Experienced Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) consultant with 10 years of academic background and 5 years of professional experience in Oracle E-Business Suite implementation consultancy serving twelve clients within several industries including manufacturing, service, tourism, construction and telecommunications in EMEA region.

Co-founder and managing partner of Vertical IT Consulting Services Ltd., an Oracle partner company in Istanbul, Turkey. Professional focus areas include: project management via Oracle’s AIM methodology; analysis, design, configuration, customization, test, training, support and maintenance of Oracle Financials; issuing and tracking service requests via My Oracle Support (previously Metalink); transition management and development of data conversion strategies; and analysis, design and development of custom financial reports.

Team leader and researcher in Project Management Institute (PMI), Organizational Project Management (OPM) Community of Practice, “Finance and Accounting in OPM” research area. Published papers in numerous international academic conferences and journals. Research interests include: information technology diffusion within the organization and its impacts on the managerial decision-making process; ERP project management; earned value management (EVM); capability maturity model integration (CMMI); organizational project management maturity model (OPM3); data warehousing; and business intelligence.