- Defining solution architecture and road-maps in a global context, while ensuring alignment with business objectives and technological feasibility.- Demonstrating a proven record in contract management, negotiating terms, and ensuring the successful execution of contracts, resulting in enhanced project outcomes.- Managing and monitoring budgets, effectively forecasting capacity and resources, and optimizing financial planning for projects.- Building and leading proficient technical and functional teams, fostering collaboration, skill development, and achieving project milestones.- Enforcing scope control, mitigating project scope creep, and maintaining project timelines and budgets.- Implementing comprehensive security and compliance measures, ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulations.- Spearheading large transition projects, consistently delivering high-quality solutions within set timelines and budgetary constraints.- Maintaining exceptional client satisfaction by fostering open communication, addressing concerns, and exceeding client expectations.

Responsible for leading and managing large scale change programs and business transformations, driving standardization and streamlining of solutions and processes.Responsible for forecasting, controlling, and monitoring of budgets to enable efficient IT Contract Management, conducting regular steering committee meetings, ensuring proper risk management is performed throughout the project life cycle and continuous improvement is in place through the project management process. Working with PMs to ensure successful completion of agreements, conducting statements of works from scoping to closing negotiations while guaranteeing successful completion of all governance/compliance. Closely working with clients and other delivery partners on planning design and estimating, bringing together delivery and business partner teams; actively managing dependencies between these teams and other projects and programs.

Responsibilities in this position include, but are not limited to; defining the project plan with deliverables/milestones and with actors well identified. Being the point of contact between migration program and all related IT functions and Banking Operations. Define migration plan (cost, effort, milestones, dependencies, resources), report progress, track risks & issues. Coordinate execution of migration projects, within development teams via clear mapping of each team to MMO

Developed and maintained effective project management controls and management, to ensure that processes and results are in line with plans in terms of cost, quality, timeliness, and user expectation.Performed full software development lifecycle; responsible for analysis, design, construction, testing, and production implementation of Fortis Internet Banking and Call Center front and back-office applications. Managed and coordinated the efforts related to the development, design, management, and maintenance of applications.

Worked as consultant / systems engineer for leading companies such as Motorola (telecommunications, Manugistics implementation), General Electrics (energy, Manugistics installation / implementation), Abbott Laboratories (pharmaceuticals health care, ETL implementation using Informatica / Creating Testing Scenario for Cognos / Siebel implementation), Nissan Motors (automotive, OneView / Cognos implementation), Avon (personal & household, Manugistics installation), Tyson Foods (food processing, Oracle migration / ETL applications using PERL), Coty (beauty products, Manugistics implementation), Perdue (poultry, Manugistics implementation), Dean Foods (agribusiness, Manugistics upgrade / testing / creating ETL apps using PLSQL), Smith & Nephew (medical devices, OneView / Cognos installation & tuning), Intacct (accounting software, SOA development)

Responsible for gathering, analyzing, and finalizing system requirements with business users. Designed, implemented and tuned the data models and user interface framework using Oracle 8.1.6 (8i) on Solaris with SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, Developer 2000 (Procedure Builder and Forms 4.5).Leading developper of the Internet Banking development group. Established system architecture, managed development, provided 24x7 production support. Responsible for analysis, design, and development of “EFT”, “Foreign Exchange”, “Credit Card” and “Backoffice Tools” modules. Utilized Oracle Application Server 4.0.1, Oracle PL/SQL Cartridge, Oracle Forms 4.5, HTML, CSS, JavaScript for Internet programs, and Oracle Stored Procedures for database access. Web-based Oracle Forms 6.0 was used for security, password and user management.

Baysis was one of the largest financial package vendors in the Turkish market. Responsibilities included full lifecycle software development including meeting clients to determine requirements, analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of user interfaces and databases. Presented new product releases and changes to clients. Used Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Forms, Reports, PL/SQL, and SQL across all projects.