GÜRKAN GÜNDÜZ

Google

Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

About

• Exceptional listener and communicator who effectively conveys information verbally and in writing • Flexible team player who thrives in environments requiring the ability to effectively prioritize and juggle multiple concurrent projects • Proven relationship-builder with unsurpassed interpersonal skills. • Goal-driven leader who maintains a productive climate and confidently motivates, mobilizes, and coaches employees to meet high performance standards • Innovative problem-solver who can generate workable solutions and resolve complaints. • Personable professional whose strengths include cultural sensitivity and an ability to build rapport with a diverse workforce in multicultural settings • Resourceful team player who excels at building trusting relationships with customers and colleagues

Experience

  • Enterprise Cloud Sales at Google
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • İş Geliştirme ve Müşteri İlişkileri Yönetimi Müdürü at KKB Kredi Kayıt Bürosu
    Dec 2024 - May 2025 · 6 mos

  • Cloud Systems Sales Executive at Oracle
    Aug 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Turkcell (11 yrs)
    • Technical Architect Associate Director
      Sep 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr

      • Lead hardware architect and managed services architect teams under the sales organization. • Assisting all sales and presales teams in providing server/storage/network hardware and managed services according to customer needs. • Maintaining trusted relationships with customers and close relation with technical operation teams. • Understanding customer business needs, creating best matching solutions for these needs, presenting the suggested solution to both technical and management teams. • Manage strong collaboration with server, storage and network equipment vendors • Considering the competition, coordinate proposals with operation teams and hardware vendors through the sales process • Responsible for designing server, storage and network equipment, preparing kit list according the RFP’s from customers. • Providing architecture of managed services according to customer needs for on-prem, private and public cloud and custom solutions.

    • Storage & Backup Manager of Turkcell and Turkcell Cloud
      Aug 2018 - Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      • The managed teams are responsible for architectural design, daily operations and end-to-end management of SAN, storage and central backup infrastructure of Turkcell and Turkcell Cloud. (80PB+ Storage Systems, 20PB+ Backup Systems) • Responsible for budgeting, planning, procurement and implementation of SAN, Storage and Backup infrastructure • Providing efficient and reliable storage allocation and defining backup, recovery and archival procedures and develops and implements business continuity practices for storage and backup/recovery infrastructure • Manage strong collaboration with Vendors (DELL EMC, HITACHI, HP, NETAPP, INFINIDAT, PURE, HUAWEI, QUMULO, ORACLE, IBM,VEEAM) • Ensuring that the production systems’ 7X24 service delivery • Leading to improve inhouse storage real time monitor software which can monitor all SAN, all storage systems and related databases/servers end to end.

    • Senior System Administrator
      Jun 2012 - Aug 2018 · 6 yrs 3 mos

      • Administration of Production (Live) Systems in all Turkcell sites. • Configuration and installation of the new servers; in variosus HP DL and Blade platforms; VM platforms and Oracle platforms. • Management, support and responsibility of about 300 Unix, Linux, AIX and UX production systems • Key roles on, datawarehosue and ERP projects • Exadata Systems experience • EMC Networker and Avamar client management • System hardening; security and performance tuning • Project management and key roles on secure system installation projects.

  • Senior System Administrator at YKB
    Jan 2011 - Oct 2011 · 10 mos

    Engineer, “Senior System Administrator” • Information Technologies and Operation management • Platform Development • Management, support and responsibility of all Banking Systems on SUN. • Unix systems and servers administrator. • 7X24 Support. • Critical operations on CORE Banking System.