Curriculum Vitae

Neyir Cenk Gökçe

Personal Data

Education

1994 -
Middle East Technical University/Graduate School of Natural & Applied Sciences
Ankara, Turkey
Currently enrolled in the M.Sc. programme in Mechanical Engineering

1994 - 1988
Middle East Technical University/Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ankara, Turkey
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Degree awarded, Fall 1994

1988 - 1985
TED Ankara College Lycée
Ankara, Turkey

Work experience

July 1994 -
Arçelik A.Þ. Ankara Dishwasher Plant @Sincan
Ankara, Turkey

Working at the Product Development Department as a Product Development Engineer in the design of a new dishwasher. Main point of interest, design-wise is the design and construction of the water and control systems of the dishwasher, using CAD techniques.

Feb 1991 - May 1994
Protek A.Þ. - COMPAQ Authorized Systems Reseller
Ankara, Turkey

Worked as a Systems Support Engineer. Main responsibilities included the installation, support, troubleshooting and optimization, both of stand-alone PC’s, and of Novell NetWare networks. In addition to my regular work, I was often asked to give user training (OS & Applications) to our foreign customers in English.

Volunteer experience

Turkish Agent, WorldCon Scotland Limited (Organizer of 53rd WSFC in Glasgow, 1995)
Turkish Agent, Intuition, the 1998 British National Science Fiction Convention

Summer jobs

Summer 1990
REMAK-Reconstructions Electrical Power Stations Modernizations & Know-How Opole, Poland
Summer Practical Training, the Export and Informatics Bureaux
Summer 1991
ASELSAN - Military Electronics Inc. Ankara, Turkey
Summer Practical Training, MRP II system intro.
Summer 1993
DEI - The Greek National Electricity Company Megalopolis, Greece
Summer Practical Training in Coal Power Plant

Computer Literacy

PlatformOperating System(s)Experience Expertise Level
PCDOS/Windows/OS210 yearsProfessional
LANNovell NetWare5 yearsProfessional
WorkstationHP-UX / IBM-AIX
/ DEC-ULTRIX / Linux
3 years1.5 yrs User Level
1.5 yrs Admin Level
MainframeIBM VSE-SP3 yearsUser Level

Languages : C, Pascal, Fortran, Basic

Military Obligation

Postponed until completion of Msc. programme, approx. April 1997

Awards received

Second place in Futurist Competition Europe, by Honeywell Europe
Honorable mention (fourth place) in Becoming an Information Society contest, by Ministry of Culture, Republic of Turkey

Foreign Languages

English - Fluent
Italian - Fair
French - Basic
German - Basic

Professional and other memberships

Middle East Technical University Science Fiction & Fantasy Society, Founder
European Science Fiction Society Turkish National Representative
Turkish Informatics Association, Member
The SETI League, Charter Member

Accreditations and licenses

Certified Netware Engineer (Novell Inc.)
Information Officer (Ministry of Tourism)

Interests and activities

Reading, writing, listening to music, computers, www, linguistics, genetics, biochemistry, science and literature in general.


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