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Agile Methodologies and Team Coaching: Mentor and guide cross-functional teams in Agile practices, including Scrum and Kanban, to address complex departmental challenges. Empower teams with the skills to adopt Agile principles effectively, enabling them to improve processes and self-organize.Facilitation of Agile Ceremonies: Lead Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Guide teams in reflecting on their processes and making data-informed adjustments to enhance collaboration and productivity.Strategic Alignment and Continuous Improvement: Play a key role in aligning long-term strategy with Agile methodologies to deliver business value efficiently. Work closely with leadership to track progress and remove roadblocks, resulting in measurable improvements such as reduced delivery times and increased team productivity.

İzmir, Turkey

Product Vision and Roadmap Development: Defined and communicated a clear product vision, translating high-level business objectives into actionable, strategic roadmaps. Regularly engaged with stakeholders to align on priorities and ensure the roadmap reflected evolving customer needs and market trends.Backlog Management and Prioritization: Maintained and prioritized the product backlog to maximize value delivery. Used frameworks like MoSCoW and RICE to prioritize features and functionalities based on customer feedback, business goals, and development effort. Ensured continuous refinement of backlog items, keeping them aligned with the overall product strategy.Cross-Functional Team Leadership and Stakeholder Management: Led cross-functional teams, collaborating closely with developers, designers, and QA teams to deliver high-quality products on time. Managed stakeholder expectations effectively, balancing competing demands while maintaining focus on user-centered outcomes.

Distill business value and goals into road-maps and refined product backlogs. Collaborate with internal and external contacts to analyze needs and align product road-map to strategic goals. Help to build better products that people love to use.

İzmir, Türkiye

Managed IT infrastructure and software projects, including an SAP implementation.Delivered projects on time and within budget, resulting in improved business operations. Led the successful implementation of a new factory and international IT systems, enhancing operational efficiency.

Managed software and customer support teams, deploying systems such as ERP, warehouse management, and CRM. Led IT transformations, driving cost reductions and process optimizations.

Istanbul, Türkiye

Managed service delivery for Kraft Turkey, coordinating local and global teams and reporting to EMEA leadership. Led global project implementations, receiving recognition for outstanding project management and stakeholder coordination.

Istanbul

Bachelors Degree, Mathemetics

Master Of Information Technologies, Computer Engineering

 Computer Systems and Structures  Programming with Java  Data Structures and Algorithms with C++  Operating Systems with UNIX .