
Principal Consultant at Symantec
Turkey

Principal Consultant at Symantec
Turkey
Senior technical manager with 15+ years of experience in the IT industry. Experience with managing pre-sales, post-sales and advisory consultancy teams and projects for 10+ years.
A rich background in sales management and business development particularly with niche fields in IT. Proven expertise in market development for new technologies in Turkey and the Middle East for 5+ years. Always looking for new business opportunities.
Information and IT security consultant with 10+ years of experience. Holds CISSP, CSSLP and ISO-27001 Lead Auditor certificates. Delivered consultancy engagements to Turkish and Middle Eastern enterprises including pen-tests, code reviews, architectural reviews, SDLC improvements, security management and training among others.
Hands on technical experience with multiple operating systems (Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows, *BSD), programming languages (C/C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Delphi), various networking equipment brands (Cisco, Alcatel, HP, 3Com) and security products (mainly Symantec, Juniper, Fortify and open source ones).
Working knowledge with several management frameworks, regulations and rulings including but not limited to PCI-DSS, PA-DSS, SOX, 5651, ISO-27001, COBIT and ITIL. Delivered compliance consulting to several enterprises.
Experience with World Bank and European Union funded projects and working with multi-national teams.
Enterpreneur. Founded Pro-G Information Security & Research Ltd. in 2002.
Contact at burak_dayioglu@symantec.com.
Business development, consulting management
(Public Company; SYMC; Computer Software industry)
October 2009 — Present (2 months)
Managing Symantec consulting engagements including but not limited to product enablement, advisory and operational services. Also responsible for consulting business development and sales support.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
January 2002 — October 2009 (7 years 10 months)
Managing the whole technical operations of the Pro-G team. Provides consultancy and assessment services to a large portfolio of enterprise customers.
(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2000 — February 2006 (6 years 2 months)
Managing the ".tr" ccTLD DNS operations. Lead technical team of four in developing the nic.tr infrastructure and operating the ".tr" DNS service.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)
June 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 8 months)
Worked as a technical expert managing network devices and UNIX based servers. Duties include regular maintenance, security monitoring/management and development of new systems.
Ph.D , Computer Engineering , 2002 — 2007
M.Sc. , Computer Engineering , 1998 — 2002
M.Sc. Thesis Dissertation Title: Use of Passive Network Mapping to Enhance Network Intrusion Detection
B.Sc. , Computer Engineering , 1994 — 1998
Developed an e-mail discussion list server software (Albatros) as a graduation project.
B.Sc. , Computer Engineering , 1994 — 1995
Reading books on recent history, personal improvement, spending time with family, open source software and sci-fi in all forms.
Turkish Linux Users' Association (Founding member), Turkish Informatics Association (TBD), IEEE, CISSP, ISO-27001 Lead Auditor