Aydin Sakar
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Senior Software Developer-Project Manager
Expert in using software development tools to design and manage large scale
software projects
Skills Offered
Project Management Real-Time Data Strategic .NET Environment
Manipulation Planning C#
People Management Software Performance Domain Analysis MS Visual Studio
Strong Analysis Optimization MS SQL
Skills Electronic Publishing Systems Design C
Data Store C++
Design Lisp
Visual Basic
Microsoft Access
Java
TeX, LaTeX, ConText
ePub2, ePub3
Values Offered
Commitment to Timely Delivery of Software Projects- Ground up analysis of
the problem domain, design of the software system and delivery of the
product meeting the client expectations.
Data Store/Warehouse Optimization - Analysis and design of the Data Store
for Real-Time/Enterprise level data needs.
Insight and Innovation across Sectors - Professional experience working
with private sector entities in a variety of industries: banking, stock
brokerage companies, consumer business, government, health care,
information technology, and advertisement.
Career Accomplishments
Surp P?rgi Ermenian Hospital, Istanbul Turkey
December 2010 -April 2012
IT Manager:
Lead the IT Team for the development and the implementation of the Hospital
Management Software System. The software was developed in C# using .NET
Environment and MSSQL Server. The software was used by 300 users. The
software managed all the critical parts of the Hospital Management
including Patient Records Management, Billing, Social Security Integration,
Lab Device Integration etc.
Terremark, Istanbul, Turkey October 2009
- December 2010
Technical Manager
Managed the daily operations of the Istanbul Data Center for an
international company that provided secure, enterprise-level IT on a global
scale. Led the 5-member engineering unit in implementing 200 clients'
servers, connecting clients' equipment to Terremark Network for over 15
clients, and performing daily maintenance activities.
Freelance Consultant
2008-2009
Hardware Design
Custom-designed a 5 by 30 meters LED outdoor building video display for an
advertising company.
Software
Developed software programs for invoice printing companies to parse and
reformat Turkish postal addresses for market research and other client
needs.
Foreks A Istanbul, Turkey
1998-2008
Software and Technical Manager
Company is a Financial Data Vendor, distributing Istanbul Stock Exchange,
Athens Stock Exchange and International financial data to customers. Foreks
has about 10000 data terminals.
. Wrote the FX2000 software for the client side data terminals.
Founded and led the Software Department. Planned and supervised
projects using latest Software Technologies (Visual Basic, Visual
C++, .NET, C#, Java).
. Designed and implemented the technical infrastructure for data
distribution network. Company receives online data from several
Stock Exchanges, processes them via the company servers, and
broadcasts to customers. VBI (Vertical Blanking Interval) channels
of analog TV Broadcast was the primary medium, later we started to
lease digital channel (128KB/s) from Digiturk.
. Designed and supervised failsafe infrastructure for receiving and
broadcasting of the data.
. Implemented the client software (FX200) which, in and of itself, was
a client server/platform. FX2000 can receive data from a multitude
of sources (VBI, IP, Multicast, Broadcast, UDP) and re-broadcast to
other FX2000s in a multitude of formats. Thus, the software is
capable of working over any network topology. The software also
handles Athens Exchange data, which is in Greek. It can display
broadcast data in Turkish, English and in Greek simultaneously. The
software was originally written in Visual Basic 6.0 and then in C++.
. Managed broadcast data feed that was used for Internet sites of the
company and clients; utilized C++, Java and .NET technologies for
Internet Sites in a fashion to allow clients to use ready -made
components to store data and to also use them for their Internet
Sites.
. Planned and installed the company's and clients' (almost all Stock
Broker companies in Turkey and Greece) network and data centers for
distribution of real-time data.
Biltam A.?. Istanbul, Turkey
1987-1997
Company is specialized on Data Communication Networksand is also the
distributor of largest data communication equipment suppliers such as AT&T
Paradyne, AT&T Network Cable Systems(Lucent), Motorola, Telindus, Ungermann-
Bass, Microsoft.
Ankara Regional Manager
1987-1989
Founded and managed the Ankara, Adana and Erzurum branches of the company;
designed and installed Ziraat and Emlakbank(first X.25 network in Turkey)
networks.
Customer Services Manager
1990-1997
Located in ?stanbul, managed all the technical operations of the company,
including installations, periodical maintenance, repair shop and
engineering. The department had a total of 65 technical staff at 6 offices
countrywide. The department was organized as a profit center bringing in an
annual income of 1.8 M USD from the maintenance contracts with over 150
clients. The equipment the department was responsible for included: Modems,
Multiplexers, Routers, Bridges, LAN and WAN cards and devices, etc.
Implemented and maintained the first LAN Manager installation in Turkey.
Was the first to implement UTP cabling in Turkey.
Was the first engineer in Turkey to receive a training of UTP and Fiber
Optic cabling from AT&T (Lucent Technology)
Planned and installed more than 150 network and data centers for the
largest banks of Turkey and international clients (SWIFT, Telerate,
Bloomberg, Ziraatbank, Emlakbank, Akbank, Pamukbank Ko bank, etc.)
Teksis Ltd, Ankara, Turkey 1985-1987
Hardware Design Engineer:
Worked as Design Engineer on microcomputer based projects, such as football
and basketball scoreboards, and special LED display devices; worked with
Z80, 8088, 8086 microprocessors.
z m Ltd, Ankara, Turkey 1983- 1985
Software Developer:
. Worked as Analyst Programmer on special software projects, used Fortran,
Cobol, 8086 Assembler, Lisp, etc. .
. Designed and implemented "Sewage Network Calculation Program" utilizing
Fortran.
. Designed and implemented an Accounting Program utilizing MS-COBOL for IBM-
PC.
Education
B.S. - Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical
University, Ankara, Turkey
M.A. - Philosophy, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey