Usman Khalid Email & Phone Number

Pakistan

Pakistan

Working with the US Breaking News team, covering the afternoon hours. Moving important and time-sensitive stories on publicly-listed companies in the US from all sectors in the financial news beat.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

Managing a team of reporters and planning research-based news articles. Collaboration with other teams for the production of data-driven articles that add value to our content database.Collaboration with the management on devising coverage criteria. Delegation on different responsibilities among team members.Part of operations management.Coverage includes financial services and banking sectors in North America. Delegating responsibilities to the team like assigning beats or story scoops.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

Collaborating with reporters on research-based news articles and data journalists on data-driven pieces, and then giving final touches. Other responsibilities include editing more complicated stories like regulatory and legislative coverage of the financial sector, and interview exclusives and conference chatters.Coverage includes financial services and banking sectors in North America. Delegating responsibilities to the team like assigning beats or story scoops.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

Coverage of the North American energy sector related to financial news, earnings coverage and regulatory activities. Features and infographics, conference calls.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

Generation of content on a diverse beat of economics, politics, sports and technology. Editor services in a diverse beat of economics, politics and technology. Editing services and project supervision for students in their academic research and project papers. Research supervision in the content generation on religious topics.Team management on multi-tier projects and project management to meet the deadlines. Online Profile management.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

During my time at Paradigm I had been responsible for a series of tasks. Our client is the largest entity in the fertilizer industry in Pakistan. I managed teams of marketers and PROs responsible for the execution of public relations "PR" and advertisement campaigns. My team organized press conferences and issued press releases to the media. One of the major responsibility of a public relations and communications professional is to ensure the publication of press releases and during my time as Communications Manager the success rate had always been in the 90 percentage bracket. Moreover, I arranged for interviews of the top management of out client on television channels. I have also managed get togethers with bureau chiefs of top newspapers and media networks managing strong and reliable relations using my professional external corporate communication skills.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

As Manager Communications at Media Pulse I was responsible for the execution of public relations campaigns of our client, one of the major players in the telecommunications industry not only in Pakistan but also in the world. The team of public relation professionals under my leadership organized interviews in the electronic media, arranged for appearances in talk shows during prime time television programming. The success rate of publication of our press releases were always superior to our competitors on the quantitative index. Our Add Equivalent Value was at the top during my time at Media Pulse. I also successfully led the public relations "PR" campaign of our client's 3G network launch in 2014. Moreover, I also arranged the meetings of our client with the top officials at the regulatory authorities in telecom sector.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

As Media Coordinator at NDMA I was given the responsibilty of crisis management to liaise between my organization and the electronic and press media in times of disasters. Bestowed with the responsibility of event management I organized events like seminars and work shops for media personnel. I also managed the first ever media awards, conferred by a government organization in Pakistan, to commend the efforts of the reports during the 2010 and 2011 floods in Pakistan. Pledged to content management I issued press releases on these occasions and natural disasters. I led the team of content writers as editor to compile the NDMA Annual Report 2011-12 and quarterly newsletters. I liaised with the media when a severe earthquake struck the Avaran district in Baluchistan, Pakistan. I was also a volunteer member of thw NDMA ICT consortium to create an ICT infrastructure for all the stakeholders in natural disaster management.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

As Team Leader at Allainet I supervise a team of four writers to cover a diversified beat of entertainment, technology, sports and politics. I was also given the responsibility to manage our news website, NewsPakistan.pk.I personally covered economy, entertainment, technology and automobiles whilst working as editor to review the work of my team members. As a content writer my major focuses were on post-2008 European economy, movies, smart electronic gadgets, domestic, economical and sports vehicles.My team covered major events like Consumer Eletronics Shows both in 2011 and 2012, auto shows like Detroit Auto Show, Dubai Auto Show in 2011 and 2012. I covered the launch of iPhone 4s and iPhone 5 live on RSS and news feed on our website NewsPakistan.pk.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

As Assistant Manager Marketing I was responsible for the preparation of pre-feasibility and feasibility reports. I managed and organized marketing meetings with government officials as our company landed a contract for a huge real estate modification in Islamabad, Pakistan. I also was responsible for the procurement of IT equipment, network administration & management and software development of several applications for our company. I supervised the company's website development. Market research and analysis were part of my job description as I proposed, planned and reported several marketing and sales campaigns for different projects.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

As the intern at AGC I participated in various meetings and prepared minutes and reports. Generated feasibility and prefeasibility reports. Assisted in the Procurement of IT equipment for the Office.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Marketing, A

Activities and Societies: Project Management, Guerrilla Marketing, Online Trading

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Information Technology, A

Activities and Societies: Web Development, Application Programming, Feasibility Reporting, Marketing Research