WORK EXPERIENCE
Uygulamaliverimadenciligi.com (02/16 - Now) Trainer, Consultant
- Applied data mining training program via RapidMiner.
- Clustering, classification, association rule mining, recommender systems, time series analysis on marketing, finance data
FORMETRE (02/16 - Now)
Co-Founder
- Founded mHealth startup on wearable technologies.
- Algorithm development for calorie calculation and MET.
- Specified software requirements, system architecture and developed UI design for mobile application.
- Managed vendor activities for mobile development.
- Business development activities with various parties (Turkcell, fitness centers, dieticians, manufacturer).
- Skills: Business development, System Requirement Specification, Project Management, Vendor Management, Data Analysis (mining data from MySQL DB)
EMAKINA.TR, European Digital Agency (08/15 – 02/16) Director
- Designed and implemented performance management system.
- Improved recruitment process.
- Recruited high profile managers and software developers.
- Implemented emloyee engagement survey and directed follow up actions.
- R&D grants application (TUBİTAK TEYDEB).
- Initiated weekly employee training sessions.
- Skills: Performance Management, Recruiting, Organizational Management
AVANDEL, Salesforce Certified Partner (03/14 – 07/15) Director
- Served as the Executive Director of R&D Center of Avandel, Salesforce Certified IT Consultancy Partner
- Managed daily operations, software development and business development efforts.
- Implemented QA & standardization to Agile Software Delivery process (daily scrums, sprint planning, sprint retrospective).
- Project manager for Force.com implementation projects.
- Acted as escalation manager for EMEA projects.
- Built out both management layers as well as technical layers of delivery center by recruiting highly capable talent.
- Skills: Engagement management, enterprise cloud applications, project management, proposal writing, EVM, Agile SW development, business development, SW requirements analysis, Salesforce CRM.
VESTEL, Customer Services (10/13 – 03/14) Business Support Manager
- Managed quality and process management functions in Customer Services Center.
- Business development and project management for various decision support systems used in center.
- Skills: Project management, KPIs, business development, quality management, SW requirements analysis, SAP CRM.
VESTEL, R&D - Innovation Management (05/11 – 10/13)
Senior Researcher/Project Manager
- Lead recommendation engine project for Vestel Smart TV that recommends multimedia content and TV programs depending on user profile.
- Acted as project coordinator for various EU/government funded R&D projects (AppsGate, Global ITV). Proposal preperation and coordination activities.
- Acted as coordinator for Vestel Technology Academy, a collaborative program with Özyeğin University aimed towards providing graduate education to Vestel engineers onsite. Taught Quantiative Decision Making, Data Mining and Innovation and Technology Management.
- Skills: Project management, innovation and technology management, business development, proposal management, SW requirements analysis, recommender systems, data mining, MS SQL Server, Perl, MS Office.
VESTEL, IT (09/09 – 05/11)
IT Specialist
- Vendor selection and management for IT projects.
- Requirement analysis, solution design and project management for SAP projects.
- Skills: Sourcing, project management, requirement analysis, negotiations, business development, SAP.
MOPROMO (07/08 – 09/09)
Co-Founder
- Created the business idea and prepared the business plan for a company specialized in Bluetooth marketing, which enables companies to distribute advertising/promotional content (image, audio, video files) to bluetooth enabled mobile phones of customers.
- Sourced the bluetooth server units from a Thailand based manufacturer.
- Prepared governmental R&D funds applications (TEYDEB, KOSGEB).
- Successfully implemented the network in Romania (50 different locations including McDonalds restaurants and bars in Bucharest) and launched Carlsberg EURO 2008 mobile advertising campaign.
- Skills: Project management, risk management, MS Project Server, MS Office.
AYESAŞ, PMO (05/04 – 07/08)
Project Management Specialist
- Assisted technical project managers in project planning, control and performance management for 6 different C4I projects with CMMI Level 3 process maturity.
- Skills: Project management, risk management, Primavera, MS Office.
EDUCATION
MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Informatics Institute Ankara, Turkey
Ph.D., Information Systems, January 2011 2004-2011
- Research topics: Data mining techniques for massive data sets, algorithm development, decision support systems.
- Skills: Java, MySQL, RapidMiner, WEKA.
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, Dwight Look College of Engineering College Station, TX, U.S.A.
M.Eng., Industrial Engineering, May 2004 2002-2004
- Research topics: Advanced logistics, supply chain management, algorithm development.
- Full scholarship awarded during graduate studies.
- Skills: C++, Matlab.
BİLKENT UNIVERSITY, Faculty of Engineering Ankara, Turkey
B.S., Industrial Engineering, June 2002 1998-2002
- Full scholarship awarded during undergraduate studies.
- Skills: SPSS, Lindo, SIMAN.
AWARDS
- Ranked 2nd in graduation in class of 1998 Izmir Ataturk Lisesi among 400 graduates.
- Ranked 56th in university entrance exam in 1998 among 1.5 million.