Professional Profile

Ahmet started his unprofessional web development career at his age fourteen. He was familiar with downloading, inspecting and editing website source codes. When he realized that he can change, create and publish things online, it turned into a passion for him. During the high school years he was dealing with basic ASP and JavaScript codes and creating interactive websites. During the first year of university he had some ideas, but the lack of knowledge of programming was limiting him. When he stepped into second year, he was introduced to his first programming course, Interaction to Computer Programming with C++. Actually, the course content was more than enough for him to code and design his first unique idea gunluks.com. After understanding the value of the knowledge of Photoshop, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript and SQL; during the third year of university he decided to get into work life. He was lucky that he never had to apply for a job but he was suggested by his professors and friends to employers. These experiences increased his programming skills, speed, range and above all the experience and the responsibility of work life. Now he is very passionate working on user interface design with the expert knowledge of HTML, CSS and his lovely jQuery.

Work Experience

Academical Researcher [Part Time]
Sabanci University - graphics.sabanciuniv.edu November 2010 - Present Selim Balcısoy

Research on Graphical User Interface Design. Ongoing paper on Mobile Interaction in Social Networks.

User Interface Designer [Part Time]
Sabanci University - graphics.sabanciuniv.edu November 2010 - Present Selim Balcısoy, Burçin Bozkaya

VisioSuite, a Web-based solution that integrates GIS technology with demographic, consumer spending, and business data for Turkey to deliver reports and maps.
Responsibilities: Graphical Design, User Interface Design and Front-End Development

Lead Developer & Lead Designer
Intelligiants - www.intelligiants.com February 2010 - September 2010 Burak Gürpınar, Tolga Ingenç

Turkcell Tourist Guide, Complete tourist guide for the roamers of Turkcell integrated with WAP, BlackBerry Application and IPhone Application. System provides reviews and locations according to user’s location determined from GPS. www.turkcell.travel
Responsibilities: System Design, Web User Interface Desgin, WAP Design & Development, Complete IPhone and BlackBerry Native Application Design & Development, UNIX Administration and Data Mining via web crawling.

Senior Front-End & Back-End Developer
Visiothink Ltd. Şti. - www.visiothink.com June 2008 - January 2010 Selim Balcısoy, Burçin Bozkaya

TamNerede, Friend location tracking service via Web or SMS provided by Turkcell.
Responsibilities: TamNerede Main Page Design & Development, TamNerede IPhone Optimized Page Design & Development, TamNerede Facebook Application Design & Development, TamNerede Java BlackBerry Application Development
Uno Tracking System, Complete User Interface Design & Development of a web based GIS analysis, route optimization, visualization and reporting tool.

Front-End & Back-End Developer [Part Time]
Sabanci University - www.sabanciuniv.edu September 2007 - June 2008 Emrah Kalemci, Ersin Göğüş

7. Microquasar Workshop website design & programming, Interactive speaker voting system
World Astronomy Year 2009 background applications; Admin panel & Dynamic news and content management
Astronomy Department technical assistancy

Web Design Intern
Türk Dijital - www.turkdijital.com June 2004 - September 2004 Emrah Kalemci, Ersin Göğüş

Webpage Design using Photoshop & Flash.

Technical Skills

HTML/5
CSS/3
JavaScript
jQuery
PHP
SQL
Photoshop
Illustrator
UNIX
iPhone
BlackBerry
OpenGL
Data Mining

API & Framework Experience

Google Maps API, OpenLayers API, jQuery, jQuery UI, Facebook API, Last.fm API, Flickr API, Tumblr API, Twitter API, CodeIgniter, 960.gs, Titanium, BlackBerry Widget

Education

Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey 2009

Computer Science & Engineering | Bachelor of Science degree
Emphasis on Visual Communication Design

Cağaloğlu Anadolu Lisesi, Istanbul, Turkey 2004
Acquired Sprachdiplom (German Language Certificate)

Languages

Turkish, native
English, fluent
German, intermediate
Russian, basic

Civic Involvement Projects

Sultanbeyli, İstanbul 2005
CIP project course based on further education of underdeveloped primary school students.