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Work History
Education
Skills
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Certification
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Summary

Here is an experienced domain expert in maritime navigation and regulation matters who can work as a product owner, project manager or regulatory expert in shipping world. Besides navy background, I have also deep knowledge about maritime technology, regulatory, equipment and novel designs.

I am detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Domain Expert Ship Navigation

Wartsila Voyage
Hamburg
08.2022 - Current
  • Smart Vessel Architecture - Domain Expert Ship Navigation:

Main responsibilities:

  • Taking a product owner role for products in the domain of remote control and autonomy such as collision avoidance, auto lookout and remote control.
  • Working out operational and functional product concepts and helping shape regulation affecting them. in IMO WG level within OneSea group.
  • Defining requirements and tests for the autonomy products from the functional, safety and technical perspective to get approval from Flag States.
  • This include evaluation criteria or performance criteria for autonomy product and implementation of SOTIF to our product development.
  • Engage in product testing onboard and in simulator.
  • Support in documenting concepts, requirements and products.

Team Member and Mentor

ITU Autonomous Sailing Team
Istanbul
01.2021 - Current
  • Supporting and mentoring Istanbul Technical University Autonomous Sailing Team Software Group in writing path planning and low level control algorithms in ROS. The team was preparing for Maritime Robotx Challenge 2022 with WAMV-16 unmanned surface boat. The obtained best ship design award in November 2022, Sydney. The Team obtained best ship design award in November 2022, Sydney. The team is continuing the development of more advanced capabilities.

Senior Navigation Officer

01.2020 - 01.2022
  • Responsible for navigation and combating systems of naval ship
  • Many multi-national NATO exercises and training of naval cadets
  • The opportunity to manage and conduct many docking/undocking, mooring, close tactical manoeuvrings.

Maritime Intelligence Officer

01.2017 - 01.2020
  • Responsible for analysing and presenting of maritime data analytics
  • This role includes not only data manipulation of maritime security data, but also presentation and visualisation of the prepared data to high level representatives
  • Using R, Python and SQL in this role to analyze, visualize and report.

Academical Research
01.2013 - 01.2019
  • Academical researches in ocean engineering
  • Practical and theoretical skills in statistical techniques, process management, machine learning, ship navigation risk analysis, published various research papers and conducted experiments.

Watchkeeping Officer

01.2011 - 01.2013
  • Responsibility for safe navigation as an Officer on Watch (OOW) in naval ships.
  • Opportunity to gain practical experience as OOW.

Navy Planning Officer

01.2008 - 01.2011
  • Maritime trainings, events and enhanced theoretical knowledge of maritime engineering.
  • Navigation watchkeeping officer and junior roles in project management.

Education

Ph.D Degree -

Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul
2019

Master Degree -

Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul
2015

Bachelor Degree - Telecommunication Engineering

Naval Academy
Istanbul
2008

Skills

  • Product Development
  • Vessel Navigation
  • Critical Thinking
  • Navigation Tools
  • Project Planning
  • Project Support
  • Process Improvement
  • Staff Management
  • Program Coding
  • Systems Analysis
  • Analytical and Critical Thinking
  • Organization and Time Management

Accomplishments

  • Periodically Unmanned Bridge Ship Project:
  • I am participating in the Periodically Unmanned Ship project in which I am working with a software development team, I am responsible to define functional requirements and acceptance criteria from regulations (e.g., COLREG, SOLAS, STCW), user stories and standards (e.g., ISO, IEC). I have written a Concept of Operation as a main author for PUB I have also participated in the installation and testing documentation of PUB. The system has been installed in DFDS Selandia Seaways ship in Cuxhaven,HamburgWe have done multiple HAZID and brainstorming workshop for this project together with LR It is a great experience to explore the unknown environment and shape a product with a talented team from all around the world. I am a kind of product owner in this project. Furthermore, I am familiar with the type approval of such a system into an INS (NACOS) in accordance with SOLAS (and MED, IEC, various MSC Circulars) 2

  • Advance Intelligent Manoeuvring Project:
  • I am a part of AIM team. We have done multiple HAZID and brainstorming workshop for this project together with DNV-GL. I am supporting the team with testing and verification of AIM according to COLREG. This includes defining the scenarios and AIS data to be tested together with acceptance criteria derived from COLREG with clear and subtle argumentation. I am supporting the Head of Product in the project

  • Remote Control Center Project:
  • I am a part of new RCC team. We have performed multiple agile meetings to solve the RCC business case and connectivity issue. I have formed the functional requirements list for inland water way user case for RCC according to Rhine Convention (CCNR). The test installation and other equipment tests (RS24, SPECS and connectivity tests, SmartDrive) are performed in Wartsila test vessel AHTI in Hamburg.

    For each of the projects, I am a part of daily sprints, sprint reviews and sprint plannings

  • IMO MASS WG
  • During drafting the non mandatory MASS Code, I had participated drafting lookout functional requirement with OneSea consortium for Finland Flag State

  • ITU Maritime Faculty Bridge Simulator Ship Berthing Risk Analysis Program
  • I conducted number of collision risk numeric analysis of port approach manoeuvrings from the simulator output dataset for the Port Authority in accordance to national regulations. The analysis includes different kind of ships (tankers, containers, passenger ships etc.) different environmental conditions (wave, current, wind).. Environmental conditions are calculated according to ISO documents and published in DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2019.106558 2

  • DİTAŞ Maritime Ship Tracking Application
  • I developed an application in RShiny environment that can process navigation data of any ship. The data imported from the VDR of ship by NMEA handling program. The ultimate visual output of application is port approach navigation risk monitoring

  • Ship Navigation Safety Visual Analysis Tool for VTS Personnel (2020)
  • This visual analytic tool provide HCI framework that help VTC personnel visually grasp the waterway risk profile. The unique characteristic of the work is the visual abstraction for navigation safety. The final results have been published in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.1147554

  • Maritime Robotx Challenge 2022 ( December 2021 - ) - I am a member and mentor of software subgroup within ITU Autonomous Sailing Team. I have mainly contributed the coding of the collision avoidance and controller of ASV including thruster allocation. Furthermore, I lead the students about problems that they have encountered during the implementation and design processes

Certification

  • Agile and Scrum Fundamentals (International Institute for Learning, Inc.)
  • Navigation Watchkeeping Officer (Unlimited - Eligible to obtain)
  • Expert in Python and R
  • Advanced Matlab
  • Intermediate ROS - Beginner C++
  • Intermediate JS/HTML/CSS and D3.j

Languages

Turkish
Native language
English
Advanced
C1
German
Elementary
A2
Russian
Intermediate
B1

Additional Information

  • Christian Cabos

Chief Architect Smart Vessel

Wartsila Voyage Architecture Smart Vessels

Christian.Cabos@wartsila.com

Tel: +49 175 4161711

  • Prof Ilker Birbil (Data Science and Optimization)

Faculty Member in University of Amsterdam

E-mail: s.i.birbil@uva.nl

Tel: +31 6 11 99 38 63

  • Prof. Metin Çelik (Marine Engineer)

Faculty Member in Istanbul Technical University

E-mail: celikmet@itu.edu.tr

Tel: +90 536 690 41 39

Timeline

Domain Expert Ship Navigation

Wartsila Voyage
08.2022 - Current

Team Member and Mentor

ITU Autonomous Sailing Team
01.2021 - Current

Senior Navigation Officer

01.2020 - 01.2022

Maritime Intelligence Officer

01.2017 - 01.2020

Academical Research
01.2013 - 01.2019

Watchkeeping Officer

01.2011 - 01.2013

Navy Planning Officer

01.2008 - 01.2011

Ph.D Degree -

Istanbul Technical University

Master Degree -

Istanbul Technical University

Bachelor Degree - Telecommunication Engineering

Naval Academy
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