- Bootstrapped Gruppal.com in Dec 2010 to service the best travel deals- Gruppal became one of the leading online travel agencies in Turkey within a short period of time- Services outgoing and local packaged tours, hotel and flight bookings and more...

~ Development, management and general oversight of TTNET's web assets and services to create and maintain positive user experiences aligned with the strategic business objectives of TTNET~ Design and development of high traffic web sites like ttnet.com.tr (4 million UV / month)~ Design and development of value added TTNET services like TTNET VITAMIN (170K active users in 8 months)~ Contributed to the web presence of all major online services like TTNET Muzik, TTNET Video, TTNET… Show more ~ Development, management and general oversight of TTNET's web assets and services to create and maintain positive user experiences aligned with the strategic business objectives of TTNET~ Design and development of high traffic web sites like ttnet.com.tr (4 million UV / month)~ Design and development of value added TTNET services like TTNET VITAMIN (170K active users in 8 months)~ Contributed to the web presence of all major online services like TTNET Muzik, TTNET Video, TTNET Oyun and Tivibu~ Active contribution to the design and development of major infrastructure projects like single sign-on, targeted ad-serving, e-invoice and web selfcare~ General consultancy on web usability, high traffic portal infrastructures, content management systems, web performance optimization and web security to internal project teams and 3rd parties~ Commissioning of digital agencies and other 3rd parties for web development~ SEM, SEO and reputation management on social media~ Management of multiple parties under tight project schedules~ Contract preparation~ Budgeting Show less

~ Management of the Product Planning & Development Group of the leading Internet portal in Turkey having 1 billion pageviews and 15 million unique visitors monthly~ Product lifecycle management of portal services~ New business development~ Conducted international business development activities and formed partnerships with Google, Boonty, ICQ, AdsClick, PicSearch, WunderLoop, iVillage and Askmen- Participated in the acquisition of 3rd party online trivia, photo sharing… Show more ~ Management of the Product Planning & Development Group of the leading Internet portal in Turkey having 1 billion pageviews and 15 million unique visitors monthly~ Product lifecycle management of portal services~ New business development~ Conducted international business development activities and formed partnerships with Google, Boonty, ICQ, AdsClick, PicSearch, WunderLoop, iVillage and Askmen- Participated in the acquisition of 3rd party online trivia, photo sharing, cinema, link sharing, comparison shopping and city guide services~ Launched products around Web 2.0 practices like user generated content, sharing, social networking, tagging and social bookmarking~ Launched a Turkish MMOG (Istanbul Kiyamet Vakti), later acquired by TTNET~ Boosted the online gaming service of the portal to 400 million UV and 5.5 million PV by constantly adding new titles and features~ Preparation of business plans, functional design and acceptance test of products and services~ Contract preparation~ Project management involving multiple groups like graphic design, software development, systems, marketing and ad sales together with 3rd parties Show less

~ Setup ventures for software development and medical imaging~ Designed a natural language processing based 2-way SMS messaging service for auto sales~ Designed and developed corporate websites~ Built and managed a team of 2 people for the R&D of a high-tech medical imaging product~ Acquired reseller rights for similar medical imaging products from vendors abroad~ Built and managed a team of 3 people for the sales and marketing of medical imaging products~ Managed an ICT… Show more ~ Setup ventures for software development and medical imaging~ Designed a natural language processing based 2-way SMS messaging service for auto sales~ Designed and developed corporate websites~ Built and managed a team of 2 people for the R&D of a high-tech medical imaging product~ Acquired reseller rights for similar medical imaging products from vendors abroad~ Built and managed a team of 3 people for the sales and marketing of medical imaging products~ Managed an ICT news portal having 8,000+ registered readers Show less

~ Overall responsibility of Turk.Net's B2C and B2B e-business strategy and its implementation~ Built and managed an e-commerce team of 4 people~ Designed the infrastructure of Turk.Net's multi-merchant B2C shopping mall~ Designed the integrations with 3rd party e-commerce sites, logistics and payment providers~ Managed the acquisition of e-commerce platforms and outsourcing partners~ Introduced new revenue streams like CPC and Conceptual Shopping~ Managed large scale… Show more ~ Overall responsibility of Turk.Net's B2C and B2B e-business strategy and its implementation~ Built and managed an e-commerce team of 4 people~ Designed the infrastructure of Turk.Net's multi-merchant B2C shopping mall~ Designed the integrations with 3rd party e-commerce sites, logistics and payment providers~ Managed the acquisition of e-commerce platforms and outsourcing partners~ Introduced new revenue streams like CPC and Conceptual Shopping~ Managed large scale corporate website design projects like Akbank.com.tr and Aksigorta.com.tr Show less

~ Pre-sales & post-sales technical consultancy for the Enterprise Printing Systems Group~ Customer needs analysis and technical support for the sales group~ Application protoyping particulary for banks, insurance companies and telcos on Sun Solaris~ Setup a document management solutions group within the company~ Assessment of document management solutions such as Documentum and InputAccel

~ Development of Superonline's multi-merchant B2C e-commerce site using PERL, MLE and Oracle~ Customizations of Netscape Merchant Server and Netscape Publishing Server~ Performed integrations with credit card processors and implemented the SET 1.0 protocol

~ Administration of an 80 client Windows NT LAN~ Software development using Delphi 1.0 Client / Server~ Design and development of the branch Intranet website using HTML and ASP~ User trainings and support for MS Office products, network and general computing issues

~ Overall software development and project management responsibility of YKB's export unit~ Analysis of business requirements with functional groups~ Completed a major conversion project affecting 400+ branches on time and without error~ Full software development life cycle experience using PL/I, COBOL II, DB2 and CICS~ 7x24 application support in a mission critical environment