Oz Basarir

Current

• Owner at EzKode Web Solutions and Consulting

Past

• Technical Director at WiserEarth.org
• PMTS at SAP
• Senior Software Engineer at Evant

• Lead Software Engineer at Bigprizes.com
• PMTS at Oracle
• PMTS at Iwin
• Software Engineer at Deneba Software
• Software Engineer at BETTER TRUSS
• Researcher at University of Miami

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Education

• University of Miami
• University of Miami
• Hacettepe Üniversitesi

• ScrumMaster

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Oz Basarir’s Summary

Founder and Principal. EZkode is web product development firm specializing in bootstrapping startups, assembling high-performance teams, and creating strategic technology partnerships.

Oz Basarir’s Specialties:

Team and Product Management, Product Strategy, Process Improvement, Architecture / Development, Enterprise Systems, Budget Planning, Agile / Scrum / XP, Development Lifecycle, Business Requirements

Oz Basarir’s Experience

• Owner

  EzKode Web Solutions and Consulting

  (Computer Software industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years)

• Technical Director

  WiserEarth.org

  (Research industry)

  December 2005 — July 2007 (1 year 8 months)

  “[Paul] Hawken hopes the Bay Area, with its wealth of technologically savvy and environmentally minded people, will propel WiserEarth. Among them is independent Web consultant Oz Basarir, who applies his knowledge and experience in business software to work toward social change.”
  - San Francisco Chronicle 2/9/2007

• PMTS

  SAP

  (Computer Software industry)

  2002 — 2006 (4 years)

• Senior Software Engineer

  Evant

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year)

• Lead Software Engineer

  Bigprizes.com

  (Computer Software industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

• PMTS

  Oracle

  (Public Company; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1999 (3 years)

• PMTS

  Iwin

  (Computer Software industry)

  1999 — 1999 (less than a year)

• Software Engineer

  Deneba Software

  (Computer Software industry)

  1993 — 1996 (3 years)

• Software Engineer

  BETTER TRUSS

  (Architecture & Planning industry)

  1995 — 1996 (1 year)

  Developed architectural design product.

• Researcher

  University of Miami

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 1991 — May 1993 (2 years 5 months)

  • Defined methods for neural network control of robot arms and saccadic eye movements as part of Miami Project of Jackson Memorial Hospital that aimed to find cures for paralysis.
  • Implemented Information Theoretic Machine Learning Algorithm in C++, and generated rules using Breast Cancer and Diabetes data.

Oz Basarir’s Education

• University of Miami

  PhD , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 1993 — 1994

  withdrawn prior to completion

• University of Miami

  MS , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 1991 — 1993

  Some coursework: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Stochastic Processes, Numerical Analysis, Multivariable Control Theory, Expert Systems.
  Thesis: Implementation of an Information Theoretic Machine Learning Algorithm in C++, and evaluation using Breast Cancer and Diabetes data.

• Hacettepe Üniversitesi

  BS , Electrical and Electronics Engineering , 1987 — 1991

  Some coursework: Communication Systems, Antenna Theory, Microwave Engineering, Solid State Devices, Robotics, Digital Control Theory, Microprocessors, Electronic Logic Circuits.
  Senior Project: Modeling of robot arms and simulation on an IBM-PC.
  Supplementary Projects: Radio, Amplifier, Speaker Box, and 7-segment display design.

• ScrumMaster

Additional Information

Oz Basarir’s Websites:

• My Company

Oz Basarir’s Interests:

TECHNICAL SKILLS • Languages: UML, Java, PHP, C++, Javascript, XSLT, XML, Active Server Pages, Prolog, Lisp, Assembly • Databases: MySql, Oracle, MS SQL, SqLite, Berkeley DB • Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, Mac, Windows • Miscellaneous: symfony, Ajax, J2EE, JDBC, JRun, Coldfusion, IIS, Apache, Trac, CVS, Subversion, Clustering, Load Balancing, Server security, Database replication, Search Engine Indexing/Crawling

Oz Basarir’s Groups:

•    Club ex-Oracle.org
•    NetSquared
•    University of Miami (FL)
•    Service Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group
•    SAP People(8000+ Member)
•    Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup
•    WiserEarth
•    Scrum
•    Scrum Alliance, Inc.
•    Semantic Web
•    Scrum Practitioners
•    Internet Product Management Group
•    ORCL (Oracle) Alumni
•    Agile Project Managers
•    The OracAlumni Network
•    Business Plan Competitions
•    MySQL Conference & Expo
•    Certified ScrumMasters
•    Hacettepe University Alumni
•    University of Miami College of Engineering Alumni Association
•    Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC)

Oz Basarir’s Honors:

CERTIFICATIONS:
• Managing Effectively, SAP
• Agile Project Management with Scrum, Ken Schwaber
• Project Management (PMI), UC Berkeley
• Planning, SAP
• Java certifications: J2EE Architect, Java Developer, Java Programmer
• Object Oriented Analysis & Design, Rational

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