Turgut Kalfaoglu 
Urla , Izmir, Turkiye 

EDUCATION  Ph.d. Taken all classes but two towards my PhD so far; 1990-,Ege university,Izmir,Turkey.
M.S. Networking and Server Design, Summer 1989, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.
B.S. Computer Information Systems, Elmira College, Elmira,New York, May 1987.
Experienced on IBM-PC compatible computers and VM/CMS. M.S. project involved the design and implementation of a distributed database project, running under VM/CMS. "Trickle Software Server". Until 1997, 11 of these servers ran on BITNET and on cooperating networks in Europe, Japan, and South America. They accessed over 40,000 programs, process hundreds of requests daily, and were a reliable source of public domain software for PC-Compatible computers.
 M.S. Courses included: 
  • Computer Graphics (wrote complete, working 3D rendering package) 
  • Advanced Statistics 
  • Operating Systems 
  • Database Management 
B.S. Courses included: 
  • Operating Systems Systems Dev. and Design 
  • Data Structures Operations Analysis 
  • Robotics Data Communications 
B.S. Projects: 
  • BASIC interpreter in C (that really works) 
  • Digital Watch Simulator (in Qbasic) 
  • Public Key Encryption and Decryption application
  • Operating System Shell (PC-DOS) 
  • Virtual Memory Full Screen Editor (in Qbasic) 
EMPLOYMENT  Winter 1997-Present: Manager of EgeNet Internet Services , the ISP service of the Ege University. Duties included everything. Such as, maintaining Unix and OS/2 workstations, writing statistical and accounting software, management of technical staff, maintaining contacts with customers, diagnosing problems with routers,workstations, modems and high-speed leased lines. Wrote HTML and CGI code for numerous customer web sites, hosted at EgeNet. Created a non-leased-line- based office internet E-mail application to handle automatic E-mail delivery to any number of office employees based on OS/2, and later on Linux. 

Recently created two entire web sites that use IBM DB2 intensively (one, a private school for the student grades, and the other is a site that provides the exact foreign currency exchange rates of Istanbul Kapali Carsi)

Configured, installed CISCO routers and switches. Worked both as a database administrator and database application writer; working on Java-based EgeNet applications with database access, writing complete code of Find-It! Web Search Engine (http://find.egenet.com.tr) and EgeNet's online shopping site. 

1997-Present:Part-time computer teacher for University of Maryland, European Division. Taught both weekend seminars, full-term classes, and many Distance Education (online) classes. Currently teaching many upper-level undergraduate classes, including Database Programming, Internet, and C++ Programming.

Fall 1990-Fall 1996: European Academic Research Network (EARN/TERENA) - a non-profit international organization based in France. Programmer of LISTEARN and TRICKLE servers, providing support for 42 LISTEARN and 10 TRICKLE sites, all on IBM VM systems. LISTEARN is a mail-based discussion list provider with support for message log keeping, advanced database search facilities, interactive interface, file archiving, dynamic routing, and automatic file distribution services. It is written in Rexx with 370 assembler modules.
Also during my employment with EARN/TERENA,  I:

  • Maintained HIMON servers that provide link downtime, file-round-trip delay information for NJE networks. Also added PING statistics reporting, and created weekly weekly reports based on HIMON data.
  • Maintained LISTMON server that provides statistics on the usage of Revised LISTSERV servers worldwide. Published monthly reports on international discussion lists monthly based on LISTMON data.
  • Installed and maintained EARN's own node, 'GUMNCC'; a "mainframe" P/370 card running IBM VM/XA.
  • Programmed and maintained many utilities written in Rexx and C. Wrote volumnous documentation including contributions to the award-winning "EARN Guide to Network Resource Tools."
  • List Owner of dozens of discussion lists, on various topics including PC's, OS/2, VM.
  • Supported Ege university OS/2 and Unix installations, as well as assisting as a Systems Programmer at Ege's 3090 mainframe.
  • Configured and maintained TCP/IP on VM, OS/2 and Unix workstations, including Web, Gopher, SMTP/sendmail, FTP, Pop, etc. Installed and maintained the P/370 VM/XA system at Ege University.
  • As Part-Time Work, also worked for L-Soft on creating a CGI database search engine for Revised Listserv lists; currently in use at http://www.lsoft.com. Also wrote a Pop-To-Listserv mail gateway for L-Soft.
  • During my employment for EARN (now TERENA), I was relocated to Paris, France for two years.
  • I am also a Faculty member of Ege University Computing department, occasinally teaching classes since 1987.

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     Fall 1987-Fall 1990: Ege University Computer Department, Network Administrator/Teaching Assistant. Involved with maintaining network servers, including RSCS, MAILER, LISTSERV, NETSERV, TRICKLE, and RELAY, assisting the management of the Turkish nodes, writing user documentation, and responding to user queries. Taught C to undergraduate students.

     Summer 1986: EVAC, Izmir. Analyst/programmer. Duties involved doing research, writing challenging application programs that baffled colleagues in compiled BASIC and development of routine libraries to be used by application programmers.
     
    BULLETIN BOARD  1983-1999:Developed and operated the most successful BBS in Elmira, NY,USA. Written on an IBM PC, it provided an identical interface to The Delphi On-line Service's including "WorkSpace", "Mail", "Infomania", "BBS", "Forum" and "Newsletters" sections. Wrote 3MB of software in compiled BASIC and sold a few copies. 
  • In Turkey: Wrote a FIDO-Internet email gateway for Turkish Bulletin Boards. More than 50 BBS's are now a member of this fee-based service. The service delivers about 50 megabytes of mail and files per month.

    • The gateway code and my current BBS run under OS/2. 
  • BBS-TURK was the busiest in town, has its own PPP leased line as well as a complete web server (http://bbsturk.bbs.tr) Wrote many HTML and CGI scripts for the server. 
  • In its hay-day, BBS-TURK had over 12 Gigabytes of storage, and was on 12 different BBS networks processing over 8000 messages every day. 
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    HOBBIES:  Enjoy writing user-supported software and receiving "Registration Fees." Have written many utilities both for MS-DOS and OS/2 in public domain, mostly in C.
    GENERAL INFO  Member of American Field Service, and of Izmir model plane club. Certified advanced SCUBA diver, and an avid bicyclist. Citizen of Turkey and England. Single.
    AWARDS 
  • European Academic Research Network, Software Of the Year Award, 1990, for The TRICKLE Server.
  • IDUG Award for "We did it with DB2" competition for Find-It! Web Search program (http://find.egenet.com.tr)
  • IBM Certified Solutions Expert: DB2 UDB 6.1 Application Development and DB2 Fundamentals.
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    LANGUAGES  Fluent in Turkish, English, French, and in the order of fluency: Rexx,C/C++,MS-BASIC, Pascal, FORTRAN, 370 Assembler, PC Assembler and COBOL.
    REFERENCES  Available on request.