Sr Sharepoint Developer /.Net Developer
Resume:
Sarmad S. Ali
**** **** ******** ******* / ***.# L3
Brooklyn NY 11209
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June 2005-April 2010 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL New York NY
Technology Reporter (June 2005 April 2010)
• Responsible for reporting and writing stories for the newspaper.
• Generate story ideas on topics ranging from emerging technologies and new gadgets to global technology reporting focusing on technology in the Arab countries and the Middle East.
• Testing and reviewing new products and online services for a weekly column when Walt Mossberg its author is away or on vacation. I mostly focus on checking out new gadgets and services that help people connect globally at low cost.
• Interview corporate executives sector experts industry sources.
• Researched and wrote about trends in the U.S. telecom market.
• Used my expertise in the Middle East and my Arabic to develop sources in that region and do stories on that rapidly growing telecom market. I also launched a blog for the newspaper on Iraq during the peak of ethnic violence after the U.S. invasion.
April 2003- August 2004 IRAQ TODAY Baghdad Iraq
Reporter Deputy Editor Co-founder
• Co-created the first post-Saddam independent English-language newspaper in Baghdad for educated Iraqis and foreigners in post-war Iraq -addressing a range of issues from security and life after the war to covering dangerous regions and government decisions.
• Supervised production development and editing of stories for readers inside and outside Iraq to depict the situation in Iraq from an Iraqi perspective.
• Traveled all over Iraq especially to dangerous places to cover stories that otherwise were left untold using my mastery of the Iraqi dialect and my knowledge of my country and its people.
June 2004-
May 2005 VOICE MAGAZINE Dubai U.A.E.
Reporter
• Wrote long articles for this English-language Dubai magazine first from Iraq and then from the U.S. covering a range of stories from the deterioration of security in Iraq to the reaction of Arabs in the U.S. especially in N.Y. to the 2004 U.S. election and to the death of the Palestinian leader Yaser Arafat and the repercussion of that event on the future of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
• Generated news and feature story ideas with emphasis on interaction between Arab and Americans in the U.S. identity and tolerance.
• Relying on my ethnic background and fluency in different Arabic dialects I covered stories on the Arabs in New York and their lives and the impact of Islam on their thinking and attitude of the west particularly the U.S.
Summer NEWSWEEK Baghdad Iraq
2004 Freelance Reporter
• Wrote a 1500 long enterprise story for the American magazine from Baghdad on a mutiny among Iraqi soldiers who refused to fight their country fellowmen after the uprising led by the Shiite firebrand Moqtada Al-Sadr in Najaf and parts of Baghdad.
• Developed story ideas and had some assignments by Newsweek s editors that involved going to risky places at a time when foreign journalist couldn t step out of their heavily guarded bureaus using my local expertise.
Summer Daily Star Beirut Lebanon
2004 Freelance Reporter
• Wrote a long story on how some Iraqis who used to work for some of the disbanded ministries like the Information Ministry wanted to collectively file a suit against Paul Bremer the American governor in Iraq. The story was published in this English-language newspaper in Beirut.
AWARDS • 2004 Scripps Howard Foundation s scholarship in Journalism.
EDUCATION COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York NY
• MS Journalism August 2004-May 2005
UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD Baghdad Iraq
• Graduated with Highest Honors.
College of Languages Univ. of Baghdad BA in English Sept.1998- June 2001
College of Languages Univ. of Baghdad MA in language and linguistics with my
thesis focus on a comparative study of press and broadcast news reports Sept.2001- August 2004. Teaching Arabic-English comparative linguistics comprehension and translation at Baghdad University 2002-2003.
I am a native speaker of Arabic (Iraqi dialect/standard Arabic) and I have a green card.
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