Ali Ozdemir

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aczxtp@r.postjobfree.com 201-***-****

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Telecommunications professional with 15+ years of international experience in program and project management, network planning and capacity management, product management, system engineering, design and testing in various countries such as Spain, Belgium and Turkey.

Key Skills

Mobile network design and capacity management

VAS services and platforms design

LTE, 3G and GSM technologies

Project/Program management

System engineering

Product management

Prepaid billing systems

Business Requirement Analysis

High Level and Detail Design

Test list/case creation

Testing Skills: Unit, Integration, System, User Acceptance, Load, Automated Web/Mobile Application testing

Network Protocol Skills: ISUP, MTP, SCCP, TCAP, BSSAP, MAP, IN Application Part, Camel, SIP, SMPP, USSD, TCP/IP, UDP, Analog Telephony, ISDN BRI, PRI

Text and Multimedia Messaging Skills: SMS, MMS

Computer Skills: Microsoft Office (Project, Visio, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), Java, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Selenium, Appium and SoapUI

Language Skills: English, Turkish and Spanish

EDUCATION

Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Master of Science (MS) in Biomedical Engineering

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electronics Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Solutions Architect 1/2016 – 6/2016

Saha Information Technologies, Istanbul, Turkey

International technology organization with a strong track record in technological innovations, and in test automation

Provided solutions for the automated quality testing for mobile networks including voice, data and messaging services that will enable the operator to run the roaming quality tests easier, faster and cheaper

Managed the design and implementation of mobile application performance tool (for Turkcell BIP vs. WhatsApp, Turkcell Music vs. Spotify, and Akilli Depo vs. Dropbox) using open source test automation frameworks such as Selenium and Appium that enabled the operator to monitor and benchmark its services

Participated in the design of automation of mobile application tests for Turkcell BIP, Turkcell Music, and Akilli Depo applications in order to run the system and regression tests after every new release that allowed the operator faster and more reliable deployment of new application releases and better monitoring of service availability and quality

Managed the automation of VAS services SLA tests (SMS, MMS, Mobile Payment, Ringback Music, Miss Call Notification) that enabled the operator to handle the SLA tests much faster and cheaper

Senior Technical Expert 6/2007 – 10/2009

Avea, Istanbul, Turkey

International Mobile Telecom Operator, part of Turk Telecom group in Turkey with an active customer base of 38 million and 34.000 employees

Responsible for the program management and system engineering for mobile network related projects

Oversaw and controlled the NGN roll-out which lowered transmission costs by 30% per year and made the network ready for 3G and beyond

Managed the design and implementation of MNP in the network, strengthening company’s position against the competition

Coordinated the Tekelec Signaling GW implementation which made it easier to implement MNP and enabled the cost savings as well as better signaling capacity management

Operated the implementation of Roaming services project to increase the roaming revenues

Orchestrated design and implementation of IN SCP project which facilitated the NGN implementation

Organized and managed the Femtocell project including RFP process management, tests, and trials which provided the technical knowledge and technology insight

Engineering & Product Manager 9/2000 – 6/2007

Turkcell, Istanbul, Turkey

International telecommunication network operator in Turkey, providing mobile (GSM, 3G and LTE) and internet services

Managed team of 10 engineers responsible for the product management for MSC, BSC, HLR, and SCP nodes present in the Core Network serving about 34 million subscribers, the capacity management for HLR and SCP nodes, the project management for the new and existing technology implementations, and providing engineering support for VAS services

Oversaw and participated in the Next Generation Networks (NGN) studies and trials allowing to increase the technology knowledge and information on the products available in the market

Participated in the initial design studies both in Turkish regulation body and within the Turkcell for Mobile Number Portability implementation

Initiated and executed the SS7 over IP / Sigtran trials and implementation to cope with the increasing signaling load and to manage the signaling capacity effectively

Designed and managed the development of USSD GW messaging system for the Wireless Service Provider with a cost of 10% of the major vendor products in 2001, IN PayforMe system enabling prepaid subscribers to make a call with zero balance in their account by charging the call to the called party and CallBack Service for outbound roaming customers, increased roaming revenues as well as customer satisfaction

Project Manager, Design & Test Engineer 1/1993 – 8/2000

Alcatel, Istanbul, Turkey; Antwerp, Belgium; Madrid, Spain

Managed various projects such as trunk offering implementation for Nepal and Listening-in implementation for different markets

Participated in various design, test and implementation projects such as trunk signaling for Turkish & Russian markets, supplementary services, IN services

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Volunteer Teacher 11/2009 – 7/2015

Istanbul, Turkey

Taught Math to low-income high school students

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Manual Testing, The Cooper Union Albert Nerken School of Engineering, New York 2017

Web Design (HTML, CSS, and Photoshop), ISMEK, Istanbul 2013

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