Erdem Savas Ilhan

• Guiding business and IT teams of major financial clients on use and implementation of Backbase solutions (portal, CMS, forms); defining integration scenarios, impact analysis and architectural roadmap; creating solution designs by working with client architects and business • Leading development teams on project implementation • Leading customer presentations and workshops • Training clients & partners on Backbase technology • Interviewing candidate solution, software architects and developers

• Steering product architecture • Productizing effort including release management improvements, performance and scalability • Working with product management to analyze / prioritize change requests • Assisting operations team to guide customer integration scenarios and resolve issues

• Developing an advertising platform for mobile operators • Focused on improving agile, lean practices. Proposed / implemented improvements in daily task planning (Kanban) and requirements process • Improved and extended a prototype product to a GA release, evolving the JEE backend architecture • Analyzed and improved the product architecture to support subscriber bases of millions in scale (High availability & scalability) Keywords: Java EE (EJB), Web services, TDD (JUnit), Terracotta, Fitnesse, Crui

• Led a development team in a multi-site project running across US, Canada, Belgium, India, Turkey. • Developed a large-scale network management platform for major telecom operators • Agile execution and leadership in large-scale • Organized technical trainings, interviewed candidate developers Keywords: Java EE, Spring framework, Hibernate, Struts, JSF, Maven, Ant, Subversion, Eclipse, Jira, Xplanner

• Worked with a multidisciplinary team of 10+ engineers, developing a C4ISR simulation framework

• Involved in presales and performed technical demonstrations of information security (PKI, digital certificates) products to corporate customers

Semantic Web Services Articles / Presentations in SEKE 2007 - Boston, USA and ENASE 2007 - Barcelona, Spain

Graduated within top 10 students and in honor list with a GPA 3.33