Global Trade & Technology Network (GTN) is a
United States Aid for International Development (USAID) funded B2B trade platform, where various international
customers and suppliers (SMEs) meet and find their appropriate match or
opportunity. This trade platform is locally managed by Survey
Research Group
Bangladesh Limited (SRGB) through a sub-contract with International Business
Linkage, Inc. of Washington D.C., USA. The program is referred by
World
Trade Organization (WTO).
Maintain communication network
with Chambers of Commerce & Industries, governmental trade bodies (BoI,
EPB, Customs office), trade unions & associations, and other related
public & private sector organizations.
Event Management
Arrange & manage
presentations, seminars, workshops, discussion meetings and facilitate
companies with multi-support activities during the arrangement.
Database Management
Managing the online ASP
database of the GTN portal for Bangladesh
Create & maintain database of
local & international clients*
Use database management
software for total corresponding solution*
Use effective web search tools
& technique and other portals to collect information of local &
international companies*.
*
Duties Innovated for smooth, strategic, and effective operations.
Research Executive > Research Officer, SRG
Bangladesh Limited (SRGB)
March 2004 to Now
Currently rendering services as a Research Officer in Survey Research Group
Bangladesh Limited (SRGB), a research and consultancy group consisting:
Centre for Research & Management Consulting, TraidCraft, Market Development
Associates Limited (MDAL), texCOL, Center for Continuing Professional
Development (CPD), and the Institute of Management Consultants Bangladesh (IMCB).
Major Responsibilities
Responsible for
project support for almost all of the functional units of SRGB. Major
responsibilities are: providing support services for projects, information &
data services, event organization, sourcing & corresponding overseas
businesses, facilitating MSMEs (Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises).
The Research & Management Consultancy wing of SRGB. The wing is involved in
Business & Market Research, Social & Behavioral Research, Environmental
Research & Projects, Global Research, Business Consulting, Survey & Data
Services, Human Resource Support Services, Information Technology Solutions,
etc. Responsible for:
Information and
data services (collection, modification, coding, and conversion),
Working as Business Development Officer for TraidCraft, a DFID (Department of
Fund or International Development, UK) funded voluntary NGO involved in
facilitating Micro, Small, & Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) of Bangladesh
through training, developing their skill, creating new markets for their
products, and product promotion & export expansion. Responsible for:
Providing
information and data services,
Corresponding
services,
Facilitating
MSMEs, etc.
Market
Development Associates Limited (MDAL)
The trading wing of SRG Bangladesh Limited involved in providing innovative
technology in the telecommunication, environmental, security, and
textile sectors. Responsible for:
Sourcing business opportunities,
Sourcing technology and suppliers,
Corresponding with overseas suppliers,
B2B
solution,
Documentation, etc.
texCOL
Enterprise Limited
The trading wing of SRG Bangladesh Limited involved in providing textile
chemicals and technology for various textile companies in Bangladesh.
Responsible for:
The only Association of Business and Management Consultants in Bangladesh
and located at the same premises of SRG Bangladesh Limited as the president
of SRGB is also the President of IMCB. Responsible for:
OneWorld is an
Education Resource Center (ERC) that provides facilities of library, bookstore,
student resources, and internet. The concern also provides educational
services like- online/remote admission consultation, e-learning &
distant-learning facilitation, overseas admission counseling, private
tuition, training for research and other professionals.
Customer
Relation: Customer Care, consumer consulting, overseas customer
consulting, students counseling & consulting,
Research &
Development: Identification of business opportunities/threats,
Maintaining Database, Research Report Preparation, and
MIS:
Computer Maintenance and troubleshooting, Networking Maintenance, Internet
Connection Maintenance and Troubleshooting, Operating and Maintaining
Database through SQL software.
SOMBA, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh. Dated: 12-13 September
2002.
Organized by
School of Management and Business Administration (SOMBA), Khulna University
with resource persons, Dr. Z M. Mamun, IBA, Dhaka University and Dr. Nazrul
Islam, BAD, SOMBA, Khulna University.
PDF: Convert
any file to PDF. Capable also to convert PDF to DOC or Image.
Image: Convert any document to mdi (Microsoft Document
Image), tif (Text Image File), JPEG files, image to Optical Character
(text) Reading facility (without OCR machine) etc.
Sharing Optimized Formats: HTML (Browser viewable file
with various references), font embedded file (omni-where viewable, even
without fonts), Unicode conversion for desktop publication in Bangla, etc.
Mail merge
Capable of preparing personalized mails using specific
database in any format viz. DOC, XLS, MDB, CSV, Address Book, etc. Use of specific
fields, to make the letter more interactive. The tool can be implied for
labels, envelops. and (normal text) email merge also.
E-catalog /
E-brochure
PDF files (public & secure), font embedded files, MHT
files (Browse-able multiple webpage in a single file, Microsoft Reader
E-book (.lit) file (text can be heard & take help of the dictionary for
words), etc.
Macro Functions
Using macros for enabling complex functions within an
application to reduce time & redundancy. Modifying & debugging macros in
Microsoft Visual Basic. Adjusting security levels and digital signing
maintenance for Microsoft Office Macros.
Database
Operations
Competent to utilize & operate any SQL-built customized
software or any other database software including web-based ASP & PHP
database.
Desktop
Publication
Text formatting, graphics editing, color-separation,
positive & negative output, film output, banner & cover design, pasting
& plaiting, interactive presentations, etc.
Search Engine Utilization
Capable of utilizing search engines efficiently and
collect accurate (specific) & relevant (a range of related) information
using various search engine tools and interfaces.
Assembling &
removal of hardware, setting up & installation,
hardware troubleshooting, and hardware maintenance.
Networking
Setting up & installation of wired networking, installation of networking
hub, domain creation, Internet Protocol (IP) access maintenance, troubleshooting & maintenance,
etc.
Local Area
Network (LAN)
LAN operations,
file sharing, resource sharing, troubleshooting & maintenance, etc.
Microsoft Word, Microsoft
Publisher, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft
PowerPoint, Microsoft
FrontPage, Microsoft Access,
and Microsoft Outlook. Also familiar with Microsoft Project, PhotoDraw,
Microsoft Visio, etc. Versions: 97,
2000, XP, 2003.
Capable of registering custom domain from any registering
or reseller company.
DNS
Management
Maintaining
the Domain Name Servers for web reference, URL forwarding & masking, email administration, local hosting,
and web hosting.
Webpage
Design & Publishing
Using webpage
designing & publishing software including flash items, java applets, and
other web components. Applications: Static WebPages in FrontPage &
Macromedia Dreamweaver.
File transfer to remote sites, publish WebPages,
publish e-catalogs, file sharing, create flexibility of a short description
to broad description through reference of a file (webpage), reduce size of
emails for faster sending & downloading, etc. Also familiar with the
peer-to-peer networking, like: Kaaza.
Capable of performing effective business operations in
Business-to-Business (B2B) Trade Portals, Like- alibaba.com, importers.com,
ec21.com, ecplaza.com, fiber2fashion.com, ebay.com (retail), etc.
Have
brought business for texCOL & Market Development Associates Limited (MDAL).
Multilingual
Correspondence
Use various translating tools and interfaces for multi-lingual
correspondence in any language using Unicode-based written communication in
French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic,
Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Japanese, Korean, etc.
Financial
(E-Currency) Transaction Using Web-media
Account holder and frequent transactor of E-gold account (A/C # 1051718).
Capable of modifying and selling products with e-gold using webpage. Also
subscribed to other e-currencies, such as- Paypal, Stormpay, IntGold, etc.
Limitedly competent to utilize credit card for web transaction.
Search Engine
Optimization (SEO)
Analyzing & optimizing meta tags of the WebPages (usually
should be done at a regular basis along with the competitors), keyword
analysis (form, density, competition), search engine submission,
increase link popularity (from related sites), modifications for high
rank in Search Engines, RSS/XML feeds, search engine robot/spider access
control, etc.
Affiliate Program & Multi-level Marketing
Involved with several multi-level marketing (chain
consumers) and affiliate programs for providing marketing facility for
those companies/concerns with the effective use of WebPages. See the the
Web Gallery for the list Multi-level Marketing
and Affiliate Program.
Extracting email address from any available file format,
address book, (incoming/outgoing) emails, WebPages (e.g. all email
addresses located in web-based yellowpages), domain (e.g. all email addresses with
bttb.net.bd domain), and from search engine findings through keywords.
Also able to validate each email addresses.
Address
Book Maintenance
Maintaining live and dynamic address book through
networking software. Group and organize the addresses in the address
book for utilization of collective or mass circulation of emails.
Currently maintaining an address book of 5000+ Bangladeshi SMEs.
Utilities & Addins
Utilization of various email utilities and add-ins for
mail client software for effective, mass, and appropriate communication.
Other than collecting/extracting email addresses and processing them in
the address book, utilities and addins are also used for various other
communication functions, such as alias (first part before @ in a email
address) separation, domain addition to alias, validating email
address through bouncing information (without actually sending mails),
assigning message rules for email filtering, etc.
E-mail
publishing
Using Templates
for promotion and referring a backup Bangla copy of the promotional
emails, so that Bangladeshi clients can read the mail in Bangla (which
is more convenient than English Emails). Reducing weight/size of the email through reference to webpage or file located
in webfolder. Follow and study spam policy of several ISPs and implement
strategies to avoid mails to be spam. Using mail tags for ease of
instruction, communication, and unsubscribing.
Circulation
& Mass Mailing
Conducting circulation activities & mass mailing using
campaign softwares, outlook express or other client mail software, maill
merge from MS Word (only for personalized text mails), etc.
E-community
Communication
Constantly maintain professional communication with email
communities like large (Bangladeshi) groups in Yahoo, MSN, Google, etc.
to enhance public relations, create positive public attitude toward the
organization, exchange values (thoughts for advertisement) for public
attachment with the organization.
Cell2Email
& SMS Technology
Professionally
using SMS technology to assert for promotion, acknowledge receipts,
convey reminders, etc. Proficient to utilize the Cell2Email (Email to
SMS and vice versa) technology already available in Bangladesh.
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