Ozgur Balsoy
130-M Remington Ave.,
Syracuse, NY 13210-3669
(315) 425-5916
balsoy@top.cis.syr.edu
http://www.cis.syr.edu/~balsoy

Objective
	Become a distinct professor in computer science.
	
Education
	M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science,
		Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
		August 1995-May 1997
		GPA: 3.50/4.00
	B.S., Computer Engineering, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
		October 1988-May 1993
		GPA: 78/100
	Course Profile
		Computational Science for the Information Age
		Multimedia Information systems
		Object-Oriented Design
		Computer Architecture
		Design and Analysis of Algorithms
		Principles of Operating Systems
		Expert Systems
		Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
		Structured Programming and Formal Methods

Honors/Societies
	Chairperson of the Syracuse University ACM Student Chapter.
	Teaching Assistanship for Fall 96 and Spring 97 from Syracuse University
	Awarded scholarship for graduate study abroad
		by the Ministry of Education, the Republic of Turkey.
	Responsible for the home page of Turkey at Syracuse University, sponsored
		by the Turkish Student Association, http://web.syr.edu/~obalsoy/Turkiye. 
	Awarded scholarship for high school by Scientific and Technical Research 
		Council of Turkey, http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/.

Projects
	Visualization of the Periodic Table of the Elements
		- Performing element information queries and 3-D solar modelling
		  of the elements' atoms in VRML.
		- URL: http://speedy.npac.syr.edu:3768/cps616spring96-docs/
	    	  /balsoy/project/Contents.html.
		- 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.
		- URL: http://speedy.npac.syr.edu:3768/Project/.
		- Instructor: Roger Chen, rchen@cat.syr.edu.

Work Experience

1/97-now	Teaching Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering
		and Computer Science, Syracuse University
		- TA and lab instructor for ECS400 Software Technologies 
		  for the World Wide Web using Java & CGI programming with Perl.
		- Maintainer of the class web page at
		  http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/ecs400spring97/.
		- Instructor: Dr. Nancy McCracken, njm@npac.syr.edu.

8/96-12/96	Teaching Assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering
		and Computer Science, Syracuse University
		- TA for CPS606 Computational Methods for Distributed 
		  Information Systems using Java & CGI programming with Perl.
		- Maintainer of the class Web page at
		  http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/cps606fall96/.
		- Instructor: Dr. Nancy McCracken, njm@npac.syr.edu.

10/93-8/94	Systems Programmer at the Ege University Computer Center
		- Developed software on an IBM 3090 VM/SP CMS mainframe.
		- Installed and maintained the Internet services
		  (ie. 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.

5/93-8/93	Commercial Program for Chronicle AS, Izmir, Turkey
		- Developed a patient information database for dentists 
		  using Visual Basic and Paradox Database Engine.
		- Led a team of four computer engineers.

7/92-8/92	Summer Internship at the Computer Center of PETKIM AS, Aliaga, Turkey
		- Developed a database maintainance program of expenses
		  employees make in recreation areas to deduct from payrolls
		  using VSE/CICS, SQL and PL/1.
		  Note: PETKIM is the leading petro-chemistry company in Turkey.

1/92-9/93	LAN Manager, Programmer at Distas AS, Izmir, Turkey
		- Responsible for the setup and maintainance of the company's 
		  local area network running Novell Netware 3.12.
       		- Developed software in Visual Basic over the network.

6/91-12/92	Lab Instructor in public courses (for MS-DOS and GWBASIC)
		at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey

Computer Experience

	Languages
		HTML, Perl, Java, VRML, CGI scripting, awk, shell scripts
		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