Metin Kaplan

Experience

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  Siemens

  Apr 2004 - Jul 2018

  Responsible for the development of two major vision software products which consist of yearly 20+ projects. Leading over 100 developers, team leaders, architects and usability experts in India (67), USA(8), and Germany (22) functionally. Pioneered the creation and growth of the team in India. Leading the design for Digital Engineering global portfolio with 40 developers. Designing and implementing critical components with respect to key requirements, communicating with product management about product features.Identifying security aspects of our products, requirement analysis regarding security aspects. Developing Alarming, Profinet and TIS modules of new PLC family S71500.Filed 4 patent disclosures during this period of time.Languages: C, C++ and JavaTools : Clearcase, Eclipse, ARTS+ Developing PPP implementation to drive a modem with Motorola 8 bits microcontrollers.Profinet and Profisafe integration for HMI products.Languages: C and C++.

  • Program Manager

    May 2014 - Jul 2018

  • Software Architect & Product Security Expert

    Jul 2010 - May 2014

  • Software Engineer

    Oct 2006 - Jul 2010

  • Software Engineer

    Apr 2004 - Oct 2006
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  Siemens Digital Industries Software

  Jul 2018 - now

  Owner of the SaaS business (strategy, delivery and P&L) of Management of Manufacturing Operations.Leading R&D, Architecture, DevOps and Product/Portfolio Management teams to deliver technology with purpose to the global customer base. Head of Engineering for several products in Production System Engineering (PSE) portfolio. Functional and organizational leader for over 150 developers, testers, architects, usability experts located in USA, Germany and India. Managing some of the other smaller products in the fields of SaaS and AI. Overall budget responsibility of 7 digits.

  • Senior Director & Head of Business (Opcenter Core and Opcenter X)

    Jul 2021 - now

  • Head of Engineering

    Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
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  California State University, Fullerton

  Aug 2023 - now

  Adjunct Professor

  Teaching CS546 (Modern Software Management) and CS464 (Software Architecture)