Murat Okay

Experience

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  Global Menkul Değerler A.Ş.

  Nov 1996 - Dec 1999

  Project Leader

  • Technical lead for the implementation to the operational and accounting software packages. • Tecnical lead for two successful migration projects.• End-to-end responsibility of the accounting application. • Different roles in the Trade & Settlement project developed especially for New York branch and Fixed Income Securities and Accounting Integration modules of the financial institution automation project. • Generation of new Delphi components for extended functionality and standardization. Show less

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  Aviva Hayat ve Emeklilik A.Ş.

  Dec 1999 - Mar 2006

  Senior Software Engineer

  • Project management of three concurrent projects related with the new pension core system.• Implementation of software development infrastructure (security, user privileges, activity logging and centralized control) to enforce standards.• Design and implementation of the integration interface between the core system and Oracle Financials.• Successful data migration for Oracle Financials.• Development of asset tracking software that collects hardware and software information from the PCs and servers located on the LAN or WAN.• Development of web based applications running on the intranet.• Implementation of Business Objects Universes.• Data warehouse design and contribution to the ETL procedures.• Development of Sales KPI reports and Agents commission calculation applications. Show less

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  Freelance

  Mar 2006 - Jul 2007

  Independent Consultant
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  Boyner Büyük Mağazacılık A.Ş.

  Jul 2007 - Mar 2009

  Software Development Group Manager

  • Manager for software developers group that is in charge of the development, maintenance and improvement of inhouse applications portfolio.• Development of a central management application for 300+ IBM POS in 50 stores.• Assistance and colsultancy to the IT Manager in all IT related issues.• Optimization of Oracle databases and enhancement of the business continuity procedures..• Direct contribution to the enhancement of ETL processes in order to help data warehouse group.

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  Projes İş Geliştirme A.Ş.

  May 2009 - Mar 2010

  Manager

  • Management of Project Consultants Team. • Responsible of the improvement internal/external processes and workflows.

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  Freelance

  Mar 2010 - Jul 2012

  Independent Consultant

  • Aviva Asigurari de Viata S.A., Romania (November 2010 – December 2011): - Data warehouse development from the core system application.- Identification of existing data discrepancies in the core system by using the data warehouse and including development of simulation applications for Life Insurance business.- Responsibility of data migration and migration reconciliation reports.- Technical support for IBM AIX and Oracle servers.• AvivaSA Emeklilik ve Hayat A.Ş.: Consultancy for AIA accounting integration module.• AD Yazılım Sanayi A.Ş. (March – June 2010): Design and development consultant. Show less

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  Fiba Emeklilik ve Hayat A.Ş.

  Jul 2012 - May 2013

  IT Manager

  Responsible of building the IT strategy and infrastructure of the startup life insurance company including the implementation of core insurance software, procurements and all data, voice infrastructure of the new head office.

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  Groupama Sigorta A.Ş.

  Jun 2013 - Dec 2019

  • Management of BI and software development teams.• Implementation of the Claims Fraud project with a partner: the solution not only included rule-based scoring but also machine learning and social network analysis with a return on investment of less than two months.• Built a new data warehouse solution architecture: IBM Insurance Information Warehouse (IIW) data model is preferred. All ETL routines are developed on DataStage. Used IBM CDC to capture daily changed data.• Self-service BI with IBM Cognos: all power users from different business units and trained. Providing the BI team to deal with the performance as well as data analytics.• Identified external data sources in order to use in diagnostic analytics which will also provide to go through predictive analytics. Show less • Implemented a ISO27001 compliant information security framework and documented related policies and procedures.• Participated in the implementation of the business continuity and disaster recovery plan.• Identified IT governance and IT service management problems and assisted to CIO in implementing CobIT and ITIL based frameworks.• Prepared a Groupama Group approved digital transformation plan, starting from current core system's pitfalls and business' current and possible future requirements by using TOGAF like methodology.• Technical lead for the telematics based usage based insurance (UBI) application and developed all back-end infrastructure. Show less

  • Group Manager, Information Systems

    Apr 2015 - Dec 2019

  • Manager, Information Systems

    Jun 2013 - Mar 2015
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  BMR Turkey

  Apr 2020 - now

  Chief Technology Officer