Ibrahim Cingil, Ph.D., PMP
Senior IT Project Manager
and Consultant
Last Updated On: June 10, 2017
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Ankara, TURKEY (PS: May relocate)
+90 - Skype: cingil.ibrahim-www.ibrahimcingil.com
www.linkedin.com/in/ibrahimcingil
1962 – Izmir, TURKEY
Non-smoker, Married, No military obligations.
Has dual citizenship (Canadian and Turkish).
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy degree in Department of Computer Engineering, December 2000,
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, GPA: 3.63/4.00.
Master of Science degree in Department of Computer Engineering, November 1987,
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, GPA: 3.57/4.00.
Bachelor of Science degree in Department of Computer Engineering, July 1984,
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, GPA: 3.30/4.00, Honor student.
Electronics Technician degree in Department of Electronics, June 1979,
Çınarlı Technical High School, Izmir, Turkey, GPA: 8.27/10.00, Honor student.
TRAINING and CERTIFICATES
Project Management Professional (PMP), Jul 2013, exp. Jul 2019, PMI.org
Project Management & PMP Exam Preparation Training, Jun 2013, BTAkademi
Effective Communications, May 2009, Baltaş
Spring Framework, Feb 2009, eteration
Enterprise Design Patterns & Architectures, Feb 2009, BTAkademi
Design Patterns, Feb 2009, infopark
MPM-20 Project Management, Sep 2008, Mentor
Time Management, Mar 2007, stratejİKa
Unified Modelling Language (UML), Feb 2004, i-con
Foundation Certification in IT-Service Management, Nov 2003, Exin
ITIL Essentials, Nov 2003, HP Türkiye
Strategic Management, May 2003, Tüsside
Performance Improving Management, Feb 2003, stratejİKa
Project Management, Apr 1996, IBM Türk
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Technical Project Manager, March 2017 to present.
Mavinci, Hacettepe Teknokent 4.Arge, Ankara, Turkey.
Leading the GKS Project, which is an ‘Access Control System’ aimed to control and monitor
entrances and on-site navigation of the personnel and visitors at some of the military bases of Turkish
Army where entrances are in person or by vehicles. The bases may include a variety of restricted
areas, high security and critical zones, social facilities and offices. Biometric technologies, contactless
cards, hand-held devices, vehicle recognition systems are some of the technologies involved. The
project is being developed in JAVA and user interfaces are web-based with AngularJS.
Founder/Manager, March 2016 to February 2017.
IBOSAN, Ankara, Turkey.
Our startup company is basically focused on Software development, Training and Consultancy.
Currently developing an infrastructure for large organizations which will provide a common ground
and unification for all in-house developed web-based applications of a large organization.
Java Software Architect, February 2014 to December 2015.
Ernst & Young Turkey, Ankara, Turkey.
Continued to work in the "SGEP Integration Project" of the Social Security Institution of Turkey, this
time being responsible for the developer team of the project.
(PS. It was the same project as my previous work, but the contractor company and my title had changed)
Project Management Consultant, May 2013 to January 2014.
Gemini Bilişim Ltd, Ankara, Turkey.
In 2006, Social Security Institution of Turkey was comprised by combining the three institutions
previously existed. Worked on the "SGEP Integration Project" which aims to merge the IT systems
and related DBs of these previous institutions without interrupting the services given.
Technical Consultant, May 2010 to December 2010.
Central Bank of North Cyprus Turkish Republic, Lefkoşa, North Cyprus.
I worked with the bank's team to design a tailored web-based EFT system to be established and
operated by the Central bank in North Cyprus to accomplish interbank electronic fund transfers. We
have prepared the technical specification of the project and a pre-bid Request-For-Proposal
document for the implementation of the project by third parties. Evaluated the incoming proposals and
determined the probable cost range depending on the competing features. The Board of Directors
was awaited for approval of the budget to go on with the project. Unfortunately, some political
developments related to the unification of the south and north to realize the “United states of Cyprus”
hindered the approval of the project.
Senior Researcher, September 2009 to April 2010.
SRDC Ltd., Ankara, Turkey.
SRDC is a spin-off company of the university lab SRDC with which I was associated during my Ph.D.
study. In the company SRDC, I worked as a senior researcher on a timed-contract associated with
several projects, mainly on the e-health domain, supported by the European Commission. My
research areas included web service semantics, semantic discovery, taxonomy, ontology,
personalization structures, electronic commerce and electronic market places, supply chains,
message driven systems, internet-based dynamic workflow management systems, dynamic agents
and multi-agent orchestration.
Java Skill Center Manager, May 2008 to August 2009.
SoftTech A.Ş., Software Development Department, Ankara, Turkey.
I was the head of the Java skill center which accompanied more than thirty Java developers. Trained
and managed the java developers working in many different Java & JSP based projects targeted for
banking industry.
Development Group Manager, April 2005 to April 2008.
SoftTech A.Ş., Software Development Department, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Managed the Software Development Group, which was responsible for the development and
maintenance of the software needed to serve customers as well as its internal operations.
Worked on development the finance portal “www.isteyatirim.com.tr” with a team of four
programmers and two web designers. The portal included trading of bonds and securities, as well
as providing financial news and reports about the market. The project is based on C# and
.NET2.0 and aimed to serve 5000 concurrent portal users.
Worked on project for customization and integration with the general ledger system the IBM
WebSphere Commerce software used for the company operated e-commerce site
"www.yeterkiiste.com.tr". (The site was closed in July, 2010 due to "low profit")
Group Manager, May 1991 to April 2005.
Türkiye İş Bankası, Software Development Department, Istanbul, Turkey.
Worked in the Software Development Department of the bank, and managed three groups of software
developers, comprising a total of three assistant managers and thirty-five programmers. Our
department was responsible for the development and maintenance of all the bank’s in-house
programs mostly in COBOL that handles foreign currency business (import, export, loans, etc.) and
general-ledger accounting.
Designed and lead credit card software of the bank that deals with the POS holder customers
(acquirers) to track and project their accounts related to their credit card transactions, as well as
doing their settlements with the bank.
Lead the “YTL” conversion of the credit card software being used at the bank.
Redesigned and implemented banking transactions for foreign-currency customer accounts. Lead
a similar redesign project for native-TRL customer accounts. Reduced the variety of transactions
previously used for the same purpose to one-third.
Lead a project that targeted easy workflow and centralized control of import-export businesses
realized at the branches of the bank on behalf of their customers.
Lead installation and integration project of KONDOR+ product with our computer system to let the
Treasury Department follow the foreign currency position of the bank.
Directed the ‘foreign currency transfers’ project that enabled all the branches to transfer money
internationally to any bank by means of SWIFT messages like MT100 and MT202.
Designed and implemented a special general-purpose subprogram, DATEPROG, to deal with the
well-known Y2K problem. The subprogram is still in use and works well.
Managed the technical part of the EURO project which affected all operations among the incountries' currencies and therefore all foreign currency application programs.
Made very valuable contributions to the analysis and design of the complete foreign-currency
general ledger accounting system that was put in use in October 1993. In this three-year project, I
personally designed and implemented many critical sub-programs, which are still heavily used for
all kinds of general ledger accounting functionality.
Analyzed and implemented all necessary changes/additions (which was put in use in October,
1994) to have the branches in Northern Cyprus Turkish Republic work online and real-time in
terms of foreign-currency transactions.
Redesigned and implemented a Local-PC network in Client/Server architecture to upload,
download and perform offline processing on “foreign-bank cheques” such as Travelers Cheques,
Euro Cheques, etc. cashed by tourists or others at any branch of the bank.
Redesigned and re-coded many existing common subprograms to bring up standards and
performance improvements to the bank’s in-house (online and batch) application software.
Developed many transactions and user interfaces to be used by the branches of the bank.
Senior Systems Programmer, September 1988 to March 1991.
National Trust of Canada (Acquired by Scotiabank in 1997), 55 City Centre Drive, L5B 1M3 CANADA.
Lead a team of three system programmers. My group was mainly responsible for keeping the system
running, as well as maintaining the system software, upgrading to new releases of the system
software, and providing technical support to the application users.
Developed an automated "BRIDGE" process to protect online/batch production jobs from
unauthorized access. This process supported multiple-DMRs and multiple-applications.
Developed several utilities namely RELMS, REMSP, ASGWRK, SCRFLS and ASGREEL to
overcome the “mass-storage-availability problem”.
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Improved the system provided ROLBAK and ROLOUT jobs to completely eliminate the risk of
“Low Mass Storage”. (Wrote the article “Applying ROLBAK/ROLOUT to Removable Packs” that
was published in the UNISPHERE magazine, Nov.1990 issue, pp.38-46).
Technical Support Specialist, January 1988 to September 1988.
UNISYS Canada Inc., 2001 Sheppard East, M2J 4Z7, Canada. Tel: -
Took part in the technical support group of five systems programmers.
Developed a utility, PRTXFER, to automatically transfer printer back-up disk files from Unisys
A15 to Unisys 1100 through magnetic tape media.
Automated ECL set-ups of regular production jobs with minimum key-in work, and intensive error
checking against operators' typing errors.
Improved the system file backup procedures and archive tape labeling system.
System Support Specialist, June 1985 to November 1987.
Türkiye İş Bankası, Electronic Data Processing Department, Ankara, Turkey.
Mainly was responsible for keeping the host computer system running smoothly.
Directed system operators (11 persons in total) working on shifts for the last four months.
Did trouble shooting for the EXEC operating system, TELCON, CMS, etc.
Developed several system utility processors to improve the system performance.
Developed two hand-shaking communication programs to eliminate possible data loss while
transferring files between PC and Host system with the STEP software.
Research Assistant, September 1984 to June 1985.
Computer Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
Assisted to the C.Eng.201 “Logic” course, and C.Eng.231 and C.Eng.232 “Digital Electronics &
Microprocessors” courses and their laboratories.
Part-time Analyst/Programmer, October 1983 to June 1984.
Computer Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
Developed a computer-graphics project based on computerization and re-production of the
engineering drawings of water taps manufactured by the E.C.A. Company of Turkey.
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE and SKILLS
Project Mgmt.
MS Project, MS SharePoint, Open Workbench, JIRA.
Databases
Mainframe IMS & CICS (IBM), DB2, Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
Languages
JAVA, C#, C++, PHP, Visual BASIC, COBOL, PL/1, FORTRAN, ALGOL, REXX.
User Interface
AngularJS, JQuery, Struts, JSF, JSP, ASP.NET, XML, HTML, etc.
Hardware
IBM 9021, IBM 3090 Mainframe Systems.
UNISYS 2200/611, UNISYS 1100/72, UNISYS A15, UNISYS B6900.
MEMBERSHIPS
Project Management Institute (PMI)
PMI-Turkey Chapter
Türkiye Bilişim Derneği (TBD)
LANGUAGES
Arabic
: Little.
English
: Very fluent in written and spoken English. Scored in KPDS (Foreign Language
Proficiency Exam for State Employees in Turkey):
91.25 / 100 in May, 2011
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92.00 / 100 in Nov, 1996
Canada Orientation in Mar, 1988
German : Little.
Turkish
: Native speaker.
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