Bell IT 2000 Ltd, London, UK

Mar 2003 - Mar 2006
July 2006 - Present

Bell IT 2000 Ltd is an IT and telecom consultancy that began in 1999.
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Employee Share Plans Software Ltd, London

2006 - present

We have been working on a MS Access database application which enable the share plan administrators and small companies to take the hassles of managing Share Incentive Plans away and established Employee Share Plans Software Ltd.
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creativezones, London

Occasional small projects since summer 2007

We have been working with creativezones from time to time on projects varying from minor website fixes and improvements to websites with content management systems (CMS), to webbased point of sale (POS) intranet applications. They describe themselves as follows:

"We are a multi-disciplinary consultancy offering design related services to business, government and non profit organisations. They develop identities that we apply across all aspects of the organisation to build it's brand or some instances improves what exists. In some instances this may be name generation, logo design and stationery design, in others it may include a websites, printed marketing literature, multimedia, exhibitions and signage."
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Dynamic Webs Ltd, West Sussex, UK

Mar 2006 - August 2006

Dynamic Webs Ltd had been introducing companies to the Internet since November 1993, and in the process witnessed the birth and coming to age of e-commerce and the growth of the Internet industry.

We helped Dynamic Webs to improve existing applications such as e-commerce and content management systems (CMS). We also helped on administration of dedicated web servers, together with implementation of firewalls, server monitoring (Nagios), project management (dotProject) and version control systems (Subversion).

BlueBuees Ltd, UK

Jan 2006

We have designed a simple website: BlueBees.co.uk. BlueBees LTD is an agency firm specializing in sourcing CLOTHING & FOOTWEAR based in London,UK.

Friends and relatives

2005 - present

We implemented famous WordPress blogging application for friends and relatives:

* Murat Yaman
* Esra Bulut Yaman
* Mehmed Kaan Yaman
* Mine Ozer
* Osman Bulut
* Murat Ay
* Berkant Camdereli
* Erdal Yalcin
* YunusSahin.com
* ArdaOzdemir.com

A Target Trading Ltd, Crawley, UK

Oct-Dec 2005

The director requested a website to introduce the company on the Internet and sell car parts with PayPal integration to accept online payments.
* We registered the domain name (aTarget.co.uk) and set up web hosting services.
* We have been designing the website using PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Macromedia Fireworks for the user interface.
* We designed a MS Access database to store all transactions of multiple companies and quickly return VAT forms on each period.
* We designed an inventory database using MS Access.

Scott Stadum, USA

Oct 2005

The buyer needed help with PHP and WordPress blogging software.
* Integrating a RSS news feed into WordPress
* Integrating NetFlix account into WordPress

David W., USA

Aug-Sep 2005

The buyer needed help on some PHP script to remove some bugs on a Redbrix implementation and synchronizing an old desktop database (Q&A) with remote MySQL database.
* We have removed bugs in PHP scripts (keeping the data untouched) such as: date data were saved in string fields and sorting was not functioning properly.
* We wrote a VB.Net desktop application which communicated with the local Q&A database, extracted data and imported into a remote MySQL database securely within given time intervals.

Mike Joubert Ltd, London

Jun-Jul 2005

The buyer needed help on some technical reports.
* We wrote a code review report on an existing PHP/MySQL project.
* We improved the document for off-shore development approach.

Duyan Financial Accountancy Services, London

Jul 2005

The director requested a website to introduce the company on the Internet.
* We registered two domain names (DuyanAccountancy.co.uk and YorkshireAccountancyServices.co.uk) and set up web hosting services.
* We designed a small website using PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Macromedia Fireworks for the graphics side of it.

Pacific Trading Company UK Ltd, London

Dec 2004 - Jun 2005

The company requested a website to show and sell sports shoes. Argeus Solutions Ltd provided all the internet knowledge and help on sales both on this site and on eBay.
* We registered many domain names (e.g. iLoveMyTrainers.com) and set up web hosting services.
* We designed a small MySQL database with about 10 tables. We used PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Macromedia Fireworks for web front-end.

Supreme Catering Equipments, London

Mar 2004

The company wanted to have web presence which basically helped them to introduce themselves on the web and show the products they are providing for catering sector.
* We registered a domain name (SupremeCateringEquipments.co.uk) and set up web hosting services, then designed a website using a simple MySQL database, PHP, HTML, CSS and Macromedia Fireworks.

M.E.R.Y. Education World (Consultancy), London, UK

July 2003

This education consultancy company wanted to have a simple website.
* We registered the domain name (EgitimDunyasi.co.uk) and set up web hosting services.
* We have been designing the website using PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Macromedia Fireworks for the user interface.

Oxford Education Consultancy, London, UK

Feb 2003

The company has been opening another website for students about accommodation.
* We designed a website using Access database at the backend, and using ASP, VBScript, HTML, SQL, ADO, CSS, JavaScript for the front-end.
* The site has search features for rooms, and detailed explanation together with showing pictures of a room. The users can record their room requests, comments, and room offers.
* The website is also administered online, such as editing rooms, changing many web page contents, etc.

Marmara University, Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul, TURKEY

Dec 1999 - Oct 2002

Our director, Murat Yaman, was working as a research and teaching assistant at Marmara University. Also, he was studying to get a MS degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
Summary of Murat Yaman's role:
* Assistance to two instructors each semester, such as database systems, software engineering, e-commerce, data communications, C courses. He taught and practised his students SQL, Access, SQL Server (T-SQL), Oracle (PL-SQL), ASP, JSP, Delphi, Interbase, Turbo C, software design and implementation full life cycles, UML, serial communication.
* Internet Centre: Administration of e-mail (Sendmail), web (Apache) and DNS (BIND) servers, e-mail groups (Majordomo). The operating systems used include Unix (Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux (Redhat, Mandrake). Website enhancements using Apache, PHP, MySQL.
* LAN management (Windows networking). PC and network support to faculty staff.
* Maintenance and improvement of student affairs software, which was developed using Delphi, Interbase, QuickReport. Created new windows, reports. Developed a website for course add-drops and student grade reports using Windows Server, IIS, ASP, HTML, ADO, Access, SQL. Developed a small program to transfer data from Access to Interbase using VB, ADO and SQL.
* One of the instructors of MS Office courses in MS Windows and MS Office Certificate Program.
* Instructor and coordinator of MS Visual Basic Certificate Program (May 2000-Feb 2002).
* For his thesis, We have written console applications using standard C++ and STL.
 

Hosgoru Bridge Club, Istanbul, TURKEY

Jun 2002 - Sep 2002

This club used the popular ACBLscore Bridge Scoring software. The reports produced were either insufficient or manager requires further information. Data was obtained from text files into Excel workbooks, and users were manually producing reports. Excel was used for accounting, and the club did not have a member database application. So, we were responsible for writing 3 database applications:
Murat Yaman's Role:
* Designed and developed the project using MS Access 2000/XP and VBA.
* The database application allowed the club to automatically parse and get data from text files produced by ACBLscore software, turned into players, teams and tournaments and scores data. Then, "masterpoints" of each player are calculated according to Turkish Bridge Federation criteria.
* Various reports are presented, such as player statistics, nice score lists (given date intervals).
* Accounting database application mainly kept information about cash flows. They can categorize incomes and expenditures, so get reports giving dates. The balances of bridge instructors and employees of the club, and such information are information taken from the application.
* Designed another database application to keep personal data of club members, their balances, yearly membership fees, donations, and related reports.
 

MODE Collection, Istanbul, TURKEY

Apr 2002

Almost everything was done manually. The company did not have any kind of software.
Murat Yaman's Role:
* Designed and developed the project using MS Access 2000/XP and VBA.
* The database application allowed the company to keep information about customers, fabrics, accessories, models of clothing (women's wear) (clothes are produced using fabrics and various accessories), customer orders, order tracking, purchase orders, provider companies, sewing factories, ironing factories, tasks (cutting, sewing and ironing), stocks (fabrics, accessories).
* Various reports were presented to the user such as customer order tracking, stocks, tasks, etc.
* Personnel Database was another project to have employee information, salaries and performance.
 

Farmus Chemicals, Istanbul, TURKEY

Jan 2001

This was a database application that allows the firm to keep information about customers, chemicals, customer orders, employees, etc.
Murat Yaman's Role:
* Together with an employee, he designed and developed the project using MS Access 2000 and VBA.
* He taught the employee how to design a database and to program it using MS Access/VBA.
* The software allowed the users to get various reports, including performance charts.
 

Bilgin Water, Istanbul, TURKEY

Jul 2000

This was a simple database application that allows the firm to keep information about customers, water sales, billing, water stocks, etc. Murat Yaman designed and developed the project using MS Access 2000 and VBA.

Fazıl Textile Industries, Istanbul, TURKEY

Oct 1999

This was a database application that allows the firm to keep stock information and get some reports. Database development was done on Windows and MS Access 97. It was used within LAN.

Atateks Textile Companies, Istanbul, TURKEY

Aug 1998 - May 1999

Murat Yaman's Role:
* Updated LAN (from Novel to Windows with NT 4 Server) and added new computers.
* Database: He designed and programmed 15 databases for production planning, stock control, employee productivity, customer risk analysis, etc. The managers could get all kinds of information about the production, production units, employees, resources, costs, and so on and so fort. Especially, production planning and stock control databases affected the factory's productivity a lot.
* Instructor: He taught users how to operate the software.
* Help Desk: He helped users with all queries on Windows and software installations.
 

Oskar Transport, Istanbul, TURKEY

May 1998

This was a database application that allows the firm to keep information about customers, drivers and trucks (debts, credits, projects, etc.). Users were able to obtain a variety of reports.
Murat Yaman's Role:
* Designed and developed the project using MS Access 97 and VBA.
* Added some new features and upgraded the software at various intervals, after finishing the project.
 

Koc University, Istanbul, TURKEY

Oct 1995 - Dec 1998

During Math education at Koc University, our director worked part-time.
His Role:
* IT department computer lab: Help desk for other students.
* Italian Language Centre: (Project-based) Together with a friend, he developed a program manager to control language programs, play sound files showing related text documents, which also auto-mounted related CDs in a jukebox within a Novell Netware network.
* Help a blind student to study his lessons and dictate his books.