Vita
 
Güvener Gökçe
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Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University,
Current Town: Zürich, Switzerland
gokcegu@itu.edu.tr  
guvenergokce.com

Senior computer engineering undergrad student

Education:
2003 – Present  Istanbul Technical University, Computer Engineering, Turkey
                            (Expected graduation date: December, 2008)
2000 – 2003      Edirne Science School, Turkey
1996 – 2000      Edirne Anatolian High School, Turkey

Experience:

Dig A Ding AG, Switzerland
RIA Developer, June, 2008 – Present
        - Develop rich internet application for 4G networking application via Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR.
        - Tune RIA for optimizing client-server request balance for various numbers of users.

Vayen Apple Solutions, Switzerland
Co-founder, December, 2007 – Present
        - Design and develop creative Macintosh, iPhone applications for enterprise.

Apple - Adobe, Turkey
Software Developer, February, 2007 – February 2008 ( 12 Months )
- Develop company websites and internal customer applications.
- Provide training for Cocoa and Adobe Flex smart client development.
- Broadcast customer podcasts on iTunes. ( Including CNN Turk )
- Support  for customers using Adobe Connect and FMS.
- Administrate systems for high-availability.

Achievements:
- Designed, developed and documented applications used to improve company workflows and sales.
- Involved in digital signage (DS) projects and delivered DS applications in Cocoa with innovative GUI techniques.
- Gained strong understanding of  customer relationships and analyzing customer needs.
- Prepared presentations for management, able to abstract the scenarios, model and redraw them both in technical and business way.
- Prepared proposals for customers, defined project scope, decide schedule.
- Able to manage technology change, fast adapt to new technologies and role.
- Managed application interoperability.

StoneFish, Turkey
Web Developer, August 2006 - February 2007  ( 7 Months )
- Involved in development of a travel software application for an interesting business case in the reservation industry. Built creative solution for optimizing add-words, tuned database performance.
- Involved in development of otukensozluk.com, gastronomia.com.tr.
- Involved in upgrade of ASP based web reporting system to Crystal reports; developed  palm compatible version of reporting service and implemented windows form API for Mac address sealing on the system.

Eczacıbaşı Medicine Products, Turkey
Intern, July 2006 – August 2006 ( 1 Month )
- Developed  software for updating WAN using C++ and Batch programming
- Developed help desk patches for enterprise web site using ASP.

Experience and past projects
1996 – 2006 (10 years)
- Developed as a hobby since 1996.
- Started with Basic for Intel Pentium MMX 133 Mhz
- Coded actionscript for interactive  flash games in 2000.
- Implemented several algorithms and data structures in C and C++
- Participated in various associations and groups.

Technical Skills:
- Languages:   C, C++, Obj-C, C#, Java , Assembly (AT&T and Intel Syntax)
- CPU & Microcontrollers: MC6811, Intel 8051,  Intel 80286
- Object oriented design: UML
- XML Based Laguages: XSLT, XPath, XQuery, Ecmascript
- Scripting Languages: Javascript, Applescript, ActionScript, Ruby,  PHP, ASP, Bash
- Frameworks: Cocoa, .Net 2.0, Ruby On Rails, OpenGL, Java, Adobe Flex
- Database Systems: Microsoft SQL Server Family, MySQL, SQLite, Informix. Access.
- Networking: Socket Programming, Web Services, .Net Remoting.
- Platforms: Apple Mac OS X, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Family, Unix ( BSD), Linux(Fedora) , MS-DOS, J2EE, Adobe Flex 2.0 and Flex Data Services, ADO.NET.
- Information Technologies: Mac OS X Server (DNS, DHCP, Apache, SquidProxy, LDAP), Windows Server 2003 (IIS), XServe Admin, Unix Command Line, Quicktime Streaming Server. 
- Applications: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, Apple Soundtrack Pro, Apple iWorks, Apple iLife, Microsoft Office Products.
- IDEs: XCode, MS Visual Studio (Team System with Source Safe), Eclipse, Quartz composer
- Others: SAP-RPC, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web Services.
Awards and Honors
- Nominated for AIESEC ( May 2008)
- Nominated for exchange student in Johannes Kepler University - Linz, Austria (2007)
- Technobee Young Entrepreneur Contest Final(2006)
- Web site of the year award for Projekent 2005  (by SCC/ITU)
- IT Coordinator award Projekent 2005.
- Grafi2000.com Flash animation contest final (2004).
- Recipient  of President Scholarship, ITU,  2003 - present
- Ranked 3rd in the Painting Competition, 1999

Association Membership
- OCW Turkey – BilimInsani.org (Web Team Leader until March, 2007)
- IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- ADC – Apple Developer Connection
- TEGV – Volunteer of Education Volunteers Foundation of Turkey

Other
         Native Turkish speaker, fluent in English and learning Japanese. Interested in model planes, modern art, philosophy and jazz bass.



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