GO-CV
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Personal Info and Contacts
Date of Birth & Place
1975, Turkey
Phone
+90-544-529 21 44
Mail
gokhan@ozar.net
Professional Summary
IT specialist fluent in English and French, with more than 6 years of IT experience including expertise in the areas of data mining & analysis, application development, database design, project management, training and delegation of support. Skilled in designing specifications for ergonomic, user-friendly, scaleable applications for methods engineering and B2E. Ability to translate business needs into technology requirements that support the company’s objectives and to successfully manage projects from needs analysis and requirements definition to platform and vendor selection, implementation, and training.
Experience
IT Analyst, Oyak-Renault A.?.; Bursa / 2003-present
- Development and administration responsibility of a digital workflow system based on Microsoft’s .NET platform and SQL Server. Application design, development and reporting based on this system.
- Development of database-driven applications extracting data from the corporation’s digital business intelligence (i.e. engineering, logistics and manufacturing) on J2EE and/or Microsoft Platforms.
- Supervision of out-sourced local application development (J2EE & .NET), starting from needs analysis to writing specifications, GUI design, testing and deployment. Specifically test the efficiency of the code, resource management and on-time feedback.
- Development of low-cost non-outsourced solutions in company-wide B2E operations such as employee portal on the local Intranet in Java programming language.
- Data-mining, data analysis and reporting solutions using Business Objects based on specific databases from corporation’s central data warehouse.
- Development of version updates to a workflow application for the internal use of the IT department developed with Java servlets & JSP deployed on Apache Tomcat on Solaris 8.
- Training for the business units of other different departments on using Business Objects Reporter, a locally developed CMS software for editing web sites and some of the company’s own corporate applications.
- Implementation of corporate applications developed by the company headquarter’s central IT teams, organizing the related local business units (the end user) and the local IT units responsible for the technical infrastructure.
- Delegation of technical support of locally developed or implemented applications to call center and technical support departments following training sessions and documentation.
Results: Reduction of maintenance and support costs for the applications in my perimeter. Met or neared the objectives of “higher quality, lower cost and shorter time”. Substantial gains on decision-making between outsourcing and local development. Boosted “the business” user-satisfaction according to IT surveys.
Chief of Web Design & Dev. Team, Ozarlar Bilgisayar, Ltd. (www.ozarlar.com) ; Bursa / 2002
- Supervised the web development team in order to maximize the efficiency of operations and to ensure high quality results.
- Research and development: market study, vendor selection, feasibility analysis, adaptation of tools & new technologies to address specific needs and issues.
- Coordinate tech support from foreign software-maker for imported products.
Results: Speed-up in operations, made the company one of the first provider of CMS services in Bursa leading to comparative advantage, boosted the popularity of the company's own web site (higher page rank, increased traffic thanks to SEO know-how) leading to a boom in business enquiries over the web.
International Sales & Marketing, PMS Aluminum, Ltd; Bursa / 2001
- Internet based marketing and sales (not e-commerce). Coordination and outsourcing of IT functions compensating for the non-existence of an IT department.
Results: Expanded the company's operations which was initially stuck to Germany and Austria to Francophone markets and others such as France, Romania, Italy, Canada, Russia, Israel, etc. for the first time.
Marine soldier - Turkish Navy Dept. of Navigation, Hydrography and Oceanography; Çubuklu, ?stanbul / 2000
Designed the web site of the department from scratch ( http://www.shodb.gov.tr ). Undertook the responsibility of the electronic publishing and distribution of their weekly publication "Notices to Mariners" and organized ranking officers to adapt to work in this new way.
Mac OS Support (part-time), Bilkom A.?; Ankara / 1998-1999
- Out-sourced by Apple's IMC Bilkom to provide support to the developers of a cross-platform (Mac & PC) educational software development project of HALICI a software maker based in Ankara.
Results: First acquaintance with the Microsoft Visual Studio (PC only) vs. Metrowerks Code Warrior (Mac & PC) and the challenges of porting MFC-based classes to the Mac platform as well as how Java 1.1 differed on Sun Solaris, Windows and the Mac.
Mac Support (part-time), ANTE, Ltd; Ankara / 1997
- Worked as a support technician at an authorized Apple reseller and support center during under-graduate studies in Bilkent University.
Results: On field experience and basis for the knowledge of what users need and what kind of problems may occur in the life of average computer users and what the most efficient and swiftest way of solving them is.
Skills
- Spoken and written languages: English (TOEIC score: 935) , French & Turkish
- Computer literacy since 1985
--Learnt, and mastered over 100 different software applications and development tools which include Business Objects (Reporter, Designer & Supervisor), MS Visual Basic, JCreator, Eclipse, CodeCharge Studio, MySQL server and its client tools such as Navicat and MySQL Front, Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino administration, Microsoft Office, MS Access, iGrafx FlowCharter, AppleWorks & iWork, as well as Macromedia Studio (now acquired by Adobe), Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop .
-- Programming languages dealt with include: Java, Visual Basic, JSP, ASP & PHP
-- Brief Knowledge of platforms such as Oracle 9i & 10g, IBM Websphere,
of concepts including J2EE, MVC paradigm, Web Services, AJAX, decision-support systems (Business Objects) and IT Security
Worked on Windows, Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, OS/400 & VMS operating systems
- Search Engine Optimization for web projects
- Preference of team-work and inter-departmental collaboration
- Presentation and teaching skills
Education
- Bilkent University, Ankara - Bachelor of Arts - Banking and Finance, 1999 (the only non-CS student who delivered term papers from within his web site back in 1997)
- Bursa Anadolu Lisesi - Maths Section - 1993
Training
IT Related
2007 IBM Websphere Application Server Administration / JForce
2006 Introduction to Oracle 10g and SQL*Plus / Oracle Turkiye
2005 Lotus Domino Administration / BYM Epistem
2005 Introduction to PHP programming / BT Egitim
2004 Application development using Macromedia Flash / Medyasoft
2004 J2EE development using Apache Tomcat 4 & Struts framework / Obje 7
2003 Introduction to J2EE development (BEA Weblogic platform) / Eteration (BEA)
2003 Objected-oriented programming with Java (Sun Curriculum) / KocBryce
2003 Business Objects Reporter, Designer & Supervisor / Byte & Muhsinoglu
1999 4th Dimension (a relational database platform - http://www.4d.com) / Kutlu Bilisim
Managerial & Personal Development
2006 Introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming / Masters
2006 Transactional Analysis / Masters
2006 Management Training 1 / Renault HR in Paris & University of Lyon
2006 Communication and Empathy / Masters
2005 Time Management and Productivity / Kalgem (http://www.kalgem.com)
2005 Effective animation and presentation techniques / Oyak-Renault's HR Training
2004 Total Quality Management / Oyak-Renault's HR Training
2003 ISO 9001 v.2000 / Oyak-Renault's HR Training
Military Service: Completed in 2000
Special Interests & Hobbies
Amateur movie-making (active member of cinema workshops, member of the administrative board of Insanat Cinema Society - www.atolye16mm.com ), travelling, web design and development (and blogging! - visit http://gokhan.ozar.net for more information).
Referals
Available on request
