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Istanbul, Turkey

• Taking responsibility on HubSpot CMS consultancy and development responsibility for certain projects.• Reviewing general project management process and internal business plan creation within the company, including restructuring the internal organization for managing projects on a customer basis.• Establishment of quarterly objectives within the company and guidance on how these objectives should be monitored.• Managing client relationships and ensuring timely and effective responses to the client needs.Projects: Picus Security, Titan Containers, Net4energy, BRZ, EcoG, Pentapharm

Dubai Emirliği, Birleşik Arap Emirlikleri

• Directed an e-commerce product team of 10+ members in successfully delivering 5 major software products, resulting in a 25% increase in customer satisfaction.• Redesigned internal processes from an unstructured management setup to Scrum methodology, boosting efficiency and productivity by 60%.• Introduced OKR culture, setting and tracking 3+ quarterly targets per person and developing growth plans.• Consolidated business requests from 21 Joigifts stores, providing timely solutions through 2/4-week sprints.• Provided regular C-level reports to upper management on a bi-weekly basis, ensuring strategic alignment.• Negotiated and maintained partnerships with third-party vendors, achieving 15% cost reduction while enhancing service quality.• Optimized and tracked technical tool prices, reducing costs by 65%.• Implemented CI/CD automation rules, ensuring timely and high-quality development processes.• Prepared technical analyses and documentation in accordance with SDLC processes, reducing software and testing efforts by 25%.

İstanbul, Türkiye

• Managed 10,000+ man-day projects with Fixed-Price/Fixed-Scope and Time & Material models, covering all phases from estimation to contract management.• Participated in Steering Committee meetings with C-level executives, reporting on overall project statuses, finances, and future steps.• Led 20+ team members across 9 projects including the online teams, achieving a 20% budget reduction and ensuring successful project delivery.• Oversaw recruitment and onboarding, ensuring 100% project success and high client satisfaction.• Provided career counseling to 10+ individuals, supporting training, performance evaluations, and promotion discussions.• Maintained tactical control of project budgets, managing monthly invoicing to clients.• Collaborated with DefineX and client attorneys to prepare legal contracts and work orders for upcoming projects.Projects:- İş Bankası - Capital Market Project – Reference Data, Commission Modules (2021-2022)- İş Bankası - Capital Market Project – Fund Compliance Module (2020-2021)- İş Bankası – Gold Transfer Project (2021-2022)- İş Bankası – Digital Onboarding Project (2020-2021)- İş Bankası – Credit Guarantee Fund Project (2018-2020)- Garanti Bankası – Microservice Transition

Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey

• Progressed through roles from Software Engineer to Project Manager over a 5-year period, leading high-impact projects within the financial services sector.• Managed over 10 large-scale projects, focusing on system transformations and integrations for major banking and insurance clients, achieving 95% on-time delivery and maintaining high quality standards.• Directed cross-functional teams of 5 to 15 members, including analysts, testers, and developers, enhancing team productivity by 40% through effective Agile and Scrum implementations.• Implemented Scrum methodology as a Scrum Master, driving Agile transformations and significantly improving team collaboration and efficiency.• Optimized project management processes, reducing delivery times by 30% and cutting project costs by 15% through strategic process improvements and cost-saving measures.• Oversaw entire project lifecycles, from estimation and planning to development and contract management, ensuring successful outcomes and high client satisfaction.• Managed project budgets and financials, providing accurate forecasts and maintaining budgetary controls, which contributed to a 20% reduction in costs.• Provided career counseling and performance evaluations for team members, utilizing KPI methods to support 25% of team members’ career advancements and personal growth.• Produced detailed reports and presentations for C-Level executives, highlighting project progress, risks, and mitigation strategies to support strategic decision-making.Projects: * Yapı Kredi Bankası - Bank Intelligence Project * Yapı Kredi Bankası - Legal Reporting Systems * Yapı Kredi Bankası - SME Cross Sell Project * İş Bankası - Credit Card Garantee Project (KGF) * AvivaSA - Metamorphoz New System Transition Project

Istanbul, Turkey

Projects:• İş Bankası - Credit Guarantee Fund Project (2018 – 2020)• Yapı Kredi Bank - SME Cross Sell Project (2017 – 2018)Related Technologies: JAVA, Maven, SOA, Spring Framework, Spring Batch, Oracle, Sync / Async Infrastructures

Projects:• Yapı Kredi Bank – Bank Intelligence Project (2016 – 2017)• Yapı Kredi Bank – Legal Reporting Systems Project (2015 – 2016)Related Technologies: JAVA, Maven, SOA, Spring Framework, Spring Batch, Oracle, Sync / Async Infrastructures, Reporting&DMS Systems, ElasticSearch(PoC), Data Conversion&Migration

İstanbul, Türkiye

Projects:• AvivaSA (AgeSA Hayat ve Emeklilik) – Corporate Internet Branch (2014 – 2015)Related Technologies: J2EE, EJB 3.0, Context Dependency Injection (CDI), JSF 2.0, PrimeFaces 5.0, PL/SQL, SVN

İstanbul, Türkiye

• Worked as a Java Developer on all projects, including both backend and frontend system architectures, successfully delivering 5 major financial services mobile applications.• Developed software for financial services including İşBankası, Yapı Kredi, TEB, İş Sanat, Qatar Islamic Bank, and mobile payment applications, achieving a 20% faster development cycle.• Managed the entire Android app lifecycle, from research and planning through deployment and post-launch support, completing 10+ mobile app projects successfully.• Collaborated with project managers to assess job progress and provided regular status reports to clients, enhancing customer satisfaction by 15%.Projects: İş Bankası, Yapı Kredi Bankası, TEB, İş Sanat, Qatar Islamic Bank, Mobile Payment Application(Clip)

Ankara, Türkiye

Tried to initialize and operate IT department of the company and built new customer relationships where business processes need to be transformed into digitalized platform• Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth on ERP Technologies in the company• Built and strengthened productive and valuable industry partnerships to drive collaboration, engagement and revenue stream development with a company in Bulgaria to serve ERP financial infrastructures to SMEs

Projects:• Calculator with Engine: This project was about a basic calculator using C++ and QT for GUI interface. Shared memory was used in this project. The calculator has an engine which works seperately from the GUI. A calculator engine was built for all the calculations.• War Simulation Game: This project was a 3D war game simulation. C++ was used to develop it. OGRE and OpenGL libraries was used to visualize the game scene and objects. OGRE library was used for 3D design, OpenGL was used for 2D design. All the models of the war game objects was designed on Linux Blender. The game has 5 different components one of them was the controller which allows user to control the game by typing programmer-specified commands other than controlling the game by keyboard and mouse. The game is launced on the network with the help of Message-Distribution-Core system. This means the components of the simulation can be launced in different computer which are connected to the same network.

Projects:• Virtual Museum: This project was developed to Tourism Ministry for a visualized virtual museum. JQuery and SQL were used to design and to keep information on a database. • War Simulation Game: This project was about creating a war game simulation by using Unity 3D. There are two teams and each team includes some soldiers and tanks for having a war with the opposite team. The game also allows the player to create a scenario for the game and the scenarios can be saved to XML files. Google Earth SRTM tool was used to create the terrain with the real heights of the mountains. C# and JAVAScript libraries were used to write the scripts.• Scenario Creator: This project was a scenario creator for simulating a war and it was written on C#. Some inputs were taken from the XML files and some random mathematical calculations are applied to these inputs and the outputs are again written to another XML file.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Technology And Information Systems