Resume/Vitæ

Objective:

Be part of a passionate team in a company to use my skills to create high quality software and products.

Education:

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
January 2003-Present

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering - Expected: December 2007
• GPA: 3.84/4.00

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
August 2000-December 2002

• M.S in Electrical Engineering - Expected: December 2007
• GPA: 3.52/4.00

Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey
September 1996-June 2000

• B.S in Electrical Engineering - Expected: December 2007
• GPA: 3.61/4.00 - Graduated 1st in class with high honors

Experience:

Research Assistant
June 2004-Present
Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), Vanderbilt University

• Conducted research for NSF funded CMS project in collaboration with CERN on model based performance testing of large scale distributed high energy physics system
• Designed and implemented meta-models and modeling languages for distributed system configuration and test
• Designed and implemented model interpreters in C++ for automatic generation of software artifacts (e.g. XML) from system models
• Conducted research for DARPA funded HPCS project in collaboration with IBM on productivity in development of High Performance Computing Systems
• Designed and implemented an Eclipse plug-in in Java for measuring productivity during local and remote development of high performance systems
• Contributed to open source Hackystat project and integrated it with the Eclipse plug-in
• Granted permission by IBM to release the Eclipse plug-in as an open source tool under name “HPCS Development and Productivity Experiment Tool”
• Performed live demos and made presentations for project funders and primary investigators
• Authored academic publications
• Technologies Used: Software/System Modeling, C++, Java, XML, UML, Eclipse

Research Assistant
September 2001-August 2003
Center for Intelligent Systems, Vanderbilt University

• Conducted research on mobile robotics focusing on visual perception and navigation
• Developed MATLAB scripts for robot object recognition and learning using image processing and machine learning toolboxes
• Developed software and GUI in Visual Basic robot communication
• Designed and implemented a system for visual perception correction of a robot in Visual Basic
• Designed and implemented software in C# and .NET Compact Framework for mobile robot control using a PDA
• Authored academic publications
• Technologies used: Visual Basic, .NET, C#, MATLAB

Technical Skills:

• C/C++, Java, C#, .NET, VB, MATLAB, XML, UML
• Windows, Linux
• MS Visual Studio .NET, Eclipse, Vim
• SQL, MYSQL

Misc. Interests:

• Internet technologies and strategies
• Social web services and Social Networks
• New media, social media
• Blogging, Podcasting

References:

Avaliable upon request