
Yasin KAPLAN
Network Specialist, Systems Programmer & Security Advisor
- yasin at kaplan.net
- https://www.yasinkaplan.com/
More than twenty years of experience in information technology and data communications, including hardware, software and operating systems (Four books, many papers, publications and presentations on Telecommunications, Data Communications Technologies) Extensive management responsibility, including responsibility for plant IT department and support staff. Experienced in analysis of network, hardware and software, making recommendation to enhance system performance. Ability to determine priorities, schedule work and meet critical deadlines within budgetary guidelines. Data Communications-related career choice is personally fulfilling and provides for enthusiasm and intuitive problem solving. Successfully managed Internet access services, maintenance and Internet customer support. Experienced in maintain all kind of ISP related hardware and software. Fully able to learn new technologies independently. Very good written and verbal communication skills, exceptional public speaker, very effective team builder, proven abilities in influence management.
I'm married with one child.
I was born in Istanbul in 1975, after having completed my primary and secondary education in Istanbul I graduated in 1992 from Science High School of Bursa. In 1992 I attended to the department of Istanbul Technical University - Electronics and Communications Engineering.
I performed the database management at
European
Conference of Circuit Theory and Project (ECCTD'95) which has been
organized in Istanbul in 1995 while I was studying at university. In the same years I have supplied Data Processing
consultancy services in many private sector companies. After the end of the
conference towards the end of 1995 I worked in the IT department of
FMV Işık High School. My
responsibilities included to enhance the local network, to spread the usage of the
Internet and training of the users.
I participated to the MagNet project at the end of 1995. MagNet was one of the
first ISP companies in Turkey, however was closed down in 1999. I
performed twice the Turkey Internet Users’
Survey in order to determine the profile of Turkey’s Internet users at MagNet.
The results of this research have been used by many
media institutions and
Microsoft as a reference. After having worked as Technical Manager for
approximately two years I left MagNet and worked for
a system integrator again as
Technical Manager between 1998 and October 2000. Here my responsibilities were supporting the presales, after sales and
marketing departments, management of the technical team, follow up of
installations and obtaining the licenses for the imported
telecommunications equipments. Besides, I also arranged for the sales and
technical trainings.
I've worked for
BNET İletişim A.Ş., (Later Borusan Telekom, present Vodafone Alternatif) which was
a group company of Borusan
Holding as Technology Manager between October 2000 and February 2002. I took part of installation of first privately owned ATM/Frame Relay backbone in Turkey at BNET.
I left BNET in order to
complete my academic studies in February 2002. I was the general manager of
TIX (Turkish Internet
Exchange) between January 2003 and September 2003 and business development
manager of Atlas Online
between September 2003 and March 2005. I was responsible for designing and
construction of first Private Long Distance Telephony Service Infrastructure
based on NGN concept in Turkey while I was working for Atlas On-Line. I've worked for a major ISP/ITSP company
as NGN (Next Generation Networks) Operations Manager in Turkey between 2006 and 2010. I'm currently serving to leading ITSP/ISP and system integrator compaines in Turkey as a consultant.
I've written three books on data communications in Turkish:
Data Communications Concepts
Papatya Yayıncılık, ISBN 975-6797-11-8, Printed two times, October 1999, September 2000
Data Communications Basics
Papatya Yayıncılık, ISBN 975-6797-15-0, October 2000
Network / Data Communications Applications
Papatya Yayıncılık, ISBN 975-6797-30-0, Printed two times, June 2002, October 2006
I've developed following softwares using Microsoft .NET development platform:
TekRADIUS (RADIUS [RFC 2865, RFC 2866] Server for Windows), 2007
TekSIP (SIP [RFC 3261] Registrar/Proxy Server for Windows with MS Lync support), 2007*
TekSIP Route Server (SIP [RFC 3261] Redirect Server for Windows), 2011
TekIVR (SIP [RFC 3261] IVR for Windows with MS Lync support), 2008*
ARPMiner (Multi purpose access control software for Windows. Captive portal / Hotspot with PPPoE server), 2013
WebKilit (HTTP Interface for Windows Firewall and URL filter), 2013
TekSMTP (SMTP [RFC 2812] / POP3 [RFC 1939] Server for Windows with TLS and Anti-SPAM support), 2013
TekFax (SIP [RFC 3261] T.38 Fax Receiver Server for Windows), 2008*
TekConSer (SIP [RFC 3261] Conference Server for Windows), 2009*
TekCERT (Self Signed X.509 Certificate Generator for Windows), 2008
TekOTP (One Time Password (OTP) Generator for Windows based on RFC 2289), 2012
TekFTP (FTP Client Software for Windows based on RFC 959), 2008
TekWiFi (WiFi Connection and Diagnostic Tool), 2011
sipcli (Command line SIP [RFC 3261] user agent for Windows), 2008
SIPob (SIP [RFC 3261] outbound dialer for Windows), 2014
Tekaba (SIP [RFC 3261] VoIP gateway for Windows), 2014
SMPPCli (Command line SMPP (Short Message Peer-to-Peer) client for Windows), 2014
TekTape (SIP audio recorder and call detail records (CDR) generator for Windows), 2014
TelCLI (Command line Telnet [RFC 854] client with scripting for Windows), 2013
TekPhone (SIP Softphone - [RFC 3261] user agent for Windows), 2008*
TekENUM (Electronic NUmber Mapping (ENUM) [RFC 3761] Server for Windows), 2011
ENUM Resolver (Electronic NUmber Mapping (ENUM) [RFC 3761] Lookup utility), 2008
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