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Hourly Rate: $16.67
Total oDesk hours:
25
Location:
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (GMT+03:00)
English Skills: (self-assessed)
5.0
Member Since:
July 15, 2007
Last Worked:
November 24, 2008
Current Assignments:
4
Total Assignments:
7
oDesk Ready:  
Yes
 
 
 
 

Nadia T. - Project Manager, Internet Researcher,Information Pro, Research Writer - Freelance Consultant, Saudi Arabia

To help small and medium sized businesses in writing requirement/functional specification, do the research for them so that when they go the company for developing their website, they are confident what they want and are not monopolized by them.

Deliver high quality, formatted, high quality research report for any industry to answer research queries they have.
Recent Work History & Feedback
Buyer ID From/To Job Title Paid Feedback
32214 04/2008 - Present bei.edu PM $167 (fixed-price)
65123 11/2008 - Present Virtual Assistant Needed $33 (3 hrs @ $11.11)
36115 04/2008 - 05/2008 Research - Social Network Software Packages - Feature Comparism $311 (fixed-price)
32214 02/2008 - 02/2008 For Nadia $167 (fixed-price)
24509 10/2007 - 10/2007 Technical Writer $56 (fixed-price)
oDesk Tests Taken
Name of Test Score Percentile Date Taken Duration
Email Etiquette Certification 3.55 75% 03/22/2008 9 min
oDesk Readiness Test for Independent Contractors and Company Managers 4.20 48% 08/03/2008 7 min
English Test (Sentence Structure) 4.10 46% 03/18/2008 15 min
Recent Candidacies
Job Opening Title Initiated By Date
research - routers, credit cards, frequent flier programs Provider December 2, 2008
Cafe Customer Database Provider December 2, 2008
Internet Researcher and data Entry Provider November 25, 2008
Online researcher Provider November 25, 2008
Market Research Provider November 25, 2008
Web Content Curator Provider November 17, 2008
Internet Research 2 Provider November 17, 2008
Research Assistant Provider November 12, 2008
Internet Research (Hourly Rate) Provider November 9, 2008
Research / Virtual Assistant Provider November 6, 2008
Job Category Interests

Administrative Support

Skills
Skill Experience Level Last Used Description
Project Management 1 yrs 3.0 2006 I have been working as a Project Manager for a US based company. My responsibilities included dealing with clients in US and internal team at offshore office, communicating, resource and budget analysis, system analysis, writing requirement and functional specification, delivering, staging and final sign off.
Research writing,Internet research,Information Pro 2 yrs 4.0 2007 I currently work as a freelance conultant mainly focusing on research based articles [also search engine optimized for keywords], internet research and knowledge worker.
I have expereince in such writings/research for call center industry, finance markets and e-commerce/e-business/internet marketing.
I have also worked as a content writer but this also is very well researched. Example: www.fifakicks.com/business.php
Certifications
Date Earned Name Score Percentile Organization Description
No Certifications
Employment History
From To Company Title/Role Description
10/2005 03/2006 EWriting Services Research Writer / Independent Contributor

E-Writing services recruits research writers from all over the world to fulfill demands of articles from its various client. It enables home based workers to work over internet.

Responsibilities: My responsibilities includes writing research based articles mostly based on the topic of e-commerce and internet marketing.

11/2004 05/2005 Clickmarks Project Manager / Manager

Clickmarks Pvt. Ltd is a subsidiary of Clickmarks Inc. based in USA and it provides presentation level integration solution to multi nationals and system integrators.

I started as a Software Engineer in January 2003 and did some of the major projects. I was promoted to PM then.
My responsibilities as a PM included managing the outsourced projects right from taking requirements from clients, giving estimated cost and incase of agreement entire product thoroughly tested and running. It included dealing with engineering and product teams making sure the timely and efficient delivery of the product.

The entire project management task encompassed, requirement analysis, functional specification, implementation and testing by engineering team, effective internal and external communication, resource allocation and final staging and sign off. During my tenure as Project Manager, I was assigned projects and referred to clients directly by CEO.

Other Experience
Blog Writing
Researched scope, suggested topics and wrote a technical blog on 'Storage'.
Competitive Analysis
Compiled a Competitive Analysis report for www.abpt.com in terms of strength, weeknesses, content and functionality and services and products offered. The report also included industry analysis and conclusion and recommendations.
Content Writing
Writing content for www.oilpaintingwonders.com with keyword optimization and required density.
Content Writing for Fifakicks
I did the content writing of the following pages for Fifakicks.
http://fifakicks.com/business.php
http://fifakicks.com/about.php

Rewriting http://fifakicks.com/business-faq.php
Content writing for Maxxfusion
I have done content writing for www.maxxfusion.com home page.
Data mining
I have done extensive data mining project for a newly established company on leading hedge firm leaders in finance industry.
Intelligent Data Mining
Analysis of thousands of websites for categorizing and finding basic information about them like page rank,Alexa ranking etc.
Languages Description
I have researched and compiled content for ABPT (www.abpt.com  )Languages section.
Market Research

Performed market research for a German client on Social Networking platforms. A complete list of white-label social networking platforms was compiled and the list was refined in every phase based on certain criterias. A final list of four platforms was preapred based on thorough analysis, industry reviews and end user comments to enable the best selection. Conclusion and recommendation was also prepared.

Research on resources
I have completed a research and analysis assignment of compiling and analyzing around 500 quality links on a certain topic, dividing them categorically, sorting and writing brief descriptions for a UK based language and translation services company.
Research Report for Exit41
I have done a research report for Exit41 [www.exit41.com]. The research was carried out to find benchmark average of cost per call in callcenter industry. The report was completely formatted with nexecssary charts, graphs and tables.
Education
From To School Degree Area of Study Description
01/1999 12/2002 University of Karachi Bachelors Computer Sciences Cumulative GPA 3.52
03/1996 07/1998 St. Joseph's College High School Engineering Cleared with 80%
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Hourly Assignment History
Buyer ID From/To Job Title Paid Feedback
65123 11/2008 - Present Virtual Assistant Needed $33 (3 hrs @ $11.11)
22395 09/2007 - 09/2007 OSHA Research $267 (19 hrs @ $14.44)
Fixed-Price Assignment History
Buyer ID From/To Job Title Paid Feedback
32214 04/2008 - Present bei.edu PM $167
36115 04/2008 - 05/2008 Research - Social Network Software Packages - Feature Comparism $311
32214 02/2008 - 02/2008 For Nadia $167
24509 10/2007 - 10/2007 Technical Writer $56
24509 10/2007 - 10/2007 Technical Writer $56