
Author and Technical Reviewer at Packt Publishing Limited
Bangladesh

Author and Technical Reviewer at Packt Publishing Limited
Bangladesh
Project Manager, Management Consultant, Systems Administrator, Web Developer and Technical Writer. Particularly interested in opensource solutions, opensource programming platforms and organizational development.
MCSE since 2000. Windows 2000/2003 Administration, Linux Administration, MySQL, HTML, CSS, PHP, Content Management Systems (Joomla/Mambo, Wordpress, CMSMadeSimple, PHPNuke, Xoops, Gallery2, etc.), Shopping Carts (osCommerce, Zen Cart), Learning Management Systems (Moodle, ATutor, Docebo, Dokeos, etc.)
(Privately Held; Publishing industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)
* Authored 'Joomla! E-commerce with VirtueMart [ISBN 1847196748]'
* Authored 'Zen Cart: E-commerce Application Development [ISBN 1847191177]'
* Reviewed 'RESTful PHP [ISBN 1847195520]'
* Reviewed 'Moodle Course Conversion - Beginner's Guide [ISBN 1847195245]'
(Non-Profit; International Affairs industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)
Leading the National NFE-MIS Team; Facilitating training workshops to build capacity for setting-up a NFE-MIS in the country; Liaise with all national and sub-national project partners, as well as with UNESCO units; Organizing and implementing the testing of the NFE-MIS software in the normal environment of use, including the new reporting module. Providing technical inputs in implementation of EFA Capacity Building Programme (2006-2008), especially for: Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme, Developing Capacity of GO/NGO Managers for using ICTs in Literacy/Skills Training programmes.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
January 2000 — January 2008 (8 years 1 month)
Have been writing on computing and programming. Following books in Bangla have been published:
1. Web Publishing;
2. Expert's Networking;
3. Windows 2000 Professional;
4. Windows 2000 Server Administration;
5. XML;
6. Red Hat/Fedora Linux;
7. SQL and database fundamentals;
8. Apache-MySQL-PHP;
9. Linux Networking.
Translated the following books:
1. The Impact of Science on Society and Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russel;
2. Eat that Frog by Brian Tracy;
3. Water Babies by Charles Kingsley.
Upcoming books:
1. Samudrer Din ratri (Life at Sea)
2. Jodi Lpkkho Theke Otut (If the goals are stable!) a book on acheiving success
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 8 months)
Worked for the ILO/IPEC project titled “Preventing and Eliminating the Worst Forms of Child Labour from Selected Formal and Informal Sectors in Bangladesh (BGD/00/P50/USA)" to meet the data needs of the project reporting by maintaining the child labour tracking system.
Provided technical assistance, training and guidance to partner organizations related to setup, maintenance and upgradation of the required hardware and software for maintaining the child labour tracking system.
Conducted field monitoring visits and regularly monitored the operation of the Action Programmes, in particular, for the workplace and community monitoring component of the project.
Maintained distributed child labour database subsystems through which partner organizations updated their data and synchronized it with main database located at central project office.
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
March 2002 — December 2002 (10 months)
Worked as System Analyst to develop the Child Labour Tracking System Database for the project titled "Preventing and Eliminating the Worst Forms of Child Labour from Selected Formal and Informal Sectors in Bangladesh (BGD/00/P50/USA)"
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — December 2002 (1 year)
Conducted courses on
* Windows 2000 Server,
* Windows 2000 Professional,
* Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure,
* Windows 2000 Active Directory,
* Windows 2000 Security,
* Microsoft SQL Server 2000,
* Windows NT Workstation & Server, and *
NT Server in the Enterprise,
* Networking Essentials,
* Microsoft Internet Information Server 4 Administration and
* Internetworking with TCP/IP.
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
February 2001 — July 2001 (6 months)
* Provided inputs to the Household Level Baseline Survey in Leather Tannery and Bidi industries sector under "Preventing and Eliminating the Worst Forms of Child Labour from Selected Formal and Informal Sectors in Bangladesh (BGD/00/P50/USA)", conducted by Prof. Dr. A H M Zehadul Karim and Dr. Zulfquar Ali Islam, Rajshahi University; and Md. Omar farrukh.
* Designed database for Household-level Baseline Survey in Bidi and Leather Industries.
* Refined the questionnaires and coded the responses
* Checked and analyzed data as per requirements of the project.
* Presented paper on the proposed Child Labour Monitoring and Tracking System for ILO/IPEC USDOL Worst Forms of Child Labor Project at the ILO/IPEC National Workshop on Child Labor Situation in Some Selected Sectors and Development of Action Program Proposals, held on 8-9 June, 2001 at BCDM, Rajendrapur.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 2 months)
Conducted Certified Web Master, Certified Web Administrator, Certified Web Developer and Certified E-Com Master courses. Taught HTML 4, Cascading Style Sheet, JavaScript, Dynamic HTML, Networking Essentials, Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0, Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0, Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, Macromedia Flash 4, and E-Commerce Technologies.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
February 1996 — December 1999 (3 years 11 months)
Planned, implemented and monitored development projects. Coordinated with other departments of the organizations. Reported program activities to the Executive Director. Implemented projects on Non-Motorized Transport and Flood protection.
MBA , Management , 2003 — 2006
Focused on Information management and organizational development
B.Sc. , Marine Engineering , 1991 — 1992
Technical Writing, management training, personal development and motivational coaching
PHP
Have written following books in Bangla: Web Publishing; Expert's Networking; Windows 2000 Professional; Windows 2000 Server Administration; XML; Red Hat/Fedora Linux; SQL and database fundamentals; Apache-MySQL-PHP; Linux Networking. Translated the following books: The Impact of Science on Society and Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russel; Eat that Frog by Brian Tracy; and Water Babies by Charles Kingsley. At present writing a book on Zen Cart, for PACKT Publishing.
Brainbench certified in: Human Resources Concepts (U.S.); PHP 4, Project Management, Web Server Administration, Internet Security, MS Internet Information Server 4.0 Administration, Training Development, Training Delivery and Evaluation, Technical Writing, MS Access 2002 Fundamentals, MS Word 2002 Fundamentals, Information Technology Industry Knowledge, HTML 3.2, RDBMS Concepts