Gurkan Papila
IT Director , Manager
48 years old
Istanbul Turkey
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
Passionate about technology, strong in relationship building, believes in work is a place for exploration, creativity, innovation and professional growth.
Infrastructure and Technology Services Director
Eczacıbaşı Holding A.Ş.
Since January 2017
Full-time
ISTANBUL
Turkey
- Over all IT strategy and governance role for all Eczacibasi Group companies mainly distributed in to four key areas; Building Materials, Health Care, Consumer Products and Mining.
- Center of excellence and operations management for all Eczacibasi group into three key areas ; Digital Security and Risk Management, Global Network Infrastructure and Communications & Collaboration Systems.
- Relationship management with all IT subsidiaries in all group companies and Holding business units to share best practices and accelerate business outcomes with in common benefit areas.
- As a member of Digital Transformation Office, responsible from all technology related developments and governance role for investment decisions on transformation projects for all group companies.
Head Of Cloud and Enterprise Infrastructure
Turkcell
Since March 2015
Full-time
Istanbul
United States
- Cloud Services Product Management for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services of Turkcell Superonline.
- Defining the architecture, design and technology aspects of existing and new delivered products for Enterprise and Medium segment corporate cloud customers.
- Operational management for all Cloud Services which covers Turkey's largest vVrtualization, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Video Conference, Fax, Email, Dns and Web Hosting.
- Management of all Level 0-1 Service Desk (Customer Care) teams for all the Turkcell Group companies covering +20K Clients and Turkcell Retail Shops covering 15K+ location.
- Defining strategy and designing required processes for managing the whole life cycle of Cloud and Enterprise IT solutions for Turkcell, SuperOnline, Turkcell Teknoloji and Global Tower firms with an organization of 220 staff, 2 teams with a budget of multi million dollar.
- Increase of productivity, efficiency and simplification of daily worklife for +20.000 employees in 8 HQ , +15.000 Retail Offices in all over Turkey by managing 15.000+ Laptops&Tablets&Desktop, +5.000 Mobile Devices, 1.600+ Servers, 250+Printers, 200+ Video Rooms, 500+Monitor&TV&Projectors solutions.
Head Of Enterprise Infrastructure and Security Services
Turkcell
Since January 2009
Full-time
Istanbul
Turkey
- Defining strategy and designing required processes for managing the whole life cycle of Enterprise IT Solutions and Security Services for Turkcell, SuperOnline, Turkcell Teknoloji and Global Tower firms with an organization of 30+ staff, 2 teams with a budget of multi million dollar.
- Increase of productivity, efficiency and simplification of daily worklife for +15.000 employees in 8 HQ , +4.000 Retail Offices in all over Turkey by managing 15.000+ Laptops&Tablets&Desktop, +5.000 Mobile Devices, 1.600+ Servers, 250+Printers, 200+ Video Rooms, 500+Monitor&TV&Projectors solutions.
- Assurance of security compliance with SOX, PCI, BTK, ISO27001 regulations by designing, planning and operating of security services; Identity Access Management (For +15.000 Accounts), Log Management (EMC RSA Envision, IBM Guardium, HP Archsight), Identity Analytics (Oracle), Single Sign On (Contact +13 Million Account for Turkcell Online Services), End-
Point Protection , Data Classification , Data Leakage Prevention , Mobile Device Management.
IT Operations Manager (Turkey, Israel)
Citibank
June 2005
to January 2009
Istanbul
Turkey
- Management Of Operating System, Database, Security, Data Center, Monitoring Teams with 40+ Staff based mainly in India and Israel.
- Orchestrate overall activities to develop/design, administer, maintain and trouble-shoot of country technology infrastructure and systems within corporate technology framework standards and policies that are built within ITIL perspective.
- Coordinating regional initiatives and requests for both Turkey and Israel Citibank with regional and local teams/streams/vendors.
- Planning and designing new projects and key solutions for Consumer and Corporate banking businesses especially mergers and acquisition of local financial institutions.
Senior IT Architect & Team Manager
Doğan Online
January 2001
to April 2004
Full-time
Istanbul
Turkey
- Designing and maintaining highly available, scalable systems for large scale (+13M) internet users.
- Leaded Infra Support, Service Desk, Monitoring, Reporting Teams
- Management of Web Portals, Advertisement Network, CRM and Interactive alue added services
- Design and implementation of Turkey’s biggest internet advertisement platform MedyaNET.
IT Infrastructure Consultant
Deutche Telekom & Vestel & Vestelnet
June 1998
to January 2001
Full-time
Istanbul
Turkey
- Unix Windows Server Administration
- Network Security Engineer
- Web Hosting and Collocation Services Administration
- Data Center Service Desk Team Leader
- 15+ Years of Experience
- Supervision of Technology Teams
- Certified ITIL Expert
- Enterprise Architect
- Certified MCSE
- MCP+Internet Information Services
- Certified CISA 2009
- Certified COBIT
- Certified Checkpoint Admin
- SIEM,Firewall,DNS,Loadbalancer,DLP
- ISO 27001,SOX,PCI,BTK Regulations
- IT Operations Management
- Change Management
- Problem Management
- Information Security Management
- Risk Management
- Identity And Access Managemnet
- Agile Project Management
- Scrum
- Trekking, Swiming
- Table Tennis, Squash
- Technology & Devices & Innovations
