Professional Life : Administered a faculty of up to thirty (30) full-time and twenty five (25) parttime instructors.

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1 Mehmet Teoman Alemdar Hotel Management Program School of Applied Sciences ÖZYEĞİN University Istanbul, Turkey Business phone : (90) Business fax : (90) teoman.alemdar@ozyegin.edu.tr Professional Life : 01/09 present Director, Hotel Management Program, School of Applied Sciences, Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Turkey. Developed and initiated a Bachelor of Science degree program in Hotel Management major as the first and only academic program in Turkey. The program opened and admitted students by Fall Semester / 96 31/08 Chairman, Tourism and Hotel Management Departments (THM & THS), with a student enrollment of up to 1300, School of Applied Technology and Management (SATM), Vocational School of Tourism and Hotel Services (VSTHS), BİLKENT University, Ankara, Turkey. Administered a faculty of up to thirty (30) full-time and twenty five (25) parttime instructors. Chair of THM & THS Graduation Award Committee. Chair of THM & THS Curriculum Review Committee. Chair of the EuroCHRIE 2004 Fall Conference in Ankara, Turkey. Deputy Chair of the EuroCHRIE 1997 Spring Conference in İstanbul, Turkey.

2 Member of the Administrative Board of SATM & VSTHS. Member of Organization Committee of the Bilkent Tourism Forum. Member of TÜRSAB Private Anadolu Hotel and Tourism Vocational High School High Administrative Council ( on the part of the Bilkent University ). Member of VIII. Five Year Development Plan for Tourism Work Group. Taught Tourism Management Applications, Senior Project, Club Management, Front Office Operations and Behavior and Etiquette courses. 02 / / 96 Deputy Chairman, Head of the Hotel Management sections, School of Tourism and Hotel Management and Vocational School of Tourism and Hotel Services, Bilkent University. Ankara, Turkey. Administered a faculty of up to twenty four (24) full-time and twelve (12) parttime instructors. Responsibilities also include, screening, hiring new faculty members and their course assignments. Assess the performance of the faculty together with the Chairman. Taught Applied Management for Hospitality Industry, Senior Project I, Senior Project II and Club Management courses. Chair of Graduates Follow-up and Industrial Needs Assessment Committee. Chair of European Foundation for the Accreditation of Hotel School Pograms (EFAH). Deputy Chair of Prospective Graduates Professional Grounding Program. Member of the Administrative Board of SATM & VSTHS. Member of Curiculum Development Committee for the Computer Technology in Tourism (CTT) Department. 09 / /94 Instructor, Hotel Management sections, School of Tourism and Hotel Management and Vocational School of Tourism and Hotel Services, Bilkent University. Ankara, Turkey. Taught Applied Management for Hospitality Industry for senior, Senior Project I for junior and Hospitality Marketing course for sophomore students. Chair of Senior Project courses Committee. Member of Academic Affairs Committee, assisted in the design of prerequisite and requisite course requirements and proctoring systems. Contributed to the improvement of the University s Library Hospitality Management periodicals increasing from twelve (12) to eighty five (85). Advised thirty (30) students.

3 03 / / 90 General Manager, The Serapsu Beach Resort, Alanya, Antalya, Turkey. Administred the resort with full authority and responibilities. Tenure includes the construction phase of the project, a five star resort property with two hundred sixteen (216) room and suite capacity and full additional facilities. 09 / /86 Night Auditor, Holiday Inn Brickell Point (currently Sheraton Brickell Point ), Miami, Florida, USA. Administred the complete night audit work operating several computerized systems such as Lodgistix, Macros, IBM 38, Wang Hospitality Software, Holidex II, and PBX software on PC, in a premise with six hundred (600) rooms. 02 / / 85 Night Manager and Night Auditor, Holiday Inn Airport Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Oversaw the complete night work of three hundred (300) room premise, reporting to GM directly. 08 /84 12 / 84 Night Auditor, The Don Cesar Beach Resort, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. Assisted in organizing night audit system while the hotel was going through a system update, change in computer system, in a two hundred seventy seven (277) guest room and suite MOBİL Four Star deluxe property. 08 / / 84 Night Manager, Sheraton St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. Managed hundred eighty five (185) room hotel during the night shift on a maincourant system with the help of NCR 4200 machine. 05 / / 84 Busboy, Wine Cellar Restaurant, North Redington Beach, Florida, USA. Completed internship, while studying at the St. Petersburg Junior College. 04 / / 81 Front Desk Cashier and Night Auditor, Hotel Etap Pullman İstanbul, İstanbul, Turkey. Served on several sections of the Front Office and Food and Beverage Cost Control Departments in a multilingual environment. 11 / / 77 PBX Night Shift Operator, Hotel Maçka, İstanbul, Turkey.

4 Educational Life : 04 / 88 Florida International University, The State University of Florida in Miami, Florida, USA. Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management. 12 / 84 St. Petersburg Junior College, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. Graduated with Honor. Associate Degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management. Conferences, Seminars, Lectures, Projects and Publications : 23, 07 / 09 Guest Speaker, Tourism Desk TV Program, Airport TV., Istanbul, Turkey , 05/09 Reflecting the present, embracing the future, The 7 th Asia-Pacific CHRIE (International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education) Conference. Singapore , 01/09 Attended, International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education-Graduate Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Hosted by William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 03/ 08 Past President of the EuroCHRIE Federation. Attended the EuroCHRIE Board Meeting 2008, Dubai , 07 / 07 Director of Panel, International CHRIE Conference, Hospitality and Tourism Education as Big as Texas, Dallas, Texas, USA. 25, 04 / 07 Lectured, at the Eskişehir Anadolu University, for senior students, World of Tourism and Hospitality; Comparative Challenges of Turkey and other Leading Destination Markets, Eskişehir, Turkey , 01 / 07 Invited by the UNISA (University of South Africa with a total enrollment of students, Pretoria, SA) as the peer evaluator/consultant for the Bachelor, Associate and Certificate Tourism and Hotel programs and their modules. 27, 11-01, 12 / 06 In charge of organizing and implementing and lecturing Tourism and Hotel Management Seminar for Kazakhstan Tourism and Hotel Management Professionals. T.R. Ministry of Culture and Tourism and TİCA, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

5 23-30, 10 / 06 Attended, EuroCHRIE Fall Conference, In Search of Excellence for Tomorrow s Tourism, Travel and Hospitality, Thessaloniki, Greece , 07 / 06 Attended, I-CHRIE Conference, Monumental Education, Celebrating 60 th Years of Excellence in Hospitality and Tourism Education, Arlington, Virginia, USA. 27, 04 / 06 Invited speaker for the Turkish and French Electric Engineering Association, An Analysis of World and Turkey s Tourism, Ankara, Turkey , 04 / 06 Director of panel, speaker, paper presentation at Thematic Vacations Panel, Hannover-Messe International, İstanbul, Turkey , 10 / 05 Attended, EuroCHRIE Fall Conference, Facing the Change in Tourism and Hospitality, Paris, France , 07 / 05 Attended, I-CHRIE Conference, Hospitality and Tourism Professionals-Never Leave Education to Chance, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 20, 04 / 05 Invited speaker at Konuşa Konuşa Programı, TRT-1 Radio ( within the activities of Tourism Week). 03, 06 / 04 Paper presentation at the Travel Turkey 2004, Hannover-Messe International. A look for the risk potentials of Turkey as a vacation destination, Feshane, İstanbul, Turkey , 10 / 03 Attended, EuroCHRIE Congress, The Internationalisation of Future Hospitality, Tourism and Aviation Management Education, Univerity of Applied Sciences, Bad Honnef, Bonn, Germany. 27, 06 / 03 Invited speaker at the ETV Channel on Tourism Panaroma, Ankara, Turkey. 12 / 02 Administrative staff for Commission of the European Union Poject valued at Euro, Adopting the touris statistics of Turkey to the standards of the EC , 11 / 02 Attended, EuroCHRIE Congress, Cross-Cultural Challenges in the Tourism Industry: Educational Answers Barcelona, Spain , 05 / 02 Hosted XVI. Schools of Tourism Directors at Bilkent. Ankara, Turkey. 03,05 / 02 Invited as one of the three panelists at the Flash TV Panel Discussion with the Minister of Tourism, Mr. Mustafa Taşer and Mr. Cem Tarhan. 21, 03 / 02 Invited to a Radio Talk at TRT- Voice of Turkey, Turkey and Tourism. Ankara, Turkey.

6 23-28, 09 / 00 Attended, EuroCHRIE Congress, Hospitality Education and Hospitality Industry : A Perfect Couple in a new Millenium, Maastricht, Netherlands. 09 / 00 Co-author, International Human Resource Management in Hospitality Industry, with Sybil M. Hofmann, Colin Johnson, Michael M. Lefever. Writer of the chapter Human Resource Management in Turkey, pp , Educational Institute of American Hotel and Motel / Lodging Association , 04 / 99 Attended CHME / IAHMS / EuroCHRIE Spring Conference at Surrey University, Guilford, UK. 10, 02 / 99 Attended TÜROB Conference, The Current Conditions of the Hotel Operations in Turkey, Marmara Hotel, İstanbul, Turkey , 11 / 97 Attended, EuroCHRIE & IAHMS Fall Conference, at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK , 05 / 97 Paper presentation at the EuroCHRIE Spring Conference. The Role of Institutions in Tourism Education in Creating Awareness in Sustaining National Heritages. İstanbul, Turkey. 03, 04 / 97 Coordinator for Colloquium, STHM/VSTHS and BUSEL. The Importance of Teaching in English on Univerity Level. Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey , 03 / 97 Paper presentation at the Interntional Association of Hotel Management Schools (IAHMS) Easter Conference. Application Case of Resort Locations Selection and Design of a Sample Common Waste Treatment Discharge System for the Area, Turkey. Brisbane, Australia. 01,02 / 97 Consulting seminars for Corinthia Hotels Investment Group s Mid-management staff. Kemer, Antalya, Turkey. 13, 11 / 96 Lectured a group of foreign government officials during the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Conference on tourism issues. Kemer, Antalya, Turkey , 06 / 96 As the incharge of the project, Lectured a group of Balkaria and Kabardinian government officials on Hospitality issues on a project supported by the T.R. Ministry of Foreign Affairs TICA / TİKA , 03 / 96 Paper presentation at the American-Turkish Council Annual Conference. The Culture of Turkey and How It Affects Business Relations, especially between Turks and Americans. Washington D.C., USA.

7 Spring 96 Paper presentation, A Delayed Invitation, Tourism and Hotel Trends Quarterly, School of Tourism and Hotel Management, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1996, p / 95 In charge of three (3) Unistar Consulting Specialists ; United Nations / UNDP Project, for training several hotels staff in Bishkek, Kyrghyzstan, prior to MANAS 1000th celebrations (names of the hotels where training took place : Dostuk Hotel, İssy-Kul Hotel, Ala-too Hotel, Sarı Chelek Hotel, Bishkek Hotel, and the President Asker Akayev s Presidential House in Bishkek). 20, 06 / 95 Panel speaker at a TV Debate on Turkey s Tourism Potential, TRT-INT Ankara, Turkey , 06 / 95 Paper presentation at TUGEV (Tourism Development and Educational Foundation), Solidarity and Proximity of Educational and Industrial Institutions, Workshop on Application, Implementation and Problems on Tourism Education, İstanbul, Turkey , 12 / 94 Paper presentation at the Seminar on Problems on Marketing and Sales Activities in Turkey. How to Inrease Efficiency Among Tour Operators, Travel Agencies and Lodging Industry s Relationship, Ministry of Tourism Seminar, Antalya, Turkey. 02, 05 / 94 Project and Consulting for the Image Survey of İstanbul Hilton International, prior to the complete renovation of the property. 22, 06 / 93 Panel Discussion at Yıldız Technic University, on Architectural Problems of Hotel Business organized by Research and Application Center for Touristic Properties , 12 / 92 Paper presentation at the Tourism Education Workshop. A Paradigm Concerning Internships in Tourism Education, Ministry of Tourism, Ankara, Turkey. Memberships : Member of I-CHRIE and EuroCHRIE. (Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Educators) Member of SKAL International Ankara. Member of General Assembly of Galatasaray Sport Club. Member of Alumni Association of the Florida International University. Member of Alumni Association of Galatasaray Lycée.

8 Honors : 2001 / 2 Honorary Advisor to the Minister of Tourism in Turkey present Who is Who in Turkey. Spring 1998 Spring / Fall 1984 Bilkent University Distinguished Teaching Award, Ankara, Turkey. Dean s List, St. Petersburg Junior College, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. Offices Held : 2008 / 2009 Immediate Past President of EuroCHRIE Federation / 2008 President of EuroCHRIE Federation. Member of the I-CHRIE Board / 2007 Vice President of EuroCHRIE Federation / 2006 Secretary of EuroCHRIE Federation. Personal : Married and has a sixteen year old son. Fluent in English and French.