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Suna Bozkurt

Systems Analyst


Mailing Address:	Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University
Mailing Address:	College Station, TX 77843-2475
Phone & Fax:	(409) 845-2110 & (409) 845-6305
E-mail:	s-bozkurt@tamu.edu
Education:	Ph.D., Computer Science, 1981, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
Education:	M. S., & B. S., Mathematics, 1973, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Professional Appointments and Experience

Systems Analyst Department of Entomology TAMU, Mar 90 - Present	Preparing, publishing and maintaining AESRG Web Site. Writing User Interface routines for AESRG simulation programs and Expert System Applications. Developing Agricultural Simulation Models. Administering AESRG Sun workstations and maintaining user accounts. Maintaining, troubleshooting and replacing hardware and software on AESRG computers. Preparing input data using GIS(Geographic Information Systems)/ArcInfo software on Sun Workstations for geo-referenced simulation programs. Preparing, revising or updating the Programmer's Manual, User's Manual or Technical Documentation of AESRG Software. Preparing Context Sensitive Help and Installation Programs for AESRG Software.
Computer Programmer Department of Entomology TAMU, Mar 89 - Mar 90	Completed the following components of COTFLEX (Cotton Farm Level Expert System) Project: 1. Pest Management Advisor 2. Harvest Aids Advisor 3. Cultivar Selection Advisor. Modified and adapted a Peanut Crop and Insect model.
Visiting Scientist (on sabbatical leave) Food Protein R&D Center TAMU, Mar 87 - Mar 89	Completed, debugged and updated the ‘Engineering and Economic Model for an Operating Cottonseed Oil Mill; rewrote the simulation program in a user-friendly mode. Converted the program from FORTRAN to Lotus/Symphony and prepared the User’s Manual. Developed database management and spreadsheet programs to help scientists and to automate daily office work.
Assistant Professor (100% Teaching) College of Agriculture Ege University, Izmir, Turkey Jul 83 - Sep 88	Taught courses on Calculus, Linear Algebra, Advance Calculus, Numerical Analysis and Differential Equations. Played a role as a faculty and student consultant to adapt numerical analysis methods for biological data relevant to economic crop and pest management. Helped developing techniques and models for data analysis, policy-making, and planning.
Assistant Professor (100% Teaching) College of Engineering Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey Sep 81 - Jul 83	Taught courses on Advance Calculus, Numerical Analysis and Differential Equations.
Visiting Research Associate Institut Fur Termische Verfahrenstechnik Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany Jul 76 - Sep 77	Actively participated in a team project on, "Steady-State Chemical Process Simulation" and developed a new technique/program to overcome the computation difficulties of recycles encountered in chemical processes.
Teaching Assistant College of Engineering Ege University, Izmir, Turkey Mar 74 - Sep 81	Worked as teaching assistant while pursuing the Ph.D. studies.

Areas of Strength

Programming	Computer Aided Simulations of Agricultural, Economic and Engineering Models, Object Oriented Programming, Database Management Programs, Expert Systems and Developing User Interfaces.
Programming Languages	C/C++, Visual C++, Basic, Visual Basic, FORTRAN, Arity/Prolog, Arity/Expert, Java, HTML, ArcInfo(Unix platform).
Other Commercial Software	MS Office, MS Front Page and Several Graphics and Image Processing Programs.

Professional Interests and Favorites

Developing very user-friendly software for the people who are not computer literate but need computers to optimize their work or business. Developing Educational Mathematics Software which would ease the math-fear of students and help them actually like Math. Learning new programming languages and new software.
Favorite Work Environment	Team Work Environment where ideas, thoughts, knowledge and experience are shared.
Favorite Programming Languages	Visual C++, Visual Basic.
Favorite Steps of Software Development	Designing and writing the User Interface.
Favorite System and OS	PC (IBM Compatible) and MS Windows NT Workstation.

Personal Interests and Favorites

Traveling with my family, learning new skills, gardening, doing craft-work with my daughter, walking, swimming, reading, listening classical and instrumental music, sewing, chatting with friends and teaching what I know in Math.
Favorite Places	Coasts of my home country TURKIYE, Heidelberg, Germany and San Francisco, California.
Favorite School	Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Favorite subject to learn and teach	Differential Equations.

About Our Web Site

AESRG Server System	Dell Poweredge Pentium II with 512K Cache, 300 MHz Proc., 96 MB RAM, 9GB SCSI HD.
Server OS	MS Windows NT Server 4.0.
Software used to develop the site	Microsoft Front Page 98.
Images	Most of them are taken by our two group members (Mark Mathews & James C. Medley) with an Olympus Digital Vision camera. Others are scanned from slides or pictures using Howtek Scanmaster II & 3.
Software used for image processing	Paint Shop Pro 4.4.
Browsers used to test our site	MS Internet Explorer 4.0, and Netscape Navigator 4.0
Graphics	Most of them are created by me, webmistress, very few of them are downloaded from http://www.free-graphics.com
Special Thanks	to Dr. John A. Jackman and Dr. R. Daniel Lineberger for being very patient and sharing their knowledge and experience with me and all Agroecosystem Research Group Members for providing endless support and information to build this site.

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This page was last updated on October 02, 1998.