Oguzhan Ozgul
Senior Organizational Leader
Senior Software Engineer
I'm an IT professional and an award-winning organizational leader with 19 years of experience in top-tier multinational companies. I have two passions: software engineering and leadership.
I have proven ability to lead, coach and develop people, teams and organizations to accomplish operational and organizational objectives; I can direct several organizations at the same time. I build strategies, set targets and follow-through to success, can identify and resolve problems within deadlines, and can develop tools and processes to improve software performance, boost business results and increase organizational effectiveness.
I have significant achievements in information technology, engineering, supply chain, and leadership. I'm experienced in multinational and multi-cultural environments in multiple international locations and experienced in hiring and developing people.
I have developed several business and academic software and tools, web-sites and web-apps. I also have experience in digital business consulting for several clients. I have led and worked on many IT projects contributing significantly to business metrics.
I love sharing knowledge, experience and ideas, as much as learning new things and developing myself further professionally. I can help your business solve your important problems.
Consultancy on business planning, supply and distribution network, supplier selection, and more.
Business model consultancy.
Consultancy on several different projects within the company, mainly focusing on IT services planning.
Consultancy focusing mainly on UI and UX, in addition to payment features.
A web app bringing together people who want to give, with people and organizations in need. Technologies: React, context API, Node.js, express.js, others. API served with Heroku, frontend served with Netlify. Database is PostgreSQL. Continuous deployment with Git integration.
Website for the information technology company. Planned project. Technologies: React, Redux, express.js, others. Initially planned to be served with Netlify.
My personal website. Technologies: vanilla JS, HTML5, CSS3, minimal Bootstrap. Served with Netlify. Continuous deployment with Git integration.
Software to analyze the vibration behaviour of beams and plates with attached piezo-electric actuators and sensors. Analytics, tensor and matrix mathematics, and user interface programmed in Matlab. Academically approved.
Project management software suite written in VBA. Brings a significant 10% time savings to the organization of 80+ people. Programmed with VBA for MS Excel. Business approved and still in use.
An innovative 3D top-down space shooter for mobile. Features upgradeable ships and weapons, many levels, in-app purchases and analytics. In development phase using Unity Game Engine and C# language.
English to Turkish translations for the privacy-respecting search engine.
More of my open source contributions are on the way. Check back often!
Currently working as senior software engineer, designing and developing an advanced business intelligence solution to Spotify, which will bring significant improvement on productivity of Spotify employees in terms of work and revenue planning.
As the engineering leader for the front-end of the project, also playing an important role in terms of feature and release planning, while at the same time handling the communication flow coming from executives, through project planning to software engineers.
Led an international remote team of senior and junior software engineers and consultants. For the large-scale software project of the company designed the architecture, decided on the technology stack, designed and developed the front-end, back-end, database and built the organization to deliver the objectives on-time before the funding rounds begin.
Led a global organization consisting of ca. 40 employees of several levels, determined the vision, mission and long-term strategy, built and maintained the organization program including staffing and budget, decided on the ways of working and defined the interfaces with other functions. Led several transformation projects and site-specific remediation programs, developed and improved several processes to drive results. Improved customer service by 25% and supplier delivery performance by 22%, delivered 15% headcount productivity.
Led and worked as a part of teams in several IT projects, both hands-on (Data Scraper for Company Procurement Database) and as a consultant to IT delivery teams (Materials Inventory Management Dashboard, Automated KPI Reporting in Customer Service metrics).
ToTook several senior management roles working for world-famous brands such as Pampers, Duracell, Ariel, Always and others. Led many international teams consisting of managers, specialists and contractors. Delivered outstanding technical and business KPI results. Created positive change on the organization by leading high-impact organizational projects, trainings, coaching and mentoring. Won many awards, including awards from the top executives in the company for my leadership.
Designed, developed and implemented multiple software products, delivering excellent results which go well beyond the targets, from full-suite of project management software (Lighthouse PM Suite, delivering net 10% productivity increase to the organization) to simple but effective software tools fully automate daily tasks.
Led the mechanical design group of the company manufacturing complex machinery and assembly lines for international and local customers such as Hyundai Motors, Honda Motors, Knauf and more.
Istanbul Technical University - Istanbul, Turkey - 2000
Bogazici University - Istanbul, Turkey - 2003
Programming for the last 32 years
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