Dipl.-Ing. CELİL KOCABAŞ
Angestellt, IT Director, Teklas
İstanbul, Turkey
Timeline
Professional experience for CELİL KOCABAŞ
Current 1 year, since Jul 2022
IT Director
Teklas
Current 5 years and 1 month, since Jun 2018
Freelance Project Manager & Digital Transformation Consultant
Freelance
o Responsible from the R&D Project Portfolio Formation and management of the R&D Team which is composed of 7 designers, 9 developers , 3 testers and 5 Project managers.
o Co-responsible with the assigned Project Managers from the quality, profitability and on-time completion of all projects in the PMO portfolio. o Auditing the Projects in the portfolio in terms of compliance with standards set via conducting periodic site visits
1 year, Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Program Manager
Acron Consulting
o Responsible from quality, profitability and on-time completion the 20 on-going projects existing in the portfolio o Contributing to the Project Management methodology development and standardization studies taking place in PMO o Auditing the Projects in the portfolio in terms of compliance with standards set by conducting periodic site visits to the customer’s location.
o Administrative responsibility of 80 consultants experienced in Financial, Logistics and Business Intelligence areas of SAP solutions. o Forecasting the mid & long-term resource requirements and contributing to the recruitment of experienced and candidate consultants to the organization. o Contributing to the preparation of education programs and keeping track of the development of candidate consultants
1 year and 2 months, Jun 2012 - Jul 2013
Project Manager
Uniteam
o Planning, Coordination and Execution of different types of Software Consulting Projects in different size and complexities ranging from multi system full cycle implementation projects to functional and technical upgrade projects. o Managed a couple of million US Dollars budgeted SAP implementation project in one of the leading companies of Turkish FMCG Sector, Eti Gıda A.Ş..
12 years and 4 months, Feb 2000 - May 2012
IT Manager
Vitra Karo San. ve Tic. A.S.
o Management of Company’s all IT related processes, assets and infrastructures in accordance with the processes and principles mentioned by the COBIT framework. o Preparation of the Company’s IT investment and expense budget. o Organizing and coordinating the support staff to solve requests of the end-users to obtain maximum customer satisfaction. o Determination, procurement and implementation of the technology according to the needs of the users to achieve their business goals.
1 year and 9 months, Nov 2008 - Jul 2010
IT Manager
Eczacıbaşı Esan
Management of all IT Processes of the Company ranging from IT Budget Preparation to leading to the Communication Infrastructure and Business Process e-transformation Projects. P.S. This position held togetherl with the position held in Vitra Karo.
1 year and 5 months, Sep 1998 - Jan 2000
Program Manager
SAP Türkiye
Management of big size SAP R/3 implementation Projects like Medya Holding, Satel Holding and Rumeli Holding’s digital transformation projects.
1 year and 9 months, Dec 1996 - Aug 1998
Information Systems Chief
Kibar Holding
Management of local support team and several software implementation projects.
4 years and 9 months, Mar 1992 - Nov 1996
Production Planning & Control Chief
Vitra Karo San. Ve Tic. A.S
Management of the Company’s Production Planning Activities and Periodic Reporting of the production and planning activities to the Top Management. Besides worked as Logistics Modules responsible in Company’s ERP software (PRISM) implementation project.
Educational background for CELİL KOCABAŞ
2 years and 6 months, Sep 1989 - Feb 1992
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Middle East Technical University
General Equilibrium Energy Modelling
4 years and 10 months, Sep 1984 - Jun 1989
Industrial Engineering
Middle East Technical University
Languages
English
Fluent
Turkish
First language