Volkan K.

Volkan K.

Product Owner

Turkey
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About Me

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.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Product Owner
2021 - Present (3 years)
Remote
  • 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.

Business Integration Partners
Business Integration Partners
Product Owner/Partner
2015 - Present (9 years)
Turkey
  • 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.

McKinsey & Co. Istanbul
McKinsey & Co. Istanbul
Product Owner/Consultant
2008 - 2010 (2 years)
Turkey
  • Collborated with a multinational original pharmaceuticals manufacturer to assess inorganic growth opportunities in emerging markets.

  • Developed VoIP based tariff and Cross and up sell strategy for Incumbent telecommunications provider.

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

JP Morgan Chase
JP Morgan Chase
Vice President
2007 - 2008 (1 year)
United States of America
  • Acted as Vice President, in charge of tools aggregating positions across the company.

  • Ran quant models and evaluated VaR against a plethora of factors, as well as building scenarios and continuously calculating them.

  • Handled risk management, analysis, and organization software systems.

Various Companies
Various Companies
Development Engineer
1999 - 2007 (8 years)
United States of America
  • Acted as a Lead Application Software Developer for Bloomberg, designing and implementing complex software applications.

  • Worked as a Senior System Software Developer for Network Appliance, USA, a data management company.

  • Worked as Software Development Engineer for Marconi, a patent licensing company.

Portfolio

Product Owner - Axess Mobil
Product Owner - Axess Mobil

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.

Product Owner - ATM replatforming
Product Owner - ATM replatforming

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.

Lead Developer - World's fastest scalable clustered file server
Lead Developer - World's fastest scalable clustered file server

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
MBA
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
2002 - 2005 (3 years)
MS Electrical and Computer Engineering
MS Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
1998 - 1999 (1 year)
BSc Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
BSc Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
1995 - 1998 (3 years)