Mete Ercan Pakdil

Hello,

My name is Mete Ercan Pakdil. I graduated in Geomatics Engineering program at Istanbul Technical University in June 2011. In 2010, I was selected for international internship program by ESRI which is world leader in geographic information system software industry. For this reason I’m, nowadays, doing my internship at ESRI in Redlands, California.

Since my teenage, I have been always keen to understand and solve problems without discouraging. More, I always follow the latest technologies and very much interested in software programming. During my high school study, my excitement in this field led me to be a pioneer to establish a computer club which was the first student club at my high school. As we achieved a great success with our projects and won financial support for new computers, it encouraged other high schools to open their own computer clubs in Bursa, Turkey. After my high school graduation, with my desire to understand more from our world and improve my skills in computer programming I chose to study Geomatics Engineering program, a the discipline to acquire, store, analyze, process any kind of geospatial data and deliver geographic information to public society. In the meantime, I realized that I did a right choice. As evidence to this, I've been leading the team of an awarded project for five years. This web based project is visited millions of people every year and get together not only geomatics engineers but also software programmers. Similarly, I worked on a geospatial mobile project as a programmer for the last three years. In addition to a wide range variety of subjects in Geomatics Engineering, I have learned several CAD and GIS software packages and fundamental principles beyond the programs. Furthermore, I worked as a part of group, learned teamwork and to lead a team during land surveying fieldworks. Beyond my technical studies, I am member of several national and international organizations, just to name a few; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Student Consortium (ISPRS SC) and Spatial Informatics Initiative of Turkey. As an active volunteer member of both organizations, I have been in charge for programming the organizational databases, interfaces and maintaining the websites. Beside my technical interests, I like trekking in the nature, reading books, blogging, and playing chess. I do like to be involved in group activities where I think are good opportunities to meet and interact with individuals and groups from different cultures and backgrounds.

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