Isak M.
Senior Application Services Specialist @ Diageo
About
I keep enterprise IT running — the applications people log into every morning, the laptops on their desks, and the service processes that decide how fast a problem gets fixed.Eighteen years of that work across Diageo, bioMérieux, Beckman Coulter and eleven years at Microsoft. Today I own tier-3 support for a 25-application portfolio serving around 1,000 users at 95% SLA compliance, and I led the end-to-end migration of a 1,000-user expense and travel platform onto a new mobile and desktop application across a one-year programme.Work I'm proudest of:• I designed and built the Field IT Services – Deep Dive Analysis dashboard in Power BI, integrated with ServiceNow. It started with about 50 users in the Türkiye organisation and ended up used by around 450 people worldwide.• I delivered roughly 45 Laboratory Information System and middleware deployments across 10 countries in the Middle East and Türkiye, at a 93% on-time delivery rate on a two-week standard installation cycle.• I rewrote the operational procedures and documentation at Diageo, cutting the repeat-incident rate from about 50% to about 20%.Most of my career has been spent as the person leadership calls when something breaks. At Microsoft I ran IT operations for the 80-person MEA headquarters function inside a 500-person Istanbul office, with VIP support for around 20 regional executives including the MEA Regional President and the regional Finance, Sales & Marketing, IT and HR Vice Presidents.I work in ITIL-aligned environments across ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, Azure, SCCM/Intune and Power BI, on both Windows and macOS, covering incident and problem management, end-user computing, IT asset lifecycle and vendor coordination.Awards: MEA IT Rising Star Award (Microsoft, 2014) and MEA Customer Partner Experience Award (Microsoft, 2016) — the first IT professional in the region to receive the CPE award.Based in Istanbul, open to IT Manager, IT Operations Manager and service management roles
Türkiye
Istanbul
Government Administration
Mentoring, Cross-functional Team Leadership, User Acceptance Testing, Technical Documentation, Stakeholder Management, Third-Party Vendor Management, Firewalls, Network Administration, Information Technology Infrastructure, IT Asset Management, Data Visualization, Microsoft Power Platform, macOS, Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), IT Infrastructure Project Management, IT Project Implementation, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Azure, End User Training
Experience

Senior Application Services Specialist
Istanbul, Türkiye
• Own tier-3 support for a 25-application portfolio serving ~1,000 users across head office and plant locations, sustaining 95% SLA compliance. • Led the end-to-end migration of EBA — the ~1,000-user expense and travel request platform — onto Synergy, a next-generation mobile and desktop application. Planned the cut-over calendar, directed one developer against business requirements, identified downstream impacts and prepared mitigations in advance, selected UAT user groups, and reported weekly to the IT team across the one-year programme. • Direct and prioritise the workload of two remote contractors alongside day-to-day application support delivery. • Manage application lifecycle activity — installation, configuration, upgrades, system security and proactive health monitoring — and drive escalations through global engineering, vendors and internal development teams. • Authored operational procedures and technical documentation that cut the repeat-incident rate from ~50% to ~20% and raised the first-time fix rate.

Healthcare IT Specialist - Middle East | Turkey | Russia
Istanbul, Türkiye
• Delivered ~45 IT infrastructure, middleware and Laboratory Information System (LIS) deployments across a 10-country region — ~30 hospital and laboratory sites in Bahrain, Oman, the UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, plus ~15 in Türkiye. • Completed new installations on a two-week standard cycle at a 93% on-time delivery rate, working to Statement of Work (SOW) scope, contracted SLAs and regional healthcare regulatory standards. • Acted as regional escalation lead for complex technical incidents, coordinating global engineering teams, hospital IT leadership and third-party distributors. • Trained 10 field service engineers and a 5-person global call centre team on deployed systems.

Senior Analyst / IT Site Lead
Istanbul, Türkiye
• Ran IT site operations for a 100-user location as primary liaison to global IT teams in Europe and the United States. • Assessed the local IT environment, identified two infrastructure gaps in Wi-Fi and telecom, and mitigated both within tenure. • Led incident response and maintenance across servers, networks, telephony and remote access systems, and reported operational KPIs to leadership.

IT Specialist - Middle East and Africa HQ
Istanbul
• Delivered IT operations and end-user support for the 80-person MEA headquarters function, predominantly an international team, within Microsoft's ~500-person Istanbul office — extending support to the wider office and contributing to projects run jointly with other MEA offices. • Provided VIP support to ~20 senior executives, including the MEA Regional President, the Country General Manager and the regional Finance, Sales & Marketing, IT and HR Vice Presidents. • Designed and built the Field IT Services – Deep Dive Analysis Power BI dashboard, integrated with ServiceNow and surfaced through a web dashboard; adoption grew from ~50 users in Türkiye to ~200 across MEA and ~450 worldwide. • Managed IT asset lifecycle for ~1,000 laptops and associated devices, covering demand forecasting, inventory control and user onboarding sessions. • Coordinated technical delivery for approximately eight senior leadership events and global video conferences per year, including the visit of Microsoft's global president to the Istanbul office. • Supported enterprise infrastructure, datacentre equipment and networking alongside global engineering teams, and managed escalation for infrastructure disruptions. Awards: MEA IT Rising Star Award (2014); MEA Customer Partner Experience Award (2016).

IT Helpdesk Technician
Istanbul
• Hardware diagnostics, warranty repairs, and workstation and peripheral rollouts for corporate users. • Enterprise data migration, system backups and user transition support. • Informally mentored colleagues joining the helpdesk team.
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