Burc Arpat

Current

• Software Engineer at Google

Past

• Software Engineer - Team Lead at Paradigm
• Software Engineer at Earth Decision - Paradigm
• Co-founder at Gloroom

• Executive General Consultant at Radio ODTU
• Software Development Contractor at burcarpat.com

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Education

• Columbia University - Columbia Business School
• University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
• Stanford University

• Middle East Technical University
• Middle East Technical University
• Middle East Technical University

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Industry

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Burc Arpat’s Summary

Over 15 years of software development experience. Proven leadership, management, organization and communication skills enhanced by a top MBA. Exceptionally strong engineering background founded on a top PhD and decorated with international awards. Demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit.

Burc Arpat’s Specialties:

Software development management; product, process and project management; software development (C++, Python, SQL); technical and marketing presentations; spatial statistics; artificial intelligence.

Burc Arpat’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

  One of the architects of the internal, executive-level web traffic forecasting dashboard to aid revenue forecast and capacity planning.

• Software Engineer - Team Lead

  Paradigm

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 2006 — June 2009 (3 years )

  Manager of one of the cross-continent R&D teams working on the ground-breaking SKUA Earth Modeling and Visualization Suite (Two direct reports in US; several indirect reports overseas).
  -- Two successful releases (SKUA 2008 and 2009). SKUA 2008 was a finalist of the World Oil 2008 awards.
  -- Honorary certificate due to contributions to the creation of the SKUA training and certification program.
  -- One of the few appointed Intranet Champions of the company.
  -- Routinely reviewed technical work performed by over 15 software engineers for design decisions and code quality.

• Software Engineer

  Earth Decision - Paradigm

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 7 months)

  Note: Paradigm acquired Earth Decision in 2006.

• Co-founder

  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).

• 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. Directed sales, marketing, HR, IT and public events departments.
  -- Best Foreign Music Local Radio award by the largest radio and TV association in Turkey, 2000.
  -- Quadrupled annual sales revenue in three years.
  -- Hosted public concerts and other events with a combined ticketed attendance of near 70,000 people.
  -- Supervised a major marketing campaign including a logo change.

• Software Development Contractor

  burcarpat.com

  (Computer Software industry)

  1992 — 2000 (8 years )

Burc Arpat’s Education

• Columbia University - Columbia Business School

  MBA , General Management , 2009 — 2011 (expected)

  Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA

• University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business

  MBA , General Management , 2009 — 2011 (expected)

  Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA

• Stanford University

  PhD , Spatial Statistics , 2000 — 2005

  Thesis: "Sequential Simulation with Patterns" (SIMPAT)

• Middle East Technical University

  MS , Artificial Intelligence , 1997 — 2001

• Middle East Technical University

  MS , Engineering , 1997 — 2000

• Middle East Technical University

  BS , Engineering , 1992 — 1997

Additional Information

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:

•    Haas/Berkeley Alumni
•    Columbia Business School Alums
•    Stanford University Alumni
•    METU Alumni - ODTÜ Mezun
•    Ivy League Alumni
•    TED Ankara College Alumni

Burc Arpat’s Honors:

-- Best Paper, Journal of Mathematical Geosciences, 2007.
-- CAPM certification, Project Management Institute (PMI), 2007.
-- Two times winner of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) International Paper and Presentation Contest: PhD Division (2003) and BS division (1997).
-- Editor's Pick, Paper SPE 71345, Journal of Petroleum Technology (JPT), 2002.
-- Full scholarship for the PhD program, Stanford University, 2000.
-- Over 20+ presented/published scientific papers.

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