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Özgur Özdemircili

CEO at Capital Blau Ventures | Executive Chair at Trade Blau connecting startups with Barcelona | Ex-Amazon

Barcelona, Spain (+01:00 UTC) English, Spanish, Catalan, Turkishfrom Barcelona, Spain
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Bio

Thanks to other companies that are a part of Capital Blau Ventures also helps Spanish and Catalan businesses and venture capital firms get access to Turkish Startup eco-system and Turkish market for investment as well as near-shoring. Capital Blau Ventures is a trusted provider of Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona with the Turkish Business HUB project which aims to connect both Turkiye and Spain via Barcelona. An Ex-Amazon - Ex-Microsoft executive with 25 years experience I have invested and have been in the baord of multiple startups giving shape to the future of their products. If you are founder that you would like to internationalize your startup feel free to reach out, let's see how we can open your services and products to Spanish / European markets

Expertise

  • Advice on funding

    Having been into both side of the table as an entrepreneur and as an investor, I can give you insights, advice on the first round of funding you are looking to get for your startup. Money really is not the only factor here. Investors, how the investment is made plays a great role in the growth of your company. Working together we will find a good fit for you and for your business.

  • Customer success

    Customer is the first thing we need to have in mind while talking about the success for your business. Who is your customer? Do you know them? What value do you bring? Are your customers happy with your service? How do you measure success? Let's get a cup of virtual coffee and talk :)

  • Mindset coaching

    We underestimate how important it is to keep laser- focused only one project till the end, learning lessons on the way. Ones that do succeed are always the ones that keep their priorities on the table, intentions clear and able to be look at the future. If you are having doubts about all those don't go jump out of a bridge, (at least not yet:).

  • Public relations

    Having being in the management of enterprise and startup companies I helped pitch the services, teams and products. I can offer advice on how your public sees your company and products.

  • Technology and tools

    I have been working in IT 20+ years, 13 being management positions in Enterprise as well as startups. I can help you re-check your structure, advice on the quality of your staff, cost saving options

Industries

  • Business Information Systems

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Experience

  • Capital Blau Ventures

    CEO
    •capitalblau.com

    Capital Blau Ventures is the first Turkish-owned investment company in Spain, that is founded to provide smart investment and internationalisation to startups in Turkey - Middle Asia and USA helping them expand into the Spanish and European markets. Thanks to other companies that are a part of Capital Blau Ventures also helps Spanish and Catalan businesses and venture capital firms get access to Turkish Startup eco-system and Turkish market for investment as well as near-shoring. Our current portfolio spans a wide range of cutting-edge technologies and industries, including data analytics, voice, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and Industry 4.0. Capital Blau Ventures is a trusted provider of Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona with the Turkish Business HUB project which aims to connect both Turkiye and Spain via Barcelona.

    Venture Capital

  • Cloudia Research

    Country Manager - GTM

    Designed and delivered Spain market entry strategy from zero presence.Built initial commercial pipeline across Valencia, Barcelona and Madrid.Established institutional relationships with Invest In Valencia,Chambers of Commerce and university networks (UPV). Got selected as one of the 12 most innovative companies. Built in house AI systems to help automation and increase financial visibility. Positioned company within local innovation hubs and delivered full handover to permanent structure.

  • Microsoft

    Director of Customer Success
    •microsoft.com

    Managing Customer Success team for Spain. Helping our Enterprise customers through their daily challenges.Shaping the way we serve. Leading 4 managers, 40+ Customer Success Account Managers with 4 verticals working on multiple fronts such as increasing the support quality, customer ramp-up, customer satisfaction, correct technology choice. Working with our stakeholders inside and on the customer side to bring the newest technology, with the best quality of support. Backing up customer priorities via multiple programs and customer success planning. Working in the transformation of the CSAM role inside Microsoft as well as shaping the way we bring the best to our customers.

  • Amazon Web Services

    Head of Enterprise Support - Spain & Portugal
    •aws.com

    As the head of Enterprise Support, I led our initiatives to grow our business in Spain and Portugal with end-to-end responsibility. Supporting all AWS Service that our customers use from our basic services like EC2, S3,Aurora to our most complex services. I am constantly in contact with our internal stakeholders in sales, marketing, partners and internal service teams as well as our customer C-level executive to create long term actionable goals to grow our customers. I also continuously grow our Enterprise Support staff, employing top talent for our company. Some of my duties include: -Deep dive into customer solutions and architecture to help them create well architected, cost optimised, secure architecture towards future -Take place in customer escalations and work with internal leadership peers to have our customers resolve their issues in the most time effective way. - Help shape and execute a strategy and broad use of Amazon Web Services with our customers in Spain & Portugal. - Within a customer’s environment engage in discussions with senior personnel regarding incidents, trade-offs, best practices, and risk management. Work in strategic initiatives on business, product, and technical challenges as you help our customers take advantage of the efficiencies, cost savings and quick innovation available only in the cloud. - Champion and advocate for Enterprise customers within Amazon Web Services (be their voice) - Develop the team responsible for solving technical issues and working directly with AWS engineers to ensure that customer issues are resolved as expediently as possible - Help Enterprise customers define IT and business processes that work well with cloud deployments - Engage with Director and C-Level executives to translate business needs into technical and operational plans - Analyze and present operational reviews to customer leadership

  • Launchmetrics

    Director, Site Reliability Engineering

    Reporting to Chief Engineering Officer. Assuming the responsibility of Site Reliability Engineering. * Manage the current budget of 1M+ and reduce costs while keeping up the increase necessary for business needs * Manage, hire, mentor and motivate the Site Reliability Engineering team * Implement and supervise infrastructure platform design for all Launchmetrics products. Both in Amazon AWS and other cloud platforms. * Work closely with the other department heads and wider teams to develop world-class products and play a key role on the Technology Committee to ensure overall business success including advising on technologies that may improve efficiency and effectiveness of internal processes. * Promote and defend DevOps culture inside Launchmetrics for all products and teams. * Maintain an understanding of leading-edge technologies and make determinations on the best technology to implement; help integrate them into Launchmetrics’ product development. * Understand and communicate departmental financial and resource needs, development schedules and progress reports regularly to the Chief Engineering Officer. * Create and manage process improvement projects to continuously improve how the company develops and deploys its products. * Reassure security at the infrastructure level. * Oversee the maintenance of a real-time alert and monitoring infrastructure and manage the 24/7 support. * Direct and maintain relationships and negotiate contracts with key vendors.

    E-CommerceDigital AgenciesOther

  • Banco Sabadell

    Senior Manager

    Responsable for the environments. Working woth multiple teams on the stability of Development, Integration, Acceptance and Production environments. -Work with the Devops, infrasctructure, architecture and release management teams in stability of the environments. - Attend and organize necessary meetings to discuss current issues. - Planification and organization of the upcoming interventions. - Assuring and reporting the environment stability issues. - Taking place in organizing infrastructure, communications and production team tasks. - Creating and organizing Release Management team inside QA department - Mentoring the current release management manager - Employing senior Devops and release management profiles. - Incorporating the industry standards and methodologies (Kan ban / Scrum) in Release Management. - Organizing and tracking the environment readiness in UAT(QA) and future training, pre-production and finally production environments. - Tracking and reporting different aspects of the migration project. - Working with production teams to correctly mitigate incidents and manage stakeholders. Schedule interventions and manage the project and risks.

  • Roche

    Senior Engineering and Devops Manager

    Managing software developer and devops teams across Switzerland and Barcelona, consisting of senior developer profiles. Acting as a single point of contact and local representative build, manage, and innovate Roche's Devops department in Spain. My duties also include aligning Devops software development needs with outsourcing model in Roche,collaborate in continuous integration with release engineering team, recruitment of new staff, licensing of development and end user products, investment portfolio for all Devops related activities,

    Other

  • Thomson Reuters

    Development Operations Manager

    • Drive and lead performance management and reporting function, ensuring all staff are fully aware of the required performance targets, together with the related performance achieved • Recruitment of highly technical staff • Supporting and implementing Continuous delivery • Coordinate and ensure SDLC processes • Lead and develop and a highly effective and motivated team with clearly defined objectives aligned to the overall team objectives • Design, delivery, configuration and sizing of application hardware platforms and extensions • Capacity and growth planning for the Discovery of Science practice area platforms • Manage relationships with key stakeholders, e.g. development, datacentre operation, and production support within the defined remit • Partner with production support team to ensure optimum handshake of software delivery • Continuous application support processes and software delivery improvements • Establishing consistent approaches and working standards • Leading technical changes design and implementation

  • SERHS

    Responsible For Systems And Oracle Technology

    Promoted as the Responsible For Systems And Oracle Technology, I am resuming my work on Serhstourism S.A. under Migjornser S.L., which belongs to the same group Grupserhs S.A. as Serhstourism S.A. with the change of title and responsibility over Oracle technologies. Complete reconfiguration and upgrade of all the weblogic 10 servers to 11G with Jrockit tuning configurations. Lowering garbage collection time from 2.3sec to 0.6 sec. One of the projects that I work on is the Terracotta project. With our group of programmers we are working in lowering CPU usage in our Oracle RAC. Supported by Big memory , Terracotta, and Nosql, MongoDB.

  • Serhstourism

    Responsible for Systems and Oracle Technology

    Serhstourism is incoming travel agency that acts as both a global provider of services for national wholesale travel agencies and for international travel agencies and tour operators with a unique bank of 13.500 hotels located in more than 65 countries. The xml requests we are receiving are ranging from 3.000.000 to 6.000.000 daily with more than 100.000 clients which in return produces an income of 465 million Euros yearly.

  • SERHS

    Responsible For Systems & Systems Architect

    Serhstourism is incoming travel agency with a unique bank of 13.500 hotels located in more than 65 countries. The xml requests we are receiving are ranging from 3.000.000 to 6.000.000 daily with more than 100.000 clients which in return produces an income of 465 million Euros yearly. Also we are integrated with 4 of the biggest companies in tourism industry producing more than 4.000.000 xml requests daily. Promoted as the responsable for systems and architecture, one of the main projects I was involved is reducing complexity of the schema and setup of the systems, network and servers.During this project I was able to take all the steps necessary to redesign the infrastructure. The professional duties consisted of single handedly administration of all 84 Linux RHEL and 16 Windows servers in the infrastructure, finding out the bottlenecks and ways to solve them, standardization of instalations, reducing complexity, saving time and space with infrastructure virtualization, establishing security with open source tools and fine tuning Redhat servers as well as Oracle , Weblogic and Tomcat platforms. Administration of 3 node Oracle RAC in produccion as well as 2 node RAC in out test environment in coordination with our provider Nucli Experts. Working in coordination with Nucli Experts on exports, imports, log tracing, service requests and patching of our Oracle 10G R2 RAC. Administration of load balacing systems of entering traffic to tomcat and weblogic servers with BIG Ip F5, while stopping overhead on servers with Ventus Proxy system. Deploying out in-house weblogic applicacions in test and production environment. Constant monitorization of Serhstourism IT infrastructure. Reducing server costs with Vmware VSphere 4/5 on VMware Esxi 4 / 5 servers with Vmotion, VConverter, and fault tolerance conected to two EMC Clariion CX 340c, CX 300, VNX network storage cabinets.

  • SERHS

    Systems Administrator

    As a part of companies owned by Grupserhs, Migjornser S.L. takes the responsibility to provide technical and innovation services to more than 78 Grupserhs companies and 2000 workers. The professional duties consisted of researching new technologies to be used and helping solve technical issues.The main project I was responsible of was creating a group wide domain system including naming, setup and implementation.The projects consisted of: * Researching and implementing an open source helpdesk system * Resarching and configuring a groupwide chat and file sharing system with OpenFire and Red5 * Research on Voip and Asterisk Voip server * Configuration and testing of Qmail server * Instalation /configuration of open source internal messaging system using Ignite Spark / Spark IM and Openfire

  • Timeservices

    IT Manager

    Timeservices works as receiving one and offers a great variety of the hotels of different categories on the most popular resorts of Turkish sea-side: Antalya, Alanya, Marmaris, Bodrum, Fethiye. In total 120 000 customers from Finland, Norway and Sweden, and 30 000 customers from Russia and CIS. IT manager position at Timeservices tourism agency. Daily systems administration tasks along with the responsibility of creating the new sale system on web. Qmail mail server setup and administration IPTables firewall configuration / maintenance.

  • Casio Tours

    IT Manager

    IT manager position at Casiotours Antalya/TURKEY. New establishment of Serhstourism / Natalie Tours in Turkey. As a new establishement responsibilities consisted of setting up the new office and internet / intranet connections. From Moscow / Russia VPN connections with modems.VPN connections to offices inside the country. Setting up the domain environment, cabling. Setting up VOIP conections to reduce call costs. Firewall system using IPTABLES / IPFW.

  • FreeBSD

    Core team

    Created the core team for FreeBSD Linux inTürkiye Create the first Linux congress in Türkiye Multiple papers written Multiple congresses

  • United States Air Force

    Systems Specialist

    Systems administration tasks in domain environment. Application of Military rules and configuration of servers Interconnections RF Security of the site / logging / analyzing logs and activities

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