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    Ozgur Balsoy
    171 Brittain Dr
    Apt 2
    Tallahasee, FL 32310-5655
    USA

    Home: (850) 575-1488
    Work: (850) 644-7012

    Education
    Projects
    Publications
    Awards Received
    Work Experience
    Compute

    EDUCATION
     

    August 2000 – present

    Florida State University Tallahassee, FL, USA
    Ph.D., Computer Science Department
    Cum. GPA: N/A

    May 1997 – August 2000

    Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, USA
    Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
    Cum. GPA: 3.59/4.00

    Aug 1995 – May 1997

    Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, USA
    M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
    GPA: 3.53/4.00

    Oct 1988 – May 1993

    Ege University Izmir, Turkey
    B.S., Computer Engineering
    GPA: 78/100

       

    Graduate Course Profile

    Technology and Applications for the Information Age
    Advanced Web Technologies
    Multimedia Information systems
    Object-Oriented Design
    Object-Oriented Database Management Systems
    Computer Architecture
    Design and Analysis of Algorithms
    Principles of Operating Systems
    Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
    Expert Systems
    Structured Programming and Formal Methods
    Theories of Computation and Complexity

       

    PROJECTS
     

    Student Records and Assessment System for Course Support

    • A course management system with online public interfaces and a database back-end to provide an environment for both students and teachers to exchange course information over the Internet.
    • Used technologies: Java Servlets, JDBC, and XML/XSL; multi-tier Web architecture.
    • Actively used by students in on-campus and off-campus courses given by NPAC, Syracuse University.
    • Instructor: Geoffrey C. Fox, gcf@npac.syr.edu

    An Interface to a Real Time Signal Processing System

    • A multi-window and -threaded Windows interface application to a real-time signal processing system, which were developed by two teams, software and hardware.
    • Managed the software team of one undergraduate and two graduate students.
    • Written in Borland C++ Builder 4.0 with database connectivity.
    • Advisor: Kivanc Dincer, dincer@tubitak.gov.tr

    Object-Oriented Database Management System

    • A complete database management system developed in C++.
    • Implements object-oriented schema definitions, and a simple object-oriented query language in accordance with OMG standards.
    • Instructor: Roger Chen, rchen@cat.syr.edu.

    Visualization of the Periodic Table of the Elements

    • Performs element information queries and 3-D solar modeling of the elements' atoms in VRML.
    • Instructor: Geoffrey C. Fox, gcf@npac.syr.edu.

    NetBoard, A Collaboratory Whiteboard for the Internet

    • An environment to develop, save, and browse course materials on the Internet.
    • Developed using Java and CGI programming with Perl.
    • Instructor: Roger Chen, rchen@cat.syr.edu.
       

    PUBLICATIONS
     

    Sen, M, Balsoy, O, Fox, G.C. and McCracken, N.J., "Course Management: A Complete Asynchronous Environment Architecture in Education," Webnet 99 Abstracts book - p.86, WebNet 99, World Conference on the WWW and Internet, Honolulu, Hawaii

       

    AWARDS RECEIVED
     

    • Chairperson of the Syracuse University ACM Student Chapter, Fall 96-Spring 98.
    • Teaching and Graduate Assistantships through Fall 96 to Fall 99 at Syracuse University and Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse, NY.
    • Awarded scholarship for Master's study abroad by the Ministry of Education, the Republic of Turkey.
    • Awarded scholarship for high school by TUBITAK, Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey.
       

    WORK EXPERIENCE
     

    August 2000 – present

     School of Computational Science and Information Technologies
    Tallahassee, FL, USA

    Graduate Research Assistant

    • Advisor: Dr. Geoffrey C. Fox, fox@csit.fsu.edu
    • Research Topic: Learning Management Systems in Educational Portals

    August 1996 – August 2000

     Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
    Syracuse, NY, USA

    Graduate Research Assistant

    • Advisor: Dr. Geoffrey C. Fox, gcf@npac.syr.edu
    • Nancy J. McCracken, njm@npac.syr.edu

    Teaching Assistant

    • Teaching assistant for various courses given by NPAC, Syracuse University, to teach students the basic programming skills and languages that are needed to implement distributed Web applications such as,
      CPS 606 Programming for the Web
      CPS 616 Computational Science for Information Applications
      ECS 400 Software Technologies

    June 1999 – August 1999

    Baskent University Computer Engineering Department
    Ankara, Turkey

    Project Manager/Instructor

    • Managed a software project mentioned in Projects above.
    • Given a series of seminars in recent Web technologies such as ActiveX and OLE, JavaScript, Java, HTML, XML, Java Servlets, and CORBA.

    October 1993 – August 1994

    Ege University Computer Center
    Izmir, Turkey

    Systems Programmer

    • Developed software on an IBM 3090 VM/SP CMS mainframe.
    • Installed and maintained the Internet services (i.e. WWW, gopher, FTP) of the university on the DEC Alpha AXP workstations and the IBM mainframe.
    • IBM Technical Education. Formal Training on VSE/SP and CICS.

    May 1993 – August 1993

    Chronicle AS
    Izmir, Turkey

    Programmer

    • Worked in a group project developing a patient information database for dentists using Visual Basic and Paradox Database Engine.

    July 1992 – August 1992

    Petkim AS
    Izmir, Turkey

    Summer Internship

    • Developed a database maintenance program of expenses employees make in recreation areas to deduct from payrolls using VSE/CICS, SQL and PL/1.

    January 1992 – September 1993

    Distas AS
    Izmir, Turkey

    Part-time LAN Manager, Programmer

    • Responsible for the setup and maintenance of the company's local area network running Novell Netware 3.12.
    • Developed software in Visual Basic over the network.

    June 1991 – December 1992

    Ege University Computer Center
    Izmir, Turkey

    Lab Instructor

    • Consulted people in public courses teaching how to use PC-DOS, BASIC, and MS Windows.
       

    COMPUTER SKILLS
     

    Web Technologies

    • Internet servers, install and management of a complete site, experience with NCSA, Apache, and MS IIS Web servers, Washington University FTP server.
    • Java, HTML, XML, XSL, Perl, VRML, CGI scripting, awk, shell scripts
    • JDBC, Java RMI, Java Servlets, and Oracle Web connectivity solutions
    • Two-tier, three-tier, and multi-tier system solutions
    • Client/server, and collaboratory application development
    • Owner of the information and service based Web site about Turkey, www.balsoy.com

    Languages

    • Visual BASIC, C/C++, Object Pascal, Prolog, SmallTalk, LISP, CLIPS
    • REXX, PL/1, FORTRAN, Assembly

    Operating Systems

    • Unix, MS-Windows, MS-DOS, Mac OS, VM/CMS

    Architectures

    • DEC Alpha AXP, Sun, IBM 3090 and 4341, Intel 80x86 compatibles, Z80s

    Software

    • MS Office components: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access
    • Web Authoring tools: NetObjects Fusion, MS FrontPage, MS InterDev
    • Graphics development: Adobe PhotoShop, Corel DRAW
    • Software development: Borland C++ Builder, Visual Cafe, Borland JBuilder, MS Visual Studio
       

     

    r Skills

     

Ozgur Balsoy, ozgur@csit.fsu.edu