Project Manager Management

Yusuf Cabuk

Ottawa, ON Canada

613-***-**** *******@*****.**

SUMMARY

Program/Project Management Project Management Methodologies (Agile,

Scrum, Waterfall)

Product Release Management Process Development and Coordination

Service Delivery and System Software Development Life Cycle Management

Integration

Multi Site Operation Cross-Functional Team Leadership

Off-Shore Outsourcing Direct Engagement with External Customers

Proactive, Decisive and Result Professional formation (M.Eng., MBA, PMP)

Oriented

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RESEARCH IN MOTION, Ottawa, Canada 2009 - Present

Project Manager, PMO

Project Manager in Handheld PMO

. Managed the relations with various functional organisations

. Analysed the business requirements of senior management teams and

executive teams; offered solutions with several management tools and

processes (i.e., as Enterprise Project Management, MS Share Point,

Dashboards, Agile and Waterfall)

. Designed various processes for organizational improvements and

efficiency, championed implementation across Handheld organization and

provided trainings to other PMO teams

. Provided training to management teams to ensure the compliance with

corporate wide project management standards and best practices

. Managed project hierarchy (portfolios, programs and project groups)

across R&D organization for effective executive reporting and higher

return from government tax credits

. Implemented creative and simple task tracking system to manage HH PMO

Operation team which improved team's efficiency and customer satisfaction

. Coordinated product development efforts, rollouts and upgrades

CELESTICA, Ottawa, Canada 2008 - 2009

Manager, Product Releases

Managed Product Releases for the delivery of mobile backhaul routing system

to an external customer

. Managed offshore Project Managers, development teams and resources, and

planned project activities.

. Direct, open and frequent engagement with customer in Executive level

quickly improved customer confidence in Celestica

. Streamlined communication among executive teams, customer and offshore

resources which encouraged collective efforts for problem resolution

. Implemented a Release Management Structure for managing multiple software

releases coherently

NORTEL, Ottawa, Canada 2000 - 2008

Program - Project Manager 2005 - 2008

Managed the planning and delivering of CDMA base station program.

. Developed overall program plans. Successfully executed plans by

performing continuous Change and Risk management.

. Supported company wide CMMI and Lean Six Sigma practices by identifying,

collecting and analysing critical program metrics. This resulted in early

detection of issues and timely delivery of the product releases.

. Organized program management and milestone review sessions, and published

periodic reports indicating status of all facets of the program

activities thus keeping all stakeholders informed.

Managed development teams and accountable for the planning, managing and

delivering TRFO2 systems on CDMA network.

. Outsourced portion of the project to support company's cost reduction

efforts and completed project with 35% less budget.

. Effectively planned and managed project activities to accomplish around

the clock progress with on-site and off-shore resources which resulted in

early completion of the project.

. Mentored technical primes to successfully perform TRFO2 system deployment

activities

Managed cross-functional teams for the deployment of new CDMA BSC products

to customer networks.

. Coordinated the efforts of network eng., systems eng., field eng.,

technical documentation, design and verification teams to ensure product

deployment and system upgrades are successfully performed in customer

networks (Sprint, Verizon)

. Analysed customer networks and implemented creative deployment strategies

to maximize in house verification efforts

. Published solid deployment and support documentation to be used by

service introduction teams and external customers.

. Provided training and demonstrations to customer and support teams via

different approaches, such as live broadcast from lab, formal training

sessions and online instructions.

Managed the deployment project for the introduction of new resource

management system in customer networks

. Persuaded cross-functional organizations to participate, actively and

early enough, in deployment activities. This resulted in successful

customer field trials for product deployment and system integration with

zero critical issues.

. Developed product deployment processes for the organization which was

used as a guideline for future releases.

. Prepared high-quality deployment documentation with step by step

instruction for the system installation thereby assisting both customers

and support teams.

. Provided training and demonstrations to customer and support teams

Software Development 2000 - 2004

. Led a team of software engineers to design and implement statistic

collection architecture on 2 port Voice Services cards in enhanced CDMA

Voice Services Systems.

. Designed, implemented and integrated the redundancy functionality for

Packet Controller Unit cards in carrier grade CDMA Packet Data Services

systems.

. Developed redundancy functionality software for Base Station

Communication Network services in CDMA Backhaul Routing Subsystems.

. Primed support activities for the core network side of CDMA systems.

Designed capacity enhancements, loopback test function and overload

control mechanism on CDMA Interface Units. Full ownership of the CDMA

callp software.

NORTEL, Istanbul, Turkey 1998 - 2000

Software Development

. Performed real time measurement analysis of Multi Market Platform

software image for ETSI ISUP V2 which saved one person-year worth of

effort for the organization.

. ETSI ISUP Callp Software ownership and interworking functionality design

from ETSI ISUP V2 systems to T101 Test Line and CAS systems.

. Designed, implemented and integrated:

o ETSI ISUP V2 (SS7) supplementary services such as CLIP/CLIR, CDS, CDU

on DMS 100i data switches.

o ETSI ISDN BRI Call Forwarding supplementary service on DMS100i

products.

o Overload control mechanism for ETSI ISUP V1 software load.

EDUCATION

MBA, Aspen University, Denver, CO

M.Eng., Electronics and Communication Engineering, Istanbul Technical

University

B.Eng., Electronics and Communication Engineering, Istanbul Technical

University

Project Management Certificate, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Business Courses (Strategic Management and Marketing, Finance for Leaders,

Management and Leadership), Algonquin College, Ottawa, Ontario

TRAINING

. C/C++ Programming, Object Oriented Design, PASCAL Programming, PROTEL

Programming, Java Programming, VxWorks-Tornado, Clear Case, Clear

Quality, Livelink

. UMTS, WCDMA, GSM Technical Overview, Wireless Communication Systems, Data

and Internet Communications, Wireless Data Overview, Internet

Technologies,

. Risk Management, Scrum Methodology, Enterprise Project Management,

Business Analysis,

TECHNICAL SKILLS

. Operating systems such as UNIX, Linux, DOS, Windows95/98/2000/XP/VISTA

. Strong structural and object oriented programming understanding,

programming languages such as C/C++, PASCAL, and PROTEL.

. MS Office, LOTUS Notes, Clarify, SLIM, Enterprise Project Management, MS

Share Point

. Good understanding of wireless technologies such as IS-95A/B, CDMA2000

1X, EV-DO, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, WCDMA; voice and data networking

switches; voice trunking protocols such as SS7, CAS

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