PERSONAL IDENTITY
I. PERSONAL DETAILS
Name : Tuğberk
Surname : Kara
Phone: +90-533-*******
E-mail : ***********@*****.***
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date : 30/01/1982
Birth Place: Izmir/Bornova
Military Service: Completed -01.02.2009-
II. EDUCATION
1. PhD in Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia (03/2014- ongoing)
2. M.S. in Computer Engineering, METU, Ankara, Turkey, 06/2007.
3. B.S. in Computer Engineering, Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey, 2004.
4. Lycee’ in Izmir Fen Lisesi & Cengiz Topel Lisesi, Izmir, Turkey, 2000.
Turkey Science Lycee’ Entrance Exam:
200th rank in Turkey
5. High School in Bornova Anadolu Lisesi, Izmir, Turkey, 1997.
Turkey Anatolian High School Entrance Exam:
30th rank in Turkey
Turkey Colleges Entrance Exam:
13th rank in Turkey
III. EMPLOYMENT
--Garanti Bank (BBVA partner) -04/2011-03/2014. I was a Senior Specialist software
developer. I developed core banking system and maintained it using CA Gen (formerly
COOL:GEN), PL/1 and COBOL, especially on Teller Operations, Customer Management. I
implemented batch programs, new screens of the core modules, and also designed the
database tables on DB2 and mainframe environment. I was the only person who was
responsible of core banking system ( deposit, time deposit accounts and teller operations)
and customer management of Garanti Bank Romania. Here are the projects that I was
involved in
I added or changed functionalities to ATM business programs of GB Romania such as
adding accounting templates, changing accounting itself, reciepts, branch properties
or currency conversion.
I added approval ability to customer management screens ( both personal and SME,
communication, address, email/internet screens), and created approve function
screens. I leaded two software developers in this project.
I took place in Retail Credit Application system for scoring, workflow development,
and sending letters to customers.
I wrote new programs for giving interests to accounts before maturity date.
I totally reorganized account maintanance fee batches, JCLs and screens. I leaded
three software developers.
I maintanied account closing, manuel interest accruing screens, all teller operation
screens such as depositing money, withdrawing money, currency exchange and
arbitrage screens.
I made a big project about adding approval ability to the above screens and also
maintained core ATM and internet programs of these processes.
I added document scanning property to all teller operations and customer
management screens for security purposes and created the integration with
document module screens.
I was the only person who was changing the core program producing MT940 format
extraction document for Inditex Textile Group in the module of cash management.
I was developing Garanti Romania's new time deposit account products.
I was a member of the product Garanti Bank's frame code reading from an iphone
application project with Seamless company in Sweden and developed the main
screens of the creating seamless account and maintaining the product, also changed
the core PL/1 program communicating with Seamless for managing customers and
informing them with letter or email.
--ABank A.Ş. (Commercial Bank of Qatar partner) I worked as a Project Leader. -03/2009-
04/2011- I developed Retail Credit Application System and the system workflow, especially
automatic status inquiry, credit risk scoring and riskmeter modules in collabaration with Finar
A.Ş. I implemented financial statements of renting batches (both data grouping and xml
forming) to the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Finance using Oracle PL/SQL. I maintained
customer management system; I resolved the problems and I developed new inquires. I
implemented the personal loans data batch that send information to SGK using Oracle
PL/SQL. I developed the screens and programs of insurance policies of Ray, Anadolu and
Fortis Insurance companies that are stored in our database using COOL:GEN. I was a part
of the ATM & Debit Card project, I did the conversion of old debit card data to Provus A.Ş. I
developed the new card, update card and card pool screens and the batches that send and
get information of these processes between Provus and Abank A.Ş using COOL:GEN.
--Military Service for TSK (Erzurum Kolordu OBI) -08/2008-01/2009-
-- Yapı Kredi IT.(UniCredit partner) -10/2007-08/2008- I was working as a Senior Software
Developer-Software System Analyst-. I was implementing note data management and
branch application programs using Toad and Oracle PL/SQL. I was developing electronic
account summary accounting reports. I was maintaining core banking screens using
Javascript. Also I worked on some Oracle Forms screens for performance gaining.
Furthermore, I maintained reports for dormant accounts that would be transferred to the
Central Bank of Turkey. I developed the report which lists faulty faxes and emails of the
customers account extracts sent daily to the customers with their reasons using
BusinessObjects in collaboration with BankSoft A.Ş
-- TÜBİTAK and TEİAŞ A.Ş National Power Quality Project in Tübitak Uzay, METU
-02/2006--10/2007-
I was working as a software engineer. I was implementing server software in Gnu C with
Eclipse IDE on Linux OS. I designed Power Quality Database in PostgreSQL.
-- HAVELSAN A.Ş in Ankara -09/2004--12/2005-
I was developing client software in Java with JBuilder on Solaris using Swings. I used Clear
Case during OOA and OOD cycles and CVS during concurrent code development -OOP
cycle- as version management tools. I experienced EventHandling, Exception Classes.
IV. INTERNSHIP
-1- ETC-IS in Technopark in METU in Ankara -summer 2003-
I was responsible for developing some parts of a disaster management system prototype in
Java.
-2- VestelNet and Vestel Electronics as part-time Software Engineer.-summer 2002-
V. LANGUAGES
-1- English -Fluent, TOEFL: 237 in CBT in May, 2004
TOEFL: 82 in IBT in 2014.
-2- Russian - Basic
VI.PROGRAMMING SKILLS
-1- CA GEN Framework (formerly COOL:GEN) on mainframe environment, COBOL, PL/1.
-2- JAVA,JSF,JSP,Struts,Servlets,EJBs.
-3- C, Unix Systems Programming
-4- SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, PostgreSQL, DB2
-5- Oracle Forms
-6- TOAD, WinCVS
-7- BusinessObjects
-8- ASP & HTML
-9- UML & RationalRose
-10- JCL
VII. PROJECTS (during my Masters Education)
-1- P2P Chat System using Java and RMI.
-2- FTP Server in C++ using TCP.
-3- “Mp3 Promoter” Database Design: Database system to promote mp3 using forms.
-4- Creating and visualizing 3-D cube using mouse and keyboard interaction with OpenGL
and GLUT in C++.
-6- Pseudo Char Device Driver Implementation in User Mode Linux in Gnu C
-7- A stock market implementation like a client-server architecture supporting IPC in Linux
VIII. SEMINARS & COURSES
-- Bilginç IT The Sun Certified Java Programmer Certificate
-- Bilginç IT The Sun Java Web Component Developer Certificate
-- Project Management with MSF in METU Graduates Association.
-- Core Banking Courses by Yapı Kredi Bank Banking Academia.
-- Interpreting Macroeconomical balances and datas of Turkey.
-- Fund Management and derivatives
IX. SUCCESSES
-1- I attended GençPatronlar Technological Business Idea Contest,my project was 9th
among 500 projects in Turkey and chosen to be supported for one year. The contest was in
conjunction with Turkiye Informatics Association, Anadolu & Osmangazi Universities, ODTU
Teknopark A.Ş and World Bank InfoDEV program
-2- Conference Paper -2007 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology
Conference-
Demirci T., Kalaycioglu A., Salor O., Pakhuylu S., Dagli M., Kara T., Bilgen S., Sezen U.,
Cadirci I., Ermis M.,
National PQ Monitoring Network for Turkish Electricity Transmission System, Warsaw,
Poland.
-3- Conference Paper -2014 Information Security and Instrumentational Technologies
Conference with international participation - Processing Canny's Edge Detection Algorithm
Into A Compact Form Using Wavelets, Tugberk Kara, St. Petersburg, Russia
X. HOBBIES
Fitness, Cinema, Theater, Concerts, Portfolio Management.