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VEYSEL AYDIN

Product Manager | Strategist
Milton Keynes

Summary

Direct development and enhancement of high performing products with solid record of accomplishment in client centric products. Gifted coordinator with natural leadership talents, solution-oriented approach to problem solving and expertise in mapping out effective strategies. Develop, monitor and strengthen plans to achieve goals with cost-effective approaches.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Lead Product Manager

Thoughtworks
London
11.2019 - Current
  • Established criteria for each milestone within product roadmap as means to measure developmental progress.
  • Conceptualized and deployed enhanced product features and optimized implementation for use in marketing strategies.
  • Enabled product team(s) to quickly ship and iterate high-quality solutions, that deliver valuable outcomes for their users/customers and business
  • Here are some of the products/projects that I helped to enable product strategy into execution.

Sector: Advertisement - 2 months
Sector: Retail - 10 months
Sector: Education_Data Analytics - 3 months

Sector: Retail B2B_Data Science – 6 months…ongoing

Product Owner

Eminevim Finance
Istanbul
09.2018 - 05.2019
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog.
  • Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
  • Coordinated with software developers to create custom applications and trackers to achieve client goals.
  • Allocated and approved team resource usage.
  • Negotiated with vendors and manufacturers on pricing, services and scheduled shipping windows.
  • Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.

Senior BA Consultant

Thouhgtworks
Istanbul
06.2016 - 12.2016
  • Initiated and run ‘Business Analyst Istanbul’ weekly meetups
  • The Meetup group has reached nearly 1000 members and every week 30-50 people attended analysis meetings.
  • Run customer workshops, inception and discovery activities to build product roadmap
  • Defined user centric Product needs and delivered MVP, MSP and delivery milestones
  • Facilitated and led workshops that generate ideas and contents for enterprise solution

Senior Product Owner

Istanbul Stock Exchange
Istanbul
12.2012 - 02.2016
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog.
  • Helped business to build customer centric products and been part of the first pilot agile team within organization working on digital transformation projects
  • Created Product backlog and identified MVP thin slices to be able to be present in the market and get customer feedback as efficient as possible
  • Gold Stock Exchange web system availability has been kept upper than %99.7 for one year.

Business Analyst

Turkish Economy Bank
08.2010 - 12.2012
  • Worked as test analyst in Alternative Distribution Channel Team to test Call Centre applications, IVR process and CRM applications
  • Created all test cases and run test scenario of all projects
  • Generally, contributed middle and big scale projects
  • Managed to deliver data and system migration project of two big bank (TEB and FortisBank).

Business Analyst

Kuwait Turkish Participation Bank
Istanbul
07.2008 - 08.2010
  • Involved in Management trainee group in information technology department First 5 months, attended to financial management trainings
  • After then, I worked as System analyst and Test analyst to do scope analysis, detailed functional requirement analysis and user acceptance test in credit and loan allocation team

Education

Master - Banking and Finance, Industrial engineering

Istanbul Bilgi University
Istanbul
02.2009 - 01.2011

Bachelor - Industrial Engineering

Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul
09.2003 - 01.2007

Skills

    Product development

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Domain Expertise

  • Fintech (Banking, Stock markets) - 8 years
  • Retail - 1 year
  • SaaS Products : 2 years
  • IT Consultancy - 4 years

Timeline

Lead Product Manager

Thoughtworks
11.2019 - Current

Product Owner

Eminevim Finance
09.2018 - 05.2019

Senior BA Consultant

Thouhgtworks
06.2016 - 12.2016

Senior Product Owner

Istanbul Stock Exchange
12.2012 - 02.2016

Business Analyst

Turkish Economy Bank
08.2010 - 12.2012

Master - Banking and Finance, Industrial engineering

Istanbul Bilgi University
02.2009 - 01.2011

Business Analyst

Kuwait Turkish Participation Bank
07.2008 - 08.2010

Bachelor - Industrial Engineering

Istanbul Technical University
09.2003 - 01.2007
VEYSEL AYDINProduct Manager | Strategist