About Me
EDUCATION
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, College of Engineering, Ithaca, NY
Master of Engineering in Engineering Management 12/2011
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY, State University of New York USA
ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (ITU), Istanbul Turkey
Dual Diploma Program, Bachelor of Science, Information Systems Engineering 05/2008
o GPA: 3.54/4.00, Dean’s List, Fall 2005 & Spring 2006-2008
o Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines)
EXPERIENCE
UBS, Jersey City USA, 06/2011-08/2011
Project Manager (Intern), Wealth Management
- Prepared project plan and schedule, assigned resources for the Know Your Customer Project
- Communicated project status, made adjustments to accommodate changes in development
- Documented functional, technical requirements and modeled business processes
- Conceptualized an internal social network to increase competition among financial advisors
- Evaluated mobile software development platforms of vendors, presented feasibility analysis to senior management
ERICSSON, Istanbul Turkey, 09/2009-06/2010
AVEA, Istanbul Turkey, 09/2009-06/2010
Software Quality Assurance Consultant, R&D Department
- Prepared test cases by analyzing requirement documents and worked closely with business analysts and software developers to define test plan.
- Executed unit, integration, and regression tests on Avea Web Portal, Dealer System Front and SMS platforms.
- Diagnosed and tracked defects from discovery to resolution by using HP Quality Center.
- Executed test cases, analyzed results and reported defects for each build and release cycle.
- Designed and developed automated test cases by modifying parameters in HP QTP Tool.
XI Software Systems, Jersey City NJ, 08/08-04/09
Software Engineer, Financial Services
This goal of the project was to build a complete batch application that captures and builds the daily Trading Information Database everyday merged with market data and pricing information for both client and proprietary trading groups. This helps Traders/Equity researchers to view a snapshot of the market when the order was placed.
- Designed web interfaces for users to enter product name, time interval and trade data
- Played a major role in requirement analysis and design of interfaces
- Wrote several Shell Scripts for file retrievals, checks and data movements
- Developed many PERL modules for data processing and Sybase database interaction
- Written SQL queries which select/update/delete information on Sybase tables
- Developed several J2EE application modules from scratch including many Servlets and EJBs, deployed them on Weblogic Application Server
- Created stored procedures, triggers, indexes on Sybase Tables
- Reported the development and design stages to project manager
Siemens, Istanbul Turkey, 7/07
Intern, Energy Department
As project coordinator, organized and guided three person team in:
- analyzing and reviewing Energy Management Decision Support System Software
- examining EMDSS software architecture layers and process modules
- presenting and preparing project results to manager
INTERESTS
- Soccer, Hiking, Swimming, Travel, Foreign Cultures, Blogging, Reading Tech Blogs