1. OZDEN AKINCI, Ph.D.
Cengelkoy/Uskudar · Istanbul, TURKEY
0090 (535) 564 5122 www.ozdenakinci.com ozdena@gmail.com
OBJECTIVES
IT Management, Data Center Management, HPC Systems Management
MAJOR QUALIFICATIONS
IT Management
• Leading IT projects to support business and customer needs
• Managing IT team to develop, implement, operate and administer server, network and information systems
infrastructure and HPC software
• Developing and implementing policies and procedures for data center
• Managing processes for effective and secure networks
• Searching and analyzing technology trends and proposing solutions for improvement and optimization of
ongoing systems
• Defining IT hardware and software standards in line with the business strategy and policies
• Supporting to analyze root causes of the problems and to create action plans for the permanent solutions
• Managing of data center infrastructure including power, network, servers, storages, and software with 7/24 HA
Planning
• Defining technological requirements to achieve key strategic goals of the company
• Preparing IT budget in line with company business plan
• Working closely with third party vendors, partners and customers
• Designing effective IT services and infrastructure for customer needs
• Preparing invoices and contracts for customers
Project Management
• Managing IT team to create the optimum solutions while preparing technical designs for the projects
• Managing, coordinating and planning projects of the company
• Assisting to define project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical
feasibility
• Ensuring resource availability and allocation
• Managing the relationship with clients and stakeholders
• Establishing and maintaining relationships with third parties and vendors
• Creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
SVR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC., Istanbul, Turkey 2015-Present
Chief Engineer
• Administrating Turkey’s one of the largest HPC system (+300 nodes)
• Managing of data center infrastructure from bottom to top including power, network, servers, storages, and
software with 7/24 HA
• Managing of in-house and multi-company projects
• Working with third party vendors, partners and customers
• Defining technological requirements of the company
• Managing IT team
• Developing and implementing policies and procedures
• Designing effective services for customer demands
• Searching and analyzing technology trends

2. NATIONAL CENTER FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (UHeM), Istanbul, Turkey 2011-2015
Science & Engineering Applications Manager, (contracted employee)
• Administrated the applications on supercomputers
• Managed customer relations and helpdesk support
• Led and encouraged the part-time workers
• Worked in multi-national EU projects (PRACE Phase II and III)
• Managed documentation and standardizations (ISO 9001, 14001, 20000, 22301 and 27001 certifications)
• Planned investment on HPC technologies and data center establishment
• Organized and planned High Performance Computing Summer Schools and Workshops
• Was a lecturer in parallel programming course in the workshops and the summer schools
ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Informatics Institute, Istanbul, Turkey 2004-2011
Research Assistant,
• ITU-HPC Lab.
o Senior System Administrator
§ Managed SUN Fire 12K, SUN V210 HPC systems; HP DL/BL HPC systems
§ Carried out application integration and performance tests on Solaris/CentOS/Redhat OS; Sparc/Intel
X86_64 HPC systems
§ Maintained and patched OSs
§ Managed the users on HPC systems
§ Managed storage and backup processes
• Informatics Institute
o Teaching Assistant
§ Assistant of parallel programming and algorithms (beginner, advanced) courses at M.Sc. & Ph.D. level
§ Assistant of beginner and advance level C and Matlab courses
§ Lecturer of beginner and advanced parallel programming and algorithms workshops
FREELANCE, Istanbul Turkey 2005-2011
Linux/Unix Consultant,
• Linux system administration course instructor for beginners and advanced users
• Linux systems consultant for SMEs
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS (INFN), Catania, Italy 2005-2005
Grid Computing Engineer,
• Implemented CFD application as overseas service on HPC infrastructures of “The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
(EGEE)” project
Istanbul Technical University High Performance Computing Lab., Istanbul, Turkey 2002-2004
System administrator, (volunteer)
• Hardware: SUN Fire 12K Spark SMP, SUN V210 Cluster, HP DL/BL Clusters
• OS: Solaris 8-9, CentOS, SUSE
• Storage & Backup: Sun StorEDGE, HP SFS, HP MSL6000
• Network: Myrinet, Infiniband
TECHNICAL PROFILE
Operating Systems: CentOS, Redhat AS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, OpenSUSE, Solaris
Hardware Platforms: Huawei RH Family Servers, HP DL Family Cluster, HP Blade Family, Sun Fire12K SMP
Server, Sun V210 Cluster, Sun Blade Workstation
Storage - Backup: Huawei OceanStore, HP MSL6000, SUN StorEdge
File Systems: Lustre Parallel File System
Network: Huawei USG6000 Firewall, Cisco switches, TCP/IP network, Myrinet, Mellanox Infiniband network
Applications: Bright Cluster Manager, SLURM, LSF, Sun Grid Engine, Torque, PBS

3. Programming: C, Bash, Python, Ruby, Matlab, Fortran
Web Development: PHP
TRAININGS & COURSES
System and Network Administration
• BT Eğitim, Redhat Linux Advanced Administration Certification Program
• SUN Microsystems, Solaris Operating Environment System Administration I-II
• SUN Microsystems, Solaris Operating Environment TCP/IP Network Administration
• Cisco Networking Academy Program (1 through 4 Terms)
• Voltaire, Voltaire's Infiniband Training
Cluster and Grid Computing
• SUN Microsystems, Installation & Configuring of Grid Software
• SUN Microsystems, Administration of Grid Software
• SUN Microsystems, Introduction to the Grid Software
• SUN Microsystems, Submitting Jobs to the Grid & Integrating Applications
• Nice, Enginframe Professional Training
• EUMEDGRID Tutorial Workshop
HPC Software Development
• Intel Software College, High Performance Application Tuning,
• Cluster Building, Programming for Multi-core
• Software Tools to Support Programming and Optimization on HPC Systems (ISC’06, Dresden/Germany)
• SUN Microsystems, High Performance Computing Programming
• SUN Microsystems, Workshops on Application Tuning
• Intel, Trace Collector/Analyzer & Hands-on
EDUCATION
Ph.D: Istanbul Technical University, Informatics Institute, 2012
Computational Science and Engineering
M.Sc.: Istanbul Technical University, Informatics Institute, 2005
Computational Science and Engineering
Bachelor: Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Science and Letters, 2002
Physics Engineering (with Third Honor degree)
PERSONAL INFORMATION
38 years old, male, married, driving license, non-smoking, completed military service
Hobbies: Photography, traveling