CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name : SYED ZAHIRUL ABEDIN

Father's Name : Late Syed Zainul Abedin

Permanent Address : Village: Dhanai, Post Office:

Damudya,

District: Shariatpur, Bangladesh.

Mailing Address : House No. 1, Road No. 10, Block-B

Section No. 10, Mirpur, Dhaka 1216

Nationality : Bangladeshi

Date of Birth : December 31, 1964

Telephone Numbers :+88-015**-******, +88-016**-***-***

E-mail Address : ab5yx3@r.postjobfree.com

Passport Number : B1594891, issued by the Department of Immigration

and Passports, Government of Bangladesh on

Apr 13, 2008 and valid up to April 12,

2018.

WORKING EXPERIENCES

SENIOR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

WALTON HI-TECH INDUSTRIES LTD, Bangladesh's largest electrical,

electronic goods and home appliances manufacturing company.

Jiban Bima Bhaban (Level-3)

10, Dilkusha C/A, Dhaka 1000

Bangladesh.

[Working for 15 (Fifteen) months since June 2012 onwards]

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Public Relations and Communications activities; planning, designing

and preparing promotional and publicity campaign materials for

successful marketing and selling of home appliances and electronics

like fridges, refrigerators, motorcycles, mobile phones manufactured

by Walton Hi-Tech Industries Limited. Walton is now a very successful

home appliance, automobiles electric and electronic goods

manufacturing company in Bangladesh.

Preparing strategies for marketing and selling of electrical,

electronics and automobile products manufactured by Walton-Hi-Tech

Industries Limited through more than 5,000 outlets of across

Bangladesh with the objective of maximizing the company's profits.

and

NEWS EDITOR

www. risingbd.com, an online daily newspaper published by Walton Hi-

Tech Industries Ltd. I am employed as News Editor of the English

Version of this online news portal.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Job responsibilities include writing online news and features on

different local, international, economy and business issues; sub-

editing and proofreading, writing headlines, etc; Public Relations,

work including promotional and publicity campaign for marketing and

selling of home appliances like fridges, refrigerators, micro-wave

oven, motorcycles, mobile phones and electronic products manufactured

by Walton Hi-Tech Limited, the largest electric and electronic goods

manufacturing company in Bangladesh.

AS TELEVISION JOURNALIST

JOINT NEWS EDITOR (ENGLISH)

NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

[Since August 2010 to May 2012]

BOISHAKHI TELEVISION

32 Mohakhali C/A, Dhaka 1212

Bangladesh.

MAIN ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Working in close cooperation with superiors inside the Newsroom;

judging, translating, editing and preparing news scripts based on

reports from reporters and correspondents for two prime English

Bulletins everyday-one at 9am and another at 6pm; making short news

bulletins for four times a day, and ensure their proper presentation;

leading and supervising an efficient and experienced team of English

Newsroom Editors and News Presenters; having interpersonal skills and

ability to motivate, advise, direct and supervise the team members to

achieve results for the benefit of the organization.

AS PRINT JOURNALIST

EXPERIENCES IN NEWSPAPERS

Wrote many news stories during my journalistic career in different

national dailies of the country. Prepared many stories on economy and

finance, business and trade, banking, export and import interviewing

ministers, business leaders, economists and senior government

officials. Interviewed many politicians, academics, ambassadors and

diplomats including former British High Commissioner to Bangladesh HE

Anwar Chowdhury, former First Secretary to the Australian High

Commission in Bangladesh Ms Jannet Donnely, etc, was attached to the

Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) at the high

commission.

I worked in different newspapers under following capacities:

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

THE INDEPENDENT

[From November 2009 to December 2009]

CITY EDITOR AND BUSINESS EDITOR

THE NEW NATION

[From February 2, 2008 to March 2009]

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

THE NEW NATION

[From February 2008 to March 2009]

SENIOR REPORTER

THE NEW NATION

[From June 2004 to January 2008]

CHIEF REPORTER

THE NEW NATION

[From August 2001 to May 2004]

STAFF REPORTER

THE NEW NATION

[From March 1993 to March 1999]

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

i) Master of Arts (M.A) in ELT (English Language Teaching), an 18-

month long post-graduation course from the Institute of Modern

Languages, University of Dhaka; Examination held in April 2009.

Major: English Language Teaching

Medium of Learning/Study: English

Total Credits: 36, CGPA 2.90 in the scale of 4.00

Courses Studied: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Phonetics and English

Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics and Second Language

Acquisition, Educational Psychology, Pragmatics and Discourse

Analysis, Principles and Methods of English Language Teaching,

Syllabus Design and Materials Development, Testing, Research

Methodology, Teaching Practicum and Dissertation.

ii) Master of Arts (M.A) in English (TESOL: Teaching English to

Speakers of Other Languages), a two-year post-graduation course; Prime

University (Government Approved), Dhaka, Bangladesh; 2007.

Major: English Language Teaching

Medium of Learning/Study: English

Total Credits: 60, CGPA 3.56 in the scale of 4.00

Courses Studied: Advanced English Grammar, Language and Literature,

Advance Writing Skills, The Experience of Literature, Structure of

English, English in the Global Context, Stylistics, Methods of

Language Teaching, Management of Language Teaching, Principles of

Materials Development, Fundamentals of Language Acquisition and

Development, Advance English Syntax, Teaching Grammar, Teaching

Reading, Advanced Sociolinguistics, Advanced Psycholinguistics,

Syllabus Designing and Materials Production, Teaching Listening and

Speaking, Testing and Assessment and Micro-Teaching.

iii) Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Islamic History and Culture, Dhaka

University, Dhaka; 1986, Second Class.

Courses Studied: Political History of the Muslims (outside Indian Sub-

continent) up to 1258AD, Political History of the Muslims of Indian

Sub-Continent up to 1765AD, History of Modern Europe (1789-1939),

Political History of Muslim Rule in North Africa and Spain, History of

Ancient and Mediaeval Civilizations, History of Muslim Arts and

Architecture and History of Muslim Administration, and English

Language and Economics. It is a three-year long course.

Course starts: 1983--Course ends: 1986

Medium of Learning/Study: English and Bengali

iv) Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC), Government Titumir College,

Dhaka Board, 1982, Science Group, Second Division. It is a two-year

long college level (higher secondary or pre-graduation degree)

education in Bengali medium.

Subjects Studied: Bengali (Mother Tongue), English, Physics,

Chemistry, Biology (Botany and Geology), and Elective Mathematics,

comprising Calculus, Trigonometry etc.

v) Secondary School Certificate (SSC), Damudya Muslim High School,

Dhaka Board, 1980, Science Group, First Division. It was held after

ten years of education (primary and secondary).

Subjects Studied: Bengali, English, General Mathematics, Elective

Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology

vi) Diploma in 'International Advanced Journalism from Thomson

Foundation, University of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 1999. It is

a three-month long intensive course on international print journalism.

Major: Advanced Course in International Print Journalism

Medium of Learning/Study: English

Areas of Course: Expanding Sources of News, News Values and Judgement,

Story Construction, Advanced Interviewing Techniques, Feature Planning

and Writing, Investigative Journalism, Opinion Writing, Research on

the Internet, Internet Website Building, Business and Financial

Reporting, The Basics of Media Management, Self Management, Editorial

Budgetary Control, Newsroom Leadership and Motivation, Sub-Editing,

Newspaper Design, Picture Evaluation and Editing, Operating Quark

Express and Media Ethics.

TRAINING COURSES

a) Participated in a training course on 'Economics and Business

Journalism,' organised by the Economic Development Institute of the

World Bank, in collaboration with the Bangladesh Centre for

Development Journalism and Communication in Dhaka in July 1998.

b) Participated in a workshop on 'Environmental Reporting,' organised

jointly by the International Centre for Journalists, United States of

America and the Bangladesh Centre for Development Journalism and

Communication held in Dhaka in October 1996.

c) Participated in a training course on 'In-Depth Reporting,'

organised jointly by the United States Information Services (now

American Centre) in Dhaka and the Press Institute of Bangladesh, held

in Dhaka in September 1993.

d) Received Transparency International (Bangladesh Chapter) Award in

1999 for writing a series of reports on Jamuna Bridge, now Bangabandhu

Bridge. The Jamuna Bridge project was built under the assistance of

the World Bank, ADB and Japan government.

AWARD AND FELLOWSHIP

i) Visited Japan under the Fellowship of Foreign Press Centre

Foundation, Tokyo, Japan and interviewed senior officials there at

Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, JICA Headquarters, JBIC, Toyota,

and Mitsubishi in Tokyo etc.

ii) Visited different countries in Europe.

iii) Visited Indonesia and UAE extensively with Bangladesh business

delegations and wrote reports after coming back to the country.

AFFILIATION WITH PROFESSIONAL BODIES

Founder Member of the Dhaka Reporters Unity, the largest body of

journalists based in

Dhaka, Bangladesh.

INVOLVED IN SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

Actively involved in various social and community works, i.e. working

for the elderly and disabled people.

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

Possess knowledge of different computer literacy applications like MS

Office Word, MS Office Excel as well as Internet and Web.

Managing the administration panel of the www.risingbd.com

KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES

Mother Tongue: Bangla

Language Listening Reading Writing

Speaking

Competence Skill Skill Skill

Skill

Bangla Fluent Fluent Fluent

Fluent

English Fluent Fluent

Fluent Fluent

Hindi Fluent Modest Modest

Fluent

AUGUST 2013 (SYED ZAHIRUL

ABEDIN)

STATUS OF IELTS SCORE

Appeared at IELTS (General Training Module) Examination held on May

16, 2013 at the IDP, Bangladesh in Dhaka (www.bangladesh.idp.com) and

got 7.0 band score in Listening, 6.5 band score in Reading, 6.5 band

score in Writing and 6.0 in Speaking. On an average, I scored 6.5.

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