Ponsatlas

At Ponsatlas, we are committed to transforming the dynamics of teamwork through advanced technologies, top-tier consultancy, and innovative software development. As the founder, my role entails leading the company towards our vision of becoming a leading provider of these services worldwide.

By leveraging my deep expertise in the Atlassian ecosystem and leadership experience, I guide our team in delivering solutions that enable our clients to unlock their teams' full potential and achieve their goals. Our services range from providing quality trainings as an Atlassian Training Partner, offering expert consulting as an Atlassian Solution Partner, to developing and selling Atlassian Cloud plugins.

Furthermore, I am actively working on expanding Ponsatlas's global footprint, strengthening our team, and taking us to the next level by becoming an Atlassian Marketplace Partner. In the process, I aim to leave a mark in the Atlassian community and beyond as a thought leader and a reliable consultant for C-level executives striving to optimize teamwork within their organizations.

Founder

Atlassian

As an Atlassian Community Leader, my responsibilities are:
- Hosting events
- Listening to and advocating for our local community members
- Motivate our community members

Atlassian Community Leader

Saint-Joseph Lisesi Eğitim Vakfı (SAJEV)

Foundation Trustee

☀︎ Atlassian
☀︎ Teamwork Technologies
☀︎ IT Service Management (ITSM)
☀︎ IT Operations Management (ITOM)
☀︎ Enterprise Service Management (ESM)
☀︎ DevOps
☀︎ Project Management
☀︎ Strategic Planning
☀︎ Enterprise Knowledge Management
☀︎ Coordination
☀︎ Business Intelligence

Information Technology Consultant

İstanbul Özel Saint-Joseph Fransız Lisesi

Atlassian, Learning and Education Technology, Project Management, Program Management, Operation Management, Process Improvement, IT Strategy, Agile Methodologies, Digital Transformation, Collaboration, Teamwork, Organizational Learning, Enterprise Service Management, Software Development, IT Service Management

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

☀︎ Algorithms, Problem Solving, Programming Languages, Coding
☀︎ Project Management, Agile, Entrepreneurship, Technology Trends, Technology History, 21st Century Skills, Lifelong Learning, Digital Citizenship, Cyber Security, Maker, STEAM, Artificial Intelligence.
☀︎ Programming languages: Swift, Python
☀︎ Related Certificates: Google Certified Educator, Apple Teacher

Computer Sciences Instructor

☀︎ Team Leadership
☀︎ IT Project management
☀︎ Networking, Enterprise grade Wi-Fi, Mobile Device Management (MDM)
☀︎ Information Security
☀︎ Deploying iPad, macOS
☀︎ Learning Management Systems (LMS), Educational Technologies
☀︎ Teacher Training
☀︎ Full-stack web development using Linux, Apache, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, HTML, CSS

Information Technology Coordinator

☀︎ Critical listening, acoustics, psychoacoustics and digital audio
☀︎ Recording, mixing and editing
☀︎ Pro Tools, Waves audio plugins

Audio Technologies Instructor

Audio recording (studio, location), mixing, editing, audio restoration, audio analyse, arrangement, orchestration
Tools: Pro Tools, Pure Data, Java, Waves Plugins

Audio Consultant

Software development using Java, C, C#, C++
Full stack web development using PHP, Databases, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Linux

Software Engineer

Encore Bilişim Sistemleri

NCR POS Systems: Software Development, Testing, Bug tracking
Programming languages: C++

Software Engineer Intern

Vizyon Bilgi İşlem ve Danışmanlık Limited Şirketi

Operating Systems: Linux (CentOS)
Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) qmail

System Administrator Intern

Founder at Ponsatlas | CxO Consultant [We're Hiring!]

Teamwork methodologies and technologies are one of my biggest passions.

Here are some points about my professional experiences:

☀︎ Founder of Ponsatlas, a niche startup delivering premium consulting and software development services on teamwork technologies

☀︎ 8+ years of experience with Atlassian's teamwork tools such as Jira Work Management, Jira Software, Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira Service Management, and Advanced Roadmaps (formerly Portfolio for Jira). Holding Atlassian Certified Expert, Atlassian Certified Jira Cloud Administrator (ACP-JCA), Atlassian Certified in Managing Jira Cloud Projects (ACP-MJCP), Atlassian Cloud Organization Administration (ACP-520) certificates, and Confluence Space Administration (APB-220) Pro Skills Badge.

☀︎ 17+ years experience in project and program management. Holding Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate from Project Management Institute (PMI).

☀︎ 20+ years experience in software development. Holding a Computer Engineering degree from one of the top universities in Turkey. Strong background in Java, C, PHP, Swift, Shell, and Python.

☀︎ 15+ years experience in technology management. Worked as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in one of Turkey's top high schools. Worked in transforming education with the help of technology. Managed projects and programs with keywords: Enterprise Wi-Fi, Networking, Cyber security, Next generation firewall, SIEM, Deploying +1000 iPads, Teacher training, Learning Management Systems such as (Moodle, Google Classroom, iTunes U, Apple Classroom), Datacenter, VoIP, Virtualization, Microsoft environment (Windows Servers, clients, Office365), Linux, macOS, Business continuity, Disaster recovery, Digital Signage, Digital Transformation, Process optimization, Organization-wide service management, Mobile device management (MDM), ITIL, IT Service Management (ITSM), Collaboration technologies (Atlassian's tools, Google Workplace).

☀︎ 10+ years experience in leading technical, educational, and administrative teams. Passionate about communicating with different cultures. Formed and led internal teams (recruiting, professional development) and external teams through outsourcing.

☀︎ 20+ years experience in instructing with 10K+ hours of training in Turkish, French, and English.

☀︎ 20+ years of experience in audio technologies holding a Master of Arts degree from one of the top universities in Turkey. The executive producer of two classical music albums released globally.

Eren Kalelioglu

Erdem Menges

Command Zero

VP of Product Marketing

Stream.Security

(formerly Lightlytics)
- Acquisition, enablement and growth of channel
- Acquisition, enablement and growth of technology alliances. 
- AWS alliance lead

VP of Global Partners & Alliances

Marketing, experimentation, mischief :)
(formerly Lightlytics)

VP of Marketing

GitHub

Lead product marketing at GitHub. 
- Took over a product marketing team of 4, stabilized the team and grew the team to a team of 17 in 15 months (pending 4 more of the latest hires joining the team as I left),
- Restructured the team for growth and scalability, 
- Established processes and partnerships to nurture cross-team collaboration,
- Refreshed messaging and positioning of core products, 
- Heavily influenced the creation of the pricing & packaging framework, 
- Co-led the creation of the enterprise sales framework in partnership with revenue leadership, revenue enablement, and an external consulting firm, 
- Ran 2 rounds of detailed buyer persona research that included qualitative and quantitative methods, 
- Co-led the creation of GitHub's new tagline and led the creation of GitHub's new value proposition (both revealed publicly in July 2022),
- Drove product positioning and messaging for marquis events.

Senior Director Product Marketing

Kong Inc.

Drove the go-to-market, positioning and messaging of Kong's Enterprise product.
- Established simplified launch/release processes for Kong's flagship product, 
- Established close partnerships with product, sales leadership and sales enablement to help articulate the value of Kong to customers, 
- Co-led the creation of the enterprise sales framework in partnership with revenue leadership, revenue enablement, and an external consulting firm, 
- Partnered closely with Growth to accelerate PLG motions for the Enterprise product.

Director, Enterprise Product Marketing

Drove the go-to-market, messaging and positioning of developer-focused security solutions at GitHub, resulting in exponential growth of this business line. 
I partnered closely with our customers, Hubbers and Microsofties - including product management, sales, and the extended marketing team to get the the newly established application security business line up and running. 
My responsibilities in this role included: 
- Product Positioning
- Messaging
- Pricing/Packaging
- Sales enablement
- Strategic deal support - participated in 70+ customer sales calls in 12 months, partnered with sellers to structure value articulation and justification for key deals.

Director, Security Product Marketing

Micro Focus

Led the go-to-market, positioning and content execution for the growing application security portfolio, and the security product marketing team covering:
- Fortify Static Code Analyzer
- Fortify Software Security Center
- Fortify on Demand
- Fortify WebInspect 
- Fortify Application Defender

Director, Fortify Product Marketing at Micro Focus

Responsible for the go-to-market and content execution for the growing application security portfolio including:
- Fortify Static Code Analyzer
- Fortify Software Security Center
- Fortify on Demand

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Sales and marketing professional with hands on experience on cyber security, cyber security sales, software sales, penetration testing, security audits, consulting and training.

Some of the topics I focus on and my interests include: 
- Application Security 
- Penetration Testing
- Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM)
- Security Operations Centers (SOC) 
- Enterprise Fraud Detection & Management
- Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (NIPS)
- Encryption & Data Loss Prevention 
- Fitness and fitness electronics

Sales of Enterprise Security Products and Services of HPE in Turkey & Greece including: 
- HPE ArcSight (SIEM)
- HPE Fortify (Application Security)
- HPE Data Security (Atalla & Voltage)

Sales, Turkey & Greece at Enterprise Security Products

Dataserv Information Technologies

- Sales of information security solutions and services,
     Including vendors such as: McAfee, Dell Software, Splunk 
- Business line management of information security solutions and services, 
- Vendor management and planning of security portfolio,
        Including vendors such as: McAfee, Dell Software, Splunk, RSA.
- Business development of information security and related areas.

Information Security Sales Director

Lostar

- Sales management of services offerings,
- Management of customer communication, 
- Project management & delivery,
- Business development, 
- Human resources management,
- Penetration testing, 
- Security Consulting, 
- Security Training,
- Social Engineering Tests,
- Computer forensics support.

Manager, Technical Services

Enterprise software go-to-market leader with 17 years of experience in cybersecurity, marketing, sales and technical services. My career goal is to build and lead the go-to-market team of a high growth SaaS company. Rinse and repeat. 

I'm computer engineer by formation, forever student in human psychology, sales and marketing professional by choice. Out of all different roles I've had so far in my career, I enjoy marketing technology the most because it challenges me to combine all my top skills (strategic thinking, people skills, technical and sales skills) to drive customer value, while partnering with some of the most brilliant minds in the business.
I have hands on experience in software development, cyber security, cyber security sales, software sales, penetration testing, security audits, consulting and training. 
I'm passionate about building and growing business lines through solving complex technology problems - helping customers capture business opportunities. 

I communicate openly and directly, take complete ownership of my responsibilities and thrive in an environment where every individual is empowered to take initiative. I always work on establishing trust and clarity with my teams,  and I expect the same approach from the leaders I work with.

My interests include: 
- Software Development
- Application Security 
- DevOps/DevSecOps
- SRE/Chaos Engineering
- Observability
- Penetration Testing
- Breach and Attack Simulation
- Security Validation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning

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