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

Platform	Operating System(s)	Experience	Expertise Level
PC	DOS/Windows/OS2	10 years	Professional
LAN	Novell NetWare	5 years	Professional
Workstation	HP-UX / IBM-AIX / DEC-ULTRIX / Linux	3 years	1.5 yrs User Level 1.5 yrs Admin Level
Mainframe	IBM VSE-SP	3 years	User 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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