Tell me about your challenges, and I will show you how to turn them into strengths: customer-focused and competitive products/technologies, high-performing teams, and improved efficiencies/effectiveness of organizational processes.

What can we do for you?

• Turn your ideas into possibilities.
• Maximize the return of your existing technologies and products, and establish long-term competitive differentiation in the market.
• Improve team dynamics and team productivity.
• Perform senior technology management roles including leading technical staff, QA and creative teams.
• Establish software engineering processes for repeatability, scalability, effectiveness and increased productivity.
• Manage complex programs and product development activities from ideation to market launch.
• Manage relationships for strategic and tactical alliance development with customers, partners and vendors.

Strategy/Business Development

• Facilitate and lead strategy development initiatives for new and emerging markets and develop business, product and technology plans and recommendations.
• Development of product vintage plans, technology roadmaps, technology competency analysis, technology and market trends and forecasting.
• Analysis of customer need and benefit identification, ecosystem and value-delivery chain analysis, and recognition of opportunities to enable technology adoption to facilitate growth of the existing business and product lines.
• Relationship management for strategic and tactical alliance development with customers, partners and vendors.

Product Development and Management

• Lead product development activities from ideation to market launch with focus on developing customizable, automated, scalable, and high-performance end-to-end solutions.
• Develop product specs and negotiate prioritized requirements via analysis of technical and cross-functional requirements, competitive market landscape, customer needs, project resources and release schedule.
• Establish customer focused agile product development processes to improve product quality and usability, and increase efficiencies id development and QA cycle.

Project and Program Management

Summary

6+ Years R&D Program / Project / People Management • High Growth Organizations • Emerging Markets • Leadership Skills • Multi-Functional Experience

Results-driven, energetic and passionate innovation catalyst with excellent interpersonal skills. Proven ability to analyze products, markets and growth opportunities to build compelling strategies and tactics, delivering innovative solutions to customers and improving competitiveness of the firm.

Demonstrated leadership in a variety of environments, including standards body, customer advisory council, cross-company technology teams. Built, motivated, managed and coached diverse engineering, QA and outsourced teams. With focus on user experience, product performance and product differentiation/competitiveness developed and facilitated innovative solutions to complex technical, organizational and partnership problems.

• 15+ years of experience in all aspects of innovation process and new product management from concept definition, market research, project initiation, product development to worldwide market launch.
• 5+ years of complex project and program management developing new products with budget of $8M, managing partner relationships, and leading multi-functional geographically dispersed R&D teams (30+), project/program managers on large-scale projects.
• 8+ years of experience in strategy development, expanding into new markets, new product introductions and building product portfolios.
• Strong repertoire of cross-functional corporate knowledge and skills in the areas of R&D, strategic product marketing, customer support, operations, and vendor and partner management.
• Product quality champion with proven track record in implementing effective development processes to ensure continuous improvement of development efficiencies, product quality, usability, supportability and maintainability.
• Entrepreneur, business owner with multi-functional experience including R&D, marketing, operations and customer support.
• International traveler; fluent in Turkish and English.