Sysadmin and Devoted Perl Programmer
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Sr. System Administrator at METU - Department of Industrial Engineering
- Instructor at Akdeniz University - Faculty of Engineering
- Consultant at SoftEx Corporation
- Programming Department Manager at Affinity Hosting
- Internet System Programmer at Affinity Hosting
- Student Computer Operator at University Computing Center at USC
- Education
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- Middle East Technical University
- Middle East Technical University
- University of Southern California
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Alptekin Cakircali’s Summary
System Administration (Linux: Slackware/CentOS, Windows:2000/2003), LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP) Development, 802.11 Wireless Networks, Network and Data Security, Captive Portals, RADIUS, Embedded Linux Systems. Interested in new programming/development and sysadmin positions where I can put my talents into work for bringing up creative and innovative services and products.
Alptekin Cakircali’s Specialties:
. Perl (CGI, DBI, LWP, Net::SSLeay), PHP, Shell Programming, HTML, CSS, XML, SOAP, JavaScript, DOM, Ajax, SQL, Java, C
. DOS, Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003, Linux Slackware/CentOS, Sun Solaris
. MySQL, Sybase, Oracle
. Apache, Postfix, ClamAV, BIND, Firewall (iptables), NAT, DHCP, NTP, Samba, apcupsd, SmartList, vPostMaster, RCS
. 802.11 Wireless Networks, HostAP, AWLP, OpenWRT, RADIUS, Network Security, Asterisk
. Spiders/Robots/Scrappers, regexp/Perl CRE, Linux Kernel Recompilation
Alptekin Cakircali’s Experience
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Sr. System Administrator
METU - Department of Industrial Engineering
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
March 2002 — September 2008 (6 years 7 months)
Responsible for setting up, maintaining, troubleshooting, expansion and planning of the department’s network (LAN: 200 nodes, WLAN: 150 clients, Server: 1 Linux/CentOS - 1 Windows/2003) and all computing facilities and services including but not limited to DNS, SMTP, DHCP, Firewall, NAT, HTTP, FTP, SSH, Webmail. Also trained three Junior System Admins.
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Instructor
Akdeniz University - Faculty of Engineering
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)
May 2000 — March 2002 (1 year 11 months)
Giving introductory/intermediate computer programming courses to Civil, Mechanical and Environmental Engineering students. Also worked as system administrator in the faculty's computer lab.
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Consultant
SoftEx Corporation
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1999 — November 1999 (6 months)
Worked as a consultant for SoftEx Corporation, and was assigned to K-Tel Online, Inc. as Internet Systems Programmer. Along with a co-worker, was responsible for maintaining the online music-selling e-commerce
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Programming Department Manager
Affinity Hosting
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1998 — May 1999 (9 months)
Specified, outlined, delegated and supervised tasks in the programming department in addition to my programming duties. Trained and educated three new programmers.
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Internet System Programmer
Affinity Hosting
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1998 — September 1998 (5 months)
Worked with PHP, Perl, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL, DBI::MySQL, LWP for developing and maintaining various web-based applications required by technical support, billing and marketing departments. Designed and programmed a complete domain registration site with membership utility using PHP and MySQL. Worked on the development and maintenance of the hosting control panel.
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Student Computer Operator
University Computing Center at USC
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1996 — April 1997 (8 months)
Worked mostly midnight shifts in the main data center and daily shifts in the student computer labs of University Computing Center (now called Information Technology Services) at the University of Southern California.
Alptekin Cakircali’s Education
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Middle East Technical University
Ph.D. (All-But-Dissertation) , Information Systems , 2005 — 2008
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Middle East Technical University
M.Sc. (Thesis) , Information Systems , 2002 — 2005
http://www.cakircali.com/files/MSc-Thesis-AlptekinCakircali.pdf
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University of Southern California
B.Sc. , Electrical Engineering , 1994 — 1998
Additional Information
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Alptekin Cakircali’s Interests:
TECHNICAL: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP) Development, System Administration (Linux, Windows), 802.11 Wireless Networks, Network and Data Security, Captive Portals, RADIUS, Embedded Linux Systems SOCIAL: Traveling, Skiing (Intermediate), Wind Surfing (Beginner), Biking
Alptekin Cakircali’s Honors:
USC - International Leadership Award (1997)
USC - Faculty of Engineering Dean’s List (1995)
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