Who am I?

July 11th, 2011

Ali Riza SARAL's Curriculum Vitae

OBJECTIVE : J2EE JAVA specialist outsource contractor, consultant.

EXPERIENCE :
VBT AŞ.(Apr 12 – ): JAVA-J2EE Consultant, TUBITAK supported project for Turkish Air Lines, conversion of legacy code from Adabas-Natural to JAVA/J2EE-Oracle-Unix.

ÇİZGİ TAGEM AŞ.(Jul 11 – Apr 12): Training Consultant for J2EE JAVA, contracted to BİLGİNÇ IT ACADEMY, Advanced JAVA course, JAVA Utilities webinar, Struts Hibernate Spring intro webinar and MEDYA-SOFT IT ACADEMY JAVASCRIPT course..

STEELORBIS (Apr 11 - Jul 11) JAVA J2EE Contractor, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, JSP, JAVA, SVN, JIRA, Hudson, Squirrel, DB2, LiquiBase.

ÇİZGİ TAGEM AŞ.(Dec 10 – Apr 11): e-learning Consultant for J2EE JAVA, contracted to Smart PRO training company, JSP, JQuery, JSON, Struts2, AJAX, Hibernate, Spring.

VİZYONEX AŞ.(Aug 09 – Dec 10 ): JAVA-J2EE Consultant, ADABAS/NATURAL to JAVA conversion of an international military LARGE SYSTEM. Formal languages, JavaCC, Eclipse, Tomcat, WebSphere, DB2, Aquadata.

ÇİZGİ TAGEM AŞ.(Nov 08 – Aug 09): e-learning Consultant for J2EE JAVA, contracted to BİLGİNÇ IT ACADEMY, Swing, JFC, JSF, AJAX, JDBC, XML, JSP, servlet, JSTL, Tomcat, Jdev, WebLogic, Struts, Hibernate, EJB3, Spring, NetBeans, GlassFish, WebServices, JAX, TOAD, MySQL, threads, ANN, graphics, games.

SPD AŞ.(Jan 08 – Nov 08 ): Services Director, team of 8, customization and tailoring of HP Openview BTO software, NNM, OVO, PI, Service Management, ITIL.

VIZYON-EX Ltd.(Apr 06 – Dec 07 ): J2EE JAVA Consultant, Parser/Converter development for a Saudi military package. IBM Rational, Oracle, SQL. Lifecycle docs for TUBITAK support.

Ak Bank (Dec 06): One week course teacher for VIZYON as subcontractor to IBM.
Is Bank (Oct 06): One week course teacher for VIZYON as subcontractor to IBM.

METAB Ltd. (Dec 05 – Apr 06 ): Consultant, SVG feasibility for GIS IT serv.

CIZGI Ltd. (July 05 – Dec 05): Contractor, Program conversion VB6 to VB.NET.

TUBITAK (Jun 05 - July 05): Consultant, A/C cert. Do178B, Do248B, ARINC.

VIZYON BILGI ISLEM Ltd.(Sep 04 - Jun 05): Consultant-technical coordinator, ESRI-GIS AM/FM project feasibility, SCM project for PEPSI with ORACLE, SQLServer.

TUBITAK - BTAE(Jun 04 - August 04): Consultant, TUBITAK bid for a DHMI tender on the renov of Turkish ATC System. Feasibility of a Legal Recording system for DHMI.

YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY(Sep 99 - Jun 04): Professor, OOP course(C++, JAVA), HCI course with MIT and Stanford materials.

BANKSOFT Ltd. Sti.(Mar 99 - Sep 99 ): Consultant, C programming.

OKYANUS Ltd. Sti.(May 97 - Mar 99): Company Owner and manager, OOP, C, C++.

EUROCONTROL European Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation(May 92 - May 97): Senior Analyst Programmer in Air Traffic Control FPP, Karlsruhe, Germany. Requirements specification, ATC problem domain on a LARGE SYSTEM. ISO, IEEE and aviation standards, OOP, C++, ADA.

BILPA-Cukurova Holding(Nov 91 - May 92): IBM Systems Programmer, SW customization and installation.

BIMSA-Sabanci Holding(Jan 91 - Nov 91): IBM Systems Programmer, in SW customization and installation.

ORAT Office of Research in Arts Tech-ISU(89 - 91): Research Assistant, USA.

HOBIM-Cukurova Holding(86 - 89): IBM Systems Programmer, at HQ.

DanubeSea Telecom Center(85 - 86): Com Engineer in Navy, HW debugging.

RankXerox-Bilsay AS(84 - 85): Electronics Engineer, PC Hardware dep.

AWARDS and CERTIFICATES :
-TUBITAK Turkish Journal of Engineering & Environment, Associate Editor & Referee(2010)
-KOSGEB qualified personnel aid(2004).
-Official documents proving I have fixed 23 ODs affecting the safety of more than 200000 passengers/day in the UAC of south west and central Germany(incl.Frankfurt).
-Scholarships from CCRMA lab of Stanford Uni California, USA and ORAT lab-ISU, USA.
-Acceptance for a PhD study at USC Computer Science LA, California.
-TOEFL: 647 (Oct 93)
-GRE: Verbal 460 (> %43), Quantitative : 730 (> %84), Analytical : 550 ( > %52) (Oct 93)

ARTICLES, BOOKS, SEMINARS, OTHER WORKS :
-Ist Boğaziçi Uni IEdep (Apr 08): Seminar on “The Role of Abstraction in HCI Design”
-SERENDIPITY(Articles from the Pen of an Engineer) ÇİZGİ Yayınları.
-Many blog articles on HCI, Systems Psychology, ATC, Software Engineering.

EDUCATION :
-MSc. Electronics and Telecommunications - Istanbul Technical Uni(ITU) (1982 - 1984).
-B.Sc. Electronics and Telecommunications - ITU (1978 - 1982).
-Ankara Science Lycee (1975 - 1978).
-Kadikoy Maarif College (Middle) (1971 - 1975).

BACKGROUND:
-Second M.M in Theory and Composition at the ISU Music Dep Illinois, USA.
-University pregraduate degree in Music Composition at Istanbul State Conservatoir.
-CCRMA-Stanford(90) California-USA and IMD-Darmstadt(96)-GERMANY courses.

PERSONAL:
-Speaks English, German, Turkish. Understands French.

Addres: Barbaros Mah. Sedef Sk. Onur Sit. G3/13 Üsküdar / ISTANBUL
Telephone: 90 (216) 474 – 8818
E-mail: arsaral @ yahoo.com
Blog : http://tekne-techne.blogspot.com/
Blog : http://largesystems-atc.blogspot.com/