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NAME: Ashraf Saeed
NATIONALITY: Maldivian
AGE: 32
FAMILY: Married
WORKING LANGUAGES: English & Dhivehi

EDUCATION:

• Completed Studies up to Grade 12 in 1994 from Science Education Centre, Malé Maldives.
• GCE ‘O’ level, Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Fisheries Science
• (Note: My Interest in Computers led me to drop my studies in the final year of GCE ‘A’ level at S.E.C.)

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND:

Certifications Achieved:

• Wireless# – Validity: Lifetime
• Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA) – Valid Till: 07 Sep 2009

14 years of experience working with computers and can fluently handle:-

Operating Systems:

MSDOS, MS Windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, Novell Netware 4.01 Redhat Linux, Fedora, Caldera OpenLinux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu, Mac OS X, MS Windows Server, Advanced Server and Windows 2003 Server.

Applications Software:

MS Office Applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, FrontPage), CorelDRAW, Norton Antivirus, Norton Utilities and Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash & Fireworks. MS ISA Server, MS SQL Server, Apache, MySQL, Linux based Firewalls.

Online Programs:

Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, mIRC, Eudora Pro, Opera, MS Outlook, Outlook Express, FaxSav, Net2Phone, MS Chat, MS Dialup Server, FrontPage Server Extensions and MS Personal Web Server, IIS 4 & 5, Thunderbird, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Skype, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk.

Prog / Script Languages:

Visual Basic, VBScript, JavaScript, Active Server Pages (ASP), PHP.

Hardware:

Diagnose & Fix any Microcomputer or LAN/WAN problems. Cisco routers.

Project Work:

Details of my project work can be found at the projects page.

NON TECHNICAL BACKGROUND:

11 years of experience in the field of Global Express, Logistics & Mail.

1997 – 2006: TNT International Express
1995 – 1997: Aramex International Courier / Airborne Express

WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES ATTENDED:

Linux Demo Day organized by Maldivian Linux Users Group (MLUG), 17 – 18 February 2000.

TNT Induction Programme conducted by TNT at Bangalore India, 17 – 21 February 1998.

Entrepreneurship Development Awareness Workshop organised by the Ministry of Trade and Industries, Government of the Republic of Maldives with the assistance of the Export and Industrial Development Division, Commonwealth Secretariat. Malé Maldives, 8 – 13 July 1995.

OTHER IT INVOLVEMENTS:

Founder Member of Maldives Wireless Users Group http://www.mwug.net

Member of the Maldives Linux Users Group – http://www.mlug.mv http://www.untitled.org.mv/mlug