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Istanbul, Turkey

Medyasoft R&D Center

Management of software R&D projects portfolio as R&D Director. Evaluating and selecting new project ideas by aligning these to corporate strategy, developing feasibility reports, building a partner network of academic institutions, other companies and contractors. Periodical reporting and auditing of ongoing projects. Successfully completed first operation year technical reporting of R&D Center, completed 3 TUBITAK funded R&D projects as project manager and secured the fund for one priority area project while acting as advisor (for ePlatform).

Managing and coordinating the efforts in order to get approval of Medyasoft R&D Center from the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology . Acting as a mentor and project manager in new software R&D projects, evaluating funding and grant opportunities. Leader and team member in ongoing projects. Software lifecycle management, including management of development efforts, productization, and definition of go-to-market strategies.

İstanbul

Research & analysis on global and local trends. Developing partnership, business development, competition strategies. Supporting other business leaders building new strategy plans and business plans. Team Leader for SPICE (ISO/IEC 15504) assessment preparation. Medyasoft has been awarded with ISO/IEC 15504 certification in Capability Level 2 . Management of R&D efforts and funds.CRM Admin and consultant of the company (Salesforce)Turkish Airlines Social Media Response Desk project implementation using Radian6 and Salesforce Service Cloud.

Istanbul, Turkey

Management of Project Department delivering pre-sales and post-sales support for server products and developing turnkey portal & web application solutions. Expertise in distant learning projects with experience in over 60 universities and large companies. Competence in RFx processes. Some examples from project management experience: - Türk Hava Yolları (turkishairlines.com web project, managed for 8 years) - Turkcell (Turkcell Akademi web conferencing infrastructure) - Novartis (Neuronlines communication platform)- Yıldız Holding (Legal Affairs document management project) - Anadolu University Open Education Faculty (Turkey's first synchronous distance learning project)- İstanbul University (first undergraduate distance learning project in Turkey) - Ministry of Education (Content Development Software project) - Arçelik (localization software and training for country-specific manuals)- Management of nation-wide 1st line support services of Adobe enterprise and end-user products- Over 60 distance learning projects in universities and private institutions. Specialized in e-learning, web-conferencing & collaboration, streaming media, BPM, software and project team management. Managing a talented team serving enterprise customers and also supporting technical partner enablement.My team won Altin Orümcek (Golden Spider) Web awards several times in Best Corporate Web Site, Best Travel Web Site, and best e-commerce web site categories. We are proudly developing and maintaining Turkish Airlines web sites since over 6 years.

Istanbul

Multimedya Yayincilik has been founded as subsidiary of Medyasoft to publish Classroom in a Book series in Turkish. I was one of the first adopters of InDesign (ver. 2.0). Built an editorial workflow, published a couple of titles including Ben Forta's legendary ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit (over 1.000 pages!) and moved on to my next career. The aftermath of publishing career: Editor of 13 books, translator of 30+ computer books, over hundred articles and reviews published in computer magazines

Istanbul

Decided which computer books to publish according to actual trends. Planned and organized the production of selected titles. Also worked as executive editor and technical editor per project. Managed and updated campaign information via e-mailing and web site. Some of those books have more than five editions, which is a great success for computer books.

Istanbul

Decided to work from home office. Developed various web sites, multimedia projects (CD-based), translated 20 computer books which are published by Alfa and Sistem Yayincilik publishing houses, wrote articles to PCnet Magazine including cover stories.

Jan. 97 - Dec. 98. ad.net Internet Magazine News Manager. Localization of British Internet Magazine from Future Publishing. It was the first "Internet Culture" magazine published in Turkey. With the help of successful localization and correct promotions, sales figures were increased twofold.

Published with the license from McGraw-Hill, quickly became the most prestigious IT magazine. Managed a team of freelancers, translators and editors. During this period, we made BYTE Turkiye best selling computer magazine, relying only on content.

Istanbul

Worked for Antrakt movie magazine, BYTE, PC Magazine, IT Business Weekly. Wrote software reviews, product round-ups, and articles.

Master Of Science (Msc), Big Data Analytics And Management, 3.68 / 4.00

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc)

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