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Md. Safiqul Islam

Hanstavägen 49, Room-978, Stockholm, Sweden

Voice: +46 704058007
Email: islam3@kth.se

Career Objective:

To work in a challenging and dynamic environment with a research team and apply my expertise to attain the team’s goal while working towards the master thesis.

Education:

  • The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

2007 to till now; Masters of Science in Internetworking

  • American International University – Bangladesh

2006; B.Sc. in Computer Engineering

CGPA 3.93 (out of 4 scale)

Professional Experience:

  • Ericsson  Research, Stockholm, Sweden

Duration        : September 2009 – Till date

Designation   :  Research Engineer

  • Open Source Networking,  Reseacrh and Development Project,  The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Duration        : August 2008 – January 2009

Designation   :  Asst.  Project Manager and Network Engineer

- Worked towards the consolidation of a package and a business case to implement Open Source Networking (OSN) in Africa.

- Applied the packages in the redesign of the network at the Dodowa Health Research Center in Africa.

- Designed the network topology and implemented 802.1x port based authentication and web based authentication using the same radius server.

- Configured all the network services like DNS, DHCP, FTP.

- Cofigured the network monitoring service Nagios.

- Worked as a team leader to assign task  the member .

- Developed a Wiki for all the technical task to give a milestone to the open source community.

Website:  http://www.tslab.ssvl.kth.se/csd/projects/0821116/

  • High Definition Video Conferencing Reseacrh and Development Project ,  The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Duration        : January 2009 – April 2009

Designation   :   R&D Project Coach

- Worked as a project coach and helped them to choose the correct project model.

- Reviewed their weekly progress report, project plan.

- Attended weekly meetings with the project team and teaching team at TSLAB, KTH.

Website:  http://www.tslab.ssvl.kth.se/csd/projects/0821116/

  • ReliSource Technologies, Ltd. Dhaka, Bangladesh/Boston, MA, USA

Duration        : March 2007 to August 2007

Designation   : SQA(Software Quality Assurance) Engineer.

Project: enVision Universal Device Support Project – Network Intelligence

- Used enVision tool amd provide continous and ongoing support to add and modify the logging messages generated by the vendor specific network devices.  enVision is data-driven that use XML device-specific message files to describe the device log messages, and vendors issue frequent updates.

- Added several unknown messages and signature updates  to envision reported by the customed.

- Provided training to the new members.

Website:  http://www.relisource.com

  • DNS Satcomm Ltd. (a sister concern of DNS Group).

This Organization is a Network solution and Bandwidth provider to corporate users.

Duration           :  December 2006 to March 2007

Position            : NOC (Network Operation Center) Engineer.

- Installation and administration of Point-to-Point radio links of the POP’s.

- Configuration and Administration of router, switch, VPN and firewall.

- Network traffic analysis, network troubleshooting. ISP (NAT, Proxy, Web, Mail, DNS,    Bandwidth Manager, DVB, MRTG) setup.

- Administration of servers deserved by NOC.

Website: www.dnsgroup.com.bd

Technical Skills:

q Strong knowledge and hand on experience on inter domain routing protocol ( BGP- 4) and intra domain routing protocol (RIP, IGRP, EIGRP and OSPF, PIM-SM, PIM-DM).

q Operating Systems  :  Windows 9x/XP/2k, Linux.

q Programming Languages  :  J2SE, J2ME, C/C++,  VHDL, Verilog, asm, Visual Basic, MIPS , PBasic, HTML, XHTML, WML.

q Scripting Language: PHP, Javascript, Active Perl.

q Version Control Tools: CVS

q Network Monitoring  Tools: Nagios, MRTG.

q Bug Tracking Tools: enVision, Bugzilla

Project Works:

q Decentralized chat application: Develoved a complete decentralized chat application using JAVA. Implemented features like file sharing and group chat.

q Developed an user authentication mechanism using both 802.1x port based and web based solution where port based is the primary solution and web based is the alternative solution. For both authentication, free radius was used as the common radius server.

q ISP Project: A small ISP with our own network topology with services like DNS,DHCP,WWW, VOIP, Post Access Authentication, Fault tolerant IP routing, IP multicast routing-KTH.

q BGP Project: Solved a real world BGP problem by solving growth of user, instability and new equipment integration – KTH

q BlueTTT: Bluetooth based P2P game for mobile devices.

q Rich Transport timetable client: Rich client showing current bus timetable of Swedish traffic. Developed using Flash Lite for mobile devices.

q Robo-Car: Microcontroller based Ultrasonic Headway controlled Autonomous Vehicle

Robo-Car has three basic components –  ultrasonic range finder sensors, Basic Stamp microcontroller as brain and wheel as actuator. The main task of the Robo-Car is to detect obstacles and find the best path based on our own developed algorithm.

q Video Club Management System and Student Registration System using J2SE and Access and Restaurant Management System using C++.

Researh Papers and Publication:

q Sumanta Saha; Md. Safiqul Islam; Md. Sakhawat Hossen, “A Novel Overlay IDS for Wireless Sensor Networks”, published in WAC 2008, IADIS MCCSIS, 22-24 July, Amsterdam, The Netherland, ISBN: 978-972-8924-62-1 © 2008 IADIS, pp.144-148

q Md. Safiqul Islam, A Hierarchical Intrusion Detection System in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Submitted for publishing.

q Md. Safiqul Islam, “Integration of Peer-to-Peer System and SIP: Implications and Existing Approaches”, Submitted for publishing.

q Md. Safiqul Islam, An Experimental Study to Analyze the Parameters affecting Relationship between Round-Trip Time and Download Response Time for FTP Servers”, submitted and accepted by the The Royal Institute of Technology -KTH

q A research paper titled as  “BGP Security Vulnerabilities ”  submitted and accepted on The Royal Institute of technology –KTH.

Achievements:

q 100% tution waiver for outstanding CGPA in undergraduate program.

Communication Skills:

q Fluent in English and Bengali; both verbal and written.

q Strong command on multimedia presentation, business correspondence,

report writing and public speaking.

References:

References available on request.

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