ALPER ULKU

Office : ASELSAN MGEO Division, CANKIRI YOLU 7.KM, AKYURT, ANKARA-TURKEY

Home� : +90 312 315 90 86

Office� : +90 312 847 53 00 x 4675

� Dynamic 14-year career in Turkey, taking part in many processes that constitute a product of system and software development.

� Strong team-working skills, very analytical.

Certifications/Courses/Awards

�        "Appreciation of Achievement" Certificate on outstanding contributions to Aselsan MGEO's Software Development Process Development, 2003.

� "UH-60 and AH-1W Turkish Land Forces Avionics Management System Organizational Level Maintenance/Operator Training", Rockwell-Collins, IA, USA, 2002.

� "FMS-800 Flight Management System Software Engineering On-The-Job Training", Rockwell-Collins, IA, USA, 2000.

� "Ada83 Programming Language", Bradford, UK, 2000.

� "Leadership and Management Skills", Ankara, Turkey, 2001.

� "Project Management Skills" by PMI Registered Trainer, Ankara, Turkey, 2002.

� "Turkish F-16 Fighter Avionics System On-the-job Training",� TAI, Ankara, Turkey, 1999.

� "AS532 Cougar Maintenance Course", Eurocopter, Marignane, France, 1997.

� "Failure Modes and Effects Analysis Course", TAI, Ankara, Turkey, 1998.

Skills

Ada83, C/C++, Pascal, Rational Unified Process tools, DACS ADA, Keil Compilers.

�        Extensively experienced on avionics system design, flight management systems, MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429 bus, C/C++, ADA, avionics architectures, CMMI software development/quality processes.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Multivariable Control Systems, Gazi University, Ankara, July, 1999. (Thesis on Flight Control System Design)
Bachelor of� Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering , Computer/Telecommunications Option,� Middle East Technical University, Ankara, July� 1991.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ASELSAN Inc., Microelectronics Guidance and Electooptics Group. March 2000 � present.

The largest military electronics company in Turkey, Group with a worldwide significant Electrooptics Technology performance in the field. Has substantial expertise in state of art software development, hardware and system design and integration in the fields of electrooptics, guidance and avionics systems with over 220M$� sales performance last year.

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Manager of Airborne and Naval Systems Design Department

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Managed requirements, avionics system design, coding, test, deployment and maintenance of software modules in various projects.

Achievements and projects :

� Leaded problem resolution process more than 50 aircraft level problems during the project.

� Given responsibility to manage the avionics system design and software part for �Turkish Land Forces (TLF) Helicopter Modernization Project� resulted in avionics and cockpit modernization of 13 Sikorsky UH-60 and 9 AH-1W helicopters which are in the inventory of Turkish Land Forces.

� By this project, many new avionics like the CDU-900 Control Display Unit, the MFD-268 Multifunction Display, the ASELFLIR-200 and Symetrics Intelligent Data Modem (IDM) was integrated to the helicopters which resulted in a measurable improvement in operational capabilities and security with pilot satisfaction of TLF. Modernization for 6 ea AH-1W and UH-60 helicopters were successful and were accepted by TLF by May 2004. (complete)

� Directed a team of 11 application developers during the project for 24 months (complete).� Coordinated the software development process applying standard software development methodologies AQAP-150 and CMM which resulted in an institutional standart on application development.

� Implemented an software process development which resulted in reliable and high performance applications.�

Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc., TAI, Design and Development Dept. Aug 1996 � Jan 2000

TAI is a joint venture (%42 Lockheed Martin and %7 GE owned) company which is the manufacturer of F-16 and CN-235 CASA� aircraft in Turkey with over 70M$ annual sales.

Software Engineer

Achievements :

� Given the responsibility to design FCS for unmanned aerial vehicle.

� Succesfully tested the FCS on hot-bench (Matrix-X System Build hardware-in-the-loop environment) and gave many demos to management and project stake holders.

� Designed �Control and Actuation Unit� board with 80C51 microcontroller. Developed software for this board to acquire commands from its serial port and drive PWM servo motors.

� Integrated the GPS receiver, vertical gyro, rate gyros and electromagnetic compass to the airborne platform.

� Generated a 6-degree-of-freedom non-linear dynamic model of the unmanned aerial vehicle on MatrixX and Matlab/Simulink, utilized USAF DATCOM program for aerodynamic coefficients extraction.

� Devised a method that automatically designs the control laws for the entire flight envelope when dynamic model is given as input, substantially reducing the design effort, minimizing trial and errors.

� Designed and simulated attitude hold, altitude hold, speed hold, heading hold and GPS-aided autonomous navigation control loops.

� Codeveloped a basic homing guidance algorithm to be implemented on TMS320c40.

� Directed the team to complete the ISO-9001 conformance in 3 months and passed the audit with zero discrepancies.

Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)

Ankara, 1990 - Aug 1996 .

Leading research institution of Turkey.

Software Engineer

Developed C and assembler code on 80c51, 80c188, PIC17c42 microcontrollers.

Developed PC applications on C on Sco Unix and Apollo Workstations.

Achievements :

� Developed a custom Unix-based "Virtual Logic Analyzer" for a VLSI chip simulation, in Gnu C.

� Developed implementation of Harris standard Distributed Network Protocol (DNP 5.0) in Keil C for 80c51 and in assembler for PIC17c42.

� Codesigned and tested a communication processor board with onboard PIC17c42.