Hakan Kalyoncu
Professional Experience
- 2004- ... YORENET Teknoloji, Turizm ve Ticaret A.S.,
Cheaf Executive Ofiicer (CEO)
- 2001- ... YORE Elektronik Yayimcilik A.S.,
Cheaf Executive Ofiicer (CEO)
- 1999-2000 TUBITAK-MAM,
Director of Information
Technologies Research Institute
Director of the Information Technologies Research Institute (BTAE) of
Marmara Research Center (MAM) of The Scientific and Technical Council
of Turkey (TUBITAK).
The restructuring of the Institute in accordance with the World Bank's
Project so that it is transformed into a "Contract Research Organization"
from a government supported research institute. Main goal being the
coordination of large Government IT projects and doing projects containing
both HW and SW elements which contain a significant technology development
content with IP possibilities. As a result of the 21 months long period
of the restructuring process, among many achievements some of the
distinguishing ones being the pioneers within TUBITAK and Turkey,
are listed below:
- Submitted a project proposal to the biggest IT project tender of Turkey,
namely the MERNIS project of the Ministry of Interior. This was the first
time in TUBITAK's history a Research Institute submitting a proposal
for a commercial tender.
- Signed a protocol with Turkish Navy for giving R&D support to
their biggest project (The Long Horizon Project). The budget of
the protocol was 510,000.- USD for a research support period of
15 months. This is the first protocol in TUBITAK's history where
a long term R&D support for a commercial project of a government body
is signed.
- Selected as the "Technical Management Authority" and
"The Prime Contractor" for the development and production of
"The Turkish Unique Mission Computer" for the ATAK Helicopter
Program of Turkish Army. In this selection process BTAE proposed
an "innovative" business model for the development and production
of the mission computer using national resources. BTAE is the
only body convincing the customer that, such a vital and
high technology defense industry component can be originally
developed using national resources.
- Selected by the Prime Ministry as the "Main Authority"
for the "Turkish Customs Security Project" of the Undersecretary
of Customs of Turkey.
- Being the leader of the consortium (with STFA SAVRONIK)
BTAE is successfully establishing (estimated project completion
date is March 2001) a Flight Test Center for Turkish Air Forces
in Eskisehir.
- 1997-1999 YORE Elektronik Yayimcilik A.S., member of executive board
- 1997 Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Lecturer
- EE686-Special Topics (Multimedia Communications Systems)
- 1996 Marmara University, Computer Engineering Department, Lecturer
- CSE571-Multimedia Communications Systems
- CSE444-Computer Networks
- 1993-1998 TUBITAK-MAM, Senior Researcher in Informatics Research Institute
- Project Manager of the GARILDI - Newspaper Archiving and Communications System external project for AYBIM Bilgisayar Ticaret Ltd. Sti., Aug.1996-Dec.1997.
- Project Manager (TUBITAK part) of the AUTOCORD - on-line control and AUTOmated production of steel CORD for automotive tyres feasibility study project, EUREKA project number 1123, Jun.1995-Jan.1996.
- Project Manager of the Industrial Communications (LAN) project, TUBITAK project number 21-1-005, Jan.1994-Dec.1994.
- Member of the Visual Recognition System project, external project for Ölçsan AGUM, TUBITAK project number 21-2-001, completed in Dec.1993.
- 1990-1999 Medya Holding, Consultant and at home programmer.
Consulting and developing programs on a wide range of subjects, including but not limited to:
- consultancy on the organization of the local networks and internet
connections (the first application in Turkey with WWW server in internet
where electronic version of a periodical
(Aktüel) is published
monthly). Now, in addition to Aktuel, the daily newspaper SABAH
is also published using the same infrastructure.
- consultancy and advisement on the purchase of applications software and hardware.
he-ce-le-me, Turkish hyphenation extension for page layout software (QuarkXPress)
EnBabaUlak, news archiving system, which is written in C, for receiving and archiving (according to sources and subjects) of the news coming (from agents such as Anadolu Ajansi, Reuters, AP, etc.) via serial lines.
EnBabaIlanci, an extension for page layout software (QuarkXPress), for receiving serial advertisements from the database server, for formatting and organizing the advertisement pages, collecting images related to the advertisements, etc., i.e., a software for automating the page design process of serial advertisement pages of the newspaper.
- 1983-1999 Several personal projects, Software development and Consultancy
Other than the projects to Medya Holding and Aktar Holding I have been involved with and/or personally completed several projects. Some of them are mentioned below:
- All of the modem and leased line communications programs (both for UNIX and DOS machines) of the check settlement project of the Central Bank of Turkey Cheque Exchange Office, 1992 (AYBIM).
- The fault tolerance programs which are designed for switching between two UNIX systems running in parallel, of the check settlement project of the Central Bank of Turkey Cheque Exchange Office, 1992 (AYBIM).
A text editor and telex operating program (named EnBabaTeleksçi) for Macintosh computers to control and use BES Orion telex machines; written in C language for Macintosh personal computers, 1989 (BES Bogazici Elektronik San. ve Tic. A.S.).
- A real-time Protocol Conversion program which continuously monitors a special directory on the file server for the PC documents to be converted and which then convert them to MacWrite documents, written in C language for Macintosh personal computers, 1989 (Hürriyet Holding, Press).
- A real-time Protocol Conversion program which accepts PDP-11 documents from the serial communications port and converts them to corresponding Macintosh MacWrite documents, written in C language for Macintosh personal computers, 1989 (Hürriyet Holding, Press).
- Accounts Receivable program, and Inventory Control program, written in C language under PC-DOS for IBM personal computers, 1986 (Teknik Boya A.S.).
- Process Monitoring program, written in Basic language for Amstrad CPC-512 computers, 1985 (Teknik Boya A.S.).
- 1988-1993 Bogazici University, Research Assistant in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Construction and administration of departmentwide local area networks (LocalTalk and Ethernet)
- Assistantship of the courses EE340 - Digital Design, and EE444 - Microprocessors
- 1985-1987 UBS Uluslararasi Bilisim Sistemleri San. Tic. A.S., Software Manager
- Worked in the organization of the newly established firm whose aim is to consult and develop business applications programs for personal computers.
- 1983-1985 Aktar Holding, Computer Consultant
Worked on the specifications and planning, and on the generation of applications programs particularly for Aksan A.S. which is specialized in the aluminum industry.
- Accounts Receivable program, written in UCSD Pascal for Apple //e microcomputers, 1985 (Aktar Holding-Version 5.0 in 1990).
- Payroll program, written in Basic language under CP/M operating system for Apple ][ microcomputer, 1983 (Aktar Holding).
- 1982-1983 3B Birlesik Bilgisayar Sistemleri San. ve Tic. A.S. (Transtürk Holding), Applications Programmer (part-time)
- 3B was the first computer firm of Turkey specialized on UNIX operating system. It was marketing Zilog's S8000 minicomputers with UNIX operating system. I worked with the team for the development of application programs, using C programming language.