Curriculum Vitae

Rafel El Meary

Education

1987 Business Management Consultancy Training, Price Waterhouse, Cairo Egypt.

1984 Computer Programming Diploma, ICL, Egypt.

1983 Bachelor Degree in Commerce, Cairo University.

Dive Training

Master Diver, SSI

Stress & Rescue, SSI

Platinum Diver with over 1000 logged dives, SSI 1994

Photo Exhibitions and Publications

Permanent photo gallery at Coral Bay/Na’ama Bay, Sinai Photo Club, Sharm El Sheikh.

Contributing specialist on nature related articles for 1000 Words monthly magazine.

Prepared “A Day in Sinai” slide show, using Multi-projectors synchronized with music for tourism promotion at Sharm El Sheikh for several hotels including Sofitel, Meridien, Camel and Gafy Resort.

Photos exhibited in the Ras Mohamed National Park Catalog.

Prepared a special slide show on Ras Mohamed National Park for the Park’s visitor center.

Portfolio of underwater photographs exhibited in the “Eyes on Sinai” book, prepared for the annual meeting of the Rotary Club, 1995.

2001 exclusive special calendar for the Egyptian American Bank.

Contributing photographer to Peninsula, Sports & Fitness, Cairo Today, and other local magazines.

Portfolio has been published in several international magazines including, Dive International, Tauchen, Science & Nature.

Photo Competitions and Awards

Egyptian National Championship, Sharm El Sheikh, 2002 (Awarded 4 Medals)

Egyptian National Championship, Sharm El Sheikh, 2001 (Awarded 5 Medals)

CMAS World Championship, Safaga, 2000 (Placed 13th)

Egyptian National Championship, Safaga, 2000 (Awarded 3 Gold medals)

2 Gold Medals at the Arabian Championship, Hurghada, 1998.

Represented Egypt in the first world cup for underwater photography held in Sharm El Sheikh, 1995.

World Underwater Photography Festival Antibe, France. 1994 (Placed 9th).

Egyptian National Championship, 1994. (Awarded 3 medals)

Memberships

Member of the Egyptian Desert Pioneers Society.

Member of the Photography Committee , Egyptian Underwater Sports Federation.

Member of BIOS Nature & Environment Photography Society, France.

Business Achievements

Designed and developed a computerized central reservation and diving point of sale system to organize and manage the diving business of Camel Dive Club & Hotel in Sharm El Sheikh.

Designed and developed a Computerized Students Training Record system to maintain records of different diving courses performed at different training centers all over Egypt for Scuba Schools International.

Personal Details

Fluent in Arabic and English.

Born January 2nd. 1962, Damascus, Syria

Resident in Egypt since 1965.

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