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Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey

Leading teams of Project Management, Application Development, Information Technologies and Support Operations. Supporting 800+ users in various sectors of the Holding such as textile, construction, tourism, real estate and facility management. Continuously improving digitalization in day to day business as well as setting long term strategies and establishing guidelines for achieving mid term goals.

Istanbul, Turkey

Setting IT strategies of companies in the group. Managing multinational IT teams of 30+ locations distributed across Turkey, Middle East and Africa. Planning, budgeting and implementation of all IT projects using Agile methodologies, including virtualization of servers, SAP ERP rollout for FI, CO, MM, SD, PP, PS, HR, business intelligence, mobile applications and reporting, CRM and e-commerce applications.Investing into cloud services for cost and capacity optimization. Leading application development teams to fulfill rapidly changing demands of business. Ensuring operability and security of global data network to meet increasing information processing demands in all locations. Maintaining servers, disaster recovery sites and all IT equipment to deliver best in class services to over 2000 users. Establishing strategic partnerships between IT and business to maximize profitability through use of high technology. Continuously driving change and innovation in the company by the use of new technologies such as VR and IoT in areas of production, sales and warehouse management. Investing into artificial intelligence, big data analysis and machine learning algorithms to better support decision making.

Leading a team of 8 Computational Network Services experts, supporting an organization of 14 remote offices, 2 factories and a central building, Supporting a wide range of applications and systems including SAP, Lotus Notes, portals, document management platforms, databases, security and networking infrastructure including voice networks.Managing a team of SAP developers, infrastructure and security experts, and support specialists. As the leader of the team, applied all global policies to achieve alignment to the region. Generated significant savings by means of local provider consolidation, and service outsourcing. Generated revenues through warehouse automation projects, B2B platform solutions and systems integration with distributors. Received the Henkel Finance Excellence Award for contributing to the realization of the direct debit system in cooperation with finance department.

Managed a team of local SAP and Lotus Notes developers. Local developments were enhanced to support global rules and guidelines, resulting in a more transparent and manageable software pool. Leading the developer team, improved the performance of local ABAP developments which in turn boosted the system performance by 2, and avoided hardware investments, saving approx. $100.000/year

Implemented and supported SAP system over 10 companies in the Koç group. Specialized in the SAP R/3 HR module, ABAP programming and basis administration. In order to support businesses, participated in a joint project with Cisco to upgrade the infrastructure and migrate performance evaluation and personal development processes into a group wide application which was then called the e-transform portal. Gained extensive insight to Windows and UNIX operating systems. Gained experience in the structures of the finance, production, energy, and construction sectors.

3,11, M.S. In Computer Engineering

2,85, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Engineering Society

8,62, Mathematics