Sebnem Akyildiz
Consultant
Sebnem was graduated from Bosphorus University-Electric and Electronics Engineering in 1987. She worked within the University as a Research Assistant and in the following years she continued as a software engineer in Teletas, Egebank.
She earned MSc from University of Houston in Computer Sciences upon which she concentrated on Telecom software development and management. Until year 2000, she worked in multinational companies like Telsoft, Karma and Connectus, serving large scale multinational companies like NEC, Siemens to name a few, delivering sophisticated solutions in which local and remote partners participated. She assumed software engineering, project management and engineering department management roles.
She worked for Hewlett Packard (HP) between 2000 - 2011, first as project manager and later on as the Telecom group manager for Turkey in HP Consulting. Within few years, she was transferred to EMEA region, undertaking the sales and bid management roles for a software product group of HP in Telecom market. From 2006 on, she functioned as the worldwide product and planning manager for the same software product group. During this role, she served 100+ telecom customers worldwide within a wide scale from small local operators to multinational ones like MTS, Telefonica and Vodafone. Within HP's distributed process oriented structure, by utilizing worldwide deployed tools and best practices, Sebnem delivered customer oriented products and solutions, employing multinational resources from China, India, Italy and USA. She specialized in product planning and management, marketing relationship, and financials of the team.
Starting in 2013, she acts as a consultant in Rengo Consultancy by project basis.
