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Mehmet Ali KARATAŞ

ICT Professional
Istanbul

Summary

With over 20 years of experience in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector, including 13+ years in senior management roles, this candidate brings a wealth of expertise to drive success. The track record showcases the ability to develop effective strategies, manage large-scale teams, and lead technology transformation projects. Well-versed in data center architecture, cloud infrastructures, IT processes, security management, and e-commerce application development and operations. By leveraging skills and knowledge, equipped to make a significant impact in any organization.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Head of E-Commerce Applications Development

Yeni Mağazacılık A.Ş A101
04.2024 - Current
  • New e-commerce application development
  • Migration to new application
  • 7X24 continuous operation
  • Team management

Senior consultant

Memorial Sağlık Yatırımları A.Ş
05.2022 - 03.2024
  • Project Management of hospital information system
  • Contract preparation and management for hospital information system
  • Built / reorganize Enterprise IT processes (change, asset, demand, incident, problem management, contract management)
  • Infrastructure architecture
  • Datacenter migration roadmap
  • RFP preparation

Senior consultant

Turgut Aydın Holding
05.2021 - 03.2024
  • Built / reorganize Enterprise IT processes (change, asset, demand, incident, problem management, Contract management)
  • Consultancy / preparation for prepare security roadmap for the enterprise
  • Consultancy for contract preparation for security roadmap
  • Consultancy for business continuity roadmap and infrastructure
  • Datacenter migration roadmap
  • RFP preparation
  • Security Roadmap

Director

Innova Bilisim A.S
04.2019 - 10.2020


  • Consolidation and migration of 6 hospital in to one City Hospital
  • Ankara City Hospital IT operations L1-L2, L3 support, and operations (biggest in the world 1,2 M m2)
  • Mersin City Hospital IT Operations L1-L2, L3 support, and operations (First City Hospital in Turkiye)
  • 100+ customer maintenance and operations for various services like SDWAN, TTVPN, L1 support, L2 support, managed services
  • Vendor management
  • Operations of all XaaS
  • Planning of IT infrastructure architecture of City Hospitals
  • Team management (700+ team member)
  • 190+ M TL yearly income

Manager

Aurea
11.2017 - 04.2019
  • Company Overview: Aurea (SaaS company in USA)
  • Consolidated DB service operations 5000+ DBs for 100+ SaaS services
  • Database migration
  • Cloud services management
  • Cloud service infrastructure preparation (VMWare, HyperV, K8)
  • Critical systems database Migration planning
  • Critical systems HW Migration planning
  • Team Management 15+ (remote team members)
  • 25% Cost Reduction per quarter
  • AWS services planning and operation
  • Database Consolidation
  • Migration to AWS and Azure
  • Aurea (SaaS company in USA)

Co-founder

İvme Grup Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş
07.2015 - 11.2017
  • Vodafone Turkey Mercury Project Consultancy for datacenter consolidation
  • E-commerce marketplace

Head of Datacenter Architecture & Planning

Türk Telekom
09.2009 - 06.2015
  • Company Overview: The biggest telecommunication company in Turkey
  • Implementation of Turk Telekom cloud for Turk Telekom customers
  • Cloud service infrastructure preparation (VMWare, HyperV)
  • Critical systems database migration
  • Plan HW Migration Critical systems
  • IT Operations
  • IT security planning
  • Data Center capacity planning
  • IT infrastructure planning
  • Preparation of solution architecture
  • Data center services and infrastructure assessment and roadmap
  • Vendor Management
  • RFP preparation
  • 100+ M USD capex-opex budget planning (yearly)
  • IT purchases
  • Contract Management
  • Team Management
  • The biggest telecommunication company in Turkey

Turk Telekom Expert

TÜrk Telekom
11.2003 - 09.2009
  • Plan and manage Turk Telekom Customer Care and Billing project migration
  • Technical Project Management: Vendor Management and Supervising a Team of 12 HW Experts
  • Contribution to Data Migration Strategy, Defining Data Quality Metrics and Validation Rules
  • Preparation for the build-up of the various test lab, training, and production environments
  • Database Administration in oracle 10g RAC and Disaster Recovery(Data-Guard implementation) environment
  • (Telekom Customer database)
  • RFP preparation of CRM and Customer Care and Billing projects
  • RFP preparation of HW projects for legacy databases
  • Coordinate the Rollout of Software and Hardware, including to control and organise the Change Management Processes

Software Developer

Erkunt Sanayi A.Ş
04.2002 - 11.2003
  • ERP Development with Oracle Forms / Reports
  • Oracle 7,3 Database Administration

OBI OFFICER

Turkish Coast Guard Commandership
03.2001 - 03.2002

Oracle Database migration from UNIX to Windows

Integrate Commandership NW to Tafics

Application development

Education

BS - Computer Engineering

Eastern Mediterranean University
01.1994 - 01.1999

Skills

IT Management

IT Architecture

Self Motivated

Goal Oriented

IT Operations

Strategy

Leadership

Teamwork and collaboration

Problem-solving

Team management

Training

  • PMP
  • ITIL FOUNDATION (certified)
  • 27001 ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor (Certified)
  • TOGAF
  • ISO 22301 Awareness
  • Data center awareness
  • Data center energy efficiency
  • Oracle Database 10g SQL Fundamentals
  • Oracle Database 10g Administration workshop 1
  • Oracle Database 10g Administration workshop II
  • Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters
  • Oracle Database 10g Performance Tuning
  • Oracle Database 10g Data Guard
  • Oracle Performance Tuning Workshop
  • IBM AIX System Administration 1
  • IBM AIX System Administration 2
  • HPUX - SysAdmin 1
  • HPUX - SysAdmin II
  • SQL fundamentals 9i
  • Oracle Database 9i Admin I
  • Oracle Database 9i Admin II
  • Oracle Database 9i Real Application Clusters
  • Oracle Database 9i Performance Tuning

Timeline

Head of E-Commerce Applications Development

Yeni Mağazacılık A.Ş A101
04.2024 - Current

Senior consultant

Memorial Sağlık Yatırımları A.Ş
05.2022 - 03.2024

Senior consultant

Turgut Aydın Holding
05.2021 - 03.2024

Director

Innova Bilisim A.S
04.2019 - 10.2020

Manager

Aurea
11.2017 - 04.2019

Co-founder

İvme Grup Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş
07.2015 - 11.2017

Head of Datacenter Architecture & Planning

Türk Telekom
09.2009 - 06.2015

Turk Telekom Expert

TÜrk Telekom
11.2003 - 09.2009

Software Developer

Erkunt Sanayi A.Ş
04.2002 - 11.2003

OBI OFFICER

Turkish Coast Guard Commandership
03.2001 - 03.2002

BS - Computer Engineering

Eastern Mediterranean University
01.1994 - 01.1999
Mehmet Ali KARATAŞICT Professional