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MELIS KARAGOZ TUZEL

MELIS KARAGOZ TUZEL

PRODUCT OWNER
Istanbul

Summary

Adept at deconstructing and planning stories in order to promote improvements to product design and implementation. Excellent relationship-building, organizational, and project management skills with a focus on overcoming technical challenges and implementing successful resolutions.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Analysis Team Leader&Product Owner

Etiya
12.2023 - 02.2025

As a Product Owner responsible for 3 agile teams

  • Define product vision & roadmap and drive the delivery of this roadmap together with tech and design teams
  • Continuously analyze user feedback & product usage metrics to identify missing features and important pain points
  • Review, analyze, and evaluate user needs, competitive threats, trends and opportunities together with the Product Management
  • Communicate with internal, external parties and international partners in the scope of ongoing projects
  • Identify and understand new and existing regulations, analyze risks and define any change requirements
  • Explain solution details to the team and clarify ambiguities
  • Oversee tasks to make sure that they are proceeding according to plan
  • Preparation of demos and presentations for Sprint Review meetings, Sprint target determination at Sprint Grooming and Sprint Planning meetings

As a Analysis Team Leader responsible for 10 people

  • Managing a team of 9 people
  • Track and analyse team members performance metrics
  • Establish and develop external and internal relationships, helping to create a positive learning culture within the team
  • Prepare regular reports on development status, performance, and outcomes
  • Coordinate with internal teams to align efforts with company goals

Technical Product Owner&Cloud Solution Architect

Huawei
06.2022 - 12.2023
  • Operate as a cloud solution architect in the area of SaaS cloud-native technology
  • Provide technical consulting and development support for HUAWEI CLOUD services
  • Responsible for demand analysis, solution design, POC verification, and traditional IT cloud solution design for Huawei public cloud projects through HUAWEI CLOUD services and solutions for public cloud projects
  • Collaborate with sales, solution architects, and other R&D teams in HQ to provide support for the customers
  • Designing, modifying, and testing technical architecture
  • Provide supervision and guidance to development teams
  • Inform various stakeholders about any issues with the current technical solutions being implemented
  • Assess the business impact that certain technical choices have
  • Provide updates to stakeholders on product development processes, costs and budgets

Senior Technical Product Owner

İşNet - İş Bankası
04.2021 - 06.2022
  • Manage cross-functional initiative teams and 3rd party service providers on an agile project management approach
  • Lead high-impact projects partnering with business leaders across the organization to define, develop and implement strategies that address business requirements
  • Create and execute projects defined in strategy roadmap in order to optimize/grow core business
  • Lead product discovery & problem definition efforts in the company while coordinating the solution design with a cross-functional team
  • Work with stakeholders to understand the business objectives and translate these into requirements to create the product roadmap
  • Support user research team members for getting efficient user feedback
  • Have an active role in mitigating impediments impacting completion of Release/Sprint Goals
  • Support testing and review QA test results as a part of the UAT
  • Facilitate in providing estimates for user stories, bug fixes, etc
  • Shape and refine the requirements to achieve a final technology/business solution
  • Execution of new business development and monetization projects from idea generation to implementation including the business model design, delivering success KPIs and go to market strategy

Senior Technical Product Owner

Bilyoner
03.2020 - 04.2021
  • Process analysis, identification of system functions, documentation of analysis studies Definition and documentation of systems' screen displays and workflows and some part of technical requirements
  • Planning, implementation and documentation of functional adequacy, interfaces, unit and integration suitability tests of systems provided from external or internal sources
  • Execution of the examination and evaluation of the functional qualifications of the systems in project groups assigned to the system project
  • Manage the project scope, including establishing a clear, baselined scope during up front planning, escalation of scope issues and scope change control
  • Manage external resources, where applicable, as an integrated part of the project delivery team
  • Hold the resources accountable for delivery
  • Create and manage project documentation including business requirements, functional design documents, acceptance criteria, creating wireframes, data flow diagrams (DFD) and sequence diagrams

Senior Business Analyst

TURKCELL
08.2018 - 01.2020
  • Experienced in Playcell Game Platform in Turkcell Gaming project and general subscriber testing
  • Analyzing business and solution, integration test cases
  • Responsible for Turkcell Playcell Login services, Turkcell Playcell Content Management System services
  • Experience on Turkcell Playcell mobile and web application
  • Reporting the problems and errors occurring during the broadcasting process, and publishing all datas
  • Analyzing information requirements and content sources
  • Responsible for calling Web Services with true way
  • Measure and evaluate solutions for value and opportunities
  • Ensures agile rituals (stand-ups, retrospectives, estimation sessions, showcases, quality and risk assessment sessions etc.) are taking place regularly

Billing System & Assurance Analyst

VODAFONE
09.2016 - 08.2018
  • Actively and consistently supporting all efforts to ensure accuracy of billing and reduction of billing disputes, thus overall improving the customer experience
  • Conducting root cause analysis on customer exceptions and, when necessary, recommend and facilitate appropriate process and/or system improvements
  • Establishing coordination between the work units and the IT-Service management, and providing the necessary billing support in new projects
  • Entering the tariffs of the prepaid, postpaid customers and 3rd party companies into the system, and controlling the accuracy of the postpaid tariffs in the system

Quality Assurance Analyst

VODAFONE
11.2014 - 08.2016
  • Responsible for Service Acceptance Test (SAT)
  • Responsible for Vodafone Genesis Transformation project which were affecting 6M Vodafone subscribers on live, with 100 team members
  • Experience on messaging systems (SMS, Bulk Messaging Systems and USSD)
  • Experience on Vodafone Online Services, Vodafone Yanımda mobile application
  • Preparing test scenarios according to the business requirements and related documents
  • Reporting the test status of the project on a daily/monthly basis to team leader and onsite counterparts
  • Performed functional, Performance testing, UAT, System Testing, Regression Testing
  • Responsible for calling Web Services with true way

Education

Mathematical Engineering

Yildiz Technical University
05.2009 - 07.2014

Skills

  • Removing Impediments

  • Time Management

  • Communication skills

  • Adaptability

  • Work Planning and Prioritization

  • Problem-solving

  • Analytical thinking

  • Teamwork and collaboration

  • Team motivation

  • Documentation and reporting

Certification

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)

Using Technologies

SQL, Postman, Swagger, Visio, Draw.io, Azure Devops, Jira, Confluence, Firebase, Google Analytics, CMS Tool, Balsamic, Apache Directory Studios(LDAP), Soap UI, JMeter

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 11/05/91

Summer Trainings

  • Software Test Engineer, ING Bank, Istanbul, TURKEY, 06/2011, 09/2011
  • Business Process Analyst, Abank, Istanbul, TURKEY, 06/2013, 09/2013
  • Work&Travel-Painter, Morey’s Piers Adventure Park, New Jersey, USA, 06/2012, 09/2012
  • Work&Travel-LifeGuard, Big Kahuna’s Water Park, Florida, USA, 06/2010, 09/2010

Timeline

Analysis Team Leader&Product Owner

Etiya
12.2023 - 02.2025

Technical Product Owner&Cloud Solution Architect

Huawei
06.2022 - 12.2023

Senior Technical Product Owner

İşNet - İş Bankası
04.2021 - 06.2022

Senior Technical Product Owner

Bilyoner
03.2020 - 04.2021

Senior Business Analyst

TURKCELL
08.2018 - 01.2020

Billing System & Assurance Analyst

VODAFONE
09.2016 - 08.2018

Quality Assurance Analyst

VODAFONE
11.2014 - 08.2016

Mathematical Engineering

Yildiz Technical University
05.2009 - 07.2014
MELIS KARAGOZ TUZELPRODUCT OWNER