Major Sharif completed his Bsc in Civil Engineering in 1984 from BUET. Besides this he has attained his MBA in Finance and a Post Graduate Degree in Bridging from China.
He was mostly involved in different construction projects of Bangladesh Army. He held the position of Chief of Engineering and Procurement of Army Welfare Trust’s (AWT) won organization SHDL (Radisson Dhaka). At present he is involved with “The Purba Limited” team as Advisor.