Cem Özcan is seeking a position as a Project Manager/IT Coordinator. He has over 10 years of experience in project management and IT roles. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Sciences and Technology from Pennsylvania State University. Currently he works as a Project Manager/IT Coordinator at SITE CONSTRUCTION LTD. STI. where he manages projects, IT infrastructure, and provides IT consulting. Previously he worked at Metro Group and IBM TURK LTD. in project management and IT roles.

1. Cem Özcan
cemozcan@gmail.com
Buyuk Konak Apt. 14/1 Bagdat Cad. Fenerbahce, Kadikoy/Istanbul
+ (90) 532-352-1926
EDUCATION
2002-2006 PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY State College, Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Science in Information Sciences and Technology
Cumulative GPA: 3.07/4.0 - Major: 3.29/4.0 - Dean’s List (Fall 2004)
IT Projects to Northrop Grumman and ComputerAid Inc.
2000-2002 INSTITUT AUF DEM ROSENBERG St. Gallen, Switzerland
International High school
Participated in yearbook team.
Cumulative GPA: 3.52/4.0
1999-2000 LEYSIN AMERICAN SCHOOL Leysin, Switzerland
International High school
Computer Department Certificate of Merit
EXPERIENCE
2010/10-Present SITE CONSTRUCTION LTD. STI. (WWW.SITEINSAAT.COM) Istanbul, Turkey
Project Manager/IT Coordinator
Company specializes in construction management and general contracting services in and outside
Turkey.
 Estimating cost according to the mechanical, electrical and other necessary reports, preparing
documents for bidding then in the final phase preparing contract if the bid is won.
 Managing projects with international clients by preparing initial documentation, status and
progress reports to ensure the delivery of the highest quality service.
 Working with cross-functional project teams and sub-contractors to determine project needs and
scope of work.
 Ensuring that our own employees’ and sub-contractor’s milestones are accurately completed to
keep up with the original project plan.
 Coordinating with engineers and sub-contractors to ensure basic worksite principles and safety
regulations are followed.
 Making sure that the scope of the project is designed and executed in the way that meets the
design and functional requirements.
 Maintaining company IT infrastructure (exchange server), desktop systems, website and
applications at the main office in Taksim, Istanbul.
 Implementing necessary IT systems at shopping malls and hotels. (Including installation of
routers, servers, CCTV, power generation, management software, card door lock systems etc.)
 Provided IT consulting services to a number of medium size enterprises.
2008/02-2010/10 METRO GROUP (CASH &CARRY TURKEY) Istanbul, Turkey
Information Management & BI Department
Metro Cash & Carry is an international market leader in the sector of self-service wholesale.
 Project Management:
o Project leader for integrating SAF (SAF Simulation, Analysis and Forecasting AG) order
proposals at Cash & Carry Turkey MMS (Metro Merchandising System).
o E-Learning System integration for store staff trainings.
o Local software project development with Visual Basic (Customer returns, Local CRM)
o E-Invoice development project.

2. o Metrolink Project (Suppliers can view and analyze their and competitor’s sale statistics
store by store in detail directly through the data warehouse)
o OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Project with Kofax for Invoice Control Department
to speed up data entry in SAP FI.
o Technical analysis for MPOS (Project of moving from old cashier system to a more
advanced, stable Touch Screen cashier system - Wincor Nixdorf)
o Participated in the project team of ESL (Electronic Shelf Label) project where all the price
tags were migrated from paper labels to Electronic labels and updated within seconds
according to the information from the merchandising system. (Pricer)
 Participated in MicroStrategy BI Global Training in Dusseldorf, Germany.
 Created custom reports for board members, accounting department, controlling department, and
various other departments using Teradata (NCR) and MicroStrategy (BI Application software).
The reports could later be used by the front-end user without the need of an advanced user
support.
 Improved hands-on skills on Oracle DB and Oracle Forms applications.
 Integrated new modules and libraries in cash registers and check out interfaces.
 Gave first-level-support to each department’s master user to create custom BI reports and
training them for the Web-based interface.
 Gained hands-on-experience both on front-end and back-end on a data warehouse over 100
Terabytes.
 Managed Data Quality of all integrated systems (Including Merchandising System and CRM) by
querying SQL statements to find the inconsistent and inaccurate data. This also helped
developing the front-end interface to avoid users entering inconsistent data into the systems, thus
managing and storing the data more efficiently.
 Defined DWH user security levels based on the user's roles and responsibilities, including
issuing RSA SecurID key for remote access to the DWH.
 Participated in the testing stages of all systems in the pre-production environment to ensure there
are no bugs and/or compatibility issues between the systems before deploying new versions.
Summer 2005 IBM TURK LTD. Istanbul, Turkey
Intern, IT Consulting Department
 Assisted IBM team in setting up an activity-based cost control system (ERP) for Dogus Group’s
construction department.
 Gathered front-end user complaints about the previous system.
 Reported user demands and requests to be implemented in the new ERP system.
Summer 2004 TURKCELL Istanbul, Turkey
Intern, Marketing & Sales Department
The leading GSM operator in Turkey and is a regional leader by being the market leader in five
countries out of nine it operates in.
 Designed, tested and maintained an integral part of the company website. I gained hands-on-
skills on Vignette software.
 Coded and managed several pages for company intranet site through its Content Management
System.
 Designed and edited the digital magazine of Turkcell.

3. SKILLS
Programming Object-Oriented C, HTML, Visual Basic, SQL, XML
Software Applications Teradata SQL, MicroStrategy BI, Adobe Photoshop, MS Office
Business Project Management, Team Building, Problem-based Learning
Languages English (Fluent), German (Intermediate)
MILITARYSERVICE: Completed in June 2007