Sirius Family
David Klein
Co-Founder, Director
Mr. Klein, an attorney by training, has spent the last 2 years as Executive Vice President and one of the founders of Homeviewmedia.com, an Internet Media company which served immigrants from emerging countries. Prior to this, Mr. Klein spent 5 years as a Senior Vice President at IDT Corporation, a publicly traded telecommunications provider. During his employment at IDT, Mr. Klein was responsible for the negotiations and management of their global telephony network build out. He has been involved in negotiations with telephone companies, businessmen and government officials in more than 20 Countries around the world. Mr. Klein is also the President of Delkom, LLC, an International Telecommunications Consulting farm based in New York. Upon graduation from Law School, Mr. Klein was an associate at Lichtschein, Friedman & Ehrlich and Regosin, Edwards, Stone& Feder where he concentrated in Real Estate Law and Commercial Litigation. Mr. Klein Graduated with a J.D. from the Syracuse University College of Law and a B.A. with Honors from Queens College.
Gordon E. Kime
Co-Founder, Technical Director
Mr. Kime has over 19 years experience in UNIX networking, system administration, and programming. He founded ICS, an ISP technical support provider, in 1988 and has acquired a clientele that is comprised of several fortune 100 companies and many smaller businesses. Mr. Kime established Linknet Internet Services in 1995, for which he built a customer base of 12,000 subscribers in only 18 months, prior to selling the network to IDT Corp (NDQ:IDTC) for a $3 million profit. Mr. Kime has been instrumental in developing new high-tech ventures including an international private telephone line business that employs a sophisticated voice compression technology. Additionally, in 1993 Mr. Kime founded VDI, a software development company, which sold network security software through an internally developed national sales channel. Mr. Kime holds a B.S. in Biology from New Mexico State University, which he complemented with extensive undergraduate studies in Accounting and Management Information Systems at Louisiana College.
Mansur Habib
Co-Founder, Director
Mr. Habib has completed his Graduation and Masters in computer engineering from Georgian Technical University in 1994. Mr. Habib is a co founder and director of Spectra Solutions Limited, one of the pioneer dialup ISPs in Bangladesh which has its points of presence in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet. Mr. Habib is also a co founder and director of, Xirus systems Limited , First Frame Relay wireless data connectivity solutions provider in Bangladesh. He is also the co-founder, director of Sirius Broadband BD Limited, and Homeviewbangladesh.com LLC first WISP(Wireless ISP) in Bangladesh and e-commerce site/web portal for Bangladeshi Diaspora. One of his responsibilities is the sales and marketing in the Bangladesh market.
Patwary Rafique Uddin Hyder
Director
Mr. Hyder is a Director of Sirius and responsible for the Chittagong operation. Mr. Hyder has had over 13 years experience in developing consumer brands, both in traditional media and on the Internet. Mr. Hyder is one of the founders of Spectra Solutions and Xirus Systems Limited. Mr. Hyder holds his B.S. in Marketing and Management.
Lt Commander M Shafiul Haque ( Rtd )
Managing Director
Mr. Shafiul Haque holds a BS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from BUET. He has had over ten years of experience in Bangladesh Navy. He worked there as a computer project officer in Naval Stores Depot, Chittagong to develop computerized inventory management system. He also worked as a General Staff Officer- 2 (Computer) in Defense Services Command and Staff College at Mirpur Cantonment. He has vast experience in detail oriented multi tasking and possesses strong organizing capabilities. His training includes Basic Naval Officer's Training in Bangladesh Naval Academy- 1988-89. He is also trained in Kobelt Asia Private Ltd, Singapore on maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of communication, wireless and telegraph equipment. He is responsible for the operation of Sirius Motijheel branch office.
Technical Team
Hanif Bhuiyan
CTO, Technical Director
Md. Hanif Bhuiyan has had over five years working experience in the ISP sector. His core responsibilities are network design, planning and implementation of systems under Linux, iBSD, AIX or any UNIX based platform. He has extensive knowledge in hardware based firewall like PIX and software based firewall, monitoring and troubleshooting various network problems and RF related problems with different monitoring tools and ensuring network health and server backup with implementation of redundancy plan. He is trained by Navini for NLOS setup and attended APNIC training on resource management and SANOG workshops on network security.
S. M. Niamul Haque
DGM, Technical
Mr. Niamul has had about 6 years of experience in networking and system administration. Graduated from University of Wollongong, Australia, he joined Sirius. He worked in different digital video broadcasting systems of Sirius at the beginning. Later he deployed our entire Value-Added-Services which includes Video-on-Demand, multiplayer-gaming, IPTV, streaming music, forum and blog for all Sirius clients. He is also responsible for all website registration and hosting solutions for our corporate clients. Now he is working on fiber optic systems like point to point, point to multi point fiber network, SDH system with STM-1 to 16, data and voice integration with FON. His present responsibilities includes system administration, giving data and voice solutions for corporate/enterprise networks. He also looks after the server management backup planning and link monitoring. He leads the team which monitors the Network, provisions new clients in the system and helps the field engineers and customer support engineers for troubleshooting.
A 10 member team of highly trained Support Engineers installs LOS CPEs at the customer premises and provides on-site support. In addition to it 24x7 phone support is provided by a team of 8 Support Staff.