Ahmet Said Celik
Istanbul
Summary
- He is a resourceful, high energy technical solution architect, enterprise analytics architect offering 18+ years of expertise in architecture definition of large distributed systems, data analytics, data science, ML/DL, technical consulting, project management and technology implementation & selling in Cloud, Analytics, ML/DL, Data Engineering and Software Engineering.
- Technical Sales Professional with experience in software sales with a consultative approach. Ability to develop productive relationships with customers through understanding requirements and developing solutions to complex business issues. Continues to strive for high levels of customer satisfaction to achieve quotas and drive new business development.
- His experience in technology, software, consulting and IT mainly focused on enterprise data analytics platforms, applications, Cloud, ML/DL, Big Data Analytics and cloud, data & analytics implementations for telco, banking and finance, retail, manufacturing insurance, customer support, high tech manufacturing, healthcare & fitness. His technical expertise includes data analytics, data integration, Modern data architecture, cloud solutions, solution architecture, data architecture, AI, ML&DL and project management. He is passionate about Analytics, Big data, modern data architecture, data science, DWH/Data Lakes that enable business & customers to get better insights and data driven strategic decisions.
Technical Sales Professional with experience in software sales with a consultative approach. Ability to develop productive relationships with customers through understanding requirements and developing solutions to complex business issues. Continues to strive for high levels of customer satisfaction to achieve quotas and drive new business development.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Presales Solution Architect
Aac Asssociates Inc
Vienna
03.2014 - 11.2016
- Supported Sales teams to identify areas of opportunity and develop solutions that focused on service growth within key accounts.
- Recommended improvements to customers and demonstrated potential cost reductions and process improvements.
- Acted as Voice of the Customer to translate needs to internal product teams.
- Attended company training to increase understanding and knowledge of products.
Monitoring Engineer
Paychex
Albany
10.2005 - 10.2013
- Responsible for the configuration, development, integration, testing, implementation, documentation and support of the Enterprise Monitoring software.
- Performed high level assessments of functional and technical requirements to the business to address the needs of monitoring the health of the overall infrastructure.
- Interacted and assisted in negotiations with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure Monitoring products and services are implemented according to business requirements and enterprise standards.
- Troubleshoot problems and determining root cause to facilitate solving the issues.
System Analyst
Fidelity National Financial
Missoula
01.2000 - 10.2005
- Served as a Middleware application subject matter expert.
- Installed and maintained applications that supported processing customer order entry data for the ERP system.
- Worked cross functionally with business teams to formulate, define and document software implementations to support and improve application performance.
- Developed and implemented Risk and Opportunity Management Plans.
- Maintained security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
Application Developer
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
Warrenton
09.1996 - 01.2000
- Conferred with users to assess functional requirements to develop and maintained custom code for the customer order entry system.
- Participated in systems analysis and design for code specifications.
- Executed unit and functional tests to validate technical functionality and end-user satisfaction.
- Conducted design and code reviews to share knowledge with development team.
- Provided on-call support and training for users.
Education
Management Information Systems, BSc.
Bogazici University
04.2004
Computer Programming
Bogazici University
07.2000
Skills
- Enterprise Architecture and Development
- AI & Machine Learning (ML,DL)
- Cloud Computing (Public,Private,On-Prem)
- Advanced Analytics
- Data Engineering
- Technical Leadership
- Pre-Sales Activities
- Public Speaking
Accomplishments
- Diagnosed software failures and resolved technical issues with a 99.9% success rate.
Automated monthly reporting processes to save 20 hours in weekly workflow.
Reduced the number of incidents generated by IT issues by 70% globally by normalizing the events and adjusting the SLO's baseline.
Created critical KPIs to track and improve performance and availability.
Developed several internal tools to automate mundane tasks that were quickly adopted by other teams.
Created scripts for monitoring systems and critical applications.
Leadership
- Served as leader of the Monitoring team. Training
- Trained Operations staff to use the new monitoring system for day-to-day triaging of events to reduce system downtime.
- Trained and mentored intern from the i.c. stars program for several months to develop skills for hire. Client Interface
- Collaborated with prospective clients to prepare efficient product marketing strategies and drive business development.
- Increased pipeline by providing pre-sale and post-sale support to customers.
Affiliations
DeVry Alumni Association
Vivit User Group
i.c stars
Timeline
Presales Solution Architect
Aac Asssociates Inc
03.2014 - 11.2016
Monitoring Engineer
Paychex
10.2005 - 10.2013
System Analyst
Fidelity National Financial
01.2000 - 10.2005
Application Developer
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
09.1996 - 01.2000
Management Information Systems, BSc.
Bogazici University
Computer Programming
Bogazici University