Ant Karaduman

• Directed a team of Product Managers focused on endpoint protection and cloud platforms.
• Led product management function, covering integrations for SIEM, SOAR, and MDR.
• Enhanced product portfolio by identifying market trends and conducting competitive analysis.
• Successfully brought products from concept to market, achieving both critical acclaim and strong financial results.
• Managed product lifecycle from ideation to sunset, prioritizing features based on customer feedback and business goals.

• Led the development of network protection, mobile, firewall and email security products, contributing to a 20% increase in user adoption.
• Ensured compliance with regulatory requirements through diligent documentation & infosec & legal practices and adherence to industry standards.
• Devised strategies for creating scalable solutions that could be easily adapted to accommodate evolving customer demands.
• Conducted thorough market research to identify opportunities for growth and expansion within the industry landscape.
• Implemented data-driven decision making by utilizing analytics tools to track KPIs and measure success against benchmarks.

Elaa technologies is an award-winner digital healthcare startup.

● Directed product strategy, resource management, and security protocols for a digital healthcare platform.

● Supported scale-up efforts, with a focus on product compliance, investor relations, and cybersecurity.

• Managed the overall product strategy with VP&SVP and CEO on assigned products. Build MVP, GMT plans and executed those plans with R&D, Marketing and Sales.
• Acted as an SME on security and network related features. Introduced Privacy by Design and Security by Design Principles.
• Organized globally dispersed business analysts, user experience designers, user interface designers and the development resources for the success of the product(s). Worked with global marketing and business development functions to promote the products.
• Worked on video and conferencing solutions, data loss prevention & CASB solutions, meeting room solutions and 7/24 service solutions (ranging from helpdesk to noc to security services). Designed the work flows for post-sale and pre-sale engagements. Provided trainings, sales and technical presentations, competitive analysis for internal resources to maximize sales.
• Managed full product lifecycle, from ideation through post-launch support, ensuring consistent quality control measures were in place.
• Product Portfolio : nuMessage (www.numessage.com) , nuWire (www.nuwire.com), Total NOC Support (www.totalnocsupport.com) and ITarian Data Protection module (www.itarian.com)

• Redesigned support and presale workflows in light of ITIL practices.
• Managed and provided leadership for postsale support and presale consultancy teams.
• Managed strategic planning and budget for these teams.
• Established effective training program to maximize team performance.
• Trained channel partners and distributors on data loss prevention, unified threat management, endpoint protection and email protection planning and deployment projects.
• Achieved business growth each year. Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work.
• Planned and supported deployment of several test and PoC labs.

• Built customer base from scratch in Turkey as the technical peer of Director of Channel Sales.
• Achieved the highest rate of sales in EMEA region.
• Created the largest pipeline in EMEA region.
• Represented the company on seminars (such as BTVizyon) on regional scale.
• Coordinate R&D and Sales on some product lines including building feedback mechanisms and blocker issue followups.
• Trained channel partners and distributors on data loss prevention, unified threat management, endpoint protection and email protection planning and deployment projects.
• Delivered comprehensive training programs to build technical competencies among team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Analyzed business requirements, planned and supported PoCs and actual deployment of proposed solutions with many customers on UTM, firewall, SIEM, endpoint security, data loss prevention, vpn, SSL certificates, email security, IPS/IDS and application security solutions in light of ISO 27001, PCI/DSS, HIPAA practices where applicable.
• Provided testing , technical documentation and troubleshooting (including packet level debugging -wireshark etc-).
• Competitive intelligence and interoperability testing with many market solutions including but not limited to : Firewalls (Cisco, Fortinet, Checkpoint, Palo Alto), Secure web gateways (ZScaler, Symantec), Endpoint protection solutions (Trend Micro, Crowdstrike, Symantec, Kaspersky)
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• Trained worldwide presales consultants and account managers on the products, competitive landscape and technical selling points.
• Provided a feedback mechanism for worldwide partners and presale consultants.
• Designed and provided a R&D feedback mechanism for worldwide partners and presale engineers.
• Improved technical marketing materials by providing technical presentations, deployment guides, PoC guides to be used by worldwide sale and support operations.
• Offered expert input to R&D as Subject Matter Expert on Unified Threat Management / Data Loss Prevention / Endpoint Security Systems with exposure to agile development methodologies and tools.(such as Jira, Confluance etc.)
• Provided testing , troubleshooting and technical documentation and competitive analysis for company' security solutions.
• Build test cases and procedures and executed tests in light of ISTQB practices.
• Improved testing procedures to gain higher product quality utilizing L2 Technologies (Port Mirrors, STP, Bonding), L3 Technologies (BGP, OSPF, RIP, GRE.

• NETAS is the largest system integrator company in Turkey, BDH is its postsale support company,
• Provided BAU support for an ISP (TT) network with 5 data centers distributed nationwide as the network consultant. Redesigned overall system and shutdown 2 of these data centers by distributing the load to others.
• Provided technical account management for projects.
• Organized field experts and deployment plans as required.
• Offered High and Low Level Network Design and technical documentation of several projects.
• Troubleshooting and escalation management of customer problems.
• Utilizing CCNP/CCIE technologies; QoS, BGP, OSPF, STP&RSTP, Multicast, Switching, WLAN, AAA, DMVPN.
• Main Projects ;
• TT KAYAA (4 DCs, 8000+ countrywide access points) WiFi redesign, subscriber services and network operational planning.
• Turkish Presidency New Campus LAN, network and security planning and implementation of campus local area network.
• Turkish Football Federation passolig project deployments on 2 stadiums and backup data center.

Reporting to UK CoE Advanced Services.

• Offered high and low level design of customer networks and data centers in EMEA region within multicultural international teams.
• Offered infrastructure disaster recovery high and low level planning and consultancy services for customer projectsas a member of the EMEA Center of Excellence.
• Utilizing CCNP/CCIE technologies; QoS, BGP, OSPF, STP&RSTP, Multicast, Switching, WLAN, AAA.
• Products ; Cisco load balancers, firewalls, VPN solutions, ASR-ISR series routers, catalyst and nexus switches, AAA solutions, Cisco Prime.

Main Projects ;

• Turkish Citizenship Agency disaster recovery center design and deployment.
• Allianz Global Network WAN design as well as several country LLDs.
• Saudi Electric Company new campus LAN design.

• Increased the public sector customer satisfaction by helping customers with their urgent problems.
• Increased the effectiveness the of the presale engineers by executing PoCs, presentations and offering RFP&RFI support.
• Network Products (Routers, Switches, Wireless Controllers, Access Points).
• Virtualization (VMWare).
• Security (NAC, Firewalls, IPSs, AAA, VPNs).