Seasoned manager with a successful track record leading teams to deliver distributed systems and products for the enterprise, primarily in fintech. Proven results leading sales, revenue growth, digital transformation, market share gains, and customer acquisition. As an award-winning employee of the top 3 cloud providers, founded practices and programs which operationalize the digital transformation journey for disruptive technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cloud. Experienced with delivering and executing maturity frameworks for diverse global emerging markets, as well as SaaS-based start-ups in the cloud partner ecosystem.Recently served as Practice Director for the Azure Platform Practice at Avanade, leading a team of solution architects. In the past, served at Google as a supply side manager and engineer, as well as the global sales communication lead and White Glove account manager for financial services institutions and hedge funds. At Amazon, built and launched the Amazon Web Services global SaaS program from the ground up, as well as their financial services practice for professional services. At Microsoft MEA HQ was the program manager for 80 countries in the Middle East and Africa for Microsoft driving Microsoft's cloud strategy with mature and emerging markets.Creator, author and trainer of long form courseware for Pearson Education and O'Reilly. Founder of various startups, as well as philanthropies for women and under-represented audiences in Big Tech.
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Regional Practice Director - Azure Platform ServicesAvanade Jun 2022 - Jun 2024Seattle, Washington, UsAs a Practice Director, Asli is responsible for the sales pipeline for Cloud Platform Services at Avanade, as well as ensuring the quality of consulting delivery services. Industry focus includes large enterprises in financial services industry, health and life sciences industry, as well as natural resources and retail product companies. -
Ceo / FounderNokta Inc Sep 2020 - Sep 2022Nokta Consulting focuses on large enterprises who are evaluating or transforming to a disruptive technology, such as cloud, blockchain and/or artificial intelligence. Nokta provides management advisory services using a proven modernization framework to propel customers to operational business and technology maturity.As a Principal, Asli worked within the Office of the CIO at large global banks, their related System Integrators and ISVs in order to build executive strategy, communications and operations to transform the organization from legacy data centers to cloud, waterfall to agile, legacy data analysis to artificial intelligence, and, most importantly, create models to manage the people and cultural change that ensues with the adoption of disruptive technology. Served as Program Manager for a multi-year, multi-billion dollar Digital Transformation effort to shift from legacy platforms, systems and applications to Cloud and Machine Learning for MUFG Bank of Tokyo.
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Program ManagerGoogle Jan 2020 - Aug 2020Mountain View, Ca, UsGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP) : Enterprise Financial Services - Capacity planning for key workloads in financial services including large investment banks and hedge funds.Responsibilities included:- incident response to various levels of severity and priority for the supply of high end compute or extra large storage - risk analysis and mitigation for retail for Black Friday cyber Monday - capacity management for global banks - managing global banks as white glove service manager - global sales communications to GCP sales in JAPAC, North America and EMEA - educational content creation, training & onboarding -
AuthorPearson May 2016 - Jan 2020London, GbContracted to author multiple titles, as well as serving as technical editor. Released titles include; Introduction to Amazon Machine Learning Fundamentals of Machine Learning, Fundamentals of Machine Learning with AWS, and Getting Started with Amazon SageMaker. -
Global Program Manager - Aws Software As A Service Partner ProgramAmazon Web Services (Aws) Mar 2015 - May 2016Seattle, Wa, UsAsli Bilgin created, launched and ran Amazon's global Software as a Service (SaaS) program. She owned the strategy and execution for new initiatives for AWS partners to build and grow SaaS products on AWS. In this role, Asli oversaw the entire range of SaaS company maturity profiles - from product-launch focused SaaS start-ups to customer growth based, mature SaaS companies. Internally, she partnered with solution architect leaders to prioritize and deliver technical enablement content and programs. She also worked closely with AWS sales and partner teams around the world in order to foster the growth of AWS SaaS commercial products. -
Professional Services - Enterprise Financial ServicesAmazon Web Services (Aws) Jan 2013 - Mar 2015Seattle, Wa, UsAsli Bilgin served as an IT Transformation Lead for Amazon Web Services Professional Services. She focused on large enterprises in the financial services industry, focused mainly on the East Coast.In this capacity, Ms. Bilgin led enterprise DevOps transformation projects that moved workloads onto the cloud platform. She led a wide range of projects that included DevOps automation, IT Transformation, governance, security, and application migration.She created and ran the Financial Services consulting practice through engagement delivery and business development, with revenue and utilization goals. Her work won her the World Wide Professional Services award for Customer Obsession, Amazon's highest leadership principle. She also created and staffed AWS' first Professional Services Global Knowledge Management solution. -
Practice Director - Custom Application Development & Cloud TechnologiesSlalom Consulting Sep 2011 - Dec 2012Seattle, Wa, UsAsli Bilgin served as a Practice Area Lead for Slalom Consulting in New York City. At Slalom, she launched New York City's first Azure Cloud practice, as well as Slalom's first Amazon Web Services cloud practice, both with a focus on custom application development and Platform as a Service. -
Web Strategy Director For Middle East & AfricaMicrosoft Nov 2009 - Sep 2011Redmond, Washington, UsAsli Bilgin led Web Strategy for the Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism team for 80 countries in the Middle East & Africa. In this role, she drove future vision, market share and adoption for software development on the web platform through hosters, web startups, and design agencies. -
Developer Platform Evangelism, Financial ServicesMicrosoft Mar 2003 - Nov 2009Redmond, Washington, Us• 2009 Diversity Award Winner for founding WomenBuild in partnership with the Board of Directors of LEGO in Billund, Denmark. • 2008 Microsoft Circle of Excellence Platinum Award Winner for evangelism programs creation and management. This is the highest honor for Microsoft’s worldwide field employees. The award placed me on the top .0001% of the 90k employees at Microsoft.• 2007 Microsoft Customer and Partner Excellence Award Winner for outstanding service on leading the annual Microsoft Financial Developer’s Conference in New York. -
Technical Manager Custom Application DevelopmentDell Jul 2000 - Mar 2003Round Rock, Texas, UsServed as Technical Manager. Responsible for technical architecture, client relations, as well as supervision of the development team. Led delivery of Dell’s top enterprise software architecture projects. Recognition:.• MVP Valuable Contribution Award from Credit Suisse Asset Management team. I received this award for the work led by the Techncial team led by Arthur Brust, as well as the business lead by Jason Punk, and most importantly the creative team led by Frank Johnson-Suglia.• Tech-Ed Award 2002 Winner globally - served as Lead Architect.
Asli Bilgin Education Details
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Villanova UniversityEconomics
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