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MDA is a company founded mainly by two partners, namely
Mr. Öztürk, and Dr. Ege. These partners of the company have been working in
the computer, communication, and general procurement and contracting fields
for nearly 30 years, therefore while working with MDA, every company will be
benefiting from their expertise and experience. The addition of Mr. Cengiz
Ergin as a partner, expanded significantly the expertise base of the
company.
This accumulation of valuable experience in MDA constitutes an assurance for
the accomplishment of the services a customer requires. Every opportunity
given to MDA will be taken as a challenge to demonstrate MDA's capabilities
which have been earned over many years working in these fields. It is MDA's
earnest belief that the experience of a company is commensurate with the
experience of its personnel. That is why MDA claim that the company is young
only in name but mature in experience and vision. MDA confidently stand to
prove its capability as well as justify a customer's confidence that he may
place in MDA.
1. Mr. Mustafa Öztürk (Chairman of the Board)
He was born in 1946 and graduated from the Middle East Technical University,
Department of Electrical Engineering. In 1969.
His first job was at the Hacettepe Foundation Companies where he started to
work as an operator of Burroughs 3500 computer providing service bureau
until 1980 he worked as a programmer, systems analyst, DP manager and
Director of Marketing.
In 1980, he became the General Manager of Teksis, which was engaged in
software related activities.
Subsequently, in 1984, he became the President, General manager and CEO of
Biltek, which had been representing Data General (DG) since 1978.
In 1992, after 23 years of service, he resigned his positions in order to
form his own company :
Before his retirement, in addition to the above given positions, he was in
charge in the following companies :
Sispa Corp. President, CEO, General Manager.
Bilpa Corp. President, CEO, General Manager.
Bilbak Corp., Board Member.
Bildes Corp., Board Member.
Bilsigorta, Board Member.
Bilkent Holding, Board Member.
Biltek was the exclusive representative of Data General during 1976-1984, as
of 1984, the total sales figure for the entire period in Turkey was around
$200.000-300.000. After he assumed responsibility, the objective was
formulated to be placement of this company among the top 10 and top 5
companies in Turkey in 3 and 5 years respectively. In 1984, the markets
targeted for these efforts were government, education and state enterprises.
These accomplishments are summarized below:
- Installation of main computers and peripheral systems for the Prime
Ministry and associated State Ministries, the Ministry of Education, the
Ministry of Public Works, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Cultural
Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Defense (partial) and the
Ministry of Natural Resources, a total of 15 ministries.
- Out of total of 29 universities, installation of main computers and
peripheral equipment in 7 universities and their parent organization, The
Higher Education Council.
- Installation of Computers systems of various capacities in over 100 state
enterprises.
This amounted to a sale of $40.000.000.- worth of equipment and involved
planning, organization and execution of the entire effort.
During his tenure in these group of companies Mr. Öztürk successfully
negotiated and completed numerous Defense Contracts; among them are the Faun
Tank Carrier Trucks at the value of 15 Million Dollars, and Air Craft
Material Supplies through American Aircraft Materials Corp. at the value of
2.5 Million Dollars.
In view of the fact that both Biltek and Teksis were run by Mr. Öztürk the
combined revenues of these two companies during the three years ranked
second and third in the country, far exceeding the objective to be among the
first 5-10 companies.
2. Prof. Dr.Aral Ege (Member of the Board CEO)
He has a Ph.D. and MSc. Degrees from Syracuse University, and MSc. and BSc.
degrees from the Middle East Technical University and has extensive
background in hardware and software systems.
His dissertation title was " A Special Purpose Function Architecture for
some Relational Algebra Operations".
He worked for the Software Technology Program of MCC as a member of the
technical staff. His research area was to design information systems for a
software engineering environment. He also worked on prototyping of an object
server and design and prototyping of a Lisp-based development environment
where he built an object-oriented interface to a relational DBMS (Sun Unify)
and implemented Lips bindings to some of the OS services. He also worked on
the design of a real time systems design environment.
After 4.5 years at MCC, he joined Raymond T. Yeh's company, ISSI, in 1988.
There he worked as a consultant to the Brazilian Government. He was
instrumental in the successful negotiation of a 3.5 million contract
sponsored by Rome Labs on the design and implementation of the Requirements
Engineering Environment. Later on, he became the program manager of that
project. At ISSI, Prof. Dr. Ege was also a group leader for the Object
Management Subsystem of the Software Development Environment for the
Strategic Defense Initiative Software Development System Contract. His
responsibilities included the design of a process oriented information model
running on a PCTE implementation.
Prof. Dr. Ege, as the manager of internal research and development, was
involved in the development of SILK user interface builder and became the
product manager. SILK has drawn significant attention from Sun Microsystems,
and through his initiative, SILK is in the process of becoming the Sun's
Encapsulator (much more powerful than HP encapsulator), which, in turn, will
be the backbone of Sun's "HP Softbench" like environment. He was also
instrumental in the negotiation of North American implementation of PCTE
through ISSI and Sun.
Prof. Dr. Aral Ege, as a member of the executive committee, was instrumental
in developing ISSI's strategy which resulted in doubling the size of the
company in every 9-10 months during the past three years.
3. Mr. Cengiz Ergin
Mr Ergin was born in 1949 and graduated from Middle East Technical
University, Department of Industrial Engineering in 1971 and completed
Master of Science in 1973.
He started his professional work in NASAŞ ALUMINUM INDUSTRY AND TRADE CO.
INC. - GEBZE as an Industrial Engineer reporting to the Planning Manager,
preparing monthly operation reports, various Industrial Engineering works
(Motion and Time Study, Mateial Flow Optimization etc.) between 1973-1974.
In 1973, he found TODAM ENGINEERING CONSULTING INDUSTRY AND TRADE CO LTD in
ANKARA with his friends. The main task of the company was Investment
Councel, Preparation of Feasibility Study, obtaining Investment Incentive
Certificate, Import and Export Permissions.
In 1977, he joined to MESA MANUFACTURING AND TRADE CO. INC. - ANKARA as
Company Manager; reporting to the Board, the organization and accomplishment
of all works from the preparation of the Feasibility Study to the production
phase of the Tunnel Formwork Technology plant for construction industry till
1981.
Between 1981-1987 he worked as Deputy General Manager in MESA MARKETING CO.
INC. - ANKARA reporting to the General Manager, management and coordination
of the supply and shipment of all kinds of materials and equipment for the
domestic and foreign (Libya) construction sites of Mesa Housing Co. Inc..
In 1987, he became Board Member of MESA TOURISTIC FACILITIES CO. INC. –
ANKARA and worked for coordination of the allocation of the building lots
and design phases of the turistic facilities of Mesa Housing Co. Inc. at
Antalya Belek and Ortaca Sarıgerme.
In December 1987 he joined METİŞ GROUP OF COMPANIES ANKARA and worked as
Financial and Administrative Coordinator reporting to Board, coordination of
all financial and administrative works till July 1988.
Between 1988 - 2001 he started to work in KAS MARKETING CO. INC. - ANKARA as
General Manager and Board Member.
- Reporting to the Board, management and coordination of the supply and
shipment of all kinds of materials and equipment for the domestic and abroad
(Russia,Turkmenistan,Kazakistan,Libya) construction sites of METİŞ Holding
Co. Inc..
- Management and organization of the exportation of every kind of materials
and equipment, in addition to the above materails, to Iraq,Russia and other
foreign countries.
- Management and organization of marketing of various sorts of technical
equipment which Kas Marketing Co.Inc. is the representative in Turkey to
domestic market and exportation of them to Iraq.
From 2001 to 2003 he worked as a Consultant on Import Export activities.
In 2003, he joined MDA Corp., as a partner responsible for all domestic and
international trade activitie.
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