CANER G RB Z
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?Military Service completed
PROFILE
A committed and highly focused hands-on product manager with comprehensive
knowledge of Cloud technologies, SOA products and large scale distributed
Telecom Products/solutions.
Currently for one of the well-known Telecom operators, working
simultaneously on number of cloud products throughout the product lifecycle
phases:
. Defining the product vision and goals
. Gathering, prioritizing, documenting product and enterprise customer
needs
. Working closely with delivery, sales, marketing and support
departments to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met.
KEY Ach?evements
< With full accountability, by launching 3 new Cloud products (Office 365,
E-posta & Web z mleri, Vodafone G venli Mobil Cihaz Y netimi) played a
key role in Vodafone's cloud transformation.
< By building a dedicated sales team of 4, increased sales, enhanced
presales support and built sales know-how about Cloud products.
< By using partnership management skills, built and rolled out a joint
sales/strategic plan with Microsoft which in return helped to enhance
Office 365 sales and improved Vodafone's partnership with Microsoft.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
T rk Telekom, ?stanbul - 07.2013-Present
Datacenter and Cloud Senior Product Manager
< Lead and drive T rk Telekom Datancenter and Cloud product portfolio.
< Working with strategy and business development departmants to align on
company's cloud business strategies.
< Develop and position the cloud products considering the marketing
dynamics with partnerships.
< Design and drive effective marketing campaigns to provide product
awareness and cloud penetration to the market.
< Work closely with digital marketing team to execute an effective
marketing plan as expected.
< Understanding customer needs and shaping the product key messages and go
to market strategies.
< Researches on Cloud products and following pioneer players in Cloud
world, competitive analysis and SWOT analysis with local players.
< Closely working with sales teams(training, sales kit preparation and
biweekly meetings) to ensure the sales pipeline's continuity.
< Monitoring the sales and churn activities through reports and taking
necessary actions to increase customer base.
Vodafone, ?stanbul - 10.2011-07.2013
Enterprise Solutions Senior Product Manager
< Drove the development of products from initiation to successful delivery,
resulted in 3 products in 1 year under ?orta?m K?rm?z? Bulut portfolio.
< Prepared and presented business plans for new product opportunities to C
level executives.
< Did Market research, competitor analysis, customer insight analysis,
regulatory impact analysis when launching new products
< Developed core positioning of my products and communicated it to segment
teams.
< Built dedicated sales channels and a sales pipeline for cloud based
products.
< Partner and contract management with key Vodafone partners.
< Worked closely with IT department to ensure timely product development
and delivery.
< Prepared product acceptance tests and helped execution of them.
< Prepared and performed numerous product demonstrations to product
stakeholders and partners.
< Content preparation and product documentation.
< Prepared training materials and gave necessary sales and customer care
trainings.
< Have continuously monitored and improved end to end processes for
enhancing customer experience.
Atos, ?stanbul - 07.2010-09.2011
Technical Coordinator/ Analyst
< Worked as a member of international R&D cooperation in 3 European Union
projects with at least 20 partners -enterprises and universities- in
Europe as a technical coordinator and analyst in industry domain.
< Planned, designed and initiated 3 international R&D projects in the
context of "Scope of Work" submitted to European Commission.
< As a workpackage leader, led the R&D team formed of several international
partners and universities.
< Presented the progress and outputs of project workpackage to European
Commission in Brussels.
< Organized, attended to international workshops and project progress
meetings as a workpackage leader.
< Collected the business requirements and transformed into technical
requirements.
Oracle Corporation, ?stanbul - 08.2008-07.2010
Middleware Technology Consultant
< Worked as a consultant for middleware technologies (SOA, BPEL, Aqualogic)
in several telecom and government projects
< Business flow development for tailor made projects
Telenity, ?stanbul - 05.2004-12.2007
Software Engineer
< Started in the test development team and pursued my career in software
development.
< Implemented several modules on Telecom Application Server written in Java
language on Linux platform.
< Development of flows on Oracle BPEL in Turkcell SDP project -a part of
service delivery platform including human workflows.
QUAL?FICATIONS
B.Sc Computer Engineering, Y?ld?z Technical University, 1999 - 2005
60th Year Anatolian High School ?zmir 1992 - 1998
Relevant Courses and Certifications
< PMP project management course at Istanbul Kurumsal Geli?im. 35
hours 2009
< Programming with Java language education 3 Months 2002
< English language course in England 3 Months 2003
< CCNA course for network knowledge 3 Months 2004
< HP USP-M and OCMP(Media Platform) in HP Grenoble/France 2 weeks
2009