Kazi Tarek Azad

(Reporting to: Locally to Chief Country Representative and in China, to General Project Manager, the Business Development Wing, Deputy Director of Design & Economic Planning and Project Management team in Finance & Audit Department).

Major responsibilities that I have been in charge of during my tenure in the position are as follows solely or as a team to, but not limited to:

· Undertake necessary actions to develop and implement new marketing and sales plan of CMEC, China's large scale EPC projects in various development sectors with Bd. Govt. agencies (i.e., Line Ministries, ERD, BIDA, EPZAs, BTCL, BPDB, REB, DNCC, PPA, WASA and relevant Chamber of Commerce etc.), which include, among many, setting up power meetings, writing minutes of the meeting, arrange events in 5-star hotels, report writing, relationship development, analyzing government & agencies’ organograms and prepare one to one communication strategies for the top management.

· Responsible for assisting CMEC’s and its’ stakeholders decision making team to review constantly of Bangladesh Government agencies feedbacks of our Project proposals, Commercial contracts & MoUs and keep track of the changes made on national or institutional policies and simplify national strategies Bangladesh Government to CMEC, China authority to formulate effective proposal for project contracting.

· Planning and executing tasks to CMEC Design & Planning authority to pursue Bangladesh government body and its’ agencies to accept additional & sub contracts, service contracts attached to the existing main signed project implementing commercial or financial contracts.

· My responsibilities include keeping relations with local international banks & lender banks; attend meetings and correspondence for the purpose of properly maintenance of Bank accounts to ensure timely disposal of project funds and all kinds of international & local transaction related matters. Maintain accounts of the foreign expats to deposit and withdraw salaries when required. Arrange or prepare different permissions requested by the banks (i.e. PoAs, Trade License and other government permissions) for doing business in Bangladesh. Assist the management to take proper decisions and also maintain proper relations and documentations to avoid any policy & legal obstacle with the Central Bank & Local banks in keeping smooth operations maintenance & transactions for project expenses in Bangladesh.

· Keep track of the upcoming large scale engineering & financing projects all through its progress ranging from preparing PPP, DPP from Bangladesh Government agencies, line ministries to Planning Commission, ERD to NEC, ECNEC and PMO offices and write weekly reports.

· Prepare advance budget & report for upcoming work related expenditures and a reconciliation statement & report.

(Reporting to: Locally, Chief Country Representative and in China, Business Development Wing, General Project Manager, Assistant Manager, Finance & Audit)

Major responsibilities that I have been in charge of during my tenure in the position are as follows solely or as a team to, but not limited to:

· In charge of the commercial operation of the local representative office of CMEC in Bangladesh, led multicultural team to develop potential business opportunities and implement existing engineering projects in telecommunication, power, infrastructure, and communication sectors.

· Assist Chinese experts prepare assessment report of risk for an upcoming Project; ascertain the eligibility criteria & qualifications for the potential commercial contract.

· Responsible for writing reports on commercial aspects of the International tenders floated by the Bangladesh Government Agencies for various development sectors, which include: Risk assessment of the Tender; Determine eligibility & qualifications of the Tenderer; Calculate local duty & taxes; Collection of Price Quotation of Local Materials required for the Tender; Attend Pre-bid meetings and prepare minutes of the meeting; Prepare the outline of bid construction; Site visit and assist Chinese tech-experts and designers; Prepare documents as per the Bid Data Sheet (BDS); Assist Chinese company to find an appropriate local partner or sub-contractor in regards, civil engineering, construction & services and Arrange liaison and maintain communications with Local NGO’s for any kind of requirement i.e., Mass Relocation of human settlement and Social Awareness of safety of the construction project site.

· Site visit and assist Chinese Experts; Prepare documents as per the Bid Data Sheet (BDS); and Assist Chinese companies to find an appropriate local partner or sub-contractor.

· Successfully completed necessary actions to ensure & expedite all the repayments in favor of CMEC, China for the four (04) projects on time. Those involve BPDB, BTCL, Rail authorities, local public banks, ERD and line ministries.

· Apply & Claim payments timely basis as per the contractual & letter of credit obligations and initiate and expedite all payments approved the government agencies and payments made through local banks to international banks.

· Planned supervised and coordinated daily activities of four (04) Commercial Associates, which include business & commercial communication development, strategy planning to set the target and achieve the goal, team building, and preparation of a business continuation plan.

(Reporting to: Locally, Chief Country Representative and in China, Business Development Wing, General Project Manager, Assistant Manager, Finance & Audit)

· Communicate, pursue and manage relations with officials in TBL, various Power Distribution Companies of Bangladesh (i.e. Rural Electrification Board, Dhaka Electric Supply Co, Dhaka Power Distribution Co.) and Power Connection Contractors to ensure power connections at the 2000+ BTS tower sites all over Bangladesh ahead of completion of civil works and prepare daily & weekly progress status updates of all the site’s power connection situation for the Project General Manager.

· Assume all the tasks required to assist General Project Manager and the Project Director to select twenty-one (21) various types of ‘project personnel vehicles’ as per the Contract and BoQ guidelines and all the tasks related to contract preparation & signing, work/import orders, NBR & CCI&E permissions, local Insurance, Customs Clearing from Chittagong port and arrange Logistical support and prepare & sign Contracts and Schedules to ensure fast & safe deliveries of the vehicle to various project sites.

(Reporting to: Locally, Chief Country Representative and in China, Business Development Wing, General Project Manager, Assistant Manager, Finance & Audit)

Major responsibilities that I have been in charge of during my tenure in the position are as follows solely or as a team to, but not limited to:

· Successfully managed multi-million dollar projects to reach the scheduled goals by assisting planning, managing, supervising team by timely procure local services and supplies. Handle daily support system of the local & international suppliers and civil, works & logistical contractors for the project.

· Successfully completed necessary actions to ensure & expedite all the repayments in favor of CMEC, China for the two projects on time. Those involve various BTCL, Rail authorities, local public Banks and international lender Banks.

· Support provided to Bangladesh Representative Office Accounts Department to prepare financial data entry, general bookkeeping, track records of vouchers using computer-based application (Excel, access etc.). My responsibilities also include tasks in Foreign Banks- correspondences, record vouchers, clearings, payrolls preparation; travel claims, MPOs and other entitlements of the project expats are duly processed.

· Assume the duty to prepare weekly news summary of the selected news items published in the Bangladeshi daily newspapers on various issues in Bangladesh development sectors, political situations, other local & International companies’ activities in Bangladesh, which are relevant to Chinese business interests and to keep up-to-date of changing business, economics and political trends and allow the CMEC management to prepare strategies for business proposals.

(Reporting to: Locally, Chief Country Representative, General Project Manager and in China, Assistant Manager, Finance & Audit)

Major responsibilities that I have been in charge of during my tenure in the position are as follows solely or as a team to, but not limited to:

· Successfully completed necessary actions to ensure & expedite all the loan repayments in favor of Chinese Nationalized Banks, A/C: CMEC, China for three multi-million dollar large scale G-2-G projects on time. Those works involve correspondence, arrange and attend meetings, persuasion, keep track and follow the internal file movements and decisions of the authorities, provide the local nationalized banks (i.e. Bangladesh Bank, Sonali Bank, Janata Bank) to write advises to relevant Bangladesh Government’s ministries, organizations and agencies (i.e. Ministry: Power Division, Telecommunication, Information, Communication; BPDB, Bangladesh Railway, BTCL, Teletalk; ERD, Planning Commission, Bangladesh Bank, NBR etc.)

· Successfully assume responsibilities for progress payments and compensation for fluctuation of dollar rates over the progress payments of step by step work completion & expat technical services for two (02) major G-2-G projects valued approx. USD 200 million each under BPDB, Power Division. This work includes report submission, preparation schedule of work and services rendered and pursue the approvals of the Bangladesh Government appointed Project Directors on time.

· Full assistance to the Chief Representative/ Project General Manager to procure and prepare project’s site by site works and services completion schedules for the release of various contractual certificates (i.e. Provisional Acceptance Certificates (PAC) & Final Acceptance Certificates (FAC) of the two projects from government agencies (employers).

· My major responsibilities related to the Logistics & Commercial C&F works such as: C&F Agent Handling, dealing with Dhaka Airport, Kamalapur ICD and Chittagong Seaport Cargo & Customs Authority.

· Preparation of different types of Banking, Shipping, Letter of Credit & Project Documents & Transportation arrangement and works for Logistics & Commercial Department.

· Take care of issuing Import & Export Permit for Chief Controller of Imp & Exp (CCI&E) Office Bangladesh, and issuing NOC from Bangladesh Central Bank for Temporary Import, Project Import, and Export cum Import machinery and import cum export machineries during the project tenure.

· Co-ordination & Maintain Liaisons National Board of Revenue (NBR), CCI&E Office, National & Private Warehouses, Bangladesh Bank & Home Ministry.

· My other key duties & responsibilities as a secretary are as follows:

-Prepare contracts and coordinate with the land/property owners for Project office and Expats house rents.

-Writing/ editing letters to all Government or Non-Government offices related to project;

-Write/ edit/ formulate letters for Expression of Interest (EoI), Memorandum of Discussion (MoD), Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Intellectual Property Rights Agreements; General Local Agency and Partnership agreements

-Write Minute of the Meetings;

-Make Contacts with different officials in ERD, Planning Commission and Government Agencies to get Project information. Collect translate (in required) analysis various government Five (05) years plan, Policies, Guidelines, Acts and Rules & Regulations orders, statistical data & lists for the Chief Representative and other Representatives

- Communicate with our Government partners, Local Partners and keep relations for arrange meetings and attend the meeting and assist Chinese representative to take decisions;

- Obtain various permissions from the various Government Authorities, i.e., BPDB, WASA, BTCL, NBR, CCI&E, Ministry of Commerce, Planning Commission, ERD, DNCC, DSCC, RCC, District Councils, Municipalities etc.;

-Translate all types of Bengali documents into English;

-Full support to Bd Representative Office’s account.

During my tenure my major responsibilities include:

· Sourcing, procure and supplying relevant info & data to Project Coordinator to prepare effective Project Profile for political consciences & awareness building of local activists though cultural activities.

· Preparation of budget and financial statement for the ongoing projects

· Create guidelines, directives and arrange meetings between the other related NGOs in action for greater networking building.

· Preparation of Press Releases;

· Correspondences and regular visitations of the Project related Government Offices & organizations.

· Petty cash maintenance and prepare & verify field offices monthly projected budgets.

· Maintenance of daily accounts through Bookkeeping, Ledger, Voucher and statement preparation.

· Basic Payroll management by Pay-slips preparation & distribution, timesheet verifications, of the office staffs and field office staffs.

· Position: Sub-editor

My typical responsibilities of the job include:

· Translating agency released international and national news from English to Bangla and writing, rewriting, editing and proofreading text

· Making sure that news-paper house style is adhered to writing headlines, picture captions and story summaries

· Editing reports and press releases

· Liaising with journalists, reporters and editors

· Verifying information and story details

· Gathering and preparing routine information, including sports results

· Designing page layouts

· Ensuring that stories are the right length and correctly placed on pages

· Sizing photographs and placing them within features

· Making sure that stories are accurate and do not compromise legality.

· Collecting reports from the Correspondences from different locations of Bangladesh over to phone & listen to different news voiced over the radios and write down instantly the news contents and prepare the news items if required by the news editor to write.

· Position: International page editor

My responsibilities of the job include, once in every week:

· Page make-up, prepare columns per news.

· Selecting contemporary international political, health and entertainment articles for the International page & translate if necessary.

· Organizing meetings with writers and designers to discuss and plan the features section of the magazine

· Commissioning features and stories from in-house news writers or freelancers

· Supervising staff, including freelance writers, and setting deadlines

· Reading, writing and reshaping features and articles already published in other international magazines and translate those into Bangla from English.

· Rewriting, editing, proofreading and subbing copy to ensure it is ready to go to the weekly international page

· Ensuring that, all feature articles comply with ethical codes of practice and legal guidelines.

· Position: Reporting (Political gatherings, rallies, meetings)

My main responsibilities of the job include, but not limited to:

· Collect political outdoor gatherings & rallies news from Dhaka Motijheel, GPO, Paltan and Press-Club area;

· Write down the important features and focus points of the speeches provided by the political leaders;

· Collect press releases of political party press releases on mass gatherings;

· Collect scoop news on the spot to make a news report attractive.

· Take short interviews of the on the spot political activists on various aspects of the contemporary political situations.

· Writing, rewriting, editing of the day long collected information as news items as per the directive of the News Editor.

· Position: News Analysis and feature writing

My main responsibilities of the job include:

· Connect with the News editors of different Weekly magazines and take assignments to write on international political issues, current affairs and music related matters, putting the ideas & guidelines of the editors into perspective, my responsibilities would be:

· Search and gather news published in different available newspapers and magazines and books and archives;

· Translating English to Bangla for writing and editing feature stories;

· Research and Interview local experts on the featuring subjects, if necessary;

· Creatively put together all the information, statements and relevant flow of events into a contractive feature.

My responsibilities and work performances include:

· Successfully implement a CIDA funded project entitled “Awareness building among village adult population to participate for voting in national elections by the use of folk theaters” by supporting the organizing committee by supervise, monitoring, evaluation and reporting.

· Team work responsibilities to translate English books presented by CIDA funded project entitled “Voter Education Program” in easy Bangla for the rural readers and translate various Bangla reports in to English obtained from the Field Offices for the donor to study.

· Motoring, report writing, press release writing & publication on observation on Voter Registration Program 1996, organized by National Election Commission.

· Providing instructions as per the guidelines prepared by the Program Coordination Committee for the various Drama Organizations working in various parts of Bangladesh on Voter & Civic awareness programs and edit and rearrange their field reports as per the program guidelines.

· Arrangement & directing of focus group discussions in various Constitutional Seats for parliament elections in Tangail District for voter & civic awareness building.

· Report preparation for effectiveness of various village Salish programs initiated by Nagorik Uddyog.

· Field data collect supervision under Development Research Center (DRC) of the Grameen Trust funded project entitled “Public Health Situations in the Grameen Health Program areas.”

Worked as team member under DRC for the research entitled “Rehabilitation Program of the Underprivileged & Poverty-stricken village women through Food for Work” funded by WFP.