Mohammad Fakrul Alam [pappu]
e-mail: fakrul@dhakacom.com
URL: http://www.fakrul.com

Technical Strength

Operating System & Network Management:

  • Excellent in Network Administration and managing & maintain both in Linux and Microsoft environment.
  • Having good knowledge of various installations, administration and implementation issues in Windows, UNIX / Linux / Solaris based systems.
  • Able to analyze, detect, troubleshoot and resolve network hardware, connectivity & network operating system.
  • Expert on design and develop proactive network management process for large scale network.
  • Clear concept on network management protocol.

Local Area Network & Wide Area Network:

  • Good Knowledge of Cisco router 2600 (2621, 2651), 2800 (2801, 2811), 3600 (3640, 3662), 7206VXR and equivalent network switching, routing, firewall.
  • Expert knowledge on LAN bridging & switching. Clear concept on transparent bridging, store-and forward, cut-through and fragment-free switching, segmentation and performance issue of LAN using these technologies. Configuration of port security on switch using MAC address.
  • Application of spanning tree protocol in a redundant topology of LAN to eliminate loop in data flow.
  • Layer II traffic segmentation using VLAN to control LAN broadcast, management of VLAN using VTP, switch port trunking using 802.1q and ISL trunk encapsulation, inter VLAN routing.

Communication Protocol:

  • TCP/IP communication protocol suit, UDP, ARP, ICMP to manage, troubleshoot network connection.
  • IP V4 addressing and sub-netting for global routing and layer 3 traffic segmentation. CIDR, Private Addressing, NAT and DHCP for effective use of public IP addresses.
  • IP V6 addresses, its design issue and inter operateability with IP V4 addresses.
  • Dynamic IP routing with Rip (Version 1&2), IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS and BGP4 routing protocol.
  • Highly experienced to design IP address distribution plan and internal routing policy for an Autonomous System Domain having distributed POP.
  • Expert on configuring DNS, SMTP, POP, HTTP, FTP services for production server of large ISP.

Network Security:

  • Expert on design and analyzing network security thread, network privacy with conventional encryption in different layer of OSI reference model. DES Triple DES.
  • IPSec tunneling for VPN, creating standard and extended access list (ACL) to filter packet.
  • Experience to work with Cisco PIX firewall and IDS system to detect and analyze network abuse.

Database Design & Database Administration:

  • Expert design and implementation skills on Database administration design.
  • Excellent design and implementation skills on web application development using PHP, ASP, Perl, JavaScript, AJAX.
  • Skills in Developing Desktop & Distributed Application using Oracle Developer 6i.

Education

2005 ~

M.Sc In Telecommunication Engineering
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)
1999-2003 Computer Science
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)
1997 - 1999

HSC (Higher Secondary Certificate)
College Of Development Alternative

1993 - 1997 SSC (Secondary School Certificate)
B.C.S.I.R High School
Technical Skills
Name
Learner
Intermediate
Advanced
Operating System
Microsoft 9x, NT, 2000, XP
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Redhat Linux
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Sun Solaris 8/9
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FreeBSD
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Mail Server
Sendmail
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Postfix
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Qmail
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DBMS
Oracle
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MySQL
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Visual Foxpro
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Programming
Oracle Developer
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PHP
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ASP
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Perl
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HTML
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C/C++
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Visual Basic
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Java Script
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BASH Script
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Graphics/Multimedia/Webdesigning
Adobe Photoshop
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Adobe Illustrator
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Macromedia Flash
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Macromedia Dreamweaver
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Job experiences
November 2004 to till now
System Manager
Dhakacom Limited
• Disaster Management/ Network Emergency recovery.
• Monitoring the servers for performance, and optimize the network for best service.
• Assuring security for the network.
• Implement and maintenance dual home BGP multihoming between BTTB (SE-ME-WE 4) and SingTel VSAT connection for redundancy and load balancing.
• Administrating Cisco 2600 (2621, 2651), 2800 (2801, 2811), 3600 (3640, 3662), 7206VXR routers, Cisco Catalyst 2900XL switches, Moxa and US servers (TCM) and HP hubs.
• Configuring switches and routers according to design using VLAN, VTP, ACL, HDLC/ PPP WAN, VPN.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of Linux base DNS, Mail, Web, Proxy and Radius servers.
• Implement domain based anti spam and anti virus email filter for corporate email security.
• Windows NT server installation, configuration and administration.
• LINUX installation, configuration and administration.
• Write web based ISP management scripts for the Helpdesk and the administration to ease the operation.
• Conducting network audit and technology assessment.
• Delivering technical content for product descriptions, architecture review and validation.
• Traffic analysis, capacity planning and early field trials.
• Monitoring change procedures and their impact on the rest of the network infrastructure.
November 2003 to November 2004
Technical Officer
Dhakacom Limited
• Installing and maintaining radio link connectivity.
• Setup network solutions to client end.
• Installing DVB circuit and maintain them.
• Deploy Wilan Radio product of both NLOS and LOS categories.
May 2003 to November 2003
MIS Officer (Software Development)
Partex Group
• Developed software for Accounts, Sales, Inventory for the corporate Intranet.
• Install, configure, monitoring & optimizing corporate Oracle database.

Born in 14th March 1980, Friday, under the astrological sign Pisces.
Life path number is 8 [click here for more on life path number 8] .
Life Path Compatibility: I am most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 8, 11 & 22.
I should get along well with those with the Life Path number 6.
I may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 1 & 5.
I am least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 3, 7 & 9.

FreeBSD
Building and Installing a Custom Kernel http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html
A NAT Router Firewall IPSec Gateway with FreeBSD http://www.lugbe.ch/los tfound/contrib/freebsd_router/
 
Squid
Squid Analysis Report Generator http://sarg.sourceforge.net/
  http://cord.de/tools/squ id/calamaris/Welcome.html.en
Squid Proxy Server with Delay Pool http://www.tl dp.org/HOWTO/Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO/install.html
 
Postfix
EnGarde Secure Linux Postfix HOWTO http://www .linuxsecurity.com/docs/HOWTO/Postfix-EnGarde-HOWTO.html
POSTFIX Anti-Spam Guides
http://www.securitysage.com/antispam/
Postfix-SMTP-AUTH-TLS-Howto
http://www.projektfarm.com/en/support/howto/postfix_smtp_auth_tls.html
 
QMail
Qmail with smtp-auth, vpopmail, binc-imap and qmailAdmin http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/mailserver/qmail+vpopmail+qmailadmin.php
Bill's Linux Qmail Toaster http://www.shupp.org/toaster/
Qmail, Courier Imap (with SSL), Vpopmail, and Squirrelmail http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/openbsd/mailserver/qmail+courier+vpopmail+cav+sa.php
 
FTP Server
Installation via the FreeBSD package respository http://www.vsftpdrocks.org/package/
 
Miscelinious
Security Tools http://www.insecure.org/tools.html
MRTG For Postfix http://taz.net.au/postfix/mrtg/
Linux Trouble Shoot::MRTG http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/
Clam AV and MailScanner mini HOWTO for Solaris and Linux http://www.steveo.us/howtos/clamav-mail-howto.html
BSD Guides:Doing Stuff with FreeBSD http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/
Antivirus and antispam free mail server using Postfix, Mailscanner, Clamav, Spamassassin and Greylisting
Create user & Change password by BASH Script
* Using Google Apps for the domain fakrul.com
* The page is underconstruction
March 08, 2007: This site is developed
http://www.fakrul.com
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