SADIK TOKGOZ Home: 617-***-****
Waltham, MA 02451 e-mail: *****.******@*****.***
PROFILE
Seeking an engineering and/or consulting position in a services company
that can utilize my experience in Unix/Linux/Windows and Networking design,
development and support; as well as my financial business knowledge.
EDUCATION
M.B.A. in Finance 2004 (Niagara University, Niagara, NY)
Projects: "The design of modern market-data systems: Triarch, TIBCO and
RMDS"
"Analysis of Exchange Rate fluctuations and comparison of
different hedging techniques"
M.Sc. in Computer Science 1993 (Boston University, Boston, MA)
Projects: "Design and implementation of a TCP/IP socket based
interface between 2 network simulators on Solaris "
"Implementation of TCP Vegas on a Linux System using C"
B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics 1990 (Middle East Technical
University, Ankara, Turkey)
SKILLS
Over 10 years of professional development and engineering experience in
Networking, Databases and Unix using a variety of programming languages in
different software environments. High-level understanding of market-data
system design, implementation and support (including datafeeds, messaging
using RV multicast versus point-to-point TCP connections, caching of data,
and redundancy and reliability design considerations).
Network TCP/IP Client Server, DNS, DHCP, ICMP, POP, IMAP, SMTP,
Protocols FTP, Telnet, HTTP, NIS/YP, NFS
Languages C, C++, Java, OCI 7.x/8.x, Visual Basic, Perl, Lisp,
Unix shell scripting, lex, yacc, HTML, TeX,
Databases Oracle 8/9, Sybase ASE 12.x, 15, Lotus Domino/Notes
R5/R6
Operating Solaris 7-10, HPUX 11i, AIX 4.3.x/5L, Linux (Red Hat,
Systems Debian, SUSE), Windows NT/2000/2003/2008.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Thomson Reuters America, LLC July 2005 - May 2010
Systems Integrator
. As a member of the client facing Professional Services Group
responsibilities included integrating and maintaing scalable and
reduntant Market Data Systems for financial institutions.
. Architected customized market data systems solutions after identifying
customers' business needs and technical requirements.
. Worked together with Sales, Technical Account Managers and various client
groups to provide profesional services.
. Kept my knowledge up to date on the latest Market Data Systems
technologies and changes in the financial systems as well as hardware,
software and network systems
Legato Software, a division of EMC (Burlington, Ontario) July 2001 -
July 2005
Lead Software Engineer
. Project Leader and Software Engineer on Database Modules backup and
recover software package.
. Published and reviewed high-level and low-level design documents.
. Represented the engineering group for interdepartmental communications
throughout projects.
. Responsibilities included: generation of engineering schedules and
handling of all customer problems
. Projects: "Implementation of a backup and recovery solution to Lotus
Domino and Sybase ASE databases using
C, Sybase Open Client and Lotus Notes API."
" Implementation of a UDP broadcast tool (with a GUI interface)
to automatically detect source and sink
applications on a network to aid performance tuning."
DataMirror Corporation (Markham, Ontario) June 1998 - June 2001
Software Engineer
. Developed software for database replication between Oracle, Lotus Notes
and other 3rd party database applications.
. Customer Service representative for engineering group responsible for
answering complaints and bugs identified by customers, Quality Analysis
and Information Development Teams.
. Projects: "Implementation of data transformation tools between Lotus
Notes Databases and ODBC-compliant
databases using ODBC API and Lotus Notes API"
"Design and implementation of a multi-platform installation wizard
for the Oracle Replication module"
Boston University, Computer Science Department (Boston, MA) September
1994 - May 1998
Computer Science Instructor
. Responsible for course lectures, discussion sections, examinations and
grading for a variety of courses.
. Courses taught / graded: Introduction to Computer Science
Introduction to Programming in C
Computer Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Architecture
. Projects: "Implementation of a Genetic Algorithm and Simulated
Annealing optimization algorithm for the
Protein Folding Problem, using LISP on Solaris System"
Boston University, Information Technology Center (Boston, MA) January 1994
- May 1998
Senior Consultant
. Helped users of the Academic Computer System (a 15,000 user Unix
distributed computer system) solve their problems with network
configuration, programming and use of various software packages.
. Assisted and organized tutorials on various computer topics.
. Projects: "Design and implementation of a reduced instruction Pascal
compiler on Solaris using lex and yacc"
"Installation and testing of the p4 message passing library on a CM-5
parallel computer"