A. Murat Apohan, Phd Email & Phone Number

Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, Türkiye

Istanbul, Turkey

Managed teams, project portfolios, and programs for embedded, full-stack, hardware, semiconductor security analysis, and machine learning. This encompassed various business lines including digital healthcare, automotive, industrial, and low-power secure microcontrollers.• Applied Agile frameworks and optimized processes by analyzing business operations.• Successfully secured a budget for expansion through effective execution and achieved a 70% increase in team size• Conducted annual reviews of compensation packages and promotions, while also implementing a program aimed at enhancing managers' skill sets• Successfully forged collaborative partnerships with universities to drive research and development initiatives forward.• Managed local operations as an authorized signatory, overseeing regulatory compliance, and contractual agreements• Consistently attained high performance ratings during each performance evaluation cycle.

Kocaeli, Turkey

LOGO Cyber Security is dedicated to the development of cybersecurity solutions for the SMB market. • Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Turkey 2020 Winner• Created a new company with marketing, logistics, technical support, R&D and sales organizations with more than 900 resellers.• Created a successful brand - www.berqnet.com.• Created a next-generation firewall for SMB market with recognition of "the firewall with best UX"• Build successful lead generation by the digitization of business processes.

Kocaeli, Turkey

UEKAE is the largest government R&D and information security product development center with more than 1.100 researcher. Responsible from management of several department.• Managed 22.000.000 USD project portfolios and 80 employees by taking responsibility of several departments including nationwide “TV/Radio broadcast archive and analysis system” which was installed successfully more than 180 points in Turkey.• The department’s 8.400.000 USD project portfolios are created by successfully proposing, contracting and finalizing projects between 2008 and 2011.• Successfully obtained two new projects for mobile applications by raising funds from European ITEA2 resources.• Prepared business plan for several technologies and technology trend estimation by using high degree expertise in cryptology and information security.• Supported marketing activity by giving interview to national media (FORBES Turkey, BLOOMBERG BusinessWeek …) for press release of several products.

Turkey

Responsible management of the cryptography design and analysis department, high-performance computing facility, and the IT infrastructure, including the management of project portfolios, strategic planning, product development, and business development. • Managed more than 20 large projects ( https://bilgem.tubitak.gov.tr/en/projects-and-programs/uekae-completed-projects/) including high grade military standard crypto units and satellite security units.• Selected to the National Research Center of Turkey's (TUBITAK) national electronic and informatics research steering committee between 2009 and 2011 to contribute from an industry perspective.• Created a new department, the first in Turkey, for cryptographic security testing and design. Achieved ISO 9001 certification, and adapted NIST-FIPS and ISO security standards to related processes. • Raised the department's capability to the top ten in the world, and obtained NATO's highest level of security certification for its products. Created and contributed to national information security policies and standards. founded and managed the high-performance computing infrastructure of the department.• Designed the smartcard-based National ID card system's security architecture (https://uekae.bilgem.tubitak.gov.tr/tr/urunler/akilli-kart-ve-kimlik-dogrulama-sistemleri).• Successfully prepared and completed a 1.3 million Euro budgeted NFC (near field communication) and contactless card security project by raising funds from EUROPEAN 7.th Framework Program. • Product development and research on smartcard and contactless payment security, secure GSM phones, IP-crypto, OTP (one-time password), printed document security, biometric security, HSM (hardware security module), PKI, e-signature, privacy, and authentication mechanisms. • Coordinated a number of national and international security events, such as RFIDSEC 2010, the RFID Applications Symposium.• Assessed industrial and scientific projects submitted to TUBITAK.

Kocaeli, Turkey

Worked on the cryptography security department with researcher and chief researcher title. • Managed several security projects as a chief researcher. • Made research on new cryptoanalysis techniques. • Designed security architectures and crypto algorithms for several products. • Made a research on applications of deep learning to cryptology.• Implemented cryptographic algorithms by using “C”, TMS320 DSP and Intel assembler. • Developed hardware for cryptographic applications.

Orange County, California Area

Member of board of directors of International Associationfor Cryptologic Research ( www.iacr.org ) . Served as a general chair of EUROCRYPT 2008 ( http://www.iacr.org/conferences/eurocrypt2008/ ) .

Brussels Area, Belgium

Selected by NATO to Public Diplomacy Division between candidates as a information security panelist (2004-2008). • Worked on strategy development and R&D to build NATO nations and expansion countries including Afghanistan. • Evaluated projects submitted to public diplomacy division.• Managed and build good relations with expansion and partner countries of NATO. • Received NATO appreciation letter from the division at the end of the mission.Also commissioned by Turkish government as a national representative at NATO secret level information security and cryptography standardization group (2003 - 2004). Worked on development of secret level NATO military cryptography standards at military standardization group.

M.Sc., Information Security, Cryptology

Phd, Information Security, Cryptology

B.Sc., Electronic & Telecommunication