Vural Aktas

Experience

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  Swissport

  May 2016 - Jul 2017

  Team Leader

  • Led and managed all operations, ensuring a safe and secure turnaround for all flights.• Provided administrative support to the PMO team, preparing meeting agendas and status reports.• Supervised all project teams, and increased on-time departures by 50% for stakeholders in Q3.• Conducted project audits, ensuring compliance with standards, resulting in a 10% risk reduction.

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  Ryanair - Europe's Favourite Airline

  May 2019 - Apr 2021

  Project coordinator

  • Managed all phases of the project lifecycle, initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.• Developed and maintained project plans, schedules, timelines, and budgets utilizing Excel, achieving a 30% increase in project efficiency and ensuring on-time delivery and within budget.• Implemented strategies to mitigate scope creep, ensuring projects were on track at all times.• Implemented an ERP system, reducing order processing time by 30% and inventory costs by 20%.• Developed new processes to enable scoping and solution planning stages to be executed in a more streamlined, cost-effective and structured manner, reducing programme costs by £750k per year.• Led several IT-related projects, resolving a backlog of 5,000 issues related to Engineering and IT. Show less

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  Sky

  Nov 2021 - Jan 2023

  Project Coordinator

  • Successfully delivered the multi-million-pound Sky Glass TV project, on time and within budget.• Communicated with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with business goals. Subsequently reducing scope creep by 50% through collaboration.• Collaborated with the PMO to produce an integrated programme and schedule cost profile.• Managed delivery of a large-scale, multi-phase multi-million-pound IT and business change project. Reduced manpower savings by 80 full-time equivalent, and reduced IT expenditure by £150k pa.• Reduced project risks, and cut down change budget expenditure by £450k through implementing RAID and SWOT analysis, identifying risks, and implementing mitigation strategies.• Utilized Power BI dashboards, resulting in a 20% project reporting and a 15% increase in data accuracy, leading to analytical and best evidence-based decision-making. Show less

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  AK Online

  Jan 2023 - now

  IT Project Manager

  • Managed the implementation of IT infrastructure projects, reducing yearly IT spending by 65%.• Oversaw cloud migration projects of older systems to new IT infrastructure using Agile methods, improving system reliability and achieving a £55k reduction per year in operation costs.• Led the successful transition of data to cloud-based systems, increasing work efficiency by 80 FTE.• Developed an internal company-specialised CRM, increasing customer analytics by 40%.• Decreased project risks by 45% through designing robust project governance measures, including risk management and issue reporting to facilitate informed decision-making throughout the project. Show less

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  HITEC

  Apr 2023 - Jul 2023

  Apprentice Project Manager (3 month apprenticeship)

  • Implemented a project tracking system that improved and led to a 25% reduction in delivery delays.• Lead cross-functional stakeholders and teams to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables.• Managed project documentation such as project plans, risk registers, status and highlight reports. • Communicated effectively with stakeholders to gather requirements and provide project updates.• Developed Work Breakdown Structure, Risk and Issue Logs, RACI Matrix, and documents for the implementation Plan for Testing and Production deployment of the Project. Show less