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Developing the strategic plan for the project portfolio, aligning it with the organization's overall business objectives Project selection and prioritization; Developing criteria for selecting and prioritizing projects.Overseeing the selection process, ensuring that only projects that add value and align with strategy are included in the portfolio Facilitating communication among project teams, senior management, and other stakeholders Scope, schedule, cost & bugdet management of projects in the portfolio Supervise the work of project managers Procurement management; purchase and contract processes with related 3rd party firms Risk evaluation and escalation Preparing and presenting portfolio planning and progress reports to senior management and other stakeholders - Trio/Agriculture Card Replatforming, Merchant System Replatforming - CUP, Discover, JCB Card Projects - Revenue Generating Projects, Operational Efficiency Projects - World Mobile, Yapı Kredi POS on Mobile, TR QR Code - DCC (Dynamic Currency Conversion) - İstanbulkart, Başkent Kart and Transportation Projects - Zero Limit Card, Collateral Credit Card Projects - Digital Slip - Card Storage Infrastructure

Management of a 20+ people analysis&test team. Responsible of the following applications: - POS&Virtual POS - Online Authorization System&Switch - Merchant - Campain - Fraud Management of the analysis&test&maintenance activities Contract processes, planning and implementation activities with 3rd party firms, determination of the SLA and KPI metrics of 3rd party working models Career planning and career development of the employees - Renovation of the Merchant and POS User Screens - Card and Merchant Fraud Infrastructure - ECR POS Regulation Projects - Turkcell and Avea ECR POS Projects - Self Service World, self-service campaign management platform for merchants - World Loyalty, implementation of the brand&group loyalty infrastructure - Replatforming of the YKB Wallet application

Management of a 8-10 people software development team Management of the software, technical design&maintenance activities Database&service inventory, process&performance improvement activities Career planning and career development of the employees - Merchant Financial Sweep&Profitability Projects - Merchant Application Process Replatforming - Merchant Fee Infrastructure Project - Albaraka Bank Virtual&Foreign POS Project - Data Archive Projects - Ocean Replatforming Project; Migration of the mainframe based Yapı Kredi Card and POS system to Ocean Card Package.

Implementation of software activities on Payment Systems replatforming and business projects. - Merchant System Replatforming Project: Replatforming of Yapı Kredi Merchant System from Mainframe to Oracle&Java based open platform. Management of the team (20+ employee) and analysis, technical design, software and test activities of the project. - Card Authorization System Replatforming Project - Prepaid Card Project - Euro ATM Project

Implementation of software activities on Payment Systems, ATM and Call Center replatforming and business projects.