Betül Akdemir

Experience

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  AIESEC

  Mar 2012 - Dec 2012

  Member of Technical Traineeship
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  TÜVASAŞ

  Jun 2012 - Jun 2012

  Sales and Marketing Intern
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  Microsoft

  Aug 2013 - Aug 2013

  Intern
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  MieS Marmara Industrial Engineering Society

  Oct 2013 - Jun 2014

  Member
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  Hyundai Assan

  Jul 2014 - Jul 2014

  Sales Intern

  • Learned about Hyundai sales operation, how do they use MS Dynamics CRM and SAP, prepared operations reporting. Improved my Korean with native speakers in Hyundai. Had casual conversation sessions with Sales and Marketing Director (Bang Sun Jeong) every day. Developed a simple app for Hyundai and published on Windows Store.

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  Microsoft

  Aug 2014 - Jul 2017

  • Program manager of the MyLibrary app which allows visually impaired to connect Bosporus University online library and listen 23,000 books from anywhere (mobile, laptop, tablet etc.) Project had MS CEO and COO visibility, we did demo the app to MS SLT on June 30th. • Leading community of developers for developing accessible apps. • Managing budget of the CTO TRUST founded activities across segments. • Organized two tough OSS on Azure workshops with partner in Ankara and Istanbul, 72 customers attended, opportunities identified. • Worked with Redmond/Shanghai product development teams to test Turkish text to speech engine which is released already. Played role in accessibility projects to transform education of kids with hearing, visual and physical disabilities working with MoE Show less • Ambassador of Microsoft technologies in Marmara University through MSP program. • Organized software development events in high schools as part of Open Academy program (local initiative in Turkey)• Delivery sessions of game developing to students. Gave speeches about Kodu Game Lab at Toki Primary School, 10-year-old students developed their first game in 2 hours • Presented in Hour of Code events in MS Turkey to teach coding to kids. Developed 15 apps, used mostly Construct2 and Unity tools to develop games. Had two blogs, first one is about game developing and second one is about Azure platform. Involved mentor-mentee project and my mentor was a sales manager at Microsoft Turkey. Show less

  • Long Term Central Marketing Group Intern

    Aug 2015 - Jul 2017

  • Microsoft Student Partner

    Oct 2013 - Aug 2015

  • Summer Intern

    Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
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  ModernAssist

  Sept 2014 - Jul 2017

  Manager

  ModernAssist is a project that aims to make all Windows store apps accessible for the blind.

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  Otokoç Otomotiv

  Sept 2017 - Jan 2022

  • Mentor and coach of product managers • Define and drive the product vision and strategy• Understand customer and market needs, and conduct competitive and customer analysis• Collaborating closely with operation teams, engineers, and data experts being part of reaching our goals for hyper-scaling • Lead a team of product managers to create inspiring products that meet and align with business objectives and goals • Stay aware of the latest developments in the product management field, and introduce new techniques to improve the team’s effectiveness • Ensuring that Product learnings and insights are shared and applied across the organisation • Develop the product strategy and roadmaps according to company strategy • Determine the product prioritization according to the business cases • Drive product vision, roadmap and strategy with business cases, product success metrics, design thinking, customer feedback, market research and competitive analysis • Working with various teams and users to understand and define user and business needs • Drive delivery of new features with other product owners, engineering and data science teams • Interact with and fully understands end users and their needs by retrieving feedbacks• Has a deep understanding of customer problems and identifies opportunities for improvement Show less • Responsible for products, mainly focus on After Sales Operations, Finance and AI• Define product vision, strategy and designing path to its realization• Identify viable business problems, convert business ideas into concepts of data / AI products• Not only collect requirements or ideas for products / features but be able to proactively generate them• Manage product backlog, prioritize requests according to Otokoc’s strategies, business values and users’ voice• Prepare roadmaps according to market needs and competition• In 2019, prioritized and finished projects that worth more than 50 Million ₺• Manage stakeholders of the data / AI products• Guide more than one scrum teams following the defined agile methodologies• Educated on “AI Programming with Python” and part of the Women in AI program of Koc Holding• Managing two pioneer AI projects• Create effective user stories and their acceptance criteria• Take care of „definition of done”Ensure that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, clear to all, and show what the Team will work on next Show less •Developing with C#, Sql and Python•Responsible for the newly developing Business Process Management tool which will be used by most of the departments to lead their projects. Designed business flows and made automations•Designed UX and UI of the Ticket system, currently being used across more than 4 countries within the company, supports both English and Turkish•Trained about 6-sigma and lean, leading a project•Trained about MVC and Xamarin•Detecting problems in the car care services and solving them Show less

  • Head of Product

    Sept 2021 - Jan 2022

  • AI Product Owner

    Dec 2018 - Sept 2021

  • Software Specialist

    Sept 2017 - Dec 2018
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  Flix

  Mar 2022 - now

  • Expert Product Owner

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Senior Product Owner

    Mar 2022 - Oct 2023