ILKER ATALAY

Computer Engineer M.Sc & Entrepreneur
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SUMMARY of QUALIFICATIONS
 
  • Product & business development experience in 1 billion pageview/month Internet portal
  • Sound knowledge of Web 2.0/1.0 trends, technologies and applications
  • Excellent understanding of the portal business, online communities, e-commerce, online marketing, revenue
       streams and advertising models
  • Product life-cycle management experience
  • Team building and multi-party project management experience
  • Experience in R&D projects involving hardware and software design
  • System analysis and design experience on complex infrastructures, services and products
  • Full software development life cycle experience in mission critical environments
  • Creative, result oriented, focused, self starter, team player and ability to multi-task
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    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
     

    Web and Portal Development Manager

    January 2008 - Present

    TTNET

    Istanbul / Turkey
     
  • Development, management and general oversight of TTNET's web portal and other related web sites and
       services to create and maintain positive user experiences aligned with the strategic business objectives of
       TTNET
  • Management of multiple parties spanning internal teams, teams from the other companies within the Turkish
       Telecom Group and other 3rd parties are performed under tight schedules
  • Most recent launch was TTNET VITAMIN, which is an online learning portal targeted to the 4th to 8th grade
       midschool students. Received ~200K unique visitors within its first week
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    Product and Business Development Manager

    April 2006 - Oct. 2007

    Mynet

    Istanbul / Turkey
     
  • Management of the Product Planning & Development Group (6 people) of the leading Internet portal in
       Turkey having 1 billion pageviews and 15 million unique visitors monthly
  • Planning and execution of the portal strategies both for new and existing products
  • New business development
  • Participated in international business development activities and formed partnerships with Google, Boonty,
       ICQ, AdsClick, PicSearch, WunderLoop and iVillage
  • Launched products around Web 2.0 practices like user generated content, sharing, social networking,
       tagging and social bookmarking
  • Preparation of business plans, functional design and acceptance test of products and services
  • Contract preparation
  • Project management involving multiple groups like graphic design, software development, systems, marketing
       and ad sales together with 3rd parties
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    Entrepreneur

    March 2001 - April 2006

    Self Employed

    Istanbul / Turkey
     
  • Setup ventures for software development and medical imaging
  • Designed a natural language processing based 2-way SMS messaging service for auto sales
  • Designed and developed corporate websites
  • Built and managed a team of 2 people for the R&D of a high-tech medical imaging product
  • Acquired reseller rights for similar medical imaging products from vendors abroad
  • Built and managed a team of 3 people for the sales & marketing of medical imaging products
  • Managed an ICT news portal having 8,000+ registered readers
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    E-Commerce Manager

    December 1999 - February 2001

    Turk.Net

    Istanbul / Turkey
     
  • Overall responsibility of Turk.Net's B2C and B2B e-business strategy and its implementation
  • Built and managed an e-commerce team of 4 people
  • Designed the infrastructure of Turk.Net's multi-merchant B2C shopping mall
  • Designed the integrations with 3rd party e-commerce sites, logistics and payment providers
  • Managed the acquisition of e-commerce platforms and outsourcing partners
  • Introduced new revenue streams like CPC and Conceptual Shopping
  • Managed large scale corporate website design projects like Akbank and Aksigorta
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    Printing Systems Analyst

    August 1998 - July 1999

    Xerox

    Istanbul / Turkey
     
  • Pre-sales & post-sales technical consultancy for the Enterprise Printing Systems Group
  • Customer needs analysis and technical support for the sales group
  • Application protoyping particulary for banks, insurance companies and telcos on Sun Solaris
  • Setup a document management solutions group within the company
  • Assessment of document management solutions such as Documentum and InputAccel
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    Software Specialist

    August 1997 - January 1998

    Superonline

    Istanbul / Turkey
     
  • Development of Superonline's multi-merchant B2C e-commerce site using PERL, MLE and Oracle
  • Customizations of Netscape Merchant Server and Netscape Publishing Server
  • Performed integrations with credit card processors and implemented the SET 1.0 protocol
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    IT Officer

    August 1996 - August 1997

    Turkish General Staff

    Ankara / Turkey
     
  • Administration of an 80 client Windows NT LAN
  • Software development using Delphi 1.0 Client / Server
  • Design and development of the branch Intranet website using HTML and ASP
  • User trainings and support for MS Office products, network and general computing issues
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    Systems Development Engineer

    January 1994 - April 1996

    YKB Technology

    Istanbul / Turkey
     
  • Overall software development and project management responsibility of YKB's export unit
  • Analysis of business requirements with functional groups
  • Completed a major conversion project affecting 400+ branches on time and without error
  • Full software development life cycle experience using PL/I, COBOL II, DB2 and CICS
  • 7x24 application support in a mission critical environment
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    IT SKILLS
     

    Packages:

    Delphi 6, Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4, Macromedia Fireworks 4, MS Office, Lotus Notes, Endevor, XPeditor

    Programming Languages:

    PHP 4.x, ASP, PERL, XML, HTML, JavaScript, XML, SQL, XGF, C, Object PASCAL, PL/I, COBOL II, Scheme LISP, Basic, Fortran

    Assembly Languages:

    80x86, 6510, 6800, 68000, TMS 32010

    Databases:

    MySQL 3.2.x, MS SQL Server 7, Access 97, Oracle 7.3, DB2

    Operating Systems:

    DOS, Windows 3.x, 9x, NT, 2000, XP, Solaris 2.5, Linux, MVS, CICS

    Other:

    IIS, Apache, TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, Extreme Programming
     

    TRAININGS and SEMINARS
     

    Web 2.0 Expo

    Berlin

    2008

    Project Management

    Istanbul

    2008

    Financial Aspects of Marketing

    Istanbul

    2007

    The Next Web Conference

    Amsterdam

    2007

    Casual Gaming Conference

    Amsterdam

    2007

    Microsoft Research Center Visit

    Cambridge

    2002

    Development of Management Skills

    Istanbul

    2000

    Internet and E-commerce Conference

    New York

    2000

    New Hire Analyst Training

    London

    1998

    Development of Sales Skills

    Istanbul

    1998

    Introduction to ORACLE: SQL and PL/SQL

    Istanbul

    1997

    Developing Applications with ORACLE DB Procedures

    Istanbul

    1997

    Fundamentals of Banking

    Istanbul

    1994

    VS COBOL II

    Istanbul

    1994
     

    EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
     
  • Computer Engineer M.Sc, Istanbul Technical University, 1996, GPA: 3.87/4, M.Sc Thesis: Face Recognition
       Using Eigenfaces
  • Computer Engineer B.Sc, Istanbul Technical University, 1993, GPA: 3.1/4
  • English Highschool for Boys (N.A.L), 1989, Mathematics
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    FOREIGN LANGUAGES
     
  • English - Advanced, French - Intermediate
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    PERSONAL
     

    Date of Birth:

    1971

    Marital Status:

    Single

    Military Service:

    Completed

    Driving License:

    B

    Nationality:

    Turkish

    Residence:

    Istanbul / Turkey
     

    Last Update: December 2008