Deniz Can Dincer
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Reading, United Kingdom
Toptal member since August 3, 2021
Deniz has 10+ years of consulting and management experience across multiple countries, industries and business domains. His key areas of expertise are in IT—business consulting, digital transformation advisory, agile project management, design thinking, and business process design and improvement. Deniz has led complex IT projects from discovery to go-live and has managed distributed delivery teams.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Project Management
- Business Analysis
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- Digital Transformation
- IT Project Management
- Product Owner
- Project Management
- Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Work Experience
Agile Project Management Coach and Scrum Master
The Kraft Heinz Company - CoE
- Worked as a trusted advisor and delivery lead within the Agile Center of Excellence.
- Built a pilot agile POD and led it as a Certified Scrum Master/Agile Coach to stabilization. Project management practices implemented became the base for new PODs across the organization.
- Delivered reliably, hitting capacity and above target NPS scores for the pilot POD.
Digital Transformation Consultant and Agile Delivery Lead
Independent Consultant and Project Manager
- Engaged in a professional group of screeners that assesses project managers and scrum masters applying to join one of the world's top professional remote talent pools.
- Mentored multiple early-stage startups in two incubation centers and a technology development area. Supported founders in developing product management methods, Agile methods, business model refinement, and investment preparation.
- Acted as the project coordinator for an EU Horizon project consortium involving 12 partners from six countries. The project aims to implement first-of-a-kind technologies, such as 5G private networks and AI, for industrial settings.
- Served as the startup's delivery lead on sustainability, energy monitoring, and IoT solution involving cloud, mobile, and IoT.
Agile Project and Program Manager
The Kraft Heinz Company
- Led the launch of three in-house ventures and minimum viable products as an agile project manager for a corporate innovation program.
- Helped the client put tools, methods, skills, and team in place to test venture ideas and build prototypes.
- Implemented lean startup principles and used continuous improvement methods to increase the speed and quality of delivery.
- Managed project spending items and budgets in line with the client's ways of working.
Senior Managing Consultant
IBM
- Led the delivery of complex IT projects as an Agile PM, scrum master, and engagement manager for global organizations. This is across various technologies, including mobile, cloud, IoT, mainframe, SAP, and custom-built solutions.
- Consistently received high NPS scores (10/10 on the most recent engagement), resulting in additional signings and renewals.
- Provided Agile transformation advisory for a global client. Led the transition of the organization from Waterfall to Agile practices. Delivered trainings, set up tools and methods, and ran maturity assessments.
- Acted as the business process design lead and senior product owner for an IT modernization (cloud migration) project managing a team of analysts. Served as the single point of contact for 30+ business stakeholders.
- Led the project discovery using design thinking practices for business model innovation, requirements identification, and management.
- Developed training and curriculum design, hiring and mentoring, and organization building as the consulting practice and org development lead. Received the Service Excellence Award for Developing Others.
- Oversaw change management, training, and communications for a complex order to delivery IT modernization program impacting 5,000+ users.
Value Stream Leader
Procter & Gamble
- Ran analytics projects to optimize order quantities with external suppliers and internal manufacturing sites resulting in unit cost savings.
- Led the delivery of supply chain systems projects to improve logistics and distribution operational KPIs.
- Planned and project managed the launch of new beauty care products and initiatives in new markets.
Project History
Connected Cars
Business development and delivery of a customer facing connected car project.
• Business model design to the delivery of a connected car solution
• Running design thinking workshops to refine the consumer needs
• Analysis of the competitive landscape and benchmarking
• Technology choices and integration design
• Setting up and running the PMO
Operations Transformation Project
Transformed a global automotive client's order to delivery systems and managed complicated and conflicting business requirements.
• Improving the ways of doing day-to-day work for 5,000+ users of the system
• Moving from legacy mainframe systems to a modern cloud-based application
• Changing the business rules to optimize processes
• Integrating with 15 other internal and external systems to manage orders
• Leading a large UAT effort to get sign-off from system partners and internal users
Energy Monitoring, Sustainability, and Industry 4.0 Startup
Successfully launched one of this startup’s key products.
Agile Transformation
Led agile transformation for six project teams as part of the Agile Center of Excellence at a Fortune 500 enterprise.
Screener for Project Managers and Scrum Masters
Part of Toptal's screening team to asses skills and experiences of applying project managers and scrum masters.
Education
Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering
Technical University of Berlin - Germany
Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Koc University - Istanbul, Turkey
Certifications
AWS Cloud Practicioner
Amazon Web Services
Design Thinking Practicioner
IBM Digital
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Green Belt
TU Berlin
Skills
Tools
Trello, Jira, Asana
Paradigms
Agile Project Management, Kanban, Design Thinking, Scrum, Agile, Lean, Change Management, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Agile Delivery
Industry Expertise
Supply Chain Management (SCM), Automotive, Lean Six Sigma
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Other
Scrum Master, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Project Management, IT Project Management, Supply Chain, Request for Proposal (RFP), Product Owner, Business Process Analysis, Business Analysis, IT Business Analysis, Digital Transformation, Operations Management, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Mobile/Web Project Management, Warehouse Operations, Sprint Planning, Sales Planning, Stakeholder Management, Early-stage Startups, Project Discovery, Consulting, Business Consulting, Project Scoping, Project Estimation, Hybrid Project Management, Hiring, Hiring Process Development, Scrum Product Owner, Digital Project Management, Coaching, Project Planning, Internet of Things (IoT), Natural Language Processing (NLP), PI Planning, Contract Management, Training & Training Content Development, Startup Consulting, Communication Design, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud, Engineering Management, Engineering, Business Development, Stakeholder Engagement, Agile Transformation, Global Team Management, Team Management, Microsoft Office, Order Management, Business Process Modeling, Organizational Design, Project Coordination, Energy Management, Energy Analytics, Mentorship & Coaching, Mentorship, Product Management, Quality Assurance (QA), QA Testing, Data Migration, Startups, Lean Startups, Enterprise Product Ownership, Innovation, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Agile Coaching, Agile Certified Practitioner, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT)
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