INETA MEA Infrastructure

Adnan Farooq Hashmi - Committee Chair	Adnan Farooq Hashmi did his MS (Software Engineering) from SZABIST in 1999, and was awarded the Gold Medal for his batch. He was co-founder of Lynx & Connexions Inc. in October 1999, and was the application architect for an Internet based utility bill payment system that involved SSGC, PTCL, and KESC in 2000. He also founded Core IT Education Centre in 2001, which has been functioning as an Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Approved Study Centre for the past 2.5 years, and working to build E-Learning tools and next-generation Learning Management Systems (LMS). He has mainly been involved in the development of Enterprise applications using Oracle, SQL Server, ASP, and ASP.NET, and has also conducted Training for Government organizations in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. His focus is Academics, although he remains an avid Internet application developer. For more information visit his blog at: http://coredotnet.blogspot.com/
Zeeshan Muhammad - Infrastructure Lead	Zeeshan Muhammad is a final year student of Department of Electronic Engineering at NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi. He has been actively involved in INETA Middle East / Africa as well as INETA Pakistan activities since July 2003 and is serving as an executive committee member for INETA Pakistan. He is a .Net Evangelist and speaks frequently at knowledge sharing sessions. He authored a number of articles for local publishers and holds some Brainbench Certifications. He is also a user group leader of NED.net. He was honored to be awarded as the best volunteer in the Middle East / Africa Region by INETA on October 24, 2004. He is serving as an executive committee member for IEEE NED Student Branch since 2004. For more information visit his blog at: http://zishu.blogspot.com
Muhammad Saqib Ilyas - Committee Advisor	Muhammad Saqib Ilyas holds a Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering degree from N.E.D. University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA and is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Engineering from Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. He has been serving as Country Leader for INETA Pakistan for several years. He is an MVP for C++ and has spoken at numerous IT events at academic and industry venues. In addition to INETA, he has also served IEEE Karachi Section in various capacities. Saqib is an Assistant Professor at N.E.D. University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi. He has served as the IEEE Student Branch Counselor at N.E.D. University and is also a member of the NED.NET INETA chartered usergroup. He also is the usergroup leader for an INETA chartered usergroup called IDevelop.