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Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Istanbul, Turkey

Contracted Trainer & Auditor at BSI Group Eurasia Belgelendirme Hizmetleri Ltd. Şti.

Maslak İstanbul

Istanbul

He worked as the Consultancy Manager in iNNOVA (www.innova.com.tr). He managed consultants to provide security, business continuity and risk management services. The services included trainings, audit, fraud prevention, and datacenter process improvement projects. He was responsible for delivery, budgeting, hardware&software solutions, project management, and team establishment for all these services.

He worked as the Consultancy Manager in iNNOVA (www.innova.com.tr). He managed consultants to provide security, business continuity and risk management services. The services included trainings, audit, fraud prevention, and datacenter process improvement projects. He was responsible for delivery, budgeting, project management, and team establishment for all these services.

He worked as the Professional Services Country Manager in SYMANTEC (www.symantec.com). He managed partners and foreign consultants to provide security, business continuity and risk management services in biggest banks and holdings of Turkey contacting CIO level. The services included solution enablement, education, fraud prevention, datacenter standardization, and audit projects and achieved $4.500.000 annual revenue. He was responsible for sales, delivery, budgeting, project management, and… Show more He worked as the Professional Services Country Manager in SYMANTEC (www.symantec.com). He managed partners and foreign consultants to provide security, business continuity and risk management services in biggest banks and holdings of Turkey contacting CIO level. The services included solution enablement, education, fraud prevention, datacenter standardization, and audit projects and achieved $4.500.000 annual revenue. He was responsible for sales, delivery, budgeting, project management, and team establishment for all these services. Show less

He worked as the Line Manager of Information Security and IT Quality Assurance Services in NAVIGATOR (www.navigator.com.tr), which was a start-up consultancy company in ARKAS group (www.arkas.com.tr). He was responsible for budgeting, invoicing, revenue, time and expense management, fields-staff planning, marketing, sales, business development and project delivery of the business line. The line brought 450.000$ revenue in the first year. He managed projects like “Business Continuity… Show more He worked as the Line Manager of Information Security and IT Quality Assurance Services in NAVIGATOR (www.navigator.com.tr), which was a start-up consultancy company in ARKAS group (www.arkas.com.tr). He was responsible for budgeting, invoicing, revenue, time and expense management, fields-staff planning, marketing, sales, business development and project delivery of the business line. The line brought 450.000$ revenue in the first year. He managed projects like “Business Continuity Management”, “Technical restructuring of the IT”, and “Cobit, ISO27001, and ITIL compliance”. His responsibilities included trainings, performance management, and promotions of his team, which consisted of 6 members. Show less

He worked as the Line Manager of Information Security and IT Quality Assurance Services in NAVIGATOR (www.navigator.com.tr), which was a start-up consultancy company in ARKAS group (www.arkas.com.tr). He was responsible for budgeting, revenue, time and expense management, field-staff planning, marketing, business development and project delivery of the business line. The line achieved $450.000 revenue in the first year. He managed projects like “Business Continuity Management”, “Technical… Show more He worked as the Line Manager of Information Security and IT Quality Assurance Services in NAVIGATOR (www.navigator.com.tr), which was a start-up consultancy company in ARKAS group (www.arkas.com.tr). He was responsible for budgeting, revenue, time and expense management, field-staff planning, marketing, business development and project delivery of the business line. The line achieved $450.000 revenue in the first year. He managed projects like “Business Continuity Management”, “Technical restructuring of the IT”, and “Cobit, ISO27001, and ITIL compliance”. His responsibilities included trainings, performance management, and promotions of his team, which consisted of 6 members. Show less

He has worked in the Enterprise Risk Services department of Deloitte Turkey (www.deloitte.com) as an assistant manager. He managed IT control assurance audits and took part in projects like due dilligence, SOX documentation & tests, and risk based auditing.

He served as an IT Auditor with the Project Leader title in the Information Technologies Department of TEKSTILBANK A.S. (www.tekstilbank.com.tr). He performed physical security and Windows domain audits there. In addition, he leaded or attended projects for creating the Information Security Policy, Disaster Recovery Center/Plan, and the implementation of security and audit systems like firewalls, IDS and log auditing.

He worked as an IT Auditor in the Audit Committee of DISBANK A.S. (Turkish Foreign Trade Bank, www.disbank.com.tr), one of the leading banks in Turkey. He participated CallCenter, Internet Banking and Network audits and various inspections there. He took part in audits of some branches, partner companies and out-sourced firms. He developed a special web based application for internal use of the Audit Committee in a 4 months project using Java, Jsp and PLSQL.

He worked as an authorized IT Auditor in the Audit Committee of FORTISBANK A.Ş. (former Dışbank - Turkish Foreign Trade Bank, www.fortis.com.tr), one of the leading banks in Turkey. He participated in CallCenter, Internet Banking, Network, Credit Cards (EMV) audits and various inspections. He took part in audits of some branches, joint ventures, and out-sourced service companies. He developed a special web based application for internal use of the Audit Committee in a 4 months project using… Show more He worked as an authorized IT Auditor in the Audit Committee of FORTISBANK A.Ş. (former Dışbank - Turkish Foreign Trade Bank, www.fortis.com.tr), one of the leading banks in Turkey. He participated in CallCenter, Internet Banking, Network, Credit Cards (EMV) audits and various inspections. He took part in audits of some branches, joint ventures, and out-sourced service companies. He developed a special web based application for internal use of the Audit Committee in a 4 months project using Java, Jsp, and PLSQL. Show less

As the military service, he served in the Directorate of OBI (Automatic Data Processing) Department of the Conscription Agency in the Ministry of Defense (Ankara), where Oracle Developer and Forms are used for implementation. (www.asal.obi.gov.tr)

He worked as an Analyst Programmer in the Special Projects (E.D.P.) division of KOÇBANK A.S. (www.kocbank.com.tr) where he developed applications for Alternative Distribution Channels.

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Engineering

Masters thesis project was development of an educational CPU design and test kit. Developed application allowing object oriented.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Control & Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: ITU Bilgisayar Kulubu License thesis about special hardware (PIC16c84) programming and electronic circuit design.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Control And Computer Engineering

Science Class

Activities and Societies: Waltz dancer in Graduation Balls and in Austrian Opera Balls in Swiss Hotel (years 1992,1993) Highest OSYM.

Education record