Work Experience

Education

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA (Aug 2020-May 2022)

  • MS (Honors) in Computer Science and Economics (3.70/4.00)

TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, TURKEY (Sep 2005-Aug 2010)

  • B.S. (Honors) in Industrial Engineering (GPA 3.42/4.00)

Professional Experience

Technical Product Manager / Risk&Data Management –Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Istanbul, TURKEY – (Jan 2018-Aug 2020)

  • Responsible for managing operational risk management and business continuity management products.
  • Achieved to launch end to end product delivery for the GRC risk management software for 4,000 users and in 415 business processes.
  • Created and maintained technical requirement documentation (eg. RFP & RFQ) of the GRC software for risk management and the mobile application of business continuity and disaster recovery.
  • Evaluated the feature delivery and tradeoffs of the products.
  • Contributed to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to the implementation of the products.
  • Implemented lean agile project management processes into the new risk management software product development program.
  • Orchestrated product development team, assigned KPIs, and managed UX design processes.
  • Increased productivity of risk management activities by 95%.

Technical Program Manager / Data Science – Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Ankara, TURKEY – (Apr 2012-Jan 2018)

  • Responsible for banknote and coin supply chains in the entire country.
  • Developed building demand forecasting models to assess regional banknote and coin demand by taking account of storage capacity and stock amount.
  • Managed cash management software development project with software development engineers, business analysts, and SMEs.
  • Identified the user requirements and prepared the RFP document of the new cash management program.
  • Conducted the implementation of cash management software to 21 branches and headquarters. Increased productivity by 85%.

Project Manager – Ahiler Regional Development Agency, Nevsehir, TURKEY – (Oct 2010-Apr 2012)

  • Responsible for budgeting and forecasting, expense reporting, risk management, status reporting, and execution of 11 development projects.
  • Developed a visualized dashboard to track and monitor 42 projects and their milestones simultaneously.
  • Managed the cash flow of projects and developed early warning systems in case of any budget limit excess.
  • Lead business transformation by analyzing and visualizing end-to-end process mapping for the company

Risk & Data Management Project – Genentech/Roche, San Francisco, CA, USA (May 2021-Aug 2021)

  • Conducted the top-down risk assessment project by using agile methodologies, facilitating risk assessment workshops, capturing risk scores and trends on Risk Matrix, updating risk dashboard on Tableau and maintaining the Risk Log.
  • Interacted with the all functions, data collection, data analysis and updating portfolio dashboard, coordinating Risk Control Self Assessment(RCSA) meetings.
  • Managed bow tie analysis to evaluate the efficiency of controls by using risk and controls data.

Risk & Data Management Intern – Halkbank A.S. Ankara, TURKEY (Apr 2010-Aug2010)

  • Developed fraud detection tools by analyzing incident report data.
  • Responsible for analyzing and monitoring operational risk incident reports by collecting and processing data from risk incident databases.

Project Management Intern – Siemens A.G Istanbul, TURKEY – (Jan 2010-May 2009)

  • Created ROI models of healthcare management system to analyze the cash flow of investments.
  • Responsible for ROI analysis for Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS).

Data Science Intern – Anadolu Metallurgy, Ankara, TURKEY (Jan 2008-May 2009)

  • Created demand forecasting models and optimized machine flow-shop scheduling.
  • Managed to increase productivity by 9%.
  • Gold medal award and the certificate of the best internship of the year by the Faculty of Engineering of TOBB University of Economics and Technology due to my contribution to the company.

Personal Development

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