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NAME: TOLGA GUREL
ADDRESS:
CITY: Arlington
STATE/PROVINCE: MA
ZIP/POSTAL CODE: 02476
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: **********@*****.***
PHONE: 781-***-****
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TOLGA GUREL
995 MA Avenue, # 304
Arlington, MA 02476
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U.S.
Permanent Resident
OBJECTIVE:
To obtain product/project management or senior engineering position in
high-tech
company, where significant work experience, teamwork, leadership and
proven
analytical problem solving skills in multi-disciplinary areas can be
utilized.
EXPERIENCE:
Empirix, Inc
., Waltham, MA (A recent spin-off of Teradyne, Inc.)
Senior Applications Engineer-Technical Consultant
December 2000
-present
Worked as an application engineer for Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs)
testing
tools and methods
Received training on Java and Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) by Sun
Microsystems
Teradyne, Inc
. Software and System Test (SST) Division, Nashua, NH
Senior Applications Engineer-Technical Consultant
November 1998
-December 2000
SST Delegate and Steering Committee Member for Teradyne Users Group
(
TUG
) 2000
in San Diego, CA
As SST Delegate: Organized SST track by recruiting 16 papers and run
six
sessions over two days
As Steering Committee Member: Organized every phase of TUG 2000
events ranging
from paper recruitment to facilities planning and accommodations for
800+ attendees
The most outstanding performer in SST Division for the last two
years, hence
was promoted from level two to level three in application engineering
scale
Invited to present at Lucent Technologies' internal conference on
software
testing methods, at TUG 2000 in San Diego, CA and at TUG 1999 in
Orlando, FL
Consultant to major telecommunication companies for modeling of
complex
telecommunication systems and software for feature and system testing
purposes
Worked with major telecommunication companies in design, launch and
delivery
of their testing projects
Integrated Teradyne's testing tool with other software test
management systems
and tracking software
Provided in-house and on-site training of Teradyne's software and
system
modeling tool and techniques
Lead four engineers to improve training course, added one day class
project
Trained junior application engineers internally and mentored them in
their
first consulting projects
TQM Training
: Meetings Management, QIT Leader, TQM Concepts, Basic
Tools,
7-Step, SDCA Workshop
Continuous Learning: Power Speaking, Negotiating to Yes, Counselor
Salesperson,
Social Styles Series
ADC Metrica, A Subsidiary of ADC Telecommunications, Inc., Winchester,
MA
Applications Engineer
-Member of Technical Consulting Team
August 1997
-April 1998
Consultant
to wireless network providers for network performance
reporting
Managed other engineers for development projects and system
deployments
Deployed network performance reporting systems and applications to
cellular
network providers
Developed wireless network performance reporting applications for
major
cellular network technologies
Programmed wireless network performance reporting applications in
Unix Motif
environment using RDBMS
Wrote scripts in Unix for application integration and data
collection from
the wireless networks
Nipson Printing Systems, Groupe Bull, Billerica, MA
Software Support Engineer
July 1995
-July 1997
Responsible for pre- and post-sales qualifications of Nipson's
high-speed
printing software products and print servers
Consultant to Nipson management to focus on and market new software
products
for high-speed printing
Consultant to domestic and foreign printing system software
companies to
qualify their products for Nipson printers
Supervised other engineers for application development
Supported sales team for sales calls, proposal preparation,
demonstrations and
application development
Installed high-speed print servers to various networks including
Unix and
personal computers
Administered IBM RS/6000 with AIX 4.1, AIX 3.2, SCO-Unix 2.0 systems
and Windows
network with remote users
Developed high-speed printing system applications for customers and
performed
on-site and in-house demonstrations
Troubleshot customer's software and hardware problems, provided
technical support
Teamed with other engineers in different projects for system
deployment
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Research Assistant
July 1992
-September 1994
Conducted research on computational electromagnetics, wavelet-based
image and
signal
processing and compression techniques, signal detection and modulation
techniques
Developed software packages using C, FORTRAN and Matlab to implement
various
algorithms on mentioned topics
Authored three published papers and presented one conference paper
Wrote Master's Thesis for degree requirement
Teaching Assistant
September 1991
-June 1992, January-September 1995, June-December 1998
Instructed undergraduate microwave circuits and antennas laboratory
course for
six times and evaluated performance
Developed new experiments and improved experimental methods, which
are
currently being used
Computer Laboratory Assistant
June
-September 1993, January-September 1995
Administered Internet-accessible local area network
Provided technical support and system maintenance
EDUCATION:
Northeastern University,
Boston, MA
Ph.D
. in Electrical Engineering (Part-time)
June 1994
-present
GPA: 3.64/4.00
Passed Ph.D. qualification exam, completed course requirements
Conducted research on wavelets and tomographic reconstruction
techniques
Northeastern University,
Boston, MA
Master of Science
in Electrical Engineering
September 1991
-June 1994
GPA: 3.61/4.00
Awarded research and teaching assistantships, both including full
tuition
waiver and stipend
Middle East Technical University,
Ankara, Turkey
Bachelor of Science
in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
September 1986
-June 1991
GPA: 3.24/4.00
Merit fellowship awards by Ministry of Education of Turkey, Central
Bank of
Turkey and Okan Corporation
Several Honor and High Honor Certificates
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Programming Environments: Java, Unix Shell, C, FORTRAN, 68000
Assembly, Matlab,
Mathematica, Basic, SAS
Systems Administrated: Solaris-Unix, AIX-Unix, SCO-Unix, WindowsNT
Very confident in computer related hardware and networking
PUBLICATIONS:
ACTIVITIES:
Enjoys running, Latin dancing, playing basketball, swimming,
rollerblading,
traveling.
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