Erdem Seherler

Erdem Seherler, MBA, PMP

EXPERIENCE:

(10.2009 - …) Eteration - Project Office Manager

(06.2007- 11.2008) Treda Information Systems - Professional Services Group Manager

· Reported directly to CEO

· Directed Project Managers, Business Analysts, Quality & Test Specialists, a total of 13 people

· Responsibilities included:

o Driving and ensuring project management policies, standards and procedures are consistently followed

o Recruiting, developing & managing staff

o Organizing education activities for increasing the knowledge and skills of staff

o Selecting tools, technologies, methodologies

o Increasing the quality of project management process and deliverables,

o Managing PMO

o Supporting pre sales & post sales activities

· Achievements:

o Managed multi Million $ budgeted software portfolio

o Implemented Microsoft Project Server as PMIS, Scrum Processes for managing projects agile

o Set SPI&CPI as KPI for PMs

o Used PMBOK as a guide for Project Management

o Collected Business Analyst processed, tools, and templates under Treda BABOK

o Collected Quality & Test processes, tools & templates under Treda Quality & Test Book

o Implemented;

§ Performance assessment principles at company

§ Quarterly portfolio selection & review meetings

§ Issue & status reporting systems

o Made company sign time & materials contracts instead of fixed price contracts

(10.2006- 01.2009) Treda Information Systems - Non-Holding Projects, Project Manager

· Reported directly to CEO

· Managed Project Team changing size of from 4 to 10 members at various B2C Projects,

· Managed project portfolios of Treda except ILAB Holding Projects

· Projects managed: www.garantialisveris.com – Online Mall; www.mudo.com.tr - Online Store; www.pasabahcemagazalari.com - Online Store; www.zurichsigorta.com.tr/internetsubesi/ - Internet Branch; TEB-Zurich Sigorta B2B Alternative Sales Channel; www.Birdünya.com - Online Store; www.sirkuler.com - Online Catalog, B2B

(08.2005- 07.2007) Treda Information Systems – www.Sigortam.net Project/Account Manager

· Reported directly to CEO

· Managed Project Team size of from 8 to 11

· Managed more than 30 projects at various sizes ;i.e. B2C, B2B, marketing, call center, operations projects

· Managed TEYDEB.Tubitak projects

· Managed Support Team of Sigortam.net

(10.2004- 08.2005) Treda Information Systems – Business Development & Solution Specialist

· Reported to Business Development & Sales Manager

· Consulted sales team at presales activities for CRM, SRM, SCM, B2B and B2C projects.

· Business development team member of e-Commerce and CRM products.

· Worked in the creation of process and information structure framework called Treda Process Infrastructure (TPI)

· e- business consultant at e-transformation project of Turkish Football Association

(03.2004- 10.2004) Treda Information Systems – Requirement Analyst

· Reported to Project Manager

· Elicited & managed requirements of Steelorbis.com & Chemorbis.com

· Documented the requirements of new generation Orbis Trading Platform

(10.2003- 03.2004) Mobilera www.mobilera.com – Project/Product Manager

· Reported directly to Managing Partner

· Worked as product/project manager of SMS related software which was in the list of Turkcell’s Mobilişim. My duties related to this position were divided into two: Product/Project Sales & Product/Project Management. My sub duties related to these major duties are shown below:

o Product/Project Sales: Customer management, Requirement analysis of customer, Preparing offer and contract documents, Follow-up of given offers

o Product/Project Management: Competitor analysis, Project management, Use case writing, Coordinating software developers, Assuring quality of software developed

· Signed & managed a software project with FritoLay Turkey

(06.2000- 09.2001) Global Securities www.global.com.tr – Project Assistant / Manager

· Reported to Technology Integration Director

· Analyzed business processes for online trading & call center. Worked on both business and technical sides.

· Worked on the following projects:

o Project Manager of Business Development of Online Fund Trading

o Project Manager of Online Help Center development and design

o Project Manager of Statement Printing Software Development

o Project Manager of Developing Online Stock Game (Stock321)

o Project Manager of Customer Database Clean-up

o Direct Mailing & Prospect Database Design

o Personalization of different modules

o Segmentation of customers

(1998- 2004) Programlama.com www.programlama.com – Co-Founder/ Co-Owner

· Responsible for coordination of projects.

· Responsible for Marketing & Relations with customers.

· Signed banner advertisement contract with Software-AG Turkey.

· Developed various modules of portal.

· Editor and writer for Java, C++ pages between 1998-1999

(02.1998- 11.1999) Emek Bilgi İşlem – Computer Engineer

· Reported directly to Managing Partner

· Member of Software Development Team / Responsible for developing part of insurance software package

· Developed & analyzed MIS programs for various (EGE, EGS, UNIVERSAL, GÜNEŞ HAYAT) firms’ managers

· Developed special reports like Risk Analysis, Profitability Analysis, and Revenue Analysis

· Developed client server Java Application that talks with AS/400 with IBM Visual Age for Java

· Developed at RPG and Java for DB2 and MS Access

EDUCATION

(1999 – 2001) Master of Business Administration, Koç University www.ku.edu.tr , İstanbul

· Focused at Marketing, Operations & MIS

· Scholarship: Koç MBA 2nd Year by Global Securities

· Projects:

o Marketing Models: Segmentation & Clustering of www.programlama.com members according to their visits to the pages.

o Business Policy and Strategy: Developed Business Strategy Report for Koray Holding - www.koray.com

o e-Commerce Project: Business Plan Development for a company that has a strategy to be event market place of the Turkish Web

o Consumer Behavior Project: Understanding the importance of consumer behavior at an online non-profit community

o Marketing Project: Developed Marketing Strategy for the Internet Banking of Citibank www.citibank.com.tr

o MIS Project: Analyzed the advantages of opening Anadolu Hayat’s Information to Internet & reported the benefits of integrating to Internet in Insurance Sector

o Micro Economy Project: Analyzed the ISP market from its emergence to the present and made forecasts about future development

(1994 – 1998) Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering Department , İstanbul University www.istanbul.edu.tr , İstanbul

· Vice-president of Computer Club at 1997

· Final Project:

o Developed Client/Server Computer Game (Spade98) with Visual C++. The game included chatting, and artificial intelligence for the computer players.

· Internship -Nortstein Imtas Sigorta (Insurance) 06/1995 -09/1995

o Developed various RPG programs

o Developed reporting software for magnetic card enabled gate with C under MS-DOS platform.

(1991 – 1994) Kocaeli Körfez Science School, Kocaeli