Serhat Önal, Pmp, Psm I Email & Phone Number

Istanbul, Turkey

Leading a dynamic team of 30 professionals, I oversee our mapping, hardware, and software delivery units. My passion lies in driving efficiency and excellence through automation and live reporting, continuously enhancing Pointr's delivery processes.🔧 Azure Cloud Deployments: Responsible for the fast and reliable deployment of Pointr Products on Azure Cloud.🚀 Product Leadership: As Product Manager and Lead Developer, I manage and develop over ten internal products including RAG based internal AI Bot crucial to Pointr and its partners.💼 Pre-Sales/POC Activities: Actively involved in developing Proof of Concept (POC) projects to demonstrate the value of Pointr Technology to potential clients.My role at Pointr is all about ensuring we deliver top-tier solutions with speed and precision, while constantly innovating to meet our clients' needs.

Managing 40+ Software Developers, Software Architects and Test Engineers from 10+ different countries around the world from LATAM to ASIA who are working on multiple products backlogs for clients in the list of Fortune 500. Contributing to company mission, providing quality solutions to clients, achieving strategic goals and short-term and long-term stability of the company's business. - Ensuring strategic goals are communicated and implemented in the teams. - Under budget, efficient and timely delivery of highest quality and effective solutions- Managing employee lifecycle under my supervision including recruitment, on boarding, mentorship, career/performance management , promotions and off boarding - Planning and implementing educational initiatives - Monitoring the attainments of strategic goals, KPIs and other metrics on teams, and in case of any deviations to conform with company policies and procedures- Make decisions on promotions, salaries and bonuses in accordance with the defined budget.

Istanbul, Turkey

- Solid technical background that contribute to design and architectural discussions for Multi-Tenant SaaS systems- Passion for managing, mentoring and assisting people to reach their greatest potential and career goals- Disciplined to build end-to-end DevOps processes for all development lifecycle using Azure Devops

Istanbul, Turkey

-Reporting directly to General Manager and managing +30 employees including technical team leaders, software developers, front-end developers.-Participates marketing and business development activities to enable broader product opportunities. -Mentoring and directing the team proactively to be ensure that the objectives are always on track.-Responsible for making team's yearly performance appraisals.-Responsible for team’s yearly budget and tracking Profit / Loss reports.-Taking active role for improving and delivering high quality software and planning of release strategies.-Managing multiple international (including Azerbaijan, Italy, London, Poland, Greece and France) Corporate Application software projects.-Managing many of the R&D projects that is supported by the TEYDEB and ministry of industry. Successfully completed two R&D project focuses on Machine Learning and be a pioneer for applying a patent for an algorithm used in one of the R&D projects.-Deep knowledge on project management strategies in Agile development environments. Running daily project status meetings and act as Scrum Master.-Working together with technical team leaders to focus on the technical structure of the product and give feed back to develop products with high quality and with less maintenance cost.-Sharing weekly customer based project status reports that highlight qualitative and quantitative project status.

-Primarily responsible for managing HR IT Development team consisting of software developers and system analysts. Mentoring and directing the team proactively to be ensure that the objectives are always on track. Responsible for making team's yearly performance appraisals.-Managing multiple HR software projects those with more than two years of project cycle. By making use of Team Foundation Server, MS Project and TFS Project portals, required transpareny for both team and customer is fullfilled.-Deep knowledge of project management strategies in Agile development environments. Running daily project status meetings to be ensure that there is no impediments for project and all projects are on track, and if required taking preventive and corrective actions.-Sharing weekly customer based project status reports that highlight qualitative and quantitive project status and list of risks if exists.-Direct customer relation and handling change requests according to the applied change management processes.

-Responsible for designing and managing both local and international integration projects developed using Microsoft BizTalk Server. Onsite analysis of integration projects and preparing SRAR and SDR documents. -Handling product module designs, product development. -Managing custom projects and products utilizing Microsoft Team foundation server platform using Agile methodologies.

-Responsible for development of BTI Kernel and Entity Management of comprehensive Insurance solution. Before military obligation, responsible in the production department that manages the policy creation and allows insurance agents an online platform that they can publish and manage their policies.

Bachelor, Computer Engineering

Masters, Mba

Mathematics