Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Software Engineer at Google
- Past
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- Software Development Team Lead at Paradigm
- Senior Software Engineer at Paradigm
- Software Engineer at Earth Decision - Paradigm
- Co-founder and Principal at Gloroom
- Executive General Consultant at Radio ODTU
- Software Development Contractor at burcarpat.com
- Education
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- University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
- Columbia University - Columbia Business School
- Stanford University
- Middle East Technical University
- Middle East Technical University
- Middle East Technical University
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Burc Arpat’s Summary
Proven leadership, management, organization, presentation and communication skills. Demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit. Exceptionally strong engineering background decorated with international awards. Over 15 years of software development experience.
Burc Arpat’s Specialties:
Entrepreneurial software development; software development management; product, process and project management; technical and marketing presentations; spatial statistics; artificial intelligence
Burc Arpat’s Experience
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Software Engineer
Google
(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)
June 2009 — Present (2 months)
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Software Development Team Lead
Paradigm
(Computer Software industry)
April 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 3 months)
Managed one of the multi-cultural, cross-continent R&D teams working on the ground-breaking SKUA Earth Modeling and Visualization Suite. Work involved supervising several direct and indirect reports as well as writing and executing technical specifications, project management and coordinating development with other R&D teams, product managers and testing, documentation, customer support and training groups.
-- Two successful releases (SKUA 2008 and 2009). SKUA 2008 was a finalist of the World Oil 2008 awards.
-- Routinely reviewed technical work performed by over 15 software engineers for design decisions and code quality.
-- “Go-to guy” for advanced software development techniques, software architecture, computer science, spatial statistics and content and knowledge management topics. -
Senior Software Engineer
Paradigm
(Computer Software industry)
December 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 5 months)
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Software Engineer
Earth Decision - Paradigm
(Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — December 2006 (2 years)
Note: Paradigm acquired Earth Decision in 2006.
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Co-founder and Principal
Gloroom
(Computer Software industry)
January 2002 — December 2004 (3 years)
Co-founder of the software startup with focus on parallel optimization applications for the energy industry. Key player during the negotiations with Shell (first client).
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Executive General Consultant
Radio ODTU
(Broadcast Media industry)
July 1997 — September 2000 (3 years 3 months)
Board of Executives member of the leading local radio with near 50 employees; directing sales, marketing, HR, IT and public events departments.
-- Quadrupled annual sales revenue in three years.
-- Supervised a major marketing campaign including a logo change.
-- Hosted public concerts and other events with a combined ticketed attendance of near 70,000 people.
-- Best Foreign Music Local Radio award by the largest radio and TV association in Turkey, 2000. -
Software Development Contractor
burcarpat.com
(Computer Software industry)
1992 — 2000 (8 years)
Burc Arpat’s Education
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University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
MBA , General Management , 2009 — 2011 (expected)
Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA
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Columbia University - Columbia Business School
MBA , General Management , 2009 — 2011 (expected)
Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA
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Stanford University
PhD , Spatial Statistics , 2000 — 2005
Thesis: "Sequential Simulation with Patterns" (SIMPAT)
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Middle East Technical University
MS , Artificial Intelligence , 1997 — 2001
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Middle East Technical University
MS , Engineering , 1997 — 2000
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Middle East Technical University
BS , Engineering , 1992 — 1997
Additional Information
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Burc Arpat’s Interests:
Entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, content and knowledge management, massively parallel systems, user interface and experience enhancement, advanced data visualization
Burc Arpat’s Groups:
ACCU, PMI
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Haas/Berkeley Alumni -
Stanford University Alumni -
METU Alumni - ODTÜ Mezun -
TED Ankara College Alumni
Burc Arpat’s Honors:
-- Best Paper, Journal of Mathematical Geosciences, 2007.
-- CAPM certification, Project Management Institute (PMI), 2007.
-- Winner of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) International Paper and Presentation Contest in PhD Division (2003) and in BS division (1997).
-- Paper SPE 71345 selected by the editor as a showcase paper, Journal of Petroleum Technology (JPT), 2002.
-- Full scholarship for the PhD program, Stanford University, 2000.
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