Experience

Organon Analytics

• Türkiye
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Partner & Chief Technology Officer

  • Nov 2011 - Present

  • Built a start-up company and brought it to a fully functioning service&product provider of AI-related solutions. Organon has 16 enterprise clients in 8 different industries with a technology team of 14 employees. • Set the technical strategy; developed the initial code-base; built, coached and managed teams of top level Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers and Software developers who built and deployed AI/ML software&solutions. • Designed, and built the Organon AI Platform. It consists of 7 products; each one automating a singular aspect of AI/ML operations. • The platform has helped clients to cut the time-to-market of AI/ML projects from 6-18 months to less than 3 days. • 6M ML models created with the platform in 2020; 8B decisions produced as the result. • 50+ business analytics services built on top of the platform servicing 8 industries. • 300 AI/ML projects completed since 2011. ROI of each project lies between 20 and 100. • Built the Machine-Learning-As-A-Service platform that engines the Data Monetization program partnered with Turkcell, a major telecom operator with a subscriber base of 49.6M. • Led the development of an AI driven enterprise cybersecurity product. The product has been launched in 2021 and is currently deployed in clients in banking and telecom industries • Secured 7 grants from TUBITAK, the National Science Foundation of Turkey. Show less



Garanti BBVA Teknoloji

• Türkiye
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Architect

  • May 2003 - Nov 2011

  • Built Credit Risk Analytics models: 400+ PD, LGD, EAD models for different products and LOBs.The bank at that time had 6M credit cards, 8M debit cards, 500K POs and over USD50B risk exposure.The system reduced the average cost per consumer by 21%; boosted the clients market share by 24%;fraud losses were reduced by 24%; the bank made 34% more profit per credit line. • Developed software for optimal management of cash at Garanti ATMs and branches. The work involved demand forecasting, predictive maintenance and route optimization. 4000+ time-series models built each month. ATM service efficiency increased by 44%. The total cost of ATM network management reduced by 32%. • Developed the analytics infrastructure for Sales Effectiveness, Churn Management and Retention programs. Built 300+ ML models and 1000+ event-based rules. Product-per-customer jumped from 2 to 3.5; attrition rate cut by 43%; customer average life-time extended by 30% in 2 years. Show less



Peppers & Rogers Group

• United Arab Emirates
• Management Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Aug 2002 - May 2003

  • Managed 2 Project Managers with teams consisting of 15 Data Scientists and Management Consultants. • Built the ML models for boosting The Inside Sales program for the United States Postal Service. The models have resulted in 35% increase in response rates. • Developed the \Customer Relationship Management RoadMap" for a large Turkish commercial bank. The deliverables of the project have become de facto CRM plan for the years 2003-2005. • Developed Record Linkage software to be used at multiple clients. 3m+ records were standardized and then consolidated at a Turkish retail conglomerate. Show less



Princeton University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer

  • Sep 1998 - Jan 1999

  Taught Princeton Woodrow Wilson School MPA students on Applied Statistical Methods. Taught Princeton Woodrow Wilson School MPA students on Applied Statistical Methods.



Princeton University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant in Instruction

  • Sep 1997 - May 1998

  • Led the Data Warehousing and Data Mining Department. The team consisted of 12 Data Scientists and Software Developers. • Built the very first ML models for marketing analytics and risk analytics. • Built the customer segmentation models for retail and small business divisions. • Led the Data Warehousing and Data Mining Department. The team consisted of 12 Data Scientists and Software Developers. • Built the very first ML models for marketing analytics and risk analytics. • Built the customer segmentation models for retail and small business divisions.