Ertekin Akbaş Email & Phone Number

Istanbul, Turkey

Responsible for overseeing a range of ICT-related development and integration projects, ensuring they align with company objectives and deliver maximum value.Leading R&D activities, fostering innovation and ensuring the integration of the latest technologies to maintain our competitive edge.Acting as the primary liaison with the Japan R&D engineering team, facilitating cross-cultural and technical communication to synchronize development efforts and share best practices.Regularly reporting to the management about ICT-related priorities, including providing insights on budget allocation and the potential impact of disruptive technologies on our mid and long-term business strategies.Proactively researching and identifying opportunities for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) implementation within ICT initiatives, aligning technological advancements with sustainable and ethical practices.

Istanbul, Türkiye

Working on next-generation Alarm Monitoring services and IoT implementations.Acting as Scrum Master for one complex internal development project.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Project-based alt-protein and next-gen food production system consultant.

Istanbul, Turkey

I developed a system to monitor the utilization of resources and to predict future capacity against the requirements. The resources consist of 35 trainer aircraft, 80 instructor pilots and 4 flight training devices distributed to 4 operation bases for over 400 students.

Istanbul, Turkey

Managed transforming SIMORG project, a software platform which is designed to support FFS operations and was being used only by IFTC and Pegasus Airlines Flight Training center then, into a commercial of the shelf product and complementary support services.

Istanbul, Turkey

Set up the Gözen Holding Program Management Office, managed researches on setting up R&D unit.

Istanbul, Turkey

Managed the compliance and aviation safety processes of five full flight simulators (four local and one remote). Improved the compliance of the operation with the applicable regulation by improving the software.

Istanbul, Turkey

This is where I met with flight simulators and aviation training domain. Developed a simulator center management system which would lately be transformed into a full-featured software platform called SIMORG.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Set up a management system to handle various international turnkey projects of flight simulator centres and worked on regulatory base of remotely controlled simulator centre concept.

Istanbul, Turkey

This is where I met with corporate world and aviation. Developed a software to extract and present historic overflight costs of predefined routes. Worked on XML invoices and airport charges tariffs.

Istanbul, Turkey

Some of the projects that we managed are a web-based real estate portfolio manager, a B2B yellow pages application, an online publishing and authoring environment and some small business applications.

Afyonkarahisar, Turkey

Developed a web-based software to keep track of prisoners' demographic info, medical records and court transfers from/to Afyon Closed Prison.

Istanbul, Turkey

Reported to the IBM HQ for Garanti Call Center project which has been designed to support Garanti Teknoloji's internal call center. Developed a solution for record keeping and establishing knowledge-base.

Istanbul, Turkey

I worked with IBM AS/400 and got familiar with the thin-client concept. It impressed me with its stability, speed, integrity and security. Improved the system to correspond to the then requirements gathered from the business units. Managed documentation of the business processes from orders to delivery&export.

Istanbul, Turkey

Accumulated experiences in developing negatives in the darkroom and inspecting positives through the loupe.

Istanbul, Turkey

This is where I fell in love with computers.

Bachelor'S Degree, Capital Market

Education record

Activities and Societies: Table Tennis, Pen Spinning