Distributors, Week days, Asset type. • Inventory management and conduct a detailed report of the exact number of IPTV and OTT assets we have live against our plan and detect the issue for unpublished ones. • Overlook, manage the content asset journey across the whole operations from Materials and promotional materials delivery, censorship code, encoding, creative services, subtitling, billing in line with the marketing plans.

Freelance

Content Acquisitions and Curation/Programming Manager

Freelance

2018-1 - 2018-7 · 7 mos

Dubai

iflix

Content Programming Manager

iflix

LinkedIn
2016-10 - 2017-4 · 7 mos

Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates

• Regional market content research & analysis. • Help create the Acquisition strategy (budgeting, content Mix, plan) according to the market research of local competitors based on numbers, genres, content type, language and service price. • Managing the content Curation and defining our targeted customers. • Responsible of creating regular content insights Analysis reports. • Content selection, plan and schedule. • One of the team responsible to create localized content mix across MENA region for every country. • Create content marketing calendar across MENA region based on different events and occasions of each country. • Create the content life cycle workflow. • Oversee regional content Operations (Censorship, Promos, Subtitling, EPG, Publishing and QC).

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Programming & Acquisition Executive

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LinkedIn
2012-7 - 2016-9 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Dubai

• Drafting Contracts and Managing internal and external business affairs with Arabic and western content providers including Hollywood studios. • Participate in mapping the annual content strategy. • Work directly with The Acquisition Director budgeting annual content plan. • Select Arabic & Western content. • Create regular Content Analysis Sales reports. • Negotiate content acquisition deals with the content providers. • Managing the inventory database and do a regular check on assets' performance and availability window. • Coordinate with internal parties on all operational aspects as required including day-to-day functions such as arranging program and promotional materials delivery, marketing, quality assurance and Censorship. • Manage and publish content into the services using CMS, BMS, UMS. • Work closely with Finance Department providing inputs on deal structures across the content industry and ensuring that all deals are within pre-agreed financial and commercial parameters. • Handle the relationship with the subtitling and dubbing houses. • Supervisor of the Premium VOD service on STC platform. • Create Market Content Research.

Abu Dhabi Media (ADM)

Senior Librarian

Abu Dhabi Media (ADM)

LinkedIn
2010-4 - 2012-7 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Abu Dhabi

• A Supervisor of the systems ' BCM & INVENU ' and a super user of INEWS. • Responsible for the migration to a tapeless environment and the training of the staff in such a regard. • Managing Inventory and the new archieve of Sheikh Zayed Library. • Participate in mapping the strategy and goals of the library. • Create a new workflow.

MBC GROUP

Program Librarian

MBC GROUP

LinkedIn
2007-6 - 2010-3 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Dubai

• Help coordinate between different operation departments from Acquisition to Transmission. • Create House IDs. • Manage the traffic of tapes through departments. • Manage the inventory accurately along with warehouse on regular basis. • Had a training on linear editing system and a cross training on Scheduling & Planning.

The American University in Cairo

Branch Manager and English Teacher

The American University in Cairo

LinkedIn
2004-8 - 2007-2 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Cairo Governorate, Egypt

• Supervisor at the Integrated Care Society project ‘ICS' of national libraries. • English teacher at ‘ICS' in the cooperation with the American University in Cairo. • English teacher at Ministry of Communication and Information Technology project in the cooperation with the American University in Cairo. • Manager of El Maadi branch at the same project ‘fresh graduates scholarships'. • Manager of Nasr City branch for the same project.

Education

Harvard Business School Online

Harvard Business School Online

LinkedIn
2025-11 - 2026-2 · 4 mos
The American University in Cairo

The American University in Cairo

LinkedIn

Avid liquid 7 and Final Cut pro

2008 - 2008
Cairo University

Cairo University

LinkedIn

Accounting

2000 - 2005 · 5 yrs

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