Shaheen Hossain
Internet Services Specialist, Bell Atlantic

Mr. Hossain is the type of talented high technology employee that the U.S. needs so desperately in order to maintain current economic prosperity, growth and competitiveness. An immigrant from Bangladesh, he is a permanent resident employed in the position of Internet Services Specialist for Bell Atlantic Network Services, Inc. Bell Atlantic has over 100 U.S. operations and employs over 75,000 persons nationwide. The company's core operations are its local network systems which provide telephone service via 18.8 million residential and business access lines in six states and Washington, D.C. in the mid-Atlantic region. Mr. Hossain designs Client/Server infrastructure software elements based on Object Oriented classes as middleware. His work is used to build Internet applications geared towards Bell Atlantic's Internet related service offerings. Mr. Hossain earned his Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology and his Bachelor in Business Administration in Management Information Systems from the University of Houston in 1990. In addition, Mr. Hossain has many years of experience working with the Eastman Kodak Company, in Senior Software Engineering positions. He resides in the United States with his wife and young son.