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- Data Migration of CRM System for AL-FA Objekt Service Gmbh
- Microsoft Software Resales Partnership
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Senior Manager, Solution Architect
Cognizant Technology
- Germany Market Leader Telco: Deutsche Telekom – BI Framework: As Data Modeler & Designer modelled DMs using Innovator by analyzing various data sources and Kafka topics as well, and then transferred design to development team.
- Global Pharma: MSD – DWH Re-engineering on AWS Redshift w/ Matillion: AWS Data Architect integrating with IQVIA, implemented required PostgreSQL scripts and Matillion jobs.
- Global Pharma: Merck KGaA – Batch DB Re-engineering on MS SQLDB w/ SSIS: As MS Data Architect reconfigured the MS SQL Server DB Landscape to re-engineer integration of MS SQL Server based Badge DB with SAP clients Materials (PIM) module over MS SSIS.
- Global Tire Manufacturer: Continental – IT Operations AI Engine on AWS w/Knime: As AI Solution Architect engineered an AI based Recommendation Engine on top of AWS S3 Buckets.
- Global Telco: Telefonica – Splunk Governance: As Solution Architect & Project Manager re-engineered the Splunk transform.
- Global Energy Retailer: EON – E-Commerce AI Assessment: As Azure Data Architect designed the migration of ERP data on to SQL Server Service on Azure.
Experienced Manager, Big Data Architect
Accenture Germany
- Global Pharmaceutical Manufacturer: Bayer – Data Lake Engineering: Created the Data Lake integration architecture on AWS S3 Buckets with Talend for Big Data. Lead the delivery and guided Talend BDE developers to get Data Lake integrated with sources like IoT Stream.
- Global Home Appliance Manufacturer: Arcelik Beko – Data Lake PoC w/ Informatica: Implemented data ingestion ETL jobs, which is parsing and transforming csv data with Informatica PC. Demonstrated how to govern and analyze data in a Cloudera Data Lake.
- Financial Regulatory Institute: European Central Bank (ECB) – Data Factory: Accenture developed a data factory of Financial PIM consisting of a data lab in the form of a data lake. Worked as a Solution Architect, who understands the requirements, reviews the design, parsed xml data, plans and estimates the cost of delivery by either of Informatica BDE, Cloudera, HDFS, Hive, Spark, Tableau, Microsoft R.
Founder, Managing Partner
BA Technology
- Retail Distributor of Procter & Gamble: Aykanlar Group – Enterprise DWH and Reporting w/ ADF: Design and implemented DWH on Azure SQL DB by Azure Data Factory. Migration of legacy ERP Data on SQL Server On-Premises to Azure. Sales, Stock, and Financial Reporting by PowerBI.
- Leading Airlines: Turkish Airlines – Data Governance Reporting: Installation and configuration of Cognos Analytics RedHat environments, and integration of THY CRM and Campaign Management systems based on IBM MDM & PIM and Unica. Customization of Cognos package and reports compliant to THY Master Data Model. Training given for Cognos Connection, Report Studio, and Framework Manager.
- Start-Up E-Commerce: Vivense – Open Source DWH: Designed and implemented an enterprise DWH over on-premises MySQL DB built on data unification and integration solutions by open-source tools (Talend DI) by enterprise reporting over Cloud (PowerBI). Designed a Digital E-Commerce DataMart over Google Analytics, Facebook, RTBHouse, Criteo, Ligatus Analytics. Training given for MS Power BI and Query Editor.
- Textile: Lufian – Power BI Training: Training given for MS Power BI, SSRS, SSAS. Re-designed MS SQL Server landscape to integrate with MS SSAS. Configured MS SQL Server for HA & DR.
- Leading Manufacturing: Pladis (Godiva – United Biscuits) – Master Data Management: MDM Architect & Data Modeler on Informatica MDM and PIM for Customer, Material, Product Planning, Vendor and Chart of Accounts domains w/ HCL UK. I designed master data migration with DQ and DI from 10 sources (5 SAPs, 2 Oracle based App, AS400, 2 file sys). Application Integration Architect guiding design of IBM IIB web service interfaces consuming MDM. Reconfigured MS SQL Server landscape and DB instances for HA & DR of MDM systems.
- Leading E-Commerce: n11.com – DWH BI Reengineering Roadmap: BI (Data Integration, Warehousing, Reporting) Architect & Enterprise Architect.
- American Emerging Telco: Smart Telecom – Enterprise DWH (Uganda): Lead Architect & Data Warehouse Modeler as IBM TDW SME.
- Internal BA Technology Products: Built a Company Registration Check Web Service on Cloud based on C# and JS. Built a low-cost Retail DWH (SQL Server, MySQL) as a Service on Cloud (Azure).
Manager, Information Architect & Data Modeler | Managing Consultant, Delivery Team Leader & Business Development Manager
IBM Global Services
- Responsible from career and capability development of 5+ Consultants and Architects.
- Leading a growing delivery team of 4 analysts and 8 developers.
- Marketing IBM offerings to CXOs, qualify business opportunities, develop business cases, plan & offer BI projects.
- Conduct CXO visits to identify clients’ business pains and qualify new projects.
- Emerging Bank: Halkbank – Enterprise IT Transformation: Recommended IT Transformation Roadmap for real-time operations and analytics for bank enterprise. Training given for IBM BDW Data Model.
- Market Leading Retailer: CarrefourSA – Master Data Migration: Lead Architect responsible from the design of the migration of Customer and Promotion System.
- Leading Banks: Financial DWH Modeling Training Given: Instructed this boot camp to educate IBM consulting team on banking data models and source to target mapping samples from projects including CIBC USA, Halkbank Turkey, Siam Bank Thailand, Akbank Turkey, and GE Finance USA.
- Emerging Telco: Vodafone – Fixed DWH & BI Solution: Project Leader responsible from planning and managing the scope and design of the BI platform. Lead Architect reviewing and guiding design of modeling and mapping of DWH in TD cLDM; DMs in IBM TDW model and reporting in SAP BO and the Data Integration (ETL) solution with ODI on Exadata.
- Market Leading Retailer: CarrefourSA – IT Transformation: Program Manager responsible from planning and managing the scope and reviewing design documents. Supporting Steering Committee in communication with Carrefour Group for Company Divorce.
- Market Leading Telco: Turkcell – Big Data Mart: Proposal of a solution for a data mart modeled on IBM TDW – Customer Churn Analysis near real-time integrated with Enterprise DWH by IBM Streams.
- Emerging Telco: Avea – Smart Product Catalogue: Proposal of a solution for a product catalogue modeled on IBM MDM mapped to Product and Condition subject areas of DWH modeled on IBM TDW.
- Market Leading Bank: Akbank – DWH Consulting & Maintenance Services: Credit Risk Scoring Data Architect responsible from design & built of Oracle DM and SAS DB of aggregated metrics.
- Market Leading Bank: Akbank – Product Pricing Hub: PPH Project Manager, delivered by a team of 1 senior and 3 on-site consultants with offshore development. Data Architect of Flexible Pricing Hub providing customer centric smart analytical online pricing. Designing Logical/Physical data model of a performance tuned OLAP and an ETL solution for integration with DWH. Application Architect of the rule-based decision tool (WebSphere ILOG BRMS) for dynamic pricing hub.
- Market Leading Bank: Yapi Kredi Bank – Multi Channel Assessment: Data Architect for analysis of legacy data structures and design of a multi-channel enabled enterprise data model.
- Emerging Telco: Avea – Financial Reporting Workshop: Workshop with financial reporting business and IT users; identified AS-IS and TO-BE pictures; and provided advisory with roadmap to set up an easy to maintain flexible reporting solution. Modeled Involved Party and Arrangement subject areas on IBM TDW for financial reporting.
Senior Consultant, Data Integration & Analytical Reporting
Accenture Turkey
- Global Telco: Vodafone – Ceylan (Genesys) Program: Led DWH Integration & Reporting Stream. Data Integration Architect for design and offshore development of DWH Integration. Training of designed innovative data integration solution with a discard-resend queue mechanism. Scope included Siebel CRM, Kenan Billing, Data Model, Billing/Account, Asset & Contact Services, Payment System, Service Requests Mediation System, CDRs, Order Management, and Dunning System.
- Market Leading Bank: Yapi Kredi Bank – Open World: Analyses and design of merchant operations for credit card system. Data Architect for analysis and design of Conceptual and Logical data model of a normalized operational DB. Data Integration with DWH and data migration of legacy system sequential files to operational DB.
- Emerging Telco: Avea – Campaign Management Analytics: Customization of OoB ETL processes extracting from Oracle CRM Marketing to OBAW by Informatica. Training given for Reporting by OBIEE.
- Emerging Telco: Wind Infostrada – Phoenix Analytics (Rome, Italy): Implementation of fully custom ETLs creating OBAW by Informatica and DAC. Design and implementation of Oracle BI Repository, Answers & Dashboards for the new operational reporting system from legacy CRM platform.
- Emerging Telco: Vodafone – Integrated Desktop Solution for Call Centre: Analysis of legacy call center applications; and comparison of candidate products: Jacada & MS CCF.
- Market Leader Telco: Turk Telekom – IPTV Solution: Preparation of the solution covering SDP, Content Management & Protection, Broadcast Streaming, STB, Home Gateway, Network Management Platform, SPE Management, IPTV Probes QoS, and DSL Lines.
- Emerging Telco: Avea – 3G Transition Organizational Assessment: Assessment methodology to measure skills required for 3G operations and headcount sizing for 3G transition.
- Market Leader Telco: Turkcell – SDP: Design and implementation of synchronous BPEL processes with extensive usage of PL/SQL, XML and required technologies for SDP including SO. Training of company and client team on development.
Product Development Engineer
Arcelik Beko
- Responsible from production quality and development of tumble dryer electronic card.
- Enhanced after sale enterprise technical informing operations.
- Error analysis by statistical data analysis in 6Sigma methodology by Minitab.
Business Analyst
Barem Research International
- Managed and executed 2 research projects in Automobile and FMCG market by 4 interviewers employed.
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Experienced in Telecommunication, Information Technology, Retail, Manufacturing, Banking and Finance, and Pharmaceutical.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management, Research and Development, Product Development, and Quality Assurance.
Summary
With over 18 years of experience in Analytics technologies and business, I specialize in Data Architectures and (Analytic or MDM) Modelling, and project management with Agile Methodology. I have a proven track record of managing and mentoring teams, driving strategic initiatives, and delivering complex projects on time and within budget.
My expertise spans Big Data Engineering, Data Lakes & DWH Solutions, Master Data Management, MDG, (MDM), Data Modeling (including Data Vault), and Application Integration. I have developed industry-specific Data & Process Models for the Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, and Banking sectors.
I possess significant experience in Data Engineering (Hadoop, HDFS, Cloudera, Kafka, Confluent) and have led Technology Transformations. My cloud platform expertise includes extensive work with Microsoft Azure, focusing on designing and implementing DBaaS solutions and data integration services.
As a member of international committees such as the IBM Big Data Community (USA) and Vodafone Global Data Modeling Board (UK), I have guided global projects and development teams. I often serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), providing best practice advice.
Skills
Programming: T-Sql; Pl/Postgresql; Python; Pandas; C#; Java; Nosql; Java Microservices; Azure; Aws
Information Technology Know How & Software Development: Di Etl Design By Informatica Powercenter; Idq; Talend Os & Bdm; Ms Ssis; Ibm Data/Quality Stage; Knime
Big Data Exploration: Hiveql; Nosql; Informatica Bde; Talend Bde; Ibm Infosphere & Data Stage; Hdfs
Dwh Design & Management: Ms Sql Server; Aws S3; Redshift; Oracle; Azure Data Lake Store; Azure Data Factory
Modeling: Power Designer; Erwin; Ibm Rda; Innovator
Statistical Analysis: Python; Pandas On Jupyter Notebooks
Master Data Management (All Domains): Informatica Edc; Pim; Ibm Mdm; Talend Mdm; Sap Mdg
Data Quality With Profiling & Analysis: Quality Stage; Idq
Reference Data Governance: Informatica Rdm
Industry Data Models: Teradata Communication Logical Data Model (C-Ldm); Ibm Telecommunication Data Warehouse Model (Tdw); Ibm Banking Data Warehouse Model (Bdw); Teradata Financial Services Logical Data Model (Fs-Ldm)
J2ee Web Services Implementation: Ibm Rsa
Application Integration: Soapui; Ibm Iib
Soa Implementation: Oracle Bpel
Workflow Management: Aws Airflow
Reporting: Power Bi; Ssas; Cognos Analytics; Oracle Bi; Splunk
Business Rule & Decision Engine: Ibm Odm
Budget Planning: Cognos Tm1; Oracle Hyperion
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Education
Bilkent University
Bachelor of Science, Honor Degree · Electrical & Electronics Engineering · Ankara, Turkey · 3.13
Specialised in Telecommunication and Image Processing. Worked as student in Telecommunication and Survey industry.
Certifications & licenses
Architectural Thinking
IBM
Banking Data Warehouse Modeling
IBM
Big Data Solutions
IBM
BizSpark Startup Program Grad.
Microsoft
Cognos Analytics
IBM
Core Consulting School
Accenture
Design Thinking Academy
Accenture
Leader Foundation Program
IBM
NGOSS Architectures And Apps
Accenture
PMP Fundamentals
IBM
Quality Center
HP
Siebel Analytics
Siebel
Siebel Core Consultant
Siebel
Technical Leadership University
IBM
Technology School
Accenture
Telecommunication Market WS
IBM
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