Erdem Seherler

Erdem Seherler, MBA, PMP

EXPERIENCE:

(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