Welcome in Al-Bassam CTEC ..

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Asif Ali Mirza

Mr. Asif Ali Mirza is a commerce graduate with Post-Graduate Diploma inComputer Science having MCP, MCP + I , MCSE and MCT certifications tohis credit. He started his career as a ‘C’ programmer in TDIL. (Technology Development of Indian Languages) a prestigious project under the auspices of Govt. Of India. He went from C to C++ and has developed many programs in these two languages. He has also been certified by Microsoft in C++ using MFC .He has experience in Visual Basic and Visual Java++ as well.

In his venture into Operating systems and networks , he began with Microsoft Windows, Novell Netware and Unix. He has implemented many networking solutions in Bombay ( India) and in Saudi Arabia amongst them Implementing Intranets , Proxy servers,etc.He is currently the leading Customer Support Engineer to ARAMCO for Zero Datasoft Products (Sister Co. of Al-Bassam Group). He has also been undertaking corporate training especially for Windows NT in India and Saudi Arabia for the last 5 years.

After working successfully with Dept. Of Electronics (Govt. Of India) and NIIT(National Institute Of Information Technology) for around 4 years . Mr. Asif isworking with Al-Bassam Group for the last 2 years.He has delivered Visual Basic,Windows NT and Windows 2000 courses at SCECO , ARAMCO,etc. He is among the few Microsoft professionals in the Kingdom , who have passed “Accelerated Exam” for Upgrading to Windows 2000. Moreover , he has been working as a consultant to various companies in designing an upgrade path from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000.

Sheikh Mohammad Iqbal

Mr. Mohammad Iqbal is a Science graduate with Post-Graduate Diploma inComputer Science having MCP, MCP + I ,MCSD, MCDBA , MCSE , MCT and CCNA certifications to his credit. He started his career as a LAN Administrator in Aptech Hardcore (India) in 1995. Having immense interest in Digital Electronics , he designed various electronic gadgets for some prestigious Universities and Engineering Colleges. He also worked as a Hardware Support Engineer withPresidency computers in India. Continuing his networking skills , he joinedKITE Polytechnic as LAN administrator and later Horizon Network Services as a Solution Engineer. Throughout his career , he has been training individuals and corporates in the field of Digital Electronics, Operating Systems and Networking.

A brief description of Mr. Iqbal’s networking Skills:

OS / NOS : Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 9x, UNIX (espacially Linux), NetWare (3x, 4.1).
Media: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Switched Ethernet, dial-up, dedicated leased line, T1 links, wireless etc
Server (applications) :File & print, IIS (3.0, 4.0, 5) Exchange 5.5, MS SQL 7.0, Proxy 2.0, MS Site Server, SlMail, SlNet, WINS, DNS, DHCP, Terminal services (win2000), RAS & RRAS, GSNW/CSNW, etc
Protrocols: TCP/IP suite, IPX, Nwlink, NetBeui, SMTP, POP3, DNS, WINS, DHCP, PPP, RIP, OSPF, http etc.
Network Devices : NIC, hubs, switches (3Com etc ), bridges, routers (Cisco), access servers (Cisco), modems (dialup & leased line) etc.
Design and deploy Thin Client Server networking solutions.

Projects undertaken:

Planning, installation of Win NT Intranet with RAS, IIS4, Proxy Server 2 Implementation.
Establishing of an ISP Network platform based on Windows NT 4.0. Involving customer dial-in, website-hosting servers, Internet POP3 & SMTP mail servers, database servers.
Established remote WAN links with dial-in and dedicated lines.
Planning, installation and Administration of NetWare (disk & diskless nodes) and Windows 9x computers.
Thin client Server Network design of more than 400 nodes.

In continuation of his LAN/WAN skills Mr. Iqbal joined GCC (ISP in Bahrain). With GCC he was involved in Concept, design and content preparation.

Interface and back-end services handling on MS IIS 4 and Unix Apache servers. The tools used for this work were Visual Baic 6.0, HTML, DHTML, ASP, vbScript, javascript, Visual Interdev, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Flash 4.0, 3D Studio Max, Adobe styler and Graphics software.