Senior Procurement Officer in ADB Bangladesh Resident Mission (BRM) provides procurement support and oversight currently to Education and Health, Energy, Urban, and Water sectors in Bangladesh portfolio. Since joining as staff ADB in April 2014, Zulyaminayn provided support to project teams in supervising many large and complex procurement packages implemented by relevant government agencies, and facilitated capacity development events on procurement of goods works, and consulting services. Since 2015, he has been the leading team member for the design, development, and implementation of the Procurement Activity Monitoring Tool (www.bdpamt.org), a web-based information system targeted for use by the executing and implementing agencies.
During 29 years of experience directly related to public procurement, Zulyaminayn worked with two large government departments in Bangladesh, and also worked for major development partners: Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank (WB), and the former Department for International Development (DFID), U.K. as procurement expert and provided support for efficient procurement of goods, works, and consulting services under various development projects including capacity building of concerned executing agencies. As a government officer, he worked in the core group for introducing Managing for Development Results (MfDR) supported by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and facilitated the preparation of the Internal and External Results Framework for the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) as a development institution. He was engaged as a consultant in the World Bank funded Public Procurement Reform Project in Bangladesh and worked for procurement capacity development of a large government organization, the Roads & Highways Department from 2008 to 2010.
Since 2007, Zulyaminayn has been a certified National Procurement Trainer enlisted by the Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) of Bangladesh. Zulyaminayn is a life fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh. He has obtained graduation from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1993. He has a Master’s in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University (TAMU) in College Station, Texas, USA. During post-graduate studies, he was devoted to research activities at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) under Texas A&M University Systems from 2000 to 2002, developed a pilot software application for Adaptive Prediction of Pavement Performance, and won the 2nd prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). For continued professional development, Zulyaminayn has successfully completed more than 50 training/ seminars/ workshops/ study tours in different esteemed institutions around the globe in Bangladesh, Denmark, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lao PDR, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and the USA.