WORK EXPERIENCE

05/1996- Present Founder and Director of Business Informatics Program.
03/1982-Present Istanbul University, Faculty of Business Administration, currently Professor at the Department of Quantitative Analysis. Lectured the following courses in years between 1982-2000.

Use of various computer software in Business Administration,
Programming Languages (Fortran, PL/1, Cobol, Basic, Pascal, Visual Basic)
Operations Research
Project Management,
Network Management,
Database Management,
Management Information Systems,
Artificial Intelligence and use of Expert Systems in Business Administration (Ph.D. level course),
Applications of Advanced Technologies in Business Administration (Ph.D. level course)01/1997-03/1997 International Jönköping University, Sweden, Visiting Professor.
06/1994-07/1994 Manas Health Project, Kyrgyzystan, Information Systems Expert.
06/1993-08/1993 International Tokyo University, Japan, Visiting Professor.
12/199-08/1992 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, Visiting Professor in Beckman Institute.
04/1988-08/1989 Military Infantry School, Istanbul, System and Programming Officer, Establishment of Education and Evaluation System, Head of Information Systems Department.
10/1983-08/1984 Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, participated in a research program (Public Transportation Automation System) at the Institute of Automation Systems under the guidance of Prof. Dr. G. Schweizer (Head of Department)
06/1982-09/1982 Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, Computer Science Department, Waiting Line Theory and Simulation with GPSS, research under the guidance of Dr. Hanauer.
1980-1981 Some trainee programs in Germany and Austria

EDUCATION

10/1982 - 06/1986 Ph.D. : Istanbul University, Faculty of Business Administration.
0/1983 - 08/1984 Ms in Informatics : Karlsruhe Technical University, Germany, (System Analysis, Automation Systems and Database Management Systems)
10/1981 - 08/1982 MBA : Istanbul University, Faculty of Business Administration.
10/1977 - 06/1981 BA in Production Management : Istanbul University, Faculty of Business Administration,
Language Skills : Turkish, English, and German

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (TURKISH) BOOKS

Data Analysis, Problem Solving and Functions in Ms Excel, 1996

Faster, Stronger, Higher, 1993 (Research About Technological Developments in Banking System in Turkey, Award of "The Banks Association of Turkey")

Your First Basic Program, 1990
Lotus 1-2-3 for Economists, 1989
Turbo and UCSD PASCAL, 1985
Programming with BASIC, 1984 (Translation from Byron S.Gottfried)
PL/1 for Economists, 1983

RESEARCH PAPERS

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Business Administration, 1999
Information Technology and Its Influence on the Business Administration Education,1998
Project Management, 1997
Artificial Neural Networks and Applications in Business Administration, 1994 (Award of "Istanbul University, Faculty of Business Administration")
Expert Systems and An Application for Capital Investment Planning, 1994 (Award of "Istanbul University, Faculty of Business Administration")
Artificial Neural Networks and a Proposal for an Applied System of Loan Evaluation in Banking,1993
Historical Development of Artificial Intelligence, 1993.
Applications of Advanced Computer Based Technologies in Business Administration, 1993.
Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, 1991