Burak Alakus

Principal Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Technical Account Manager with a demonstrated history of working in telecommunications industry. Skilled in customer engagement solutions, contact centers, software development, integrations and service management.

Experience

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Full-time · 6 yrs)
    • Principal Technical Account Manager
      Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Sr. Technical Account Manager
      Jul 2020 - Oct 2024 · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • Client Service Manager II at Avaya
    Mar 2017 - Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    - Improving client engagement experience and driving customer success as a trusted technical advisor for large enterprise accounts in region. - SW Release Management and planning based on software lifecycle policy. - Escalation Management for all technical issues. - Training partners about support management and troubleshooting. - Having periodic meetings with customers, doing followup for new & ongoing issues and discussing preventive actions. - Ensure customers are applying the best practices and the best fit solutions for them. - Supporting sales activities by providing design related consultancy.

  • Empatel Telekom (Avaya Platinum Partner) (Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye)
    • Department Manager
      Apr 2014 - Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Leading Empatel Technical Team providing the tasks below; - Coordinating functional, reliability and regression tests for all CTI Softwares developed in Empatel and for all outsourced projects. - All installation tasks and system integration support in DB and OS level have been provided. - Leading CC Reporting tasks including design, support and deployment for all contact center projects. - Planning for new products to be developed.

    • Call Center Software Consultant
      Jun 2013 - Apr 2014 · 11 mos

      - Coordinating IT and UAT tests on Avea CCNE Project. - Forwarding issues to proper team members. - Determining suitable system&software architecture to meet customer requirements.

  • Military Service at Military Service
    Dec 2012 - May 2013 · 6 mos

  • EMPATEL (Avaya BP) (Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye)
    • CC Applications Developer / Outbound Systems Design&Support Engineer
      Feb 2012 - Dec 2012 · 11 mos

      - Support&Implementation for Avaya Proactive Contact. - Developing CTI applications integrated to outbound systems using .NET and Java Technologies. - Developing iOS Based Applications integrated to contact centre systems especially based on basic management and realtime monitoring. - Good knowledge on Avaya DMCC on Java and .NET, Avaya Proactive Agent APIs and Event SDKs for CTI integrations.

    • Tier 2 Technical Support Engineer
      Jul 2011 - Feb 2012 · 8 mos

      - Tier 2 Technical Support for Avaya IP Office hardware and applications. - Technical Support for Avaya Communication Manager hardware and software products. - Technical Support for Avaya Aura Systems (System Platform, System Manager, Session Manager, Presence Server, Conferencing Server, Collabration Server)