Ugur Civan

CEO at OCTALPHA

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

I have 20 years of IT background including start-up and running of information technology in multinational environment.

Experience

  • OCTALPHA ()
    • CEO
      Apr 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 4 mos

    • General Manager
      Jan 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 7 mos

  • Head Of Information Technology at IFA Food
    Sep 2011 - Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Functional areas: Information Technology Management for complete new regional retail start-up Scope of responsibility: Building up the complete IT Operation and Application roadmap from a scratch. • Recruitment of the complete IT team • IT Procurement and budget • IT Application Landscape including Business Process design and implementation • IT Enterprise Architecture design and implementation • Change Management • Creation and of SOPs and Policies Achievements : • Design and building the data center from scratch • Installation of complete application road map and ready for development and implementation start-up • Building up complete HO IT infrastructure (AD structure, Firewalls, LAN/WAN inc. VOIP, with full redundancy) • Building up the first store infrastructure including complete IT retail hardware like check-out, HHTs, scales and etc. • Implementation of complete SAP (MM,SD,FI/CO) solution, check-out (Wincor-Nixdorf) and Customer registration/Loyalty (Wincor-Nixdorf) solution • First store is opened at 27th June 2012 Managed staff: 2 teams(Application and Infrastructure) with 9 FTEs Reporting to: COO/CEO

  • Makro Cash and Carry Egypt (4 yrs 1 mo)
    • Head of Information Technology
      Jan 2009 - Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Functional areas: Information Technology Management for country opening Scope of responsibility: Building up the complete country expansion IT operation from a scratch. Which includes: • Recruitment of IT team and orientation • Integration of the country IT in corporate It structure • IT Procurement and IT budget • Implementation and adaptation of complete IT services including the application map for the country and infrastructure for 200+ users • IT project management of first country store opening • Recruiting a successor and coach him according to corporate IT operation needs Reporting to: CFO of Makro Cash and Carry Egypt and South Europe IT Regional Manager

    • Head of Information Technologies
      Sep 2007 - Jan 2009 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Functional areas: Information Technology Management Scope of responsibility: • Bringing the IT operation to the same standards of corporate IT. • Recruitment of IT team and orientation according to the corporate IT structure. • IT Procurement and IT budget • Implementation and adaptation of complete IT services (application map and infrastructure) for 700+ users in 9 locations (5 store and 4 platform) • IT project management of 2 new store opening (Mumbai and Kolkata) • Recruiting a successor and coach him according to corporate IT operation needs Managed staff: 12 professionals + 19 external Reporting to: CFO of Metro Cash and Carry India and Asia-Pacific IT Regional Manager

  • MGI METRO Group Information Technology GmbH (4 yrs 3 mos)
    • Department Manager-Project and Problem Management
      Feb 2006 - Sep 2007 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Scope of responsibility: Managing a team which is responsible for: • IT Project management of in 30 Metro counties, which mainly focused on standardization and centralization of IT systems • Controlling of “IT Investment Proposal Requests” coming from the countries • Aligning with the country IT operation for the Budget and Forecast for IT expenses and investments • Problem coordination between the technical departments and country IT operation for high priority production problems • Providing regular reports to the management about the international project status and investments Managed staff: Multinational team consist of 8 Senior Project Managers Reporting to: Division Manager of Network Service Center

    • Project Manager
      Jul 2003 - Feb 2006 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Scope of responsibility: • Country IT Project and Problem management of France, Romania, Moldavia, Russia, UK, Serbia, Croatia, Turkey ,Ukraine • Sub-Project Management for MCC Germany token ring to Ethernet migration • Controlling of IT Investments coming from the countries • Aligning with the country IT operation for the Budget and Forecast for IT expenses and investments • Problem coordination between the technical departments and country IT operation for high priority production problems • Providing regular reports to the management about the international project status and investments Reporting to: Division Manager of Network Service Center

  • Network and Infrastructure Manager at METRO Grup İletişim ve Enformasyon Hizmetleri Ticaret Ltd.
    Feb 1998 - Jun 2003 · 5 yrs 5 mos

    Scope of responsibility: • Responsible for the complete Network and communication infrastructure for the Metro Group companies (Real, Praktiker, Metro Cash and Carry) in Turkey Reporting to: Management Director MGI Turkey