Ayse Nihsen
Project Manager
Tampa,FL
Summary
Talented Business Analyst with an accumulative experience exceeding 10 years within the Finance, Electronics, Telecommunication, Automotive, Medical, and Wellness fields. Exceptional organizational, project management and leadership skills. Seeking opportunities within IT organizations where extensive knowledge and skills can be applied, be inspired learning and growing new skills, and ultimately meet personal goals.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates
Work History
Project Manager
Railsr
Santa Monica, CA
03.2022 - Current
- Developed and initiated projects, managed costs and monitored performance.
- Created project plans, identified objectives, scope, and deliverables
- Identified risks and issues that occur during the project lifecycle including strategic direction
- Analyzed processes and implemented improvements
- Consistently provided visibility into projects and report progress of projects to management
- Acted as a Scrum Master to improve the efficiency of the engineering teams
Founder
Holistic Upgrading
Waukee, Iowa
02.2021 - 12.2021
Business Analyst
Wirecard
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
06.2019 - 07.2020
- Experience in plastic card management unit in financial services.
- Gathered, elicited, analyzed, prioritized and documented requirements for business and technical team as part of agile delivery team with focus on delivering value.
- Created user stories, acceptance criteria and followed up tasks, took required actions for completion of tasks on timely manner.
- Created scope, analysis and technical specification documents with UML diagrams, performed UAT and demonstrated changes to related organizations.
- Worked closely with IT organizations, key decision makers, systems owners, end users and other IT organizations in support of core processes and critical business objectives.
- Created/documented, traced, maintained, prioritized, assessed changes to business processes and associated requirements.
- Ensured clear communication between business stakeholders and development team.
- Conducted research to obtain data, analyzed problems to advise and recommend solutions.
Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst
Sony
Istanbul, Turkey
09.2016 - 05.2019
- Planned and managed AWS migration project that was including about 20 systems in the EMEA region
- Assisted and supported agile delivery teams, business units, and project coordinators to ensure the completion of projects in timely manner.
- Performed infrastructure testing, system requirements testing, and application requirements testing on applications within AWS to ensure absolute functionality, reporting defects, correcting codes on fly.
- Gathered and analyzed requirements from business units and stakeholders. Worked with diverse business community to document as-is and to-be business processes.
- Created scope, analysis, and technical specification documents.
Business Analyst
Turk Telekom
Istanbul, Turkey
04.2014 - 09.2016
- Experienced on working with Kanban Agile methodology on Value Added Services (VAS), telecommunication sector.
- Gathered, elicited, analyzed and documented requirements
Managing and monitoring partner integration process. - Defined test strategies, documented, and performed functional, integration, performance and acceptance test cases.
- Trained clients to complete integration process successfully.
Test Specialist
Vodafone
Istanbul, Turkey
04.2013 - 04.2014
- Qualified and experienced on billing and charging service acceptance test in telecommunication sector.
- Defined and documented test strategies and test plan, test cases and performed functional, integration, performance and acceptance test cases.
Business Analyst
Bilge Adam
Istanbul, Turkey
07.2011 - 02.2013
- Liaised with technical leads, programmers, and stakeholders, analyzing and documenting requirements.
- Prepared test scenarios and plans, and performed system, functional, regression and integration testing.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Statistics
YILDIZ TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI
Istanbul, Turkey 09.2006 - 06.2011
Skills
Project planning and development
Advanced problem solving
Strategic planning
Functional & Business Requirements
Leading effective meetings
Team Bonding
Jira, Mondaycom, Google Business Suite
Communication
Certification
Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Timeline
Project Manager
Railsr
03.2022 - Current
Founder
Holistic Upgrading
02.2021 - 12.2021
Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
11-2019
Business Analyst
Wirecard
06.2019 - 07.2020
Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst
Sony
09.2016 - 05.2019
Business Analyst
Turk Telekom
04.2014 - 09.2016
Test Specialist
Vodafone
04.2013 - 04.2014
ISTQB Training
12-2012
CBAP Training
09-2012
Business Analyst
Bilge Adam
07.2011 - 02.2013
Bachelor of Science - Statistics
YILDIZ TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI
09.2006 - 06.2011