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Summary

Alper is a Principal Consultant with over 20 years of Financial Services experience of which 15 years have been focused on Murex. He has expertise in both technical and functional domains.

He has delivered several projects as a team lead and system architect ranging from green field implementations, upgrades, enhancements, and support.

His key areas of expertise are project management, front office , back office and integration.

Professional Experience

Apr 2022Present

Principal Consultant

Elenjical Solutions
Aug 2018Mar 2022

Vice President /Technical Lead

Akbank TAŞ

Technical leader for the department responsible for the Treasury systems, investment retail products, and Trade finance. Responsible for mentoring the 6 product owners including (the Murex support/ project team) in the department so that architecture alignment of the Bank met. Acting like a design authority or a senior architect so that strategic projects of Treasury systems align with overall IT and bank strategies.

Nov 2013Aug 2018

Treasury Applications Team Manager

Akbank TAŞ

I led a team consisting of developers, analysts, and consultants. I am also responsible for managing vendor relations. My team has a yearly budget of nearly 3.5 Million USD OPEX and up to 1.5 Million USD CAPEX cost. My team supports internal clients on a wide range of engagements / Products including:
Murex, Summit, Ermas-Suite (Hedge Accounting), Corona Confirmations, Bloomberg (B pipe), And Reuters (TREP) systems in Akbank environment. We are making Implementations, consolidation and migrations, performance tuning, and version upgrades.


Some Major project we have implemented is summarized below:

  • Led the team worked on migration of FX Cash, MM (Jan 2019), and FX Option (June 2019) n trades from Summit to MX.3 with full integration to internal Back Office. I managed the Akbank, Murex Beirut, and Indigo teams on the project with a number of 20 + persons. This was the last project of the Treasury program of Akbank.
  • Finished Collateral Management Project in MX.3 that enables trade or margin calls to be initiated from a single system. With this project, Akbank will optimize the collateral repository.
  • Managing RFP processes of CVA project in Akbank with the nominee vendors. The bank will be compliant with Basel III. Proposals are being evaluated by all parties.
  • Led the team working on the migration of IRD trades from Summit to MX.3 with full integration to internal Back Office. I managed the Akbank, Murex Beirut, and Indigo teams on the project with a number of 15+ persons. I was involved in any step of the project to have a successful implementation.
  • Mentored and led a team of Akbank and Murex for migration of Fixed Income and Repo trades from Summit to MX.3 with full integration to internal Back Office. It was the first Akbank project with Murex and the first FI project in Turkey with Murex. Despite heavy integration and difficulties, we managed to go live in 9 months within budget and on time.
  • Strategic project with the goal of making In-house Back Office System of instead of Summit FT The Global Back Office consumes external trades and other triggers in XML format. Those are trades that are captured in a system external to Atlas BO. This project required a strong Back Office and connectivity knowledge and I have joined the team as the functional partner of straight-through-processing (STP) and Murex MX.3.
  • Successfully changed Real-time market data source from Reuters TREP to Bloomberg B-Pipe at Akbank. Worked with RISK and Bloomberg teams closely to make Conversion of more than 7000 RIC codes to Tickers. Changes are done in Murex MX.3, Summit, Horizon, and legacy systems of Akbank. The first Enterprise implementation In Turkey, with a really tight scope. Project is the one the nominee for IT Bankers Award 2017 for the platform category.
  • Implemented Option Trading of Horizon Software to make Akbank a Market Maker at Borsa İstanbul for Listed FX Options. Akbank became a leader in the market with this project in Turkey. Back Office implementation is solved with a local vendor.
  • Worked on Integration Project connecting Akbank to LCH/CLS using clearing Broker on Summit FT to meet (DFA/EMIR) regulations for Turkey.
  • Managed to go live Reuters ET implementation project. The platform is used to host one-click trading activities between sales and trading. The platform is integrated with Summit FT to capture trades and events.
May 2012Nov 2013

Investment Applications Team Manager

Akbank TAŞ

I led a team consisting of developers, analysts, and consultants. The team is responsible for the Investment systems built for the sales of the treasury products to the customers via channels.

The products are:
Mutual Funds, Fixed Income, Reverse Repo, FX Spot, and the derivatives (FX, Equity, IR Etc ).

  • Worked to set up the Flexible Saving Account project. With this project Retail Customers had the option to make regular savings from a deposit account or credit card and invest in some products (FX, Gold, Mutual funds, etc.).
  • Worked on renewing FX products in Akbank. We have changed processes and pricing mechanisms for FX sales to retail customers.
Aug 2005May 2013

Investment Applications Specialist

Akbank TAŞ

I worked as an analyst for the Investment systems. I have participated in various projects with the team.


Some of the projects are below:

  • Retail Credit Risk integration for derivative products to track risk & margins of customers with legacy systems.
  • Migration of equities from Ak Investment to Akbank.
  • Roof Account: Any unused money in your Roof Account is invested in a separate Money Market Fund.
  • Local Custodian project. Akbank got the right from the SEC of Turkey to become a Custodian for portfolio management companies in Turkey.
  • Capital protected Funds: Worked for issuing of several Capital Protected funds via Akbank channels.
  • Fıxed Income Project: Migration of Fıxed Income from legacy systems to Summit FT.
  • New Taxation Regulation : To align new regulation with all retail P&L calculations and processes re-engineered.
  • Cheques and Promissory notes: Renewing processes for products.
  • Integration for payables with Tax Offices of Turkey: Enabling Retail and Commercial customers to pay their debts to State from Akbank delivery channels.
Nov 2001Aug 2004

Core Banking Applications Software Developer

Yapı ve Kredi Bankası TAŞ

Yapı Kredi is a subsidiary of Unicredit Bank in Turkey. I worked as a software developer for the core banking projects specialized in Deposits/Time deposits and cheques.

I have participated in various projects with the team. Using C, Java, and Cobol (Mainframe).

Jun 2000Nov 2001

Software Developer

Hitit Computer Services

Hitit is a software vendor for Airlines owned by Pegasus Airlines in Turkey. I worked as java developer for CRM projects at the company.

Education

2000

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Skills

Programming: 

  • Misys Summit FT
  • Unix
  • Java
  • .Net
  • SQL
  • Cobol (IBM Mainframe)