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Omi Azad

Contact Details

Email:
Phone: +88 038 94 550 305

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 29 Aug 1978
Nationality: Bangladeshi
Marital Status: Married with 1 child.

My Professional Vision

A reliable and self-motivated achiever with a professional attitude. I believe that the ability to understand and deal effectively with a client’s ICT needs requires as much skill in human communication as it does technical proficiency. I strive to “bridge the gap” between technical know-how and the practical, goal oriented needs of managers and end-users in the working environment, thereby providing simple but effective solutions, which fulfill often complex requirements. With well developed technical skills I can work alone or in a team. I have leadership experience and can build effective and friendly relations with colleagues and clients. As one of the early leaders of the Bangladeshi ICT sector I have been involved in various initiatives in the sector. Now I want to continue playing my part in the hi-tech technological progress which the ‘tiger-cub’ economy of Bangladesh is undergoing as it becomes a world-class player in the ICT field.

IT Experience

With over 10 successful years as an IT professional I am highly experienced in planning, procuring, and deploying IT solution. Sometimes configuring and troubleshooting small/medium size networks and standalone computers. I am familiar with many web and data communication technologies and have an excellent overview of the IT sector at large. I am familiar with most common software packages and although I regard myself as an advance IT practitioner.

Employment, Education and Career Achievement

Maxwell Stamp Ltd. - Jul 2008, continuing
Web/IT Expert

• For their clients, I provide IT consultancy service on behalf of them.

Cowater International Inc. - Oct 2007, continuing
IT Consultant

• IT Consultant - Managing all in-house IT projects of their concern project PLAGE II
• Assisting Web Development for Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, Government of Bangladesh.

Fractal Web, UK - Oct 2007, continuing
Project Manager

• Design and maintaining client’s websites.
• Managing project development milestone.
• Manage and distributing the development tasks among developers.
• Evaluating development process through Subversion.

Bangladesh Television - Feb 2006, continuing
ICT Program Author

• Authoring an ICT related magazine program "Computer Protidin"

Allomatch, France - Nov 2007 to Feb 2008
CRM, Content Administrator and Assistant Project manager

• Managed their CRM software (SugarCRM) development and customized project.
• Managed and Integrate Joomla based module development for their website allomatch.com.
• Manage project development milestone.
• Use to evaluate development process through Subversion.

Systech Digital Limited - Jun 2006 to Nov 2007
Project Leader - Bangla Localization

• Administrate Bangla Software Development.
• Implemented E-Governance through Bangla Language (Project by UNDP and Prime Minister’s Office, Bangladesh).
• Design and maintained Bangla (Unicode) web portals.

Daily Ittefaq - Feb 2006 to Sep 2007
Contributor ICT Journalist

• Wrote Articles on ICT related issues and reviews on useful software.
• Tried to spread ICT4D motto and introduce Open Source software to mass people.

Weekly Ekattor - Apr 2005 to Jul 2006
Editor & Designer - Web

• Designed & Maintained Weekly Ekattor’s web portal http://www.ekattor.com using Drupal CMS.

ICT Journalist

• Wrote Articles on ICT related issues and reviews.

DinajpurOnline - Aug 2000 to Jun 2006
System Administrator

• Designed complete ISP.
• Troubleshoot users’ computers by recommending hardware/equipment purchase.
• Maintained the web site http://www.dinajpuronline.net

Dinajpur InfoTech Limited - Jun 2002 to Jan 2004
Project Administrator

• Project Manager for Software Development.
• Training organization for Medical Transcription.
• Content management for the site http://infotech.dinajpur.biz using Mambo CMS.
• Designed complete ISP.

Dinajpur Networking Journey - Jan 2005 to Jun 2006
IT Advisor

• Designed complete Broad Band ISP.
• Troubleshoot VSAT, Firewall and other network problems.
• Maintained the web site http://www.dinajpur.biz using Drupal CMS.

Educational and Other Qualifications and Experiences

Secondary School Certificate - 1994
First Division from Dinajpur Zilla School, Dinajpur, under Rajshahi Board

Higher Secondary School - 1998
First Division from KBM College, Dinajpur, under Rajshahi Board

Two years’ Higher Diploma on Computer Science - 2000
CGPA 3.2 from Brac Information Technology Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bachelor of Social Science - 2002
Second Class from National University of Bangladesh

Summary of Qualifications

• Oracle Certified Professional
• Oracle Certified Web Administrator (WebMin)
• Microsoft Certified Professional
• Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA), Windows 2000
• Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA), Security on Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST) on Windows XP

Other Experiences

• Seven years experience of Web site building using popular CMS like Drupal, Joomla, Jaws.
• Over Seven years of Windows NT4/2000/2003 networking experience. Network technologies include TCP/IP, DNS Server, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), Apache Web Server, Ensim, MailMax, MailEnable, MailGate, cPanel, WebMin.
• Six years experiences of running an Internet Networking company.
• 15 days workshop on Tricode Systems remittance processing software arranged by United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh and Omega Systems LLC, USA.
• Over Five years experience with TTF/OTF development.
• Three years experience on CMS based Web Site development.
• Seven years experience of Audio/Video (Non-Linear) editing.
• Three months experience with Online (Non-Linear) Video editing.
• Two years experience on Primary Level Computer Education Program for The Tribe in Novara Technical School, Dinajpur.
• Nine months experience on Adult Primary Computer Education Program by Community Development Project, Dinajpur.

Trainings

• Windows or Linux based Networking and administration.
• Oracle Web Administration.
• Internet connectivity & mass distribution.
• Digital Video Editing.
• Graphic Designing.
• Digital Audio Editing.
• Microsoft Visual True Type.
• VSAT Installation.

Technical Skills and Experiences

Experience in Operating Systems

• Apple MAC OS X
• Windows Vista (all editions)
• Windows Server 2008 (Without Hyper-V)
• Windows Home Server
• Windows Server 2003 (standard edition)
• Windows XP (all editions)
• Windows 2000 (all editions)
• Windows 95/98/ME
• Windows NT 4 (all editions)
• Windows 3.1/3.11
• MSDOS 4/5/6
• Most of the common distribution of Linux

Hardware I’m familiar with

Apple, ATI, AMD, A-Data, Motorola, Compaq, Dell, NEC, IBM, HP, Adaptec, 3Com, Intel, ASUS, Maxtor, Sony, HP, Dazzle, Pinnacle, 3D Labs, Microsoft, Samsung, Linksys, Philips, ATARI, Creative Labs, Nvidia, Hitachi, Samsung, LinkSys, D-Link, Netgear, Samsung, Crossair, Acer, LG, S3, Sandisk, OCZ.

Experience in Software

• Adobe Dreamwaver, DHTML Menu Builder, Java Script, Mozilla/Netscape Editor, Microsoft Sharepoint Designer.
• Oracle 9i Application Server, PL/SQL, Developer 6i, Designer 6i, Oracle WebDB, JDeveloper.
• Macromedia Fontgrapher, FontLab, Microsoft VOLT, Microsoft WEFT, MSKLC, Microsoft Visual True Type, FontForge.
• Adobe PhotoShop, GIMP, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe FireWorks, Ulead GIF Animator. AVID Video Editing, Adobe Premier, Ulead Media Studio, Boris RED, HollywoodFX, Sound Forge, Acid.\
• I used many software and still using for my Bangla computing and localization projects on all platform

Contributory Involvement

Microsoft Corporation, India - Oct 2006, continuing
Most Valuable Professional (Microsoft MVP)

• Windows - Shell/User

Microsoft Corporation, USA - Oct 2002, continuing
Input Processing & BETA Testing

• Microsoft SilverLight
• Microsoft PopFly (Proposed)
• Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC)
• Uniscribe Engine of Microsoft products for Bengali Opentype fonts
• Bengali Opentype font Glyphs processing (to look good in 8pt size)
• Bengali Opentype Font and Lookup table input processing
• Windows Vista Beta Testing
• Windows Longhorn Server 2008 Beta Testing

Ekushey - Jan 2001, continuing
Bangla Computing

• Designed Unicode based fonts for Windows, Linux & Mac OS X
• Delivering Unicode based Bangla computing solutions for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple MAC OS X users
• Designed the Website http://www.ekushey.org using JAWS CMS

Gopsop - Feb 2008, continuing
Head of Ideas

• Create Social Networking ideas and share them with developers
• Pick up ideas from popular SNS portals and share them with developers
• Beta Test of new features

Mukto.Org - Jun 2006, continuing
Editor Chief

• Designed complete Open Source based Bangla E-Magazine
• Designed the website, using the popular CMS Joomla
• Content Management of Mukto.Org
• Writing articles on FOSS for Mukto.Org

Ankur and Ekushey - Jan 2001, continuing
Professional Translator

• Working with many Linux Bangla Localization projects
• Working with many popular Open Source software Bangla Localization projects

Altruists International - Jan 2001, continuing
Software Architect, Ambassador for Altruism

• Designing software architecture according to users’ needs
• Output Analyst
• Font developer & Graphic Designer for Altruists International’s Projects

Gift Economy - June 2007, continuing
Project Analyst

• R&D on gift economy and its prospect to the society
• R&D on Social networking based web environment