Meet the Mentors by SQABD

Who are the mentors in the Software Industry of Bangladesh? How did they shape the people around them? SQABD will interview these exceptional individuals and upload the recordings for everyone to hear.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Sohel Islam -- The Microsoft Way

This program is exclusively sponsored by BIPL:









Teaser Video:




Full Video:


Full video is also available at Google Video.



Downloads:

Low Resolution Video (WMV), 87.6 MB


Audio (MP3), 25.8 MB



Pictures:

Backstage



In this episode, your host Tauhidul Islam is joined by Sohel Islam, Software Design Engineer at Microsoft. The theme of this interview is "The Microsoft Way". Enjoy!



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The podcast music theme is provided by Yaatri.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Fokhruz Zaman on Meet the Mentors by SQABD

This program is exclusively sponsored by Ardites:




Google Video:



YouTube:
Part-1
Part-2

Part-3
Part-4
Part-5
Part-6
Part-7
(YouTube allows only 10 minutes per video, so we had to split it into parts)


Downloads:

Low Resolution Video (WMV), 68.1 MB


Audio (MP3), 29.4 MB



In this episode, your host Tauhidul Islam is joined by Fokhruz Zaman, CTO at Millennium Information Solution Ltd. Mr. Zaman is also a member of the Millennium founding team. As CTO, Mr. Zaman provides strategic technology directions and creative inputs to Millennium's software development projects. His forward-thinking vision has resulted in strategic, best-of-the-breed solutions for local and global companies. In total, he has more than 16 years of experience in Software R&D, Production and Management in the global software industry. Mr. Zaman was the Software Manager for Bell Atlantic R&D Asia Lab. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from BUET and an MBA from Dhaka University with a concentration in finance. The discussion includes:

  • His career path.
  • Expertise arena especially on Software R&D.
  • Working experience as a software Manager for Bell Atlantic R&D Asia Lab.
  • Experience working as a BASIS trainer.
  • Thoughts regarding Testing scope in Bangladesh, current and in future.
  • Comments on Automation practice, tools usage and risk analysis.
  • Role to activate the culture of collaboration between software companies.
  • Comments on process centric software development practices.
  • Working experience and environment in Millennium.
  • and more...
Enjoy!


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The podcast music theme is provided by Yaatri.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Azman Sami on Meet the Mentors by SQABD

This program is exclusively sponsored by Therap (BD) Ltd:









Downloads:

Audio (MP3), 26.1 MB



In this second podcast session, your host Tauhidul Islam is joined by Azman Sami, Manager, Operation Support and Software Automation System at Grameenphone. Mr. Azman Sami is a well known mentor in the software industry of Bangladesh for almost 7 to 8 years. The beginning part is more focused on the study path of our mentor. Then we highlighted his career path. As our mentor spent a significant time period in the core software firm and then moved to telco world, we tried to portray a comparative scenario of his learning phase, working experiences and his overall career building stories.

In this session we discussed about the different roles that he played in the Software Development Life Cycle process. Believe me, it is not an overnight stand...It is a step by step building up process. He started his career in a software firm as a developer and then as a development team lead, test team lead, designer/architect and then as a project manager. We talked to him regarding the software development part of the telco world. We try to find out his view on some development scenarios. To know the details keep listening to Meet the Mentors by SQABD podcast session...

SQABD presents this story of journey; we need to know to portray the big picture. We need to know more about our mentors. So stay tuned with Meet the Mentors by SQABD.


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The podcast music theme is provided by Yaatri.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Khandakar Asif Hasan on Meet the Mentors by SQABD

Downloads:

Audio (MP3), 36 MB


English Transcript (PDF), 166 KB




In this episode, your host Tauhidul Islam is joined by Khandakar Asif Hasan, Director at Spectrum Engineering Consortium Ltd. He has more than 13 years of professional experience. The discussion includes:

  • His working experience.
  • What it takes to be a Software Architect.
  • Training the human resources in a software company.
  • Government policies regarding the software industry.
  • Comparison with India.
  • Automation, tools, risk analysis.
  • Collaboration between software companies.
  • Internship program.
  • and more...


NOTE:
We created a teaser video, which is basically an image slideshow, so that you can listen to the episode from YouTube or Google Video. The video is only the first 20 minutes of the entire episode. Hopefully this will encourage you to download the audio (MP3) to listen to the entire episode.


YouTube - Image Slideshow:
Part-1
Part-2
(YouTube allows only 10 minutes per video, so we had to split it into parts)


Google Video - Image Slideshow:



Enjoy!


Visit SQABD Home Page at www.sqabd.com


This program is sponsored by Enosis Solutions:




The podcast music theme is provided by Yaatri.