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        "Power Query",
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        "Data Cleaning"
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        "Built data extraction and preprocessing workflows with Pandas, NumPy and Matplotlib",
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        "end": null
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        "Data Recovery Engineering",
        "HDD/SSD/Flash Storage"
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        "Firmware Analysis",
        "Data Integrity",
        "Storage Systems"
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      "company": "Bilge İzmir",
      "position": "Technical Coordinator & Co-founder",
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        "end": "2018-03"
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        "Technical lead for all IT delivery"
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        "Windows Server",
        "Network Architecture",
        "System Administration"
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      "company": "Infra Black (own company)",
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        "end": "2017-01"
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      "location": "Turkey",
      "description": "Founded and operated an independent IT consulting company delivering infrastructure design, system administration and network engineering to private-sector clients.",
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        "Managed client engagements, technical delivery and operations as sole founder"
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        "Network Architecture",
        "System Administration"
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      "company": "Infopark",
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      "description": "IT infrastructure consulting for public-sector and private-sector clients, including electricity distribution network localization and a critical government email system upgrade.",
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        "Led IT infrastructure design and implementation for UEDAŞ and ÇEDAŞ electricity distribution corporations",
        "Delivered the MS Exchange 2007 to 2010 upgrade for the Turkish Prime Ministry",
        "Designed server rooms, network architecture and Windows Server 2008 R2 systems",
        "Managed backbone, firewall and routing configuration for mission-critical government systems"
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        "MS Exchange",
        "Network Architecture",
        "Infrastructure Design"
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