Yilmaz Cengeloglu
Mountain View, California, USA      
yilmaz@yilsoft.com
                                   
Employment:                                   Education,   Publications,  
BAE Systems  
SAIC / NASA  
Northrop Grumman / NASA  
VerticalNet  
Lockheed Martin  
University of Central Florida  
Siemens  
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BAE SYSTEMS, Land & Armaments. Santa Clara, California

November 2004 - present,
Staff Software Engineer, Working on design and development of embedded training software for Future Combat Systems Manned Ground Vehicles. Performing software development throughout the product life-cycle including requirements, object oriented analysis and design, implementing code, unit test, integration, peer reviews for design, code, etc. Working at CMMI Level 5 and LEAN environment, using Rational Rose, UML, Software, Design, Architect, Doors, ClearCase, ClearQuest, C++, Parasoft, Eclipse, Requirements, Analysis, Simulation, Trainings, Soscoe, etc

NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER, Moffett Field, California

July 2002 - November 2004,
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Worked as a Full-time Employee
Knowledge Engineer. Involved with NASA Mobile Agents Project. Software Development is being done using Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent, Intelligent Agents, Rule Based Expert Systems, Brahms, JAVA, etc. Helped Mobile Agent team at Nasa Ames to complete mobile agent software system in order test at Mars Desert Research Station located in Utah Desert. Also worked on integrating Carnegie Mellon University's Personal Exploration Rover Robot with NASA's Mobile Multi Agents Systems using JAVA. PER Robot can be managed remotely using JAVA and via wi-fi wireless network.

Northrop Grumman Corporation, worked as a Full-time Employee.

System Software Engineer. Worked at NASA Ames Research Center Simulation Laboratories. Involved with Virtual Airspace Simulation Technology Real-Time (VAST-RT) project. System Software Design and Development is done using JAVA, C++, XML, TogetherSoft, UML, Object Oriented Design & Analysis, J2EE, Servlets, Quick Prototyping, N-Tier architectures, Server / Client programming, Tomcat server, real-time, networking, UDP, Distributed Interactive Simulation, Air Traffic Management, Integration and Collaboration using High Level Architecture (HLA) and CDE Server. Following simulators are involved with integration: Boeing 747 Flight Simulators and Vertical-Motion Simulator and Future Flight Center. Received award from NASA for the work done for VAST project. Also received appreciation award from NASA Simlabs.

VERTICALNET, Palo Alto, California (Formerly ISADRA acquired by VerticalNet )

January 1997 - June 2001,
Director of Integration. Responsible for directing an engineering team, which is integrating VerticalNet commerce application modules and third party technologies. Extensive hands on experience on software development and implementation. Designed and developed scaleable online database driven B2B catalog design and operation software. Implemented java based software that accesses ERP / legacy systems (such as Prophet 21) over the web at real-time such as real-time pricing availability and order management. Worked on Supplier Enablement projects in the B2B area including ERP integration. For instance, ValinOnline and General Tool Inc. which are already publicly available and fully integrated with ERP system. Worked on java / C++ based intelligent agents and hub architecture to integrate various e-commerce services leveraging Semantic Web and Service Oriented Architecture. Reviewed and recommended several third party solutions and created quick prototypes and demos using webMethods B2B Integrator. Implemented ERP/Legacy Adapters that could be part of webMethods. Developed java / C++ based prototypes for proof of concept and to create quick company demos. Projects are mainly related to Internet Commerce, Online Shopping, Intelligent Agents, ACL, Artificial Intelligence, KQML, KIF, Distributed information retrieval, Parametric search, Client / Server programming, Dynamic web page generating, Wrapper/Spider for information extraction from web sites. Used C++, Java Technologies, Semantic Web, Ontology Management. JDBC, Tomcat Server, Servlets and webMethods. Has very strong knowledge of creating digital marketplaces and integrating different data sources, and parametric search on distributed data sources.

LOCKHEED MARTIN, Palo Alto, California
December 1992 - January 1997, Worked at various Lockheed Martin locations.
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto California
Senior Software Engineer, Worked on Java Map Server project. Implemented JAVA application that generates and displays 2D military maps. Worked in Modeling and Simulation area. Supported the development of Exercise Manager software which is a tool for managing military simulation and training devices (Flight Simulator, etc) across a network using Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol. Used Object Oriented approach and C++/UNIX for implementations. Implemented software that prepares low level packets to be broadcast to other simulators on the network. Also supported Airborne Laser project which is the defense for 21st century. Written C programs to integrate device drivers to manage the dynamically adjustable mirror subsystem. Received award from U.S. Air Force, Boeing, TRW and Lockheed Martin for the contribution done for Airborne Laser project.

Lockheed Martin Information Systems Division, Visual Systems, Orlando, Florida

Software Design Engineer, Supported the development and maintenance of 3D Visual Data Base Generation System Software. This software generates Object Oriented 3D visual database that contains microcode. This 3D database of world is used by real-time Image Generators and 3D graphics accelerators. Worked on all phases of Object Oriented software design and development cycle. Worked on microcoding for Real3D. Real3D is also being used by SEGA for 3D games consoles. Also microcoded for Compu-Scene(SE, C6, PT2000)3D graphics hardwares that is being used for Flight Simulator by Air Force. Also worked on Digital Radar Landmass Simulator project.

Lockheed Martin Simulation and Automated Systems, Daytona Beach, Florida

Software Design Engineer, Supported the development and maintenance of real-time 3D Visual Data Base Loading software. This software loads micro-code from database to Image Generators in real-time. Written C/UNIX programs.

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, Orlando, Florida.

July 1990 - December 92, Worked at various institutes.

Intelligent Simulation and Training Systems Laboratory, Orlando, Florida
Research Assistant, Implemented Air Traffic Control (ATC) Radar Simulation software. ATC Radar Simulation has integrated with CLIPS using multiprocessing techniques. Software development was done with C/C++/UNIX, X-WINDOWS and System V Interprocess Communication(IPC) facilities.

Florida Solar Energy Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Research Assistant, Written Turbo PASCAL programs on PC and Dataplot programs on DEC VAX/VMS computer systems.

Institute for Simulation and Training (IST), Orlando, Florida.

Research Associate, Written low level networking programs for Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol and Simulator Network (SIMNET) protocol. Projects included writing Protocol Conversion and Simulations programs. Software development was done using C/UNIX and System V IPC facilities on UNIX, and Microsoft C on PC.

SIEMENS STROMBERG-CARLSON, Lake Mary, Florida

October 1989 - April 1990, Associate Systems Analyst, Developed a computer based training (CBT) system for telecommunications. Software development was done using PASCAL.

EDUCATION:

University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, M.S. in Computer Engineering : August 1993
Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, B.S. in Computer Engineering: August 1987

PUBLICATIONS:

Yilmaz Cengeloglu, Soheil Khajenoori, Darrell Linton. "A Framework For Dynamic Knowledge Exchange Among Intelligent Agents", American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium. November 1994.

Yilmaz Cengeloglu, Soheil Khajenoori, Darrell Linton. "DYNACLIPS (DYNAmic CLIPS) : A Dynamic Knowledge Exchange Tool for Intelligent Agents", The 3rd CLIPS Conference at NASA Johnson Space Center. September 1994.

Taha Sidani, Yilmaz Cengeloglu, Ali Sidani. "Inter/Intra Communication in Intelligent Simulation and Training Systems (ISTS) ". 14th Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, March 1992

Scott Reinhart, Yilmaz Cengeloglu, "Exercise Registration and Initialization Using Simulation Management PDUs", 14th Workshop on Standards for Distributed Interactive Simulation, March 1996.