EXPERIENCES
Experteam Consulting (January 2014-…, Sector: IT Consultancy, ~300 Employees)
Software Development Center and R&D Director
- Department: Software Development Center and R&D
- Reporting Line: CEO
- Total Number of Team Members: 100+
- Direct Reports: 80+ Developers
- Responsibilities:
o Managing all developers within the company
o SDLC Methodology Setup
o Managing, evaluating and monitoring the Performance & Productivity of Development Team
o R&D Projects
o Product Development
o . NET, Java, Oracle ERP Development, Front-end Development , Business Intelligence (OBIEE, Qlikview), UX/UI Design Teams
o Outsourcing
o Team Building for Specific Projects
o Recruitment Process
Experteam Consulting (December 2011-December 2013, Sector: IT Consultancy, ~300 Employees)
Principal Sales & Account Manager
- Department: Sales & Customer Account Management
- Reporting Line: Partner, co-CEO
- Total Number of Team members: 3
- Direct Reports: 1 Sales Support Assistant, 1 Account Manager
- Responsibilities:
o Managing of 20M USD Sales & Services Budget
o Business Development, Pre-Sales and Sales activities
o Developing an internal account and vision plan for the accounts.
o Responsible for the Sales Budget and Resource Utilization
o Responsible for keeping the customer satisfaction level high.
o Project and support services management of the Oracle ERP, EPM & BI Projects in all sectors.
o Some of the major Accounts: Turkcell and Turkcell Group Companies, IsBank, Finansbank, Akbank, Türkiye Finans Participation Bank, Kuveyt Türk Participation Bank, Garanti Bank, Vakıfbank, İzmir Iron & Steel, Ege Seramic, Tesco Kipa, American Hospital, VakıfEmeklilik
Experteam Consulting (09.08.2010-December 2011, Sector: IT Consultancy, ~300 Employees)
PMO Manager
- Department: Consultancy
- Reporting Line: Consultancy Director
- Direct Reports: 7 Project Managers
- Responsibilities:
o Management of the Budget of the Consultancy Projects Portfolio (Approximately: ~ 5 M USD)
o Setting up corporate project management methodology and its application to all projects within the company.
o Constructing yearly master plan of the projects
o Roadmap Generation
o Resource Management and Resource Budgeting
o Tracking and Monitoring ongoing projects
o Performance Evaluation of the Projects and Project Managers
o Direct relationship with the customers for ongoing and potential projects.
o Controlling Statuses of the Projects
o PMO Administrative Management
o Project Documentation and Methodology Controlling and Administration
o Handling Corporate Project Library and Project Execution Processes.
o New Methodology and Process Design and Application
IBTECH – Finansbank (06.08.2007-06.08.2010)
Senior Project and Portfolio Manager
- Department: Project Management Office
- Reporting Line: PMO Director
- Direct Reports: Project Teams
- Responsibilities:
o PMO Activities such as Roadmap Generation, Reporting, Project Resource Management, Team Management, Initiatin, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Control, Closing
o Project Manager of the following projects:
§ Banca Romaneasca Card Payment Systems Project in Romania (1 million EUR budget)
§ Core Banking Projects in Treasury, Cash Management (Project Budget btw 10K-100K USD)
§ HR Management & Performance Systems (Bilin)
§ Audit & Security Projects
§ Internet Banking & Mobile Signature Projects
§ Infrastructure Projects
§ Anti-money Laundering Application Implementation of MANTAS
§ FinansFactoring Company Setup Project
§ Identity Management Systems
§ Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 Upgrade Project
§ Oracle Enterprise Asset Manager Project
§ CyberArk Privileged Identity Manager and Password Vault Implementation Project
§ Treasury Projects (Derivatives, FX Swap, Finansbank Bond)
§ And other various banking & Finance Projects.
o Portfolio Manager of Treasury, Cash Management, Private Banking Departments of Finansbank
§ Collecting, Prioritizing and Planning Change Requests from the Customer Departments
§ Roadmap Generation of the Departments.
§ Generating Yearly Strategy of the IT Projects of Departments.
İşbank, Software Development Department (01.12.2004 – 03.08.2007)
Project Manager
- Department: Software Development
- Reporting Line: Team Head
- Direct Reports: 2 Analyst, 4 Developers
- Responsibilities & Projects
o Team Management & Technical Project Management
o Resource Planning and Optimization
o Projects:
§ Human Resources Management Systems Implementation
§ Accounting Projects
§ Stock Management
§ Activity Based Management Systems
§ Audit Department Portal Implementation
§ Credit Card Application System
§ Actuarial Calculations
§ Hyperion & Budget Planning
Turkish Land Forces Engineer School and Training Center Command (01.03.2004-30.11.2004)
Reserved Officer – Military Service
Analyzed, Designed and implemented the following projects by myself.
o Admission Automation and Personal Information System (İSPER) to be used in Turkish Army‘s Training Center Commands (Program has been deployed to all Training Center Commands of Turkish Land Forces in Turkey)
o Interactive Mine Detector Operator Training Program (Program is now being used by all military classes and published in Kara.Net Program Archives)
İşbank, Software Development Department (01.09.1999-30.11.2003)
Software Expert and Project Leader
- Department: Software Development
- Reporting Line: Team Head
- Direct Reports: none
- Responsibilities & Projects
- Analysis, Design, Development of Head Office Software Projects
o Human Resources
o Accounting
o Procurement
o Audit
- MS Visual Basic, Visual Studio .Net (C#,VB.NET,ASP.NET), MS SQL Server, ASP, HTML, Java Script, MS Access, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, MS IIS 5.0.
Barkod Computer Aided Control Systems (31.08.1998-31.08.1999)
Analyst Programmer (Parttime – 3 days/week)
- Worked as a software developer for the following projects:
o Warehouse Management Systems
o Norand Handheld Computers Applications
o Call Center Management Systems
- Developed applications in C, C++, Powerbuilder, Sybase, Visual Basic
EDUCATION
- Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University (June 1999)
- İzmir Atatürk High School (1994 – Rank #1 in all classes)
CERTIFICATES
- Project Management Professional (PMP) – PMI – June 2006
- Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) – Sun Microsystems – May 2007
TRAININGS AND COURSES
· Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 ve Microsoft Visual C++ –Isbank- Eylül 1999
· .NET Leaders Education Program – Microsoft (NETRON) – March 2002
· Internet Banking – Banks Association of Turkey – 15-16 May 2003
· Unified Modeling Language (UML) – i-con – 26-20 January 2005
· Fundamentals of Rational Clear Case for Windows – Bildem – 07-08 March 2005
· SQL Server 2005 Workshop – Netron - July 2006
· 2541 Core Data Access with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 – MS - 05.10.2006 - 07.10.2006
· 2546 Core Windows Forms Technologies with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 – MS - 28.09.2006 - 30.09.2006
· 2609 Introduction to C# Programming with Microsoft .NET – MS - 19.09.2006 - 23.09.2006
· Sun Certified Java Programmer Certification Course –Bilginç – 10.10.2006-14.10.2006
· Project Management Certification Program, İstanbul Kurumsal Gelişim, March 2006.
· Ajax – I-con - 30.01.2007 – 31.01.2007
· Advanced Project Management , İstanbul Kurumsal Gelişim, 2009
· PMI Global Congress, Milano-Italy, 2010
· Team Management, Masters, 2011
· Consultant Development Training, Masters, 2011
· SalesForce & Radian6, Cloudteam
· Oracle Unified Methodology, Experteam Consulting,
·
SUCCESSES, AWARDS, PRESENTATIONS,PUBLICATIONS
· Izmir Atatürk High School Class-1, Class-2, Class-3 and Overall First Place Graduate Student (4.93/5.00)
· METU Honor List (1995-1996 Fall and Summer Semesters.)
· Engineer School and Training Center Command and Turkish Land Forces Success Awards.
· Instructor for the trainings Project Management Certification Program in Istanbul Kurumsal Gelisim.
· Master Data Management – Europe Summit 2009 – London : Collaborative Data Management Best Practices Presentations (Speaker)
· CyberArk – Customer Event, Dublin Ireland 2010 : PIM Implementation Success Story Presentation & Panel Member
· Articles:
REFERENCES & RECOMMENDATIONS
· “Burak is a solution and success oriented person. He is a strong team member with his high energy, and capable of delivering the best even under challenging circumstances. He has excellent communication skills, which differentiates him especially when combined with his customer oriented nature. It was a pleasure to meet Burak and work with him.”
Evin Köse, Business Optimization, Operational Excellence and Change Management Leader at HSBC
· “"Brilliant" is the best word which describes Burak. Such a solution-oriented, motivating and fast-thinking leader would be successful under any circumstances. I was very lucky to know and to work with him, I've learned so much thanks to this opportunity.” May 6, 2011
Mutlu Dogus Yildirim, PMP, CSM, Senior Project Manager, Experteam worked indirectly for M. Burak at Experteam
· “I have had the chance to work with Burak for two years in the PMO department of IBTECH Finansbank. Burak has very well-organized, analytical and social personality which clearly made him successful in each and every project he took on responsibility. He always followed a structured and well defined approach in his project management and maintained precise and assertive communication with his project team members. He managed to shoulder most mission-critical and innovative projects of the bank and completed them on time at right cost and with expected quality. I completely recommend Burak as an invaluable asset for any organization looking for a true professional.” October 5, 2011
Cem Ayberkin, IT Solutions Manager, Finansbank worked directly with M Burak at IBTech
· “Burak successfully accomplished many important and multinational projects. He has strong managerial skills; he is very effective in his business relations with all participants of a project including sponsors, technical managers and service providers. He is a result oriented and self determined professional with a proven record of success.” October 5, 2011
Bahar Ariturk, PMO Coordinator, Finansbank IT (IBTECH)
· “Burak is organized, focused, and persistent in his efforts to gain control of his projects, even in the face of initial skepticism and reluctance on the part of some of the involved parties. He is following sound project management principles and takes all the measures in order to keep the projects "on the right track". I highly recommend him.” December 8, 2008
Cristian Popescu, MBA PMP OCA, Manager of Project Management Department, Banca Romaneasca S.A Member of NBG Group was with another company when working with M. Burak at IBTECH A.S.
· “Burak is a solution and success oriented person. He is a strong team member with his high energy, and capable of delivering the best even under challenging circumstances. He has excellent communication skills which differentiates him especially when combined with his customer oriented nature. It was a pleasure to meet Burak and work with him.” August 12, 2013
Evin Köse, Business Optimization, Operational Excellence and Change Management Leader (Six Sigma Black Belt), Finansbank worked directly with M.Burak at IBTECH A.S.
· “Burak is one of the best colleauges I had worked with. He is a brilliant, hardworking and creative developer and project leader.” March 13, 2009
Gökhan Pişkin, Project Leader (Software Development), Isbank worked directly with M. Burak at Isbank
· “Burak Akusta is a detail oriented manager.” May 15, 2007
Yalin Yaldiz, Project leader, Isbank worked directly with M. Burak at ISBANK
