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Aini Riaz

Event Site Operations Management
Dubai

Summary

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude, with over 10+ years of expertise in event production, management, and marketing, and willingness to take on additional duties to accomplish team goals. Professional with a strong sense of self-motivation, enthusiasm, and the capacity to assure the success of any event they arrange. Equipped with strong leadership skills with experience, management, organizing conferences, promotional events and control room experience with my latest role for Lusail Winter Wonderland at Doha, Qatar.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Event Control

Lusail Winter Wonderland
Doha
10.2022 - Current

• Support the Event Director/ Deputy Event Director to enable the management of teams and cross functional departments on daily tasks and requests.
• Responsible for planning, promoting, and ensuring the smooth running of an event schedule and individual events including events from Circus.
• Monitoring the event continuously giving an early indication of any problems
• Created and conducted multiple presentations and facilitated the onboarding of team members joining teams in various departments.
• Daily reporting of issues and incidents around the site.
• Directing resources and teams to deal with problems (includes – lost/found children, stolen items, ride failures, etc.)
• Logging of all communications Control of any incidents
• Monitored all team readiness and staff deployments during on hours.
• Control room operations, monitoring CCTV and Hytera Radios (for channels such as Event Services, Security, Crisis, etc) as well as digital platforms.
• Created and conducted presentations and facilitated onboarding of team members joining the Event Control Team.
• Provided daily reports and other documents collectively from all the departments in terms of security, health and safety, operations, marketing, etc.

Site Operations

Expo 2020 Dubai
Dubai
05.2021 - 03.2022

Event Coordinator

Middle East Energy Event FZ LLC
Dubai
03.2020 - 04.2020

Freelance Project Coordinator

DWTC (via Hostex World) and I'm Out Live Events and Weddings
Dubai
11.2018 - 02.2020

Administration and Marketing Coordinator

Spacemakers LLC
Dubai
09.2015 - 07.2017

Executive Assistant and HR Assitant

Ajmal Perfumes and Real Estate
Dubai
05.2013 - 08.2015

Sales and Enterprise Helpdesk Officer

Du Telecommunications
Dubai
04.2012 - 05.2013

Event Coordinator

Hostex World
Dubai
08.2009 - 02.2012

Education

Certificate And BTEC Diploma - Interior Design And Architecture

EDEXCEL UK
Dubai
01.2010 - 07.2012

Bachelor of Arts - Fine Arts, Psychology, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

The Indian High School
Dubai
03.2007 - 03.2009

Skills

On-site operations

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Software

Auto CAD

Command and Control Platform CCP

Intelex - Medical Management System

Density, Movement and Population DMP

MS Office (Powerpoint, Excel, Word, Outlook)

Timeline

Event Control

Lusail Winter Wonderland
10.2022 - Current

Site Operations

Expo 2020 Dubai
05.2021 - 03.2022

Event Coordinator

Middle East Energy Event FZ LLC
03.2020 - 04.2020

Freelance Project Coordinator

DWTC (via Hostex World) and I'm Out Live Events and Weddings
11.2018 - 02.2020

Administration and Marketing Coordinator

Spacemakers LLC
09.2015 - 07.2017

Executive Assistant and HR Assitant

Ajmal Perfumes and Real Estate
05.2013 - 08.2015

Sales and Enterprise Helpdesk Officer

Du Telecommunications
04.2012 - 05.2013

Certificate And BTEC Diploma - Interior Design And Architecture

EDEXCEL UK
01.2010 - 07.2012

Event Coordinator

Hostex World
08.2009 - 02.2012

Bachelor of Arts - Fine Arts, Psychology, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

The Indian High School
03.2007 - 03.2009
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