Yahya Mekkawi

Current

• IT Director at Studio Emad Eddin Foundation

Past

• Arabic Translations Editor at TakingITGlobal
• Reporter & Writer for the Music Department at TeenStuff Magazine

Education

• Cairo University

Connections

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Industry

Internet

Yahya Mekkawi’s Experience

• IT Director

  Studio Emad Eddin Foundation

  (Performing Arts industry)

  August 2006 — Present (3 years)

  Throughout my 2 years involvement with Studio Emad Eddin Foundation I managed to help the organization with a better use of IT tools to better manage & fulfill the organizations goals & needs
  (which includes the following)
  
  
  * Maintaining a new (web-based) Contacts-database system (Salesforce.com) with a built-in emailing system to help us with the mass emailing processes (over 3000 contacts)
  this new system also worked as an electronic (search-able) data-entry system for membership & casting applications
  
  
  
  * Developing & maintaining a new website for Studio Emad Eddin with the following features ...
  - The ease of updating the website with news & announcements
  - More organized web-links directory
  - Image Gallery of the Studio activities & events
  - More ways for website visitors interaction (sharing their comments & feedback, suggesting web-links for the links directory ...)
  
  
  
  * Designing publicity materials for the organizations events & activities
  - Posters
  - Flyers
  - HTML email templates
  - DVD covers & stickers ...
  
  
  
  * Help the organization with the use of genuine software (Microsoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Office suite) to overcome all the piracy issues we used to have
  
  I also suggested the use of Open-Source Operating System (Ubuntu) to reduce the costs of purchasing genuine operating systems to meet the organization's budget

• Arabic Translations Editor

  TakingITGlobal

  (Internet industry)

  September 2004 — July 2005 (11 months)

  Translating & editing the Arabic translations for the content of Takingitglobal.org

• Reporter & Writer for the Music Department

  TeenStuff Magazine

  (Media Production industry)

  July 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 7 months)

  Writing Music articles & conducting some interviews for the project I initiated (The Egyptian Music Files)
  which was a series of interviews with prominent Egyptian music bands that helped shedding some light on the Local scene of Egyptian Contemporary (original) music

Yahya Mekkawi’s Education

• Cairo University

  BA , Sociology , 2002 — 2009

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