Jan 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Leading 150+ FTEs of Data Management, AI/ML Engineering, Data Engineering, Data & Solution Architecture, Data Operations, and Business Analytics.
• Driving the LeasePlan’s strategic direction for enterprise end-to-end data analytics solutions in alignment with strategic business priorities, and enabling LeasePlan on its journey to becoming a fully digital car-as-a-service company, ensuring the correct strategy is defined and best-in-class execution is delivered.
• Executing various engineering projects, such as predictive maintenance of active vehicles (Enabled LeasEPlan to sell 250K more vehicles for a strategic customer), future cost predictions for better pricing, residual value settings, embedded analytics, robotic process automation (RPA), streaming analytics, telematics, lead scoring, mobility/car as a service, and connected cars (IoT),
• Holding the responsibility for the entire data team and execution of LeasePlan’s data strategy with proper data management principles, growing organizational AI & data engineering maturity, talent, data literacy, and organizing Executive Data Council making sure data strategy is being executed company-wide,
• Leading the change and the digital transformation globally, demonstrating how data and analytics can be used to drive great customer outcomes and business value, promoting the development of innovative new data platform and products in collaboration with business and technology stakeholders,
• Implementing MLOps strategy to ensure the availability of any data at any time, to sets standards of ML best practices and tools to improve efficiency, and enable advanced analytics across the organization, bringing new AI/ML products & services into life to secure the future of LeasePlan,
• Responsible for enterprise data assets of LeasePlan, enabling business by bridging legacy systems & modern cloud infrastructure to extract value from information, secure that information, and meet the growing list of compliance requirements,

Aug 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Reporting to the CTO, executing company-wide data strategy, leading digital transformation by building and owning the next-generation data platform,
• Leading Data Technologies Community to expand big data capabilities, normalizing data-driven decision-making process, making sure external and internal stakeholders efficiently utilize Global Data Hub,
• Supporting AI/ML initiatives to productionalize models as well as leading advanced analytics product development for business value creation,
• Scaled up agile Data Architecture & Engineering team to build next-generation Data Hub, leading the designing of a robust infrastructure for batch and real-time analytics, focusing primarily on advanced analytics use cases.
• Manage & mentor a team of engineers & architects, building DataOps structure with the use of CI/CD principles, implementing scalable and reliable near real-time data pipelines, bringing cutting edge technologies such as Sagemaker, Apache Airflow, Spark, Snowflake, modernizing the data landscape of Leaseplan.

Jul 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Executing company-wide data strategy, leading digital transformation by building and owning the next-generation data platform,
• Leading Data Technologies Guild to expand big data capabilities company-wide, normalizing data-driven decision-making process, making sure Global Data Hub is efficiently utilized by external and internal stakeholders,
• Supporting data science initiatives to productionalize AI/ML models as well as leading advanced analytics product development for business value creation,
• Responsible for enterprise data assets of Leaseplan, enabling business by bridging legacy systems & modern cloud infrastructure to extract value from information, secure that information, and meet the growing list of compliance requirements,
• Manage & mentor a team of engineers & architects, building DataOps structure with the use of CI/CD principles, implementing scalable and reliable near real-time data pipelines, bringing cutting edge technologies such as Sagemaker, Apache Airflow, Spark, Snowflake, modernizing data landscape of Leaseplan.

Jan 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Envision the future data platform strategy for digital business, implementing disruptive technologies at scale architecting Cloud Analytics, Big Data & Machine Learning systems along with Business Intelligence,
• Taking lead for establishing dedicated Data Engineering group within Logitech's Analytics and Machine Learning journey,
• Implementing Unified Analytics Platform for CTO Organization by architecting, designing, adopting and applying big data strategies, utilizing AWS EMR Spark & Snowflake Cloud Datawarehouse
• Leading the creation of enterprise data lake to centralize data from different platforms,
• Building and executing data analytics strategy, providing leadership to data organization,
• Being a trusted advisor to the business on technology vendor and solution decision.

Dec 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Netherlands

• Reporting to Chief Data Officer (CDO), working with the business leaders in defining enterprise strategies and visions for the company, leading the corporate Data Lake / Big Data and business transformation strategy utilizing Cloudera Hadoop distribution,
• A trusted Data warehouse & Business Intelligence and Analytics adviser by demonstrating professional skills and knowledge, both internally and externally,
• Brings the analytics visions to life by directing the team through the whole analytics stack, from data collection and storage, through processing and algorithms to visualizations and end-user products.
• Helping Acelity transforming itself towards a full-scale data driven organization,
• Working closely with executive committee, to ensure business and IT is aligning for ultimate corporate goals.

Sep 2007 – Dec 2014 · 7 yrs 3 mos · Netherlands

• Managed large scale offshore/onshore functional/technical team,
• Built a corporate BI Strategy and setup Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC),
• Worked as BI Lead in Global Business Transformation (GBT), as a business partner of Shared Service Center, Finance, & Operations,
• Performed stakeholder management with Business and IT executives,
• Member of Architecture Community as Data Architect, leading BI/Data Strategic roadmap,
• Owner of BI and Analytics platforms with high engagement from all business partners,
• Drove performance KPI generations, Sales Analytics, Finance, Operations, CRM, Supply Chain, MDM, Salesforce (SFDC), out of box OBIA modules (EMEA, APAC and US),
• Extensive experience on Data, BI & Analytics, continuously review the business processes, leveraging existing scorecards and analysis, and driving new reporting initiatives,
• Involved in delivering data, business analytics and reporting solutions as well as legacy system migrations (SAP to Oracle) with regard to merge & acquisition of companies,

Aug 2002 – Sep 2007 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Stevenage, UK & Ankara, Turkey

• Airbus Group is a global pioneer in aeronautics, space and defense-related services, creating cutting-edge technology, employing a workforce of 130,000+. DSG (Delta Software Group) is built up business unit for providing consultancy under a joint venture agreement with Airbus Group. DSG is also a consultancy partner of Oracle Corporation.
• Worked as a Software Group Manager, experiencing product management, business development and software engineering activities, managing 7 FTs with a budget of $2 million,
• Had extensive consultancy experience for various businesses, shaping, sizing and delivering business consulting engagements around BI and Oracle EBS implementations, including Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, CRM, and various decision support systems,
• As a business development activities, besides Oracle partnership, managed 2 strategic business partners;
• o ClearOrbit (Supply Chain Execution using Barcode/RFid in US),
• o NewGen (leading Software Company for Business Process Management, in India)
• Created a business idea that can be turned into a product, and accomplished to get financial support ($250K) from the Scientific and Technical Research Council. The project was about automating Project Monitor and Control activities of companies with the usage of efficient metric collection system. The product is patented proprietary,
• Given functional/technical consultancy to various clients as a partner of Oracle Corporation,
• Worked with a CMMI-4 processes to improve Software Engineering activities of the group.

Nov 2000 – Aug 2002 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Roketsan is a leading institution in defense technologies with designing and manufacturing missiles for National and International (NATO) programs, employing 1000+ people.
• Involved in the full system life cycle of Oracle EBS implementation, including Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales, Order to Cash,
• Responsible for Business Intelligence Reporting and Dashboarding,
• Customized Oracle EBS and added two large scope modules – Maintenance and Budget.

May 2000 – Nov 2000 · 6 mos

• Likom Software is one of the leading software houses, providing Enterprise Resource Planning applications as well as Custom Solution, employing 200+ people.
• Took part in a system integration of large scale ERP systems in a state bank worked on data migration and building interfaces between 2 data sources,
• Created various validation reports for the system integration.

Oct 1998 – May 2000 · 1 yr 7 mos

• ODTU is a public technical university located in Ankara, Turkey. It is one of the leading universities in the country in terms of research output, employing 2500+ faculty members.
• Involved in preparing various database programs utilizing Oracle such as Inventory Management and Faculty HR System,
• Designed and maintained web portals used within the university campus.