TOLGA SEÇİLMİŞ Phone: E-mail: Date of Birth: Web +90 (532) 275 37 70 tolgasecilmis@gmail.com 21.07.1973 http://about.me/tolga.secilmis 2011- present SDL International Istanbul - General About: SDL is a global company with headquarters based in Maidenhead, UK that provides language localization services and content management software. Publicly traded company with $400m annual revenues Over 2,700 employees in 70 offices across 38 countries World-leading innovative technology Award-winning and profitable company, with long-term financial stability 80%+ of the global translation supply chain use SDL software 1500+ enterprise customers; 185,000 desktop software licenses worldwide Extensive partner network with 400 partners Customers: http://www.sdl.com/en/customers/customers-by-name/default.asp 2011-2011 Nuna Localization - General About: Nuna is a leading translation and localization company based in Istanbul, Turkey. Nuna provides multilingual solutions to international and local corporate clients to address their localization and globalization needs. Nuna Localization has large portfolio of services from translation to content authoring and localization offered at international standards with up-to-date technologies. Nuna is the certified training partner of MemoQ Translation Environment Customers: Facebook, Adobe, Sony, Garmin, RIM, Microsoft, iphone, HP, Nike, Toyota, Canon, Cisco 2008-2011 Bircom Telekomunikasyon ve Bilisim Hizmetleri - Asst. General CIO Job Role: In charge of Bircom Software Development (RND) department. (Mobile application and PC software teams) Project of TUBITAK Teydeb project Phonsai Project no 7081144 supported by Scientific And Technical Research Authority of Turkey. Managing marketing and sales activities of software brands and products. Reporting Bircom Board and Bircom CEO monthly. Planning of sales teams with Bircom sales manager for software product sales. About: Bircom established in 1972 is developing telecommunication and mobile VAS solutions for Turkish market. Phonsai is the mobile development platform of Bircom launched in 2008. Phonsai is a mobile application development environment for non-programmers by it s capability to create UGC solutions for J2ME, Symbian, Windows Mobile, iphone, Blackberry and Android platforms. Phonsai project is supported by TUBITAK (Technology Institute of Turkish Government). Achievements in this period: Phonsai Project is completed in 2 years with success; Phonsai is chosen to be the 4 th Turkish software in Intel AppUP store. Bussines IT magazine choose Phonsai as the 2 nd best utility in top 10 utilities. Phonsai apps became the best selling products in Turkcell Application store. Customers: Turkcell, Vodafone, Intel, Akbank, Finansbank, İsbankası, CitiBank, ArasKargo, Arcelik 2007 -.. Bogazici and Yeditepe - Lecturer Job Role: Teaching Localization and Multimedia Localization at Bogazici and Yeditepe, FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, Translation and Interpreting Studies department. 1999-2008 ES Bilgisayar Ltd (Globalization and Localization Services) - Resource / Cairo BranchGeneral Job Role 2004-2008 Egypt(Cairo) Branch General / Vendor : Establishment of ES LTD Egypt/Cairo branch in 2004, recruitment, operation and team management, development and implementation of Istanbul Head office standards of operation, market analysis and sales activities, monthly Cairo office visits. Resource management of localization operations for Istanbul and Cairo offices. Job Role 2003-2004 Marketing and Business Development : Managing development and innovation of localization operation, building an efficient project management and localization environment, establishment of software development team (mobile applications), managing the team and marketing the mobile solutions, analyzing customer requirements, business logic, building job flows for project designs. Job Role 2000-2002 Software Test and Technical Team : Leading the group of 20 software testers and 5 Technical staff. Some projects in this period are Windows XP, Oracle R11i, MSN Messenger, etc. Job Role 1999-2000 Software Test Engineer and Technical Trainer : Working closely with the
customer software development teams to understand the applications in development, creating and applying test plans, test cases and test scenarios to ensure quality software development as per the customer standards. Projects in this period are Windows Millennium, Windows 2000, Office 2000, MS OTOW Online, Motorola, Nokia, Volvo, HP, Xerox, Compaq, etc. About: ES Limited was established in 1994 as a software localization company, and has since become the leading company in its field in Turkey. Achievements in this period: In 2002 1 st software team in Europe (Customer: Microsoft / Project: MS Office.NET) and in 2000 3 rd software team in Europe (Customer: Microsoft / Project: MS Office XP) Customers: Microsoft, Oracle, HP, Lionbridge, Moravia, Intel, Nokia, Sony, Philips, Symantc, Adobe 1997-1998 Ant Training And Consulting and Bilmerk - Freelance IT Trainer Job Role: After taking Microsoft Trainer s Training course, my job role was teaching to small or large working groups, using a variety of Microsoft training methods. In this period I worked with both individuals and companies like Roche, Demirbank, Interbank, Ata Reklam, Citibank, etc. 1996-1997 Ark Engineering - Intern Engineer Job Role: Assisting senior engineer in construction of central heating, natural gas piping and air conditioning systems. Ark was the vendor of Ferrolli, Valliant and Nikala. Events Attended as Speaker Okan ISTANBUL (April 2011) Computer Aided Translation Dogus ISTANBUL (June 2011) Multilingual Content Management Sabancı ISTANBUL (October 2010) Mobile Application Development Turkcell Partners Meeting ISTANBUL (October 2010) Phonsai Platform ELIA (European Language Industry Association) ISTANBUL (April 2010) The Competitive Edge of Turkey in Global Localization Services Yeditepe ISTANBUL (March 2008) Globalization Bogazici Univesity ISTANBUL (2005 2007) Localization and Internationalization LISA Boston Summit BOSTON/USA (May 2005) Localizing Multimedia Contents Courses and Seminars Resource Management Team Management Rainbow Server Administration Office XP Software Test and Project Management Software Test Management Project Management Network Infrastructure, IP Structure, Network Essentials, NT 4.0 Workstation and Server, Network Security Microsoft and Trainers Training Project and Cost Management Customer Relationships, Sales Skills, B2B, B2C, IT Marketing Principles, Team Management, HR Management GALA/PARIS TMI/ISTANBUL NETRON/ISTANBUL ANT CONSULTING/ISTANBUL ES/ISTANBUL ES/ISTANBUL EDUCATION Graduate MSc Integrated Marketing Communications Management Yeditepe, ISTANBUL 2010 - Present Undergraduate BSc., Mechanical Eng., Yildiz Technical, ISTANBUL 1991-1997
SKILLS Operating Systems & Applications Windows NT Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Rainbow Server, MS Operating systems and Office applications, MS project, MS Visio MS Exchange 5.0 and 2000, VSS, Windows 2000 Advanced Server FrameMaker, PageMaker, Distiller, Indesign, Photoshop, AutoCad Robohelp HTML and Winhelp, MS Help Compilers, Trados, Idiom, MemoQ, WebWalker, Orbiter and other product specific localization tools. Foreign Languages English (Excellent in verbal and written skills) PERSONAL Driving License: B class Military Service: Completed in 1999 Area of Interests: Playing piano and guitar, free diving, underwater photography, mobile technologies, alternative energy resources.
Career Timeline 1984 1991 1996 1997 1998 1999 2007 Sırrı Yırcalı Anatolian High School Ark Engineering Intern Engineer Ant Training and Bilmerk Trainer Military Service Es Bilgisayar ve Danismanlik Ltd.. SW Testing Engineer.. Tech. Group. Marketing. Vendor. Egypt Office General Yildiz Technical Mechanical Engineering BSc 2008 2010 2011 Bircom A.S. Asst. General Nuna Localization General 2012 SDL Turkiye General Bogazici Lecturer Yeditepe Lecturer Y.U. Integrated Marketing and Communicat ions MSc
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