Atilla Akalin

Reporting to General Manager, Responsible for all Turkcell sales like Core, Access and enterprise products, except terminal business. Managed to get first entrance and sales to Turkcell which company could not manage for the last 8 years. (First PO is around 2 million USD) Managed to sign an MOU for extended cooperation between Turkcell and ZTE in Mobile World Congress 2017, Barcelona. Improved relations for Belarus Life and Ukrain Lifecell. Grow up enterprise business which was almost frozen.

Responsible from Major Partners, improved relations and followed up sales opportunities with partners and end usersforEnterprise products (Networking, Security, Server/Storage, Datacenter) in medical, education, construction industries. Created a pipeline of 10 million USD/Annually. Performed Service sales and solution activities. Developed business with partners (System Integrators), Certified and signed contract with 11 partners.

Responsible for Product&Software Services Sales&Maintenance Contracts for Telcos and Operators for Turkey&Azerbaijan region.Increased annual sales from 1 million USD to 5 million USD. Customer portfolio; Avea (PBN project), Vodafone (SDH, DWDM, Cross Connect), Turk Telekom (IP/MPLS, TTDSL, TTnet) Doruk Net (NGN), T-systems (ATM, IP), Delta Telekom (SDH, DWDM, Cross Connect, IP, Wimax, IMS), Atronet-Socar (IP, SDH), Bakcell (GSM, SDH, NMS)

Leaded IP products and SUN Solaris based Management Software/Servers Technical Support groups and reduced operational costs for the company. Starting with 5 people, with customer satisfaction regionally, group grew to 17 people and supported EMEA region customers. BT, C&W, France Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, Belgacom, SFR, were some major accounts serviced. Achieved success encouraged other TSC groups transfer to Turkey.

Worked as a transmission systems expert for SDH, Cross Connect, DWDM systems and related Unix based management software products/servers. Performed the design of Turk Telekom DCN network (with 60 Cisco Routers) , Synchronization network (GPS, Primary Clock Source and SSUs) for 3000 SDH equipment network. Projects: Turk Telekom SDH projects, Azerbaijan AzTelecom TAE (Trans Asia Europe) project, EOS (European Optic Swisscom in Germany, Holland, Belgium) as a Technical Project Manager.