I was born in Istanbul in 1975, after having completed my primary and secondary education in Istanbul I graduated in 1992 from Science High School of Bursa. In 1992 I attended to the department of Istanbul Technical University - Electronics and Communications Engineering.

I performed the database management at European Conference of Circuit Theory and Project (ECCTD'95) which has been organized in Istanbul in 1995 while I was studying at university. In the same years I have supplied Data Processing consultancy services in many private sector companies. After the end of the conference towards the end of 1995 I worked in the IT department of FMV Işık High School. My responsibilities included to enhance the local network, to spread the usage of the Internet and training of the users.

I participated to the MagNet project at the end of 1995. MagNet was one of the first ISP companies in Turkey, however was closed down in 1999. I performed twice the Turkey Internet Users’ Survey in order to determine the profile of Turkey’s Internet users at MagNet. The results of this research have been used by many media institutions and Microsoft as a reference. After having worked as Technical Manager for approximately two years I left MagNet and began to work for a system integrator again as Technical Manager. Here my responsibilities were supporting the presales, after sales and marketing departments, management of the technical team, follow up of installations and obtaining the licenses from Telekom of the imported telecommunications equipments. Besides, I also arranged for the sales and technical trainings.

I started to work for BNET İletişim A.Ş., (Present Borusan Telekom) which was a group company of Borusan Holding as Technology Manager in October 2000. I took part of installation of first privately owned ATM/Frame Relay backbone in Turkey at BNET. I left BNET in order to complete my academic studies in February 2002. I was the general manager of TIX (Turkish Internet Exchange) between January 2003 and September 2003 and business development manager of Atlas Online between September 2003 and March 2005. I was responsible for designing and construction of first Private Long Distance Telephony Service Infrastructure based on NGN concept in Turkey while I was working for Atlas On-Line. I've worked for an major ISP/ITSP company as NGN (Next Generation Networks) Operations Manager in Turkey between 2006 and 2010. I'm serving to major ITSP/SIP an system integrators compaines in Turkey as an indepent consultant.

I'm married with one child.

I've written three books on data communications in Turkish:

• Veri Haberleşmesi Kavramları (Data Communications Concepts), Papatya Yayıncılık, ISBN 975-6797-11-8, Printed two times, October 1999, September 2000

• Veri Haberleşmesi Temelleri (Data Communications Basics), Papatya Yayıncılık, ISBN 975-6797-15-0, October 2000

• Network / Veri Haberleşmesi Uygulamaları (Network / Data Communications Applications), Papatya Yayıncılık, ISBN 975-6797-30-0, Printed two times, June 2002, October 2006
   

I've developed following softwares using Microsoft .NET development platform:

• TekRADIUS (RADIUS [RFC 2865, RFC 2866] Server for Windows), 2007

• TekSIP (SIP [RFC 3261] Registrar/Proxy Server for Windows), 2007

• TekIVR (SIP [RFC 3261] IVR for Windows), 2008

• TekFax (SIP [RFC 3261] T.38 Fax Receiver Server for Windows), 2008

• TekConSer (SIP [RFC 3261] Conference Server for Windows), 2009

• TekCERT (Self Signed X.509 Certificate Generator for Windows), 2008

• TekFTP (FTP Client Software for Windows based on RFC 959), 2008

• sipcli (Command line SIP [RFC 3261] user agent for Windows), 2008

• TekPhone (SIP Softphone - [RFC 3261] user agent for Windows), 2008

• ENUM Resolver (Electronic NUmber Mapping (ENUM) [RFC 3761] Lookup utility), 2008

Web based tools:

• IP / Autonomous System Number (ASN) Lookup

• Electronic NUmber Mapping (ENUM) Lookup (e164.arpa)

• SS7 Point Code Format Converter

• MRTG Graphing of Number of VoIP Sessions on a Cisco IP-to-IP Gateway
  
• How to Provide Simple Least Cost Routing Using TekRADIUS for VoIP
• Prefix and Source IP Authentication for Incoming VoIP Traffic
• Creating and Installing a Self Signed Certificate for PEAP Authentication

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