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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
2019.11 - 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
2018.09 - 2019.05
  • 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
2016.06 - 2016.12
  • 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
2012.12 - 2016.02
  • 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
2010.08 - 2012.12
  • 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
2008.07 - 2010.08
  • 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
2009.02 - 2011.01

Bachelor - Industrial Engineering

Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul
2003.09 - 2007.01

Skills

    Product development

Strategic planning

Market Analysis

Research and trend analysis

SQL and databases

Gap analysis

Consulting

Workflow Analysis

Data analysis

Needs assessments

Scrum methodology

Story planning

Agile frameworks

Risk Assessments

Excellent Communication

Critical Thinking

Problem identification

Domain Expertise

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

Timeline

Lead Product Manager

Thoughtworks
2019.11 - Current

Product Owner

Eminevim Finance
2018.09 - 2019.05

Senior BA Consultant

Thouhgtworks
2016.06 - 2016.12

Senior Product Owner

Istanbul Stock Exchange
2012.12 - 2016.02

Business Analyst

Turkish Economy Bank
2010.08 - 2012.12

Master - Banking and Finance, Industrial engineering

Istanbul Bilgi University
2009.02 - 2011.01

Business Analyst

Kuwait Turkish Participation Bank
2008.07 - 2010.08

Bachelor - Industrial Engineering

Istanbul Technical University
2003.09 - 2007.01
VEYSEL AYDINProduct Manager | Strategist