Bilal Özcan Email and Phone Number

o He worked in the project office in order to take a more decisive role in the point where new projects are prioritized and planned, with his software experience, team leadership skills and expertise in banking products, which he has gained for many years.

o With the growing teams and increasing business diversity, he took part in the managerial staff who carried out the reorganization of the domain, the division of the team into 4, the determination of responsibilities, the distribution of products according to these responsibilities, the creation and execution of teamso He mentored and supported the new Team Leaders in the domain. (Resource management, team management, recruitment, performance management, career management)o He took an active role in the establishment of an in-house Training Library and in the determination and creation of New Comer trainings. He took part in many working groups such as productivity, new product selection, managerial tools and error tracking actions within the company, and expressed his opinion.o He took important responsibility in active follow-up and increasing the awareness of the team on test automation, produztion error monitoring and reduction.o In addition to his current responsibilities, he was responsible for the adaptation of corporate loans modules to alternative distribution channels, planning, developing and monitoring existing modules for the delivery of internet and mobile banking channels.o He worked as a team manager in the development of the Corporate Loans module in the project initiated for service banking, the newly developing area of the banking ecosystem, and in financial solutions developed jointly with various institutions at this point. (API Banking, Service Banking, Open Banking)

o He took part in the Corporate Loans management team (which is the critical product of Core Banking) that solved the problems of planning, lack of resources, high turnover rates and growing production problems.o Increasing the team, which was carried out with 8 software developers, to 20+ software developers, reorganized and gained efficiency. (job interviews, performance management, trainings)o In parallel with the increasing business developments and legal requirements in the sector, the team has been able to meet the increasing number of projects with the growth and development of the teamo He supported all projects that would increase the product diversity in the field that the team was responsible for. Production provided product support and was a pioneer in reducing product defects and making them close to zero.o He was involved in the Innovation programs for the company, and in 2020, he ranked 1st among the 250+ ideas that emerged within the organization of 10,000+ people. Again, in the 2021 competition of the same program, 10 finalists entered into the idea with a different initiative idea.o He also directed his team to work with a culture of innovation and different perspectives minded, and to work with result-oriented and analytical approaches.

o Increasing the team of 5 software developers to 20+ software developers (job interviews, performance management, trainings)o Production provided product support, was a pioneer in reducing product defects and making them close to zero.o He took an active role in the prioritization, planning, follow-up, support and commissioning processes of all 100+ projects of the team during this period. It provided resource management, task tracking, code review, solution support, and coding support when necessary.o He gave ideas in the creation of products that will get ahead of the sector in the product variety that is behind the sector, suggested solutions, made architectural and software decisions, implemented them and ensured the implementation of his team.o He mentored the development of team members, competency increase and career development, and ensured that different teams within the company were supported with a trained workforce. He had responsibilities such as recruitment and performance management.o He took part in the team that initiated and functionalized the long-term intern program, which made a great contribution to the company in terms of resource management.

o Aiming to grow in the market in the field of Retail Banking, the Core Banking Cash Management team took part in projects to increase product diversity. (Direct Debit System, Donation Payments, Online Bill Payments, SGK Payments, Tax Payments, Regular Payments, etc.)o Learned and adapted to the local framework, developed software for banking application (Java, Oracle, SQL, FBML, Reports Designer), Tuned systems to boost performance, solved Production Problems with permanent approacheso He played an important role in the growth and adaptation of the team, which increased numerically, and mentored his teammates

o Participated in software design and development activities related to individual and corporate payment systems in mainfrem platform with Oracle PL/I, DB2 and COBOLII.o He took responsibility for the development and maintenance stages of core banking products such as School Payments, Bill Payments, Regular Payments, Credit Bill Payment Systems.o He took part in the transition project of branch applications in the Core Banking infrastructure to open systems Java.o During the merging process of Koçbank, took part in the creation of Cash Management products that were not included in the new banking platform in this environment. (PL/SQL, Oracle Forms)