A. B. M. Kamruzzaman

Date of Birth:April 01, 1970

Objective:      A highly motivated individual looking forward to pursue a long term career in Administration, Project Management, Management Information System, Information Communication Technology (ICT), HR and is ready to contribute for the organizational goals.

Educational Details:

Master’s in Business Administration (MBA): GPA 3.1 out of 4. Major in MIS from State University of Bangladesh.

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA): GPA 3.136 out of 4. From Asian University of Bangladesh

Higher Secondary Certificate: Second Division, From Rajshahi Board (Science Group)

Secondary School Certificate: Second Division, From Rajshahi Board (Science Group)

Other Details:

Computer Literacy

  • Completed (Feb. 2010 – Mar. 2010) Training Course on SPSS for Professional, Researchers & Students from the Department of Statistics, Bio-statistics & Informatics, University of Dhaka
  • Completed following course from Agni Systems Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Essentials (RH033 – RHEL4 – 1 – 20050101)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration (RH133 – RHEL4 – 1 – 20050308)
  • Completed one year Diploma course in Hardware and Networking from APTECH, Banani Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh (February 2005 – January 2006)
  • Course completed MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) 2003 Track from Desktop Computer Connection Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh (Course Duration One Year)
  • MS Windows 2000 Professional;
  • MS Windows 2000 Server;
  • Managing & Maintaining a MS Windows Server 2003 Environment;
  • Implementing a MS Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure Network Host;
  • Implementing a MS Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure Network Service;
  • Administering a MS SQL Server 2000 Database;
  • Planning a MS Windows Server Network Infrastructure;
  • Planning, Implementing & Maintaining a MS Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure;
  • Designing Security for MS Networks Infrastructure.
  • Course completed on Office 2000 and Internet from APTECH, Banani Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Completed one year Diploma in Computer course from “The Engineers & Computers (E&C)”, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Year – 1994;

Other Training     Attended five days course for the LEAD AUDITOR COURSE ON ISO 27001:2005 (Information Security Management System – ISMS) Dated 19 March 07 to 23 March 07, 2007 from Bureau Veritas, Dhaka, Bangladesh

                                 Participated in and satisfactorily completed the training course on Marketing is Everything held on 25 – 30 March 2000. The course was organized by The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) in Cooperation with German Technical Cooperation (GTZ).

Seminars              :  Attended a Seminar on Urban Health Symposium (taking action for healthy cities in Bangladesh) held on November 22 – 23, 2013, jointly organized by icddr,b, JPG School of Public Health, eminence, IDRC, CRDI, German cooperation, giz.

                                 Attended a Seminar on e–commerce held on April 8, 2000, organized by Flora Systems, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Professional Experience:

From December 2013 to February 2014

 

Employer: OHDIR Foundation

Position Held: Project Coordinator

Job Responsibilities:

Responsibilities for this position to support the organization (OHDIR Foundation) to organize the below job for the project called “Evaluation of the media campaign on tobacco control law in Bangladesh”, funded by Tobacco Free Kids (TFK).

  • Work under the overall supervision of the Principal Investigator and Chairman of OHDIR Foundation Prof. (Dr) Sohel Reza Choudhury; maintain close coordination with donor agency;
  • Responsible for recruiting field staffs;
  • Responsible to coordinate to conduct training for the field staff;
  • Responsible to allocate field for the field staff;
  • Responsible to organize seminar to different location with local people during pre-testing;
  • Monitoring field during data collection from the field and also data entry after completion of field job done;
  • Organize data analysis and report writing procedure to different responsible personnel to finalize the final report;
  • Finally submit to final report to donor agency.

Major Achievements:

  • Successfully completed the recruitment process, training for field staff;
  • Successfully completed pre-testing by organizing seminar in different location and submit the pretest report to donor agency;
  • Successfully completed the final field work in different 4 division;
  • Finally completed and handover the final report to donor agency.

From December 2010 to May 2014

 

Employer: ACL Technologies (IT Firm)

Position Held: Manager, Business Project

Job Responsibilities:

Responsibilities for this position encompass supporting the organization to develop projects and business. Supervise existing projects and different clients (corporate and individual).

Responsibilities:

  • Work under the overall supervision of the CEO, Md. Nazmul Haque, ACL Technologies; maintain close coordination with different corporate clients, projects and office staffs;
  • Take care of HR and admin part;
  • Supervise 15 team members to resolve problems raised by the valued customers;
  • Develop new business and projects for the organization;
  • Coordinate to develop Customize Software for different valuable clients;
  • Main customer IT inventory and help to prepare budget.

Major Achievements:

  • Communication of corporate client from different projects;
  • Successfully completed and handover a new project to setup IT infrastructure and commissioning Data Centre for Six Seasons Food and Beverage (a sister concern of Uttara Group of Industries).
  • Successfully completed and handover a new project to setup their IT infrastructure and commissioning for one of the largest German Garments Buyer ESPRIT De Corp. (Far East) Ltd.;
  • Successfully completed and handover Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) data entry for A. K. Khan Healthcare Trust.
  • Successfully completed and handover a new project to setup their IT infrastructure and commissioning for one of the largest USA Buyer Philip Van Hussain (PVH);
  • Successfully completed and handover a customize software called “SMILE” with full coordination with customer and the programmer team for one local NGO DRRA. Funded by foreign buyer;
  • Successfully completed and handover another project to upgrade Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2010 for Bangladesh Liaison Office of one of the largest German Garments Buyer ESPRIT De Corp. (Far East) Ltd.;
  • Successfully completed and handover one data management project (around 120,000 marketing data which will be use in ERP) for “Six Seasons Food and Beverage” a sister concern of Uttara Group of Industries.

From June 2010 to November 2010

 

Employer: Bangladesh Society of Medicine (BSM)

Position Held: Program Coordinator

Job Responsibilities:

  • Responsibilities for this position encompass supporting the National Survey on NCD (Non Communicable Disease) Risk Factor
  • Coordinating with field staff to facilitate all sort of financial and administrative issue
  • Work under the supervision of Professor Dr. Md. Mujibur Rahman, Professor of Medicine, Shahid Shurawardi Medical College and Hospital and Principle Investigator, National Survey on NCD Risk Factor.

Responsibilities:

  • Work under the overall supervision of the Principle Investigator, National Survey on NCD Risk Factor; maintain close coordination with different investigators from 62 districts of Bangladesh;
  • Supervise 45 team member from 09 different team (09 Research Physician and 36 Field Interviewer);
  • In close consultation with National Survey on NCD Risk Factor-Bangladesh core team and World Health Organization (WHO) the funding organization;
  • Worked to monitor to preparing all type of financial and relevant administrative document for the National Survey on NCD Risk Factor;
  • Assists to Principle Investigator to finalizing and submitting financial report to WHO;

Major Achievements:

  • Communication of corporate thinking, ideology, and planning;
  • Preparing weekly report and submit to WHO through implementing agencies focal person;

From November 2009 to May 2010

 

Employer: World Health Organization (WHO)

Position Held: IT Specialist

Job Responsibilities:

Responsibilities for this position encompass supporting the National Survey on NCD Risk Factor data collection and management activities and providing technical assistance. Activities include instrumentation and system development, installation, modification, maintenance, monitoring and integration of computer operating systems, applications, and databases to meet Non-communicable disease (NCD) requirements and needs.

Responsibilities:

  • Work under the overall supervision of the NPO (NCD); maintain close coordination with implementing agencies (Bangladesh Society of Medicine) Focal Point (Principle Investigator) for the National Survey on NCD Risk Factor-Bangladesh, WHO, Bangladesh, WHO/SEARO;
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for operation of handheld equipments, develop and operation of software on National Survey on NCD Risk Factor instruments / questionnaire;
  • In close consultation with National Survey on NCD Risk Factor-Bangladesh core team and RTI develop software programs and/or suitably modify existing programme needed to suit the programming need to make software user friendly and/or adaptive to country condition, to produce reports and provides supports for data export and dissemination as needed;
  • Working from the National Survey on NCD Risk Factor questionnaire specifications, writes programming instructions / handouts to perform instrument / questionnaire modification / additions;
  • Assists and provides inputs to the implementing agency in installation and preparation of programs and procedures and efficient protocol for the  use, storage and  management of National Survey on NCD Risk Factor data, including its transmission from field to the National Data Centre at Project office for NCD, WHO, Dhaka;
  • Assists in training field staff in the use of  handheld machine and ensures staff expertise in use of the handheld machines;
  • Support (National Tobacco Control Cell) NTCC/WHO project office in programming; and
  • Support in developing new sample framing for National Survey on NCD Risk Factor.

Major Achievements:

  • Communication of corporate thinking, ideology, and planning;
  • Adaptation of best practices among all staffs on best utility derived from computer and related services;
  • Develop digital questionnaire for iPAQ (Handheld Computer) use;
  • Preparing CaseFile, testing and loading to handheld device (iPAQ);
  • Monitoring data every day in FTP server;
  • Preparing weekly report and submit to WHO through implementing agencies focal person;
  • Cleaning HH and IQ response for merging all together;
  • Aggregation of all final collected data from field, convert to .csv file, transpose household and individual questionnaire, read transposed data to SPSS for analysis.

From June 2008 to November 2009

 

Employer: World Health Organization (WHO)

Position Held: Programmer and Network Specialist

Job Responsibilities:

Responsibilities for this position encompass supporting the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) data collection and management activities and providing technical assistance. Activities include instrumentation and system development, installation, modification, maintenance, monitoring and integration of computer operating systems, applications, and databases to meet GATS requirements and needs.

Responsibilities:

  • Work under the overall supervision of the National Professional Officer (NPO – NCD); maintain close coordination with other Focal points for the GATS-Bangladesh, WHO, Bangladesh, WHO/SEARO, Research Triangle Institute International (RTI), USA and other partners in this endeavor;
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for operation of handheld equipments, operation of software on GATS instruments / questionnaire;
  • In close consultation with GATS-Bangladesh core team and RTI develop software programs and/or suitably modify existing programme needed  to suit the programming need to make software user friendly and/or adaptive to country condition, to produce reports and provides supports for data export and dissemination as needed;
  • Working from the GATS questionnaire specifications, writes programming instructions/ handouts to perform instrument / questionnaire modification / additions;
  • Attends GATS IT training as provided by RTI and the international partners, be proficient in the handheld usage, software programming and supporting applications aspects;
  • Assists and provides inputs to the implementing agency in installation and preparation of programs and procedures and efficient protocol for the  use, storage and  management of GATS data, including its transmission from field to the National Data Centre at NIPSOM, Dhaka;
  • Assists in training field staff in the use of  handheld machine and ensures staff expertise in use of the handheld machines;
  • Support NTCC/WHO NMH project office in programming;
  • Support National GATS Partner Institutes in Implementation of GATS and
  • Support in developing new sample framing for GATS.

Major Achievements:

  • FTP Server configuration and administration, communication of corporate thinking, ideology, and planning
  • Adaptation of best practices among all staffs on best utility derived from computer and related services.
  • Preparing weekly report and submit to WHO through implementing agencies focal person;
  • Cleaning House Hold (HH) and Individual Questionnaire (IQ) response for merging all together;
  • Aggregation of all final collected data from field, convert to .csv (Comma Separated Value) file, transpose household and individual questionnaire, read transposed data to SPSS for analysis.
  • Formatting GATS report book before publishing.

From January 2008 to May 2008

Employer: ACL Technologies

Position Held: Manager, Project Development

Job Responsibilities:

 

§  Supervise & Coordinate different turnkey projects for IT Infrastructure, Data Processing, and Data Entry etc.

From September 2002 to December 2007

Employer: The Cotton Group SA/NV, (B&C)

                  (A liaison office of a major European Garments Buyer)

 

Position Held: In-Charge, Information Technology (IT) & Facilities, Dhaka Liaison Office

 

Job Responsibilities:

 

§  Implementation of Computerized Purchase order software, Production planning, Logistics planning,  

§  To keep update of financial statements for all IT materials in the Dhaka Liaison Office;

§  To keep update of inventory statements for all IT materials in the Dhaka Liaison Office;

§  To administer, install and up keeping maintenance of furniture, electrical and communication equipment;

§  Also responsible for the facilities of the Dhaka Liaison Office (DLO), like telecommunication, electricity, generator, building and furniture fixtures;

§  Keep communication and attend different meeting with the different type of suppliers to update about equipment availability, service and cost, to meet requirement and maintenance of Dhaka Liaison Office (DLO).

§  Responsible for preparing the statistics of Production Indicator Chart (KPI) with different parameters as a reporting tool for Head Office (Located in Belgium) as monthly basis.

  • Submitting Key Processing Indicator monthly basis to top management for board meeting. Created monthly basis graphical presentation on yarn price of local and overseas market and send it to planning department.

§  Train to share knowledge on computer utility and best practices derived from services.

§  Assist in the implementation of the (LAN) Local Area Network, (Servers and workstations)

§  Create, remove user and implement security audit using DHCP server.

§  Provide category wise IP address to different workstation.

§  Introduction of the new The Cotton Group Computerized Enterprise Resource Planning,

§  To provide technical support for hardware and software, inspection, checking and keep update the virus protection system, and ensure storage of scheduled data backup from the server;

§  To provide support for webmail for expatriates, updated info for posting to website

Major Achievements:

  • Transfer of sophisticated electronic equipment in including computers during office transfer and installation to new site as per allocated plan in 2007
  • Minimizing services rendered to customers though implementing scanning documents and dispatch through mail instead of courier, curtailing use of fax by dispatch through mail of Quality Acceptance Certificate, Compensation sheet, Order Analysis, GSP certificate, Origin certificate and other commercial documents.
  • Server configuration and administration, communication of corporate thinking, ideology, and planning
  • Adaptation of best practices among all staffs on best utility derived from computer and related services.
  • Maintained Equipment and machinery register, spares parts, warranty claim statements and spares replacement for incompatible equipment. 
  • Transfer of sophisticated electronic equipment in including computers during office transfer and installation to new site as per allocated plan in 2004
  • Maintain profiles to trained staffs and program for next training schedule.
  • Installation of 55 KVA Electric Generator for smooth power supply during load shedding
  • Setting up of the Local Area Network for data transfer from server to orchestration.
  • Planning and setting up of PABX telephone network
  • Providing Internet facilities to users.
  • Promoted from IT Developer to IT In-charge
  • Recognition award during 2007
  • Regular Training scope to improve professional knowledge and expertise.
  • Attended five days course for the lead auditor course on Information Security Management System (ISMS) ISO 27001:2005.

From July 2001 – To September 2002

 

Employer: Biswas Group

                 (A local Group of company – Mainly Garment Product)

 

Position Held: IT In-Charge & Compliance

 

Job Responsibilities :

 

§  Responsible for (factory development work) Compliance Work to meet Buyer’s requirement (Carrefour), inspected by ITS and also to meet other different Buyer’s Code of Conduct, Social Compliance and for the ISO Certification.

§  Prepared a plan for establish LAN in Head office and Factory campus. As-well-as to connect two WAN in between Head Office and Factory for easy and faster communication;

§  Provide technical supports of hardware and software;

Major Achievements:

§  Setup one of the factories as per the requirements of social compliance and ISO certification.

 

From July 2000 – To June 2001

Employer: The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), The Netherlands, in association with SODEV Consult, CDP, ARCADIS Euro consult and DPC CHT Region Development Plan (ADB TA # 3328–BAN)

Position Held: Systems Manager

Job Responsibilities :

§  Work under the close supervision of Project Team Leader Dr. J W Taco Bottema,

§  Responsible for coordinate with 20 local and foreign experts (consultant) for preparing reports for the project

§  Setup the full office in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) as per project layout;

§  Responsibilities were to provide related technical supports of hardware and software;

§  Responsible for all type of electrical works for the project office;

§  Responsible for collect, analysis, organize and store the statistical data;

§  Data Analysis report preparation for the Ministry on CHT, Asian Development Bank.

§  Manage office transportation

§  Getting accustomed to Tribal Culture

From July 1999 – To June 2000

Employer: Associated Computing Limited (ACL)

                  (IT Consultancy & Support service Provider)

 

Position Held: Marketing Executive

 

Job Responsibilities :

 

§  Main responsibilities were to promote sales of hardware and customized software.

Major Achievements:

§  Successfully completed the training course on Marketing is Everything organized by DCCI and GTZ

From December 1996 – To June 1999

 

Employer: Associated Computing Limited (ACL)

                  (IT Consultancy & Support service Provider)

 

Position Held: Administrative Officer

 

Job Responsibilities :

 

§  Main responsibilities to maintain all kinds of office file;

§  Maintain the office accounts for a period;

§  Responsible for different official correspondence;

§  Coordinate customer service for hardware Service Department.

 

Major Achievements:

§  Clone computer configuration and software installation

From June 1996 – To November 1996

Employer: ST Research

                  (IT Firm)

 

Position Held: Hardware Assistant

Job Responsibilities :

 

·         Main responsibilities were assembling computer and trouble shooting the computer hardware and software.

From December 1994 – To May 1996

Employer: Sodev Consult

                 (A Consulting firm involved in different consultancy jobs with foreign collaborations.)

 

Position Held: Computer Operator

Job Responsibilities :

·         A main responsibility lies on Data Entry. As because the Employer is a Consulting firm, so there I have to enter data in the designed data entry program for different surveys. Beside this, I am also responsible for all kind of official correspondence and report writing by using computer.

From December 1994 – To November 1995 (Part Time)

Employer: M. N. Computer

                 (IT – Training House)

 

Position Held: Senior Training Instructor

Job Responsibilities :

 

·         I was responsible to supervise and conducted Computer Training Course such as DOS, Word Perfect, Lotus, dBase.

From February 1995 – To February 1995

 

Employer: Sodev Consult

                 (A Consulting firm involved in different consultancy jobs with foreign collaborations.)

 

Position Held: Computer Trainer

 

Job Responsibilities :

  • Conducted Computer Training Course (DOS, Word Perfect, Lotus) for some Senior Personal of Rural Poor Cooperative Project (RPCP) under Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB)

 

From December 03, 1994 – To December 06, 1994

Employer: The Engineers & Computers (E&C)

                  (IT Firm & Training Institute)

Position Held: Computer Trainer

Job Responsibilities :

  • Conducted Computer Training Course on Word Perfect, Lotus, dBase and Bangali Program Abaha for the 7 (Seven) Top Army Personnel of Comilla Cantonment (5 East Bengal Regiment).

From September 1994 – To November 1994

Employer: M. N. Computer

                  (IT – Training House)

Position Held: Senior Training Instructor

Job Responsibilities :

  • I was responsible to supervise and conducted Computer Training Course such as DOS, Word Perfect, Lotus, dBase.

From May 1994 – To August 1994

Employer: Sodev Consult

              (A Consulting firm involved in different consultancy jobs with foreign collaborations.)

Position Held: Data Entry Operator

Job Responsibilities :

  • Punch Data in a designed Data Base Program. Basically it’s an ADB Funded Project. The Employer is a local consulting firm.

From February 1994 – To April 1994

Employer: ST Research

Position Held: Data Entry Operator

Job Responsibilities :

  • Punch Data in a Designed Data Base Program, those data was Bangladesh Pharmacy Council.

From September 1992 – To January 1994

Employer: M. N. Computer

Position Held: Training Instructor

 

Job Responsibilities :

  • Here, I was responsible to conducted Computer Training Course such as DOS, Word Perfect, Lotus, dBase.