| Ability to write effectively in a wide array of styles ranging from the technical and academic to the literary and journalistic; quoting from one assessment of my analytical writing skills, “[Fouad] sustains insightful, in-depth analysis of complex ideas; develops and supports main points with logically compelling reasons and/or highly persuasive examples; is well focused and well organized; skillfully uses sentence variety and precise vocabulary to convey meaning effectively; demonstrates superior facility with sentence structure and language usage…” | => Working as a freelancer during 2003 writing a number of articles and essays for The Review, Dawn –weekly magazine with the highest circulation in Pakistan. These include; Monsoon Pleasures –a sarcastic take on the environmental disaster caused by unexpected showers in the poorly infra-structured and ill managed city of Karachi.
=> Serving as the editor of Brainwave; the official newsletter of Mensa Pakistan between June 1, 2005 and August 30, 2005. => Winning 3rd place in writingcompetition.com’s 2006-2 competition for short story Climax. => Telecommuting for varied American clientele such as Right Solutions Inc. during summer 2001 and 2002, writing more than 50 academic essays, papers and reports on various subjects.
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| Ability to communicate well as a teacher/mentor delegating technical knowledge and responsibilities. | => Working as a Teaching Assistant for Computing for Engineers course at University of Houston during Fall 2006. => Working as environmental consultant with Hagler Bailly Pakistan, training and managing a team of technical writers, data analysts, draftsmen and engineers to streamline and manage the report preparation process for risk assessments at more than forty Shell operational/retail sites spread around Pakistan, from data collection at site, to electronic data sorting and analysis, till the publishing of final copy.
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