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Responsibilities: * Leading and coordinating development activities and projects. * Leading solution design activities. * Producing Solution Design & Technical Design documents * Liaising with internal clients, external vendors, Project Managers, Business Analysts’, Architects, other business units. * Coordinating production support activities with Quality Management and Testing * Supervising, mentoring and assisting team members. * Leading process, quality and system improvements Achievements: * Lead corporate customer value proposition project that enabled our current digital platform and core CRM application to integrate several third party vendors to extend Bupa’s offers to its corporate customers. * Lead and coordinated development activities for a new cloud based digital sales pathway interface for the digital platform. * Lead development activities to build a rules engine prototype using InRule. The prototype has been successfully completed within 4 months and exceeded all the expectations. * Lead and delivered Sales Commissions project to replace old commission calculation system. * Lead PROTECT-Workflow project which is was part of a 3 year PCI compliance program. The project had significant milestones that includes legacy FileNet decommissioning after salvaging images & data, masking existing PCI data in our core SunGard workflow system and introducing credit card masking for payments coming over Web and through mail. The project has been completed on time and well under initial estimated cost as my solution design saved project 2M+ and has been nominated for Bupa global Breakthrough Awards. * Redefined and improved Code Review process. * Lead designing a web based access control portal that gave managers ability to manage user accesses to core business BOSS modules. * Developed a prototype that enabled Telephony (CTI) and Cyclops (Core CRM) integration. * Lead .NET Framework 4 and SOA standards initiatives

IRESS Market Technology is the principal supplier of share market and a market leader for wealth management systems. I have continued my role after Iress successfully acquired VisiPlan software from IWL on April 2007. Responsibilities:* Leading and coordinating development projects from start to end using SDLC by utilising both agile and waterfall methodologies.* Liaising with internal and external clients and BA’s for requirements gathering and solving issues as a last point of contact.* Managing maintenance, release and support of existing services like VisiServices, FundData and Data Feeds* Assisting and helping other team members and helpdesk.* Assisting management with roadmaps.Achievements:* Successfully lead, designed, coordinated and implemented FundData integration of VisiPlan to replace Morningstar feeds. [WCF services developed with c# using Visual Studio 2008 and TFS which communicates with backend Web Services and SQL 2008 databases.]* Developed a wizard style conversion tool to migrate Morningstar data to FundData. [C#, WCF, XML, SQL SMO, SharpZipLib, SQL 2000-2008, SQLXML4.0]* Assisted development of XPLAN fat client. [WPF, XAML and Visual Studio 2010, .NET4.0]* Designed, developed, implemented Data Feeds for XPLAN and VisiPlan which significantly reduced import time from few days to just few hours and achieved improved productivity with less maintenance. It acts as a gateway between Iress Portfolio Services, IRESSNet and XPLAN servers. [C#, C++, Python, IPC, Corba, XML, Silverlight, Web Services and WCF]* Assisted design, development, performance tuning and maintenance of backend data services for IRESSNet Platform Interfaces which is an industry standard for wealth management data feeds. It provides data from more than 70 vendors such as MLC, Colonial Fist State, AXA, INGA and AdviserNET which runs on multiple SQL servers with databases size more than 500GB. [C#, C++, SQL 2008, XML/XSL/XSD, Web Services]

BMW Group Financial Services is a member of the worldwide financial services division of the BMW Group. Offering a full range of finance and insurance products for BMW and Mini owners, BMW Group Financial Services also specialises in the provision of fleet management to many of Australia’s top companies. Responsibilities:* Lead design, development and implementation of software projects* Assist, enhance and support existing data warehouse.* Assist maintaining and supporting current system, overnight and EOM operations Achievements:* Successfully lead design, development and implementation of document workflow management and archiving system (Imaging) which significantly reduced paper flow and application-processing time by easy retrieval and management of documents by using barcode technologies. IMAGING is capable of storing any kind of documents with versioning (i.e.: PDF, Doc, TIFF, JPG, MSG). It was already managing more than 2 million documents when I handed over the project. [Delphi 2007, C#, SQL 2005, ASP, Jscript, FAX/MAPI, SMTP, Visual Source Safe]* Lead development and implementation of Broker Point web portal which gives brokers ability to generate quotes and create loan applications online. [VB6, ASP, Jscript, HTML]* Assisted development of Dealer Point web site to let dealers to able to make online loan applications. [C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Jscript, HTML, Interbase]* Successfully assisted design and coding two core modules of Dealer Point New Zealand web portal. [C#, * Assisted support, development and maintenance of core financial software. [Delphi 5, SQL 2000 & 2005, Rave Tools, VSS, XML/XLS, DCOM]* Supported maintenance, development and enhancement of B2Bay which is an interface to BayCorp credit scoring/rating system that allows retrieval of customer credit rating. * Assisted design and development of BEFra project. [c#, Visual Studio 2003 & 2005, Net Remoting, Web Services]

Coin Software is my first experience in Australia and was a step back in my career due to culture and language. It is a rival company for Iress and has wealth management solutions. It ceased its Melbourne operations and moved to Sydney. Responsibilities:* Responsible from design, development, testing and documentation of different modules of Coin Software.Achievements:* Programmed/coded functional aspects of the product.* Assisted the team in designing the product.* Assisted development of desktop version of Coin Software. [C#]* Developed COM+ business objects from functional specifications using Delphi. [Delphi 5-6, Visual Studio.Net, SQL Server 7, IIS, Visual Source Safe, ADO, T-SQL, COM+, MTS]* Designed and created SQL tables, set referential integrity and entity relations.* Developed stored procedures. [SQL Server 7]* Developed test harnesses and tested COM+ components. [Delphi 5-6, COM+, MTS]* Designed and developed asp web pages and user interfaces. [Crystal Reports 8.5, HomeSite 4, ASP, HTML, DHTML, VBScript, JavaScript, XML, XSL, CSS]* Prepared design specifications and technical documentations. * Designed and implemented an auto run utility to help build process. [Delphi 5]* Worked with business analyst, consultants, technical support and sales staff where appropriate.* Assisted in all development issues as well as assisted the quality assurance process.

Donusum is a consultancy company giving support on software solutions both using pc and Macintosh based systems.Responsibilities:* Managing projects and mentoring team members.* Designing and developing applications based on customer needs.* Providing consultancy and technical support to customers.Achievements:* Given a speech at a seminar.* Prepared technical presentations and demos. * Successfully designed and developed data driven website for Medyasoft which is the main distributor of Macromedia products in Turkey. [ColdFusion Server 5, IIS 4, SQL Server 2000, Visual Source Safe, Dream Weaver, UltraDev 4, Flash, CFML, CFScript, Html, Dhtml, VBScript, JScript, ADO, T-SQL]* Designed and developed a mailing list server which enables to send emails to email-groups in HTML or rich text format. Program also has Pop3, auto subscribe and unsubscribe support. [Delphi 6, SMTP]* Developed a tool to export customer info from FileMaker Pro to Microsoft Exchange contact list. [VB6]

Ihlas Finance House was the largest finance house with about 800 employees and 30 branches all around Turkey.Responsibilities:* Design, development, testing and implementation of software projects* Design, setup, implementation and maintenance of hardware systems Achievements:* Designed and developed a call centre agent desktop application which integrated with CTI and IVR systems. [Visual Basic 6, Oracle 7.3, SQL Server 2000, Genesys CTI Server, InterVoice IVR, COM+, MTS, T-SQL, PL/SQL, Genesys CTI ActiveX Objects]* Assisted development and setup call centre IVR/CTI project to enable customers do all banking operations through telephone. [InterVoice IVR, Genesys CTI Server]* Developed a SMS utility to enable customers to query their bank accounts via their mobile phones. [GSM Modems,]* Assisted development of internet banking project and developed some of the modules. [Visual InterDev 6, Visual Source Safe, IIS 4, ASP, Html, Dhtml, XML, CSS, ADO, SSL, HomeSite 4, Oracle Developer 2000, SMTP]* Successfully developed and implemented credit card e-mail and fax server integration project to be able to send credit card statements to customers via e-mail and fax. [VB6, SMTP, Lightning Fax Server APIs]* Installed and configured of Microsoft VPN Server to allow employees to access from extranet.* Installed and configured Enterprise fax system. [Lightning Fax Server]* Installed, configured and administrated Windows NT 4/2000 and Active Directory.* Installed and configured Windows Terminal server and Citrix MetaFrame.* Developed, maintained, tested, documented and supported applications.* Followed established development procedures.* Applied ISO-9001 and assisted the quality assurance process.* Worked with clients where necessary.

Ihlas holding is one of the largest companies in Turkey that employees more than 15000 employees. Responsibilities:* Leading development teams* Managing projects from start to finish* Analysing, designing, developing and managing applications to meet company needs. * Evaluating and researching the new and emerging technologies to help management to setup a roadmap.Achievements:* Successfully designed and developed Barter Online application from ground up for TurkBarter and integrated to IVR and SMS server. [Delphi 4-5, SQL 7-2000, MS OLAP Server, Citrix MetaFrame 1.8]* Lead a team of 3 and successfully delivered an advertisement & reservation software to be used by a daily newspaper. [Delphi 4, SQL 7, T-SQL, MS OLAP Server, Quark Xpress]* Lead a team of two to develop library control software to keep tracks of books and magazines in the library. [VB6, ASP, Access 2000]* Designed, developed and implemented TGRT TV News Centre News Automation Project which enables reporters to write, archive and manage news. [Delphi 1-2-3, SQL Server 6.5 -7, Citrix MetaFrame 1.8]* Assisted development of Ads Online application for agencies to post ads online. [Delphi 3, CGI, Html, DHtml, IIS4]* Lead designed and development of Photo Flow & Archive Project to achieve flow and archive of all photos coming from different resources (News Agencies, scanner, Internet, E-mail). [Folio Views 4, Delphi 2, LeadTools]* Managed the company’s infrastructure project from feasibility, analysis, selection of main switches, installation and implementation of networking infrastructure for new headquarter.* Coordinated computer system and network installations.* Continually evaluated work progress. * Delivered technical presentations.* Determined time frame, funding limitations, procedures, staffing requirements and resources during each phases of the project.* Maintained system documentation and trained users.