Suhreed Sarkar is an IT consultant, trainer, and technical writer. He studied Marine engineering, served on board for two years, and then started with his journey in to IT world with MCSE in Windows NT 4.0 track. Recently he has earned an MBA from the University of Dhaka. He has several BrainBench certifications on various topics including PHP4, Project Management, RDBMS Concepts, E-commerce, Web Server Administration, Internet Security, Training Development, Delivery and Evaluation, and Technical Writing.

As a trainer, Suhreed taught courses on system administration, web development, e-commerce, and MIS. He has consulted several national and international organizations including the United Nations, and has helped clients build and adopt their enterprise portals, large scale databases, and management information systems. He is a renowned technical author in Bengali, having a dozen books published on subjects covering web development, LAMP, networking, and system administration. As an open source enthusiast, he is active in several forums and takes every opportunity to promote open source CMSs and shopping carts.

While not busy with hacking some apps, blogging on his blog (www.suhreedsarkar.com), reading philosophy of Bertrand Russel, or the management thought of Peter F Drucker, he likes to spend some special moments with his family. Suhreed lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh and can be reached at [email protected].