Denis Michel (Co-op Student)
Denis Michel has joined our team as a co-op student in June 2006. Denis is studying Computer Engineering in Germany and has completed his first year successfully focusing on programming including C++.
In addition to working with our team to revamp and customize our back-end systems, Denis will play a major role in building in-house applications that will leverage our strong customer focus with management reporting tools.
Although it looks like Denis will be with us for a couple of months, he has already captured our hearts with his nice personality, his smile, and especially his desire to understand and enhance our day-to-day operation. We already began negotiating his return next year as he radiates his enthusiasm to all of us. Although he misses his friends in Germany, he still smiles gracefully and we still wonder how cheerful he will be when World Cup soccer is over.
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Paul Frank (Senior Technology Consultant)
Paul Frank, a senior technology consultant, is responsible for providing technology solutions to our clients; his distinct experience in routers, switches, cabling technologies, storage products, as well as many peripherals gained him a unique position at Infoskill in leading technology initiatives including grooming junior members of the team.
Paul has over ten years of experience in the information systems sector, with a heavy focus on operating systems and network technologies. He has been involved with LAN technologies since the early days of his career and maintained various network operating systems including Novell and Windows. He provided technical support to both external and internal users, organized in-house training sessions, and provided help desk and network administration during different parts of his career.
Paul has also been involved in many migration projects in cross-platforms such as Novell to Windows, GroupWise to Exchange, and upgrades in many levels of Windows server operating systems from Windows 3.51 to Windows 2003 servers.
Paul excels in reading bits and bytes, logs, traces and making sense of forensic data which is required for both understanding attack footprints in the early stages as well as tracking down and preventing the attacks. He is widely respected for his expertise with networks, firewalls, intrusion detection, and intrusion prevention systems.
Before joining Infoskill, Paul worked in different
continents, different countries that require excellent
troubleshooting skills where vendor support is either
non-existent or too expensive to acquire due to the remote
locations he has worked in. Paul has also worked in
management positions where he has worked with senior
management as well as the user community and even junior
technical team members; this enabled Paul to have open
communication channels with all levels of the organization
with no difficulty.
Paul has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering, with Honors, and a M.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering. Paul has many designations including Cisco Certified Network Engineering (CCNA), Microsoft Certified System Administration (MCSA) on Windows servers, and also holds certificates on Exchange, Microsoft Office suite of products, and Certified Novell Network Administration designation.
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Vahit Cakmak (Senior Technology Consultant)
Vahit has twenty-four years of experience in information technology with a strong focus in business applications spanning from Enterprise Resource Planning to distribution management, and financial systems to manufacturing systems.
Cost accounting, stock control, purchasing, general ledger, payroll, ticket reservation, bus repair and maintenance, claims and payments, reassurance are among the many software development projects that Vahit played a major role in architecting and developing. Vahit also has extensive experience in commercial ERP packages including QAD working with a Progress back-end on AS/400 platform.
Vahit is currently developing an in-house warehouse management system; he actually began reviewing business processes and building process diagrams, built the data model, and data flow diagrams; then he began the programming with a target completion of the forth quarter of 2006; the system also has a Java-based distribution system that works over the Internet.
Vahit has completed his B.Sc. in Mathematics specializing in numerical analysis which positioned him well for programming complex business systems. He attended many courses and management training sessions to keep his skill set up-to-data; among these are American Production and Inventory Control, Technical System Design, Object Oriented Programming, Advanced Java Programming and Value Based Sales
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Cagin Kapcak (Manager, Operations and Resources)
Cagin Kapcak, PMI registered, is responsible for projects and resource allocation on a wide variety of technically complex projects. He excels on resourcing projects with right skill sets on a timely basis to ensure that all projects are completed on a timely basis.
Cagin decided to study a completely different field than technology, Tourism and Travel, but realized his appetite for managing human and customer relations. After his graduation, he joined Infoskill as an administrative assistant, but moved to management quickly due to his ability to balance politics with technology requirements when managing customer relations.
Cagin has also worked on his sales skills and passed Signature Selling Method (SSM) Sales Professional (SSM Mastery Exam). He is currently working on his Microsoft certifications in order to ensure that
a technology and management balance is maintained at Infoskill.
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Peter Coleman (Director, Infrastructure Technologies)
Peter has been involved with data processing for more than twenty years. He has an in-depth experience in database technologies and systems management.
Peter has performed a wide variety of functions including: patching old code, support of online transactional systems, installing operating systems, evaluating software solutions and designing database architectures.
His most recent focus has been on the architecture of Web based transactional and informational systems. Peter believes that database systems such as IBM’s UDB or Oracle linked with a Web application server such as WebSphere or Cold Fusion will provide the foundation for the next generation of Web applications.
Peter has worked with leading consulting firms, major financial institutions and the government sector in both the US and Canada.
Peter is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy. He also holds a Computer Programming degree from Humber College.
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Suleyman Penbeci (Director, Research and Development)
Professor Dr. Penbeci has more than thirty years experience in teaching, research and development, four years of engineering and one year of consulting.
Dr. Penbeci provides a tremendous amount of experience in research and development to Infoskill. He possesses the ability to understand technologies and direct research activities related to today’s ever changing Internet and Intranet technologies. His strong teaching experience will be utilized in mentoring Infoskill’s resources during our projected growth.
Dr. Penbeci's teaching career has spanned Canada, The United States, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Suleyman has also worked for five years in New York for a major engineering company.
Dr. Penbeci earned a B.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering at the Middle East Technical University, M.Sc.Degree in Electrical Engineering at the Graduate School of Polytechnic University of New York, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from New York University.
