Experience

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  Pamukbank a.ş.

  May 1996 - Jun 2000

  System analyst & programmer

  Joined Pamukbank as a fresh graduate system analyst & programmer and made contribution to “Commercial Credits” and “Foreign Trade” banking application projects within Mistral platform, which is still used as a core banking application platform of Halkbank.

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  Bnp paribas fortis

  Jun 2000 - Oct 2010

  Managed heterogeneous set of business-critical applications and products, infrastructures and cross-cutting functional services linked to both business and technical domains like CRM, Data Warehouse, BI and Reporting, Customer Profitability, as well as leading the bank’s Application Framework, Development Environments and Tools.Selected Accomplishments● Creator and chief architect of eBank SSO, enterprise banking application platform of Fortis Bank Turkey, sitting on the center of the company’s fully thin client, web-based operational model by enabling scalability and horizontal growth on virtualized JavaEE clusters and .Net farms, as well as innovatively simplifying service orchestration and interoperability of whole banking applications.● Designed best in class CRM solutions by inspiring and coordinating cross-bordered business domains to provide solutions that is fully aligning with IT architecture and organization’s retail growth strategy, as well as delivering the following solutions; o FOREST, enterprise data warehouse o PVA, customer and product oriented CRM Marketing DataMart o BPS, multi-dimensional customer profitability system o BI & Interactive Reporting solution selection and integration with eBank SSO o Campaign Management System, in-house web-based technology solution, fully integrated with CRM system that is enabling business to design, build and deliver campaigns on distribution channels without any IT intervention. o PROMIS, automation of Fortis Turkey agile project management and governance model, by proposing, implementing, and delivering integrated SDLC management solution on MS TFS. o Rebranding, transformation of DışBank to Fortis Bank within 6 months, by successfully identifying, planning and implementing changes related with the CRM, data warehouse and application infrastructure. Show less Designed and developed all core components of thin-client web-based new banking application framework on Java MVC to better support company’s accelerated growth strategy in commercial and retail banking.Selected Accomplishments● Creator, lead architect, and hands-on developer of o E-Bank, 1st web-based, thin-client core banking application framework in Turkey. o S-Bank, role based core banking identity & access management system. o JES, web-based enterprise job scheduling, execution, and monitoring system. Show less

  • Director of Core Banking Software Architecture & Data

    Jan 2005 - Oct 2010

  • Software Development Team Manager

    Jun 2000 - Dec 2004
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  Teb

  Oct 2010 - Oct 2011

  Managed all information technology assets of 5 big subsidiaries of TEB (TEB Leasing, TEB Factoring, TEB Portföy, TEB Cetelem, TEB Kosova) including more than 50 IT talents, software, infrastructure, budget, and vendor agreements.Acted as CIO role for each company as well as reporting to TEB CIO and demonstrated superior executive ability in a highly challenging merger environment by effectively leading teams to realize business strategies and visions of each company.Selected Accomplishment● Led IT Migration process of Fortis Leasing to TEB Leasing, inspired confidence and respect by successfully planning, executing and completing highly complicated enterprise wide migration project with almost zero issue. Show less

  • Director of Group Companies Application Development

    Apr 2011 - Oct 2011

  • Director of Functions & Shared Services

    Oct 2010 - Apr 2011
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  Planera teknoloji a.ş.

  Nov 2011 - Jun 2015

  Managing partner, cto

  Attracted to spirit of entrepreneurship, accepted the invitation to join the start-up company, PLANERA Teknoloji, as CTO to deliver managed application development services mainly for banks along with consultancy and project management services.Made a substantial contribution to the continuing operation and growth of the organization by performing workload and cost estimation activities, architecting, designing, and preparing solution proposals, leading and coaching teams to identify, analyse and solve business-critical and technically complex problems as well as acting as a company executive during implementation and steering period of projects.Selected Accomplishments● Generated 80% of total revenue of company by successfully delivering highly complex 6 turn-key banking software and integration projects within 3.5 years (8.000 man-days in total) o FI LRC - Financial Institutions Limit Risk Control and Automation o CCR - Counterparty Credit Risk Control o Treasury Risk Calculation Engine Localization & Integration with Bank Austria o Treasury Currency Swap and Package Swap Projects o Vostro Accounts, SWIFT & EFT Automation Project o FX Operations Automation , Order Management and Market data Integration with TradAir (Israel Company) through FIX Streaming Protocol Show less

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  Sistas sayisal iletisim a.s.

  Jun 2015 - Jun 2019

  Assistant general manager, evp (software)

  Enabled company in the area of software development by setting, managing and executing all aspects of software development objectives and strategies.Selected Accomplishments● Created unique strategic value by transforming newly hired fresh graduates to a highly competent and productive software development center / team that will empower company to build cloud-enabled products from vision to release, aligning with multi-lingual, multi-tenant, resilient and scalable target micro-services architecture.● Shifted company focus to product development and delivered industry-leading, cloud-enabled 5 new strategic software products which dominated / lead company’s product line in quality and cost competitiveness and opened the doors for winning multi-million dollar new enterprise deals. o SMART – Subscriber Management & Reporting ToolkitEnabled company to win a big share in IGA deal.Serving at Istanbul Grand Airport to fully automate multi-tenant telephony, video conferencing and fax subscriptions and management. o CAMPUS - Omni-channel Campaign Management ProductAwarded by TUBITAK 1507 Grant Program in the context of innovative R&D project. o SVR - Voice Recording & Monitoring ProductServing in more than 100 enterprise and mid-sized companies as a call center voice and video recording solution. o EVA – Call Center Quality Management ProductEnabled IBB (İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality) Call Center deal. o CCMobile - Call Center Monitoring (mobile app. for Android & IOS), serving at 2 banks in Turkey. Show less

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  Gtech (g teknoloji bilişim san ve tic aş.)

  Jul 2019 - Jan 2020

  Data management & analytics group director

  Managed all aspects of product development and consultancy services activities of company for the domains,● Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence● Big Data & Analytics● Enterprise Performance Management● Database & System ManagementDirect Reports: 2 directors, 3 managers, 65+ FTE in total.

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  Garanti bbva teknoloji

  Jun 2020 - Feb 2024

  Director, unit manager (treasury banking)

  Managed all information technology assets of Treasury Banking and CIB including internal and outsource talents, software, infrastructure, 3rd party applications, integrations, budget, and vendor agreements.Direct Reports: 5 managers, 80 FTE (56 insource, 24 outsource) in totalBudget: ~$15Mio (Capex & Opex)Selected Accomplishment● Started Murex Transformation program which will cover FO, MO, Risk implementation of 88 Fx, derivatives and fixed income securities treasury products. ● Started Treasury Banking Technology Transformation program to replace existing mainframe applications with Garanti BBVA ARK microservices architecture. ● BBVA ION Integration project to enable Turkish bonds to the BBVA global customers. ● Design and implementation of ARK Code Generator which generates full functional crud microservices application with Cells web components frontend, API gateway, ARK backend and database persistence layers from given domain model. Show less