Volkan K.

Volkan K.

Senior Product Owner

Istanbul, Turkey
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About Me

Volkan is a Senior Product Owner and an experienced leader and professional with proven skills in digital transformation and product management, with a focus on data-driven insights, creative solutions, and management. He started his career as a development engineer for Ericsson and later 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.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Product Owner
2021 - Present (4 years)
Remote
  • Prioritizing client needs in terms of product features and aligning them with stakeholder feedback.

  • Overseeing product development and communicating with the dev team to plan, review, and refine requirements.

  • Acting as a primary communicator and link between stakeholders.

BIP (Business Integration Partners)
BIP (Business Integration Partners)
CEO
2015 - Present (10 years)
Istanbul, Turkey
  • Delivered over 100 projects for top-tier banks including 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 an east European bank.

  • Worked with a major Turkish bank, implementing a purchasing card strategy and go-to-market plan development for the purchasing card.

Cluster Alliance
Cluster Alliance
Managing Partner
2010 - 2015 (5 years)
Remote

Assisted executives with formulating and executing a business strategy and commercial performance uplift.

McKinsey & Co.
McKinsey & Co.
Consultant
2008 - 2009 (1 year)
Istanbul, Turkey
  • Collaborated with a multinational original pharmaceuticals manufacturer to assess inorganic growth opportunities in emerging markets.

  • Developed a VoIP-based tariff and a cross-/upsell strategy for a telecom provider.

  • Implemented a donation increase strategy and best allocation available funds study for an education furthering foundation.

J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan
Vice President
2007 - 2008 (1 year)
Remote
  • Built and calculated scenarios and was in charge of tools aggregating positions across the company.

  • Ran quant models and evaluated VaR against a plethora of factors.

  • Worked on risk management, analysis, and organization software systems.

Risk ManagementQuantitative Modeling Value at Risk
Various Companies
Various Companies
Software Developer
1999 - 2006 (7 years)
Remote
  • Designed and implemented complex software applications for Bloomberg.

  • Worked as a MTS for Network Appliance, a US data management company.

  • Worked as a development engineer for Marconi, a patent licensing company.

Portfolio

Product Owner - Axess Mobil
Product Owner - Axess Mobil

Created a mobile card management/loyalty app that offers a campaign mode according to Turkey's Axess Mobil. Designed the app, ran PMO, and conducted launch and post-launch activities. The software development was handled by Akbank's internal team.

Lead Developer - World's Fastest Scalable Clustered File Server
Lead Developer - World's Fastest Scalable Clustered File Server

Worked on the cluster module (network side fast path) of SpinServer, which at the time beat the then current file server (from NetApp) by a factor of 2x on the industry-standard benchmark (SpecFS).

Product Owner - ATM Replatforming
Product Owner - ATM Replatforming

The project was an ATM replatforming for enhanced omnichannel banking. Led the team designing ATM user flows to better integrate a digital omnichannel environment.

Education

MBA
MBA
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
2002 - 2005 (3 years)
MSc Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE)
MSc Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE)
Carnegie Mellon University
1998 - 1999 (1 year)
BSc Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) + Computer Science
BSc Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) + Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
1995 - 1998 (3 years)