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Germany

- Working closely with data engineers and researchers on data ingestion, ETL/ELT pipelines, and cloud migrations to effectively design and manage sophisticated data architectures effectively- Utilizing extensive knowledge of cloud services (AWS) and database technologies to optimize organizational data capabilities- Gathering technical requirements and managing product backlogs with Agile and Scrum methodologies to ensure successful project execution and timely delivery- Navigating complex stakeholder relationships across diverse geographies to ensure alignment with project goals and deliverables

Berlin Area, Germany

- Collecting technical requirements from our partners and defining solutions and product features to be implemented by the engineering team (10+).- Supporting researchers, data engineers and data scientists by developing a central data repository solution to dispersed data sources. Defining data flow, data ingestion and data mapping logic for different data sources- Proactively defining the product vision with other product managers (10+) and aligning multiple stakeholders (C-suite, end-users, external clients, researchers, scientists, developers, and designers) around the vision of our product to ensure delivery of high-quality features.

Munich Area, Germany

Istanbul, Türkei

• Management of innovation projects and evaluation of incoming innovation ideas from several business units• Helping enable and catalyze innovation through the establishment, management, integration and evolution of innovation processes, lean UX and design thinking methods• Conduction of design thinking workshops for various business divisions to foster creativity in order to develop innovative solutions • Turning innovative concepts/ideas into products or services leading to additional competitive advantage• Agile project and product management of the associated technical solutions• Creating and development of the product roadmap based on user tests, surveys, key data and innovation ideas. Conducting user research, usability testing, MVP, A/B testing• Following the start-up ecosystem especially in the area of emerging technologies such as Internet of Things and Smart Home. Establishing of partnerships with IoT startups and developing new business cases to reach smart home services.• Product management of selected smart home products. Conducted user research, and collected feedbacks from end users to validate smart home / IoT devices.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Product manager within the global product group of Monitise (US, UK, Turkey)• Worked in the whole product life cycle process from ideation and planning to development and building • Worked in Agile development process: creating and maintaining user stories in sprint backlogs and working closely with scrum master to lead daily scrums, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews, backlog refinement, sprint demos and retrospectives • Collaborated with customers, customer facing teams, sales, marketing and management to define the market requirements and roadmap.• Conducted customer insights, market research, competitive analysis and performing deep dives on the latest mobile and cloud technology for financial innovation• Developed company-wide go-to-market plan, product fact sheets, roadmap definitions and technical documentation• Worked closely with cross-functional teams and different stakeholders, especially with product marketing, sales and development/engineering.

Istanbul, Türkei

• Conducted R&D activities on a variety of national and international innovative research projects: European research projects and Tubitak Projects• Worked closely with universities, research institutes and technology providers. Coordinated university collaboration projects• Contributed to writing research project proposals focusing on personalized mobile systems, smart city, mobile and wearable technology for e-commerce, payment and finance sector

Zürich Und Umgebung, Schweiz

• Worked as a full-time research scientist at ETH Zurich• PhD thesis “Monitoring of Cognitive Load and Cognitive Performance using Wearable Sensing” at the Wearable Computing Laboratory of ETH Zurich • Collected physiological (ECG, heart rate variability) and activity data (from accelerometer sensors) from several subjects to discriminate different levels of mental and cognitive load occurring in everyday life• Designed and conducted several inter-disciplinary experiments using mobile and wearable sensors, applied machine learning, data mining algorithms and statistical methods on collected data• Worked with data analytics tools such as R, SPSS and MATLAB• Leading author of 10 publications in international peer-reviewed conferences and journals. Presented own work in several international conferences and workshops• Worked as a research scientist within the European Union Research Project ProFiTex (www.project-profitex.eu/). Cooperated with European partners from industry and academia. Developed and employed mobile and wearable sensor technologies to monitor firefighter’s health status • Supported lectures at the Wearable Computing Laboratory on wearable & mobile computing• Supervised several master/bachelor theses. Supported the students in defining their research plans, designing experiments, evaluating their results, and documenting their work• Supervised 15 students within the electronic fashion show semester project “Ready-to-live” (www.ready-to-live.ethz.ch/Projekt) in collaboration with the Swiss Textile College (STF). Played a key role as supervisor in bridging between technical and fashion students. Integrated wearable sensors into fashionable clothes and presented final results in a real fashion show.

• Worked as research assistant on mobile and wearable computing technologies. Worked in the German industrial project aiming at supporting industry workers with wearable and mobile technologies• Worked as a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses on object-oriented programming, algorithms and databases• Worked within the European Union Research Project Wearit@work. • Worked within the industry project in cooperation with Airbus Germany GmbHImplemented indoor localization system. Developed SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) algorithm for pedestrians using a head-mounted laser radar and inertial measurement unit (IMU)

Worked in Project Management Department (Industrial Solutions and Services)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Ph.D.

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science, M.Sc.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Wirtschaftsinformatik

Education record