| Chairperson: Ferdi Ayaydın office : Z-15 | phone: +90 (312) 210 33 01 | e-mail: ferdi metu.edu.tr Administrative Applications Group: The mission of the Group: This group is responsible for developing the software in demand and adapting the ready made software packages for the educational, research administrative and managerial needs of the university. Group Head: Bahar Şengün office : B-206 | phone: +90 (312) 210 33 82 | e-mail: sengun metu.edu.tr Group Staff: Hale Altınova, Nedim Aydın, Murat Talat Barbaros Işık, Erkunt Karabulut, Rabia Karataş, Derya Kasacı, Ayberk Koç, Elçin Oluroğulları, Yurdagül Öztürk, Osman Şahin, Çağıl Şeker, Cengiz Teberoğlu, Gökçe Türkmendağ, Yasemin Yalçın, Melek Yazıcıoğlu, Oya Sertel, Selim Yayla, Yaser Deniz İren, Sayıl Düzgün, Alpay Karagöz, Güldane Öcal, Gökhan Kul Administrative Support Group: The mission of the Group: Within the frame work of the aims and targets of the Computer Center (CC); the group is responsible for; the realization of the procurement of the University informatics needs (software, hardware, services, etc.) and the internal requirements of the CC in accordance with the plans made and the resources allocated taking special care in using these resources efficiently and effectively; the storage and the registration of the equipment/devices acquired. The group runs the coordination of its responsibilities among the other groups of the CC and when the need arises supports other groups in the CC as well as units in and out of the University on behalf of the CC. Group Head: F. Leyla Ersun office : B-09 | phone: +90 (312) 210 33 37 | e-mail: fleyla metu.edu.tr Group Staff: Elif Tülay Yılmaz Alan, Eyyüp Çimen, Orkun Saip Durmaz, Nevzat Gubari Harman, Ayşegül Baytemir Özsar, Celal Yurdakul Informatics Group: The mission of the Group: To present options by which METU users and those, in Turkey and around the world, who would like to know about METU can fulfill their need to get informed and to communicate via electronic media, using various tools. Web tools, electronic lists and forums are the most basic ones of these tools. Group Head: Cihan Yıldırım Yücel office : B-119 | phone: +90 (312) 210 33 53 | e-mail: cihany metu.edu.tr Group Staff: Can İz Yemişcioğlu, Evrim Akman, Ezgi Akkaya, Mustafa Dalcı, Onur Rauf Bingöl, Yasemin Saatçioğlu Oran Network Group: The mission of the Group: To provide the means for the required secure and highest quality network access and to see the continuity of network access services provided, for the students, administrative personnel and academic staff, both in and out of the campus, not only for the group's but also for the entire internet community's mutual communication and interaction needs. Group Head: Hüsnü Demir office : Z-28 | phone: +90 (312) 210 33 32 | e-mail: hdemir metu.edu.tr Group Staff: Saygın Ozan Caner, İbrahim Çalışır, Lütfi Oduncuoğlu, M. Suna Yılmaz, Ahmet Onur Yurtsever, Onur Ozan Koçak Technical Support Group: The mission of the Group: The group is responsible for the management of the necessary hard and software of the servers, which make up the infrastructure of the central informatics services of the University, for their installation, operation, maintenance, security, backup and their uninterrupted functionality for 365 days/24 hours and for the technical support on the servers and the system software of the WWW, e-mail, lists, news groups, software packages (MARC, Mathematica, SPSS etc.), software development languages (C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, Visual tools), interactional deployment facilities (ftp, pop etc.) and other managerial applications (Library, Student Affairs, Personnel Office etc.) services residing on those servers. Group Head:Onur Koşar office : Z-10 | phone: +90 (312) 210 33 21 | e-mail: okosar metu.edu.tr Group Staff: Sinan Can Açan, Tayfun Asker, Yaver Cansız, Evrim Özkök, Yusuf Şafak Bayram, Uğur Adıyaman, Akın Kaftanoğlu, Nurullah Kaya, Haydar Öcal, Mustafa Öztaş, Özer Tayaz, Nihat Yakar, Oktay Karacan User Support Group: The mission of the Group: The group has made it a mission to; create an interface between the users and the other groups of the CC in order to facilitate the use of the informatics facilities presented by the CC with the user groups the CC is in interaction with; promote the services provided by the CC and to provide support and consultancy for those services; to give technical support and manage the common use computer rooms; provide computer support for the administrative units and projects determined by the CC; take part in the activities the CC is conducting about information security; give education on basic computer usage; prepare printed and electronic publication; give support on licenced software usage over all the campus; arrange informatics organization on behalf of the CC; devise, develop and organize computer coordinator mechanism already established throughout the campus in order to give a hand to the end users. Group Head: Feride Erdal office : B-116 | phone: +90 (312) 210 33 50 | e-mail: ferdal metu.edu.tr Group Staff: Nevin Aksüyek, Özge Alaçam, Feramuz Atak, Ulaş Canatalı, Hasan Nadir Derin, Recep Gök, Ömer Gözü, Ufuk Pekparlak, Mahmut Teker, Murat Ulubay, Ahmet Yurdakul, Gülsüm Aygün, Gülser Cengiz, Fevzi Çağlıyan, Nevzat Demir, Güldan Düzgezen, Meral Erbişim Gök, Nejdet Ercan, Pervin Karahan, Türkcan Kurt, Cemal Orman, Satı Ömercan, N.Nilgün Öner Tangör, Serpil Sezik, Nuray Tuvan, Muhsin Ulupınar, Seher Ülger, Hayrettin Yamuç, Mehmet Erhan Uyar, Gül Çalışır Açan, Nihan Ocak Smartcard Project Group: The Mission of the Group: The group is responsible for the provision of the necessary hardware and software installation and smooth running of the infrastructure, upgrading of the applications in parallel with the technological developments in order to see to it that the METU students, personnel and other groups encompassed in the project can benefit from the services of application of access control (e-ID) and electronic cash (e-cash) provided in the University with the Smart Identification Cards that they possess. Besides its basic responsibilities, the group coordinates with the other groups within the CC for the actions it is in and conducts the necessary work with the units in the University on behalf of CC. Project Head: Elif Eylem Maviş office : B-14 | phone: +90 (312) 210 33 77 | e-mail: eekoc metu.edu.tr Group Staff: Şaziye Deniz Oğuz, Kemal Özkavaf, Önder Çağlar Managerial Support Services Team: The Mission of the Team:The team is responsible for, hiring the man power for the CC and applyling "Human Resources" activities to improve the productivity and the efficiency of the existing personnel; collecting, evaluating, interpreting, reporting data, with the PlanQ Strategic Planning work and preparing the CC Annual Reports. Besides its basic responsibilities, the team coordinates with the other groups within the CC for the actions it is in and supports the units in the university on behalf of the CC. The Supervisor of the Team: Ferdi Ayaydın office : Z-15 | phone: +90 (312) 210 33 01 | e-mail: ferdi metu.edu.tr Group Staff: Özden Sertel, Nazan Ağırmatlıoğlu, Aslı Kurtar, Necmiye Benli Erdem Infrastructure Support Services Team: The Mission of the Team: Acting as the technician for the CC groups; planning conducting work such as, periodic check ups, control, trouble shooting, procurement of new gear, preparing technical specifications regarding the substructure like UPS, air conditioning, security systems in the CC and the labs; for topics involving the CC, communicating with the University units like Construction Maintenance Unit, Building Affairs Technical Unit, Electricity and Telephony Unit, Heating Unit etc., making job demands and seeing to their completion are the duties of this team. The supervisor of the Team: Kemal Özbıyık office : Z-26 | phone: +90 (312) 210 33 05 | e-mail: kemal metu.edu.tr Group Staff: Levent Bayram, Çiçek Arslan Kılınç, Musa Bozer, Fatih Toy, Murat Aydın Office Support Services Team: The mission of the Team: The team is responsible for running the routine jobs as secretarial work, soft drinks, documents go for, clean up etc. for the CC personnel. The Supervisor of the Team: Kemal Özbıyık office : Z-26 | phone: +90 (312) 210 33 05 | e-mail: kemal metu.edu.tr Group Staff: Sibel Sergin Ülker, Yasemin Kartal, Erdoğan Yüzügüldük |