Volkan is a highly experienced leader and professional with proven skills in digital transformations and product management, inclined toward data-driven insights, creative solutions, and management. He started his career as a Development Engineer for Ericsson and later on handled risk management, analysis, and organization software systems for JP Morgan. Volkan has also delivered over 100 projects as a Managing Partner for Business Integration Partners in Turkey.
Create the list of backlog items and prioritize them based on the overall strategy and business objectives and making the list accessible and available to all stakeholders.
Prioritizing the needs in terms of product features and align them with the stakeholders' feedback.
Overseeing product development and permanently communicating with the development team for planning, reviewing and refining the requirements.
Delivered over 100 projects for toptier banks including but not limited to Acquiring: Retention reduction, Issuing: Payments digital strategy, Issuing: Campaign roadmap design.
Handled commercial card design and consumer-to-commercial migration big data model development for East European bank.
Worked with a major Turkish bank, implementing strategy for purchasing card and go-to-market plan development for purchasing card.
The project involved the creation of a mobile card management/loyalty app. The application offers a campaign mode according to Turkey's Axess Mobil'l to easily follow the attached according to your mood and everything about your card and Akbank. I led the project to design the app, run PMO, conducting launch and post-launch activities. The software development was handled by bank's internal team.
The project was an ATM replatforming for enhanced omnichannel banking. I led the team designing ATM user flows to better integrate a digital omnichannel environment.
I was the lead developer of the cluster module (network side fast path) of SpinServer which at the time beat out the then-current file server (from NetApp) by a factor of 2x on the industry-standard benchmark (SpecFS).
Education
MBA
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
2002 - 2005 (3 years)
MS Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
1998 - 1999 (1 year)
BSc Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science