Giray Devlet

giray.at.devlet.cc

Profile

Dynamic and resourceful IT professional with 15 years of experience with extensive technical as well as people skills that has had benefit of working internationally in a wide spectrum of organizations. Has always been involved in the leading edge of technology and been a coach and inspiration to co-workers, as well as proven himself from small businesses environments up until large multinational enterprises.

Skill Overview

Focus	Open Source, Internet Technologies, System Integration, Cross Platform Integration and Migration, Training and Consulting
Roles	Consultant, Service Engineer, System Architect, Project Manager, Coordinator, Network / System Administrator, Pre-Sales Engineer, Project Engineer, Trainer, Coach, System Integrator, System / Network Programmer Developer
Sectors	Finance, Telecommunication, Non-Profit, Government, Education, Travel, Oil
Platforms	Open Source, Linux (Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, SuSE/Novell, Slackware, Turkuaz), AIX, HP-UX, SunOS / Solaris, Digital Ultrix, SCO, BSD, DOS, Win16, Win32, Win2K, Win2K3, Citrix, Tarantella, Netware, MacOS, Cisco
Programming	C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, Perl, Python, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Assembly, SQL
Technologies	Open Source, Operating Systems, TCP/IP Networking, Firewall, Proxy, DNS, Mail (SMTP,POP, IMAP), Directory Server (LDAP), Web Servers (Apache, iPlanet, Netscape), RDBMS (MySQL, Postgress, Oracle), Application Server (ZOPE), CMS (Plone), IDS, Network & System Monitoring, High Availability Clustering, Server based computing, Web Technologies (CSS, XML, XHMTL, ...) ...
Methodologies	ITIL Service Management, Prince 2 Project Management
Education	Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Engineering
Languages	English, German, Turkish and Dutch

Work Experience

OSC B.V January 1999 - Current

Roles: OSC Project & Services Manager; Linux / Open Source Coordinator; OSC Remote Support / Helpdesk Coordinator; ICT Infrastructure specialist; Trainer; Coach; Webmaster; Sales Engineering; Marketing; Project Management.

Coordination and management of Services and Projects division of OSC, which maintains and supports customers and OSC as well as works on IT projects. Tasks include, feedback to management on activities, pre-sales, project management and coordination, system architecture, coaching of colleagues.

Coordinate Linux and Open Source activities of OSC. Market Training and consulting on basis of Linux and Open Source Technologies. Give Linux Training's and Awareness courses. Host, coordinate LIGA (Linux GNU User Group Amsterdam) at OSC. Work as Consultant at OSC customers for IT infrastructure and Open Source related activities.

The Linux Platform:

• Set up "The Linux Platform" as marketing name for OSC Linux Business services.
• Developed web site, flyers, marketing documents and services
• Designed "Linux / Open Source Awareness Course" as a marketing tool
• Developed a range of technical Linux Courses
• Developed Course Notes for Linux Courses
• Organized OSC/TheLinuxPlatform stands at several industry fairs
• Linux Migrations (OSC, Oneworld) and several Pre-Sales customers

OSC Infrastructure Project:

• Designed network & server Infrastructure for OSC (1999 & 2002)
• Developed and implanted Server Migration for Location Change (2002)
• Implemented 20 Node Cat-V Network [10 Base-T](1999)
• Implemented 60 Node Cat-V Network [100 Base-T switched](2002)
• Re-design of architecture (2004)

Projects & Services OSC's Customers:

• Custom Workshops and Trainings for Open Source Tools and Linux OS
• 2^nd opinions / consultations on Open Source and IT infrastructure
• 24/7 Support for IT infrastructure and Middleware
• Web and Application Hosting
• Project Management for Infrastructure and Software projects
• Helpdesk Infrastructure / Tooling (Justice Department / Probation Office):
• Deployed Helpdesk / Support infrastructure for a section of the Dutch Justice Department (CBO)
• Support Portal (Documentation / Procedures)
• Monitoring Tool (based on Nagios)
• Ticketing System (based on Bugin)
• Various Unix / Linux Consulting Jobs

Shell International Exploration and Production December 2005 - Current

Service Engineer / Open Source Consultant

• Owner of Global Linux (Red Hat based distribution used inside Shell worldwide)
• Owner of internal Standards
• 4^th Line Support for Unix / Linux related issues and problems
• Coordination between Operations and Projects departments
• Focal Point for Operations, Projects and Senior Users / Customers

Tribase / ProRAIL August 2005 December 2005

Open Source Consultant / Project Manager

• Custom Linux Installation CD Based on Red Hat Enterprise 4
• Support for customized Hardware (quad screen, exotic input devices, ...)
• Support for customized Software (in house and 3^rd party software)
• Single CD for multiple configurations and applications

International Institute for Communication and Development February 2004 December 2005

ICT Infrastructure specialist / Project manager

• Custom Linux Project: Developed Custom Installation based on Red Hat 8 & 9
• Developed Custom Linux Live-CD based on Knoppix
• Content Management System / Hosting: (Project Manager, Pre Sales Engineering,
• Tool Selection / Design System Architecture for a Plone/Zope based CMS
• Migration from old custom CMS
• Linux based high availability hosting environment
• Written photo album product based on Plone

Oneworld February 2004 December 2005

ICT Infrastructure specialist / Project manager

• Migration of Windows 2000 based server environment (Exchange & File Sharing) to a Linux, OpenLDAP, Sendmail, OpenGroupWare and Samba based environment.

ING E-Business Center Nederland November 2003 April 2004

ICT Infrastructure specialist

Intrusion Detection System

• Project Manager
• Written Project proposal and Project Plan
• Developed IDS product for ING Bank (based on SNORT)
• Did initial Deployment for Product ional Environment

Monitoring Tool:

• Project Manger
• Determination of requirements for the client
• Establishing System Architecture
• Wrote Project proposal
• Wrote Project plan
• System Integration / Configuration (based on Nagios)
• Deployment at Client Site

Gemeentewerken Rotterdam October 2003 December 2003

ICT Infrastructure / Open Source specialist

Open Source / Linux Consulting :

• Set up High-Availability Clusters in a HP Blade environment
• Linux / Open Source Consulting
• Set up DNS environment
• Set up Clustered Web mail environment
• Set up Clustered Oracle server infrastructure

Beth Shalom May 2003 July 2003

ICT Infrastructure specialist

Internetworking, Firewall, VPN, Proxy:

• Project Manger
• Linux based solution for health-care organization Beth Shalom
• VPN implementation between two campuses (based on CIPE)
• Firewall & Routing for 5 subnets (based on Linux and IPTables)
• Web proxy with white listing (based on Squid)

KLM Cargo Air-Logistics Augustus 2002 October 2003

ICT Infrastructure specialist

Remote Administration / Support:

• AIX and Oracle based mission critical environment
• Management of Services and Projects department
• Developed Remote Support and Remote Administration services
• Performed Marketing and Sales Engineering tasks
• Set up Remote Service & Helpdesk Infrastructure
• Ticketing System
• Monitoring System
• SMS and e-mail Signaling
• Support Portal
• Documentation
• Remote Access Servers
• Telecom infrastructure for 24x7 Helpdesk Phone

Orcasys July 2002

ICT Infrastructure specialist

System Development & Implementation

Developed and implemented the infrastructure for an electronic medical records for patients. The design based on a redundantly equipped Tarantella, Citrix and MySQL environment.

OSC April 2002 June 2002

OSC Infrastructure:

• Designed System Architecture
• Linux Based servers
• Mail server (SMPT/Sendmail, POP, IMAP)
• Web server (Apache, PHP)
• Database (MySQL)
• Dial-IN / Back
• File-sharing (NFS, Samba)
• Internal & External DNS (Bind)
• Network (DHCP, Firewall/iptables)
• Developed Dynamic Web pages (PHP, MySQL)
• Support Linux & NT/Citrix servers
• Application Support

Zelus Support Veenendaal March 2002

Linux Trainer

Prepared and gave a Linux training at Zelus Support. All training material developed and written.

ABN AMRO Bank NV August 2000 February 2002

ICT Infrastructure specialist, GTS / Tasman project

Unix (HP), Linux, NT, iPlanet, Netscape, Enterprise Server, Netscape Proxy, Jrun, Apache Web server, Sendmail, MqSeries

As member of the Infra Cell of the IDC/Tasman project responsible for the HP-UX and NT platforms including Network components, Web servers and Proxy servers. Responsible for implementation of those platforms and all used components in the System Test, Acceptance and Production environments (via the Operations department) Preparation of Installation Procedures and documentation. Integration of new applications into available Infrastructure, furthermore, security assessments and improvements for Network, OS and Applications were done. Furthermore, support for HP-UX operations, setup of security services, and support of 16 nodes HP-UX High Availability Cluster.

Courses followed:

• HP-UX System & Network Administration for Experienced UNIX System Administrators
• HP-UX High Availability Clusters, SAN solutions

AT&T, Unisource AUCS Communication Services Infonet March 1999 July 2000

ICT Infrastructure specialist Midrange (Unix), Webmaster

Unix (Sun), NT, Linux, Apache, Lucent RABM

As a member of the Internet Communication Services staff responsible for the website of resp. AT&T/Unisource, AUCS and Infonet. Furthermore development and administration in the Unix area. System support for Linux and Solaris machines. Development support for Lucent Radius (RABM) server for Europe wide dial-in infrastructure.

Yeditepe University, Computer Center & Computer Science Dept., Istanbul 1996 - January 1999

Function(s): Technical Manager IT Operations; Network system engineer & Unix system specialist DNS/SMTP/WEB/FTP service administrator / Unix, Linux, Solaris instructor; Research and teaching assistant; Networking & OS Security

Platform: LAN, WAN, Internet, UNIX, LINUX, SOLARIS

Technical Manger of IT Operations

• Implement IT solutions on Linux and Open Source Technologies
• LAN / WAN Design & Implementation Kartal Campus, Uskudar Campus
• Intercampus WAN connectivity
• Administration of LAN / WAN, Internet Connectivity, Internet Services
• Maintenance of Computer Labs (Linux/win95/Solaris)
• Maintenance of Linux Servers, Solaris, NT.

Linux, Solaris & Programming Trainings: User Level, System Administration, Advanced System Administration, C, Java programming & Script Programming Training's

MaROS (Mobile and Relocatable Object System) Project, implementation of a network protocol supporting mobile and disconnected operations written in java.

Marmara University, Istanbul - Computer Center & Dept. of Computer Engineering 1994 - 1996

Function(s): network system administrator; DNS/SMTP/WEB/FTP service administration / Unix, Microsoft, Linux, Solaris instructor / Networking & OS Security / Research and teaching assistant

• LAN, WAN, Internet, UNIX, LINUX, SOLARIS
• Implement IT solutions on Linux and Open Source Technologies
• Co-Administration of LAN / WAN, Internet Connectivity, Internet Services,
• Campus network design
• LAN design & implementation School of Engineering
• Maintenance of Computer Labs (Novell clients/ win95 / Solaris)
• Maintenance of ULTRIX, HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, NT, Linux Servers
• Unix / Linux Training's

Tubitak Marmara Research Center 1995

Platform: WEB/FTP, HP-UNIX

• Server Administration,
• Web Design,
• FTP server maintenance

Ultimo/ Optima 1993 - 1995

IT consultant

• LAN Design & Implementation, Office Application Programs Training,
• MacOS administration

Siemens Turkey / Simko 1992

IT consultant

• LAN Design & Implementation
• Office Application Programs Training
• MacOS administration

Yarsuvat Law Firm 1991 - 1995

IT consultant

• LAN Maintenance, Novell Administration, Dial-up Server administration

Academic Background

• Yeditepe University: (M.Sc. in Computer Engineering),Istanbul Turkey 1996 - 1999
• Marmara University: (M.Sc. in CE), Istanbul - Turkey 1995 - 1996
• Marmara University: (B.Sc. Computer Engineering-June 6th, 1995), Istanbul 1991 - 1995
• City College New York: (Major: Computer Science), New York 1990 - 1991
• Bayard Rustin H.S. for the Humanities, New York 1989 - 1990
• Ozel Ortadogu Lisesi, Istanbul 1984 - 1989
• Isar Gymnasium, Munich 1983 - 1984

Certifications

• RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer
• Citrix Metaframe 1.8 Certified Administrator
• Sun Competency 2000 - Expert Level 1000 Certificate
• Prince2 Practitioner Certified (Project Management)
• HP MC/ServiceGuard (HP High Availability Clusters)
• HP-UX for Experienced Unix Administrators
• Secure-Unix Workshop
• Tarantella Installation and Administration
• ITIL Foundation Classes & Service Management
• Prince2 Foundation / Practitioner

Projects

• NCAP - Nagios Collector And Proxy - Developer / Project Owner
• Pingus - Free Lemmings Clone- Developer (http://pingus.seul.org)
• A Communication Infrastructure for Disconnected Operations in a Client Server Environment (http://ics.yeditepe.edu.tr/~sbaydere/MaROS/) M.Sc. Thesis
• Turkish GNU/Linux Distribution / TURKUAZ (http://linux.org.tr/turkuaz), Turkuaz is a Linux distribution with Turkish Native Language support.
• A Distributed Meeting Scheduler - B.Sc. Graduation Project

Seminars / Presentations Given

• "Open Source Awareness" at various events 2002-2005
• "Introduction into PHP, Apache & MySQL" at Linux Expo Amsterdam 2001 - Amsterdam
• "Linux Introduction" at OpenSystems '98 TRUUG - Istanbul
• "Turkuaz GNU/Linux Installation" at OpenSystems '98 TRUUG - Istanbul
• "Linux - Today & Tomorrow" at Inet-TR'97 - Middle Eastern Technical University
• "Linux Installation" at Inet-TR'97 METU
• "Linux Administration" at Inet-TR'97 METU
• "Linux Kernel" at Inet-TR'97 METU
• "Linux Installation" at Education Camp (Inet-TR'97) METU
• "Linux - Introduction & Installation" at OpenSystems '97 - TRUUG - Istanbul
• "The Linux Operating System - Introduction" at Inet-TR96 - Yeditepe University
• "DNS & SMTP Setup & Administration" at Inet-TR96 Yeditepe University
• "The Linux Operating System" at Inet-TR95, Bilkent University
• "What is the Internet" at Marmara University (1994/95)

Publications

• Linux System Administration Course Notes, 1999 - 2004
• Linux User Level Course Notes, 1999 - 2004
• Turkuaz GNU/Linux Hand Book - Turkish 1998Linux learns Turkish; Giray Devlet, Bilim Teknik (Feb. 98/ Issue 363/pg 15), ISSN 977-1300-3380, TUBITAK
• Solaris 2.x System Administration Course Notes, 1997/98
• UNIX Lab Notes, 1995
• What is the Internet? Turkish, 1995
• Introducing Linux Turkish, 1997
• The Linux Operating System Turkish, 1997
• BBS Guide, Giray Devlet & Orkun Pesinci, 1993

Leadership & Organizational Skills

• President of LIGA (Linux GNU User-group Amsterdam)http://liga.osc.nl(2001 2005)
• Member of Linux International Marketing Committee (2000 2003)
• Member of NGN (Netwerk Gebruikersgroep Nederland - Dutch Network User Group)
• Vice President of EATA-Holland (European Association of Turkish Academicians) 1999
• Organization of the national Inet-TR 96' Conference at Yeditepe University
• Member of TRUUG (Turkish Unix User Group)
• Member of linux.org.tr (The Turkish Linux User Group - http://linux.org.tr)
• 118-E Mavi Halic Leo Club '94 - '01 Member, '95 - '96 Treasurer, '96 - '97 Executive Board Member
• Marmara Society '93 - '95 Executive Board Member,
• Marmara Computer Club '92 - '95 Founding Member, Executive Board Member, President ('94 -'95)
• CCNY - International Student Association '90 - '91 Founding Member, Executive Board Member

Hobbies and Interests

• Hiking, Trekking and Nature Camping
• Scuba Diving
• Sailing
• Skiing
• Science Fiction (literature and the audio visual variety)
• Open Source & Programming
• Electronics
• New Technologies
• Movies, Theater