Levent Gorur

About Levent Gorur

Build and manage highly effective development teams• Maintain stakeholder satisfaction by successfully managing change and communication• Proactive problem solver, understands systematic problems and leads action to remove obstacles• Improve process efficiencies• International and culturally diverse team management experience• Recognized as an effective communicator with all levels of managementWith over a decade of experience in project management, I excel in transforming ideas into tangible results. I am a proactive and results-oriented professional. Most of my career involved managing diverse and geographically distributed teams and creating technical solutions for complex business problems. My expertise encompasses various sectors. I embrace challenging environments and effectively manage cross-functional teams while ensuring stakeholder satisfaction. I am looking for full-time opportunities in an internationally recognized organization.I effectively collaborate, build relationships, and influence team members to achieve common goals. I focus on business results rather than technical rewards. I am keen on regularly communicating and reporting project status to stakeholders and providing strategic recommendations. I also have experience setting project metrics and periodic reporting success factors.I am comfortable using different methodologies in projects, such as Predictive (Waterfall), Adaptive (Agile-Scrum), and Project/Product Gate Review models. I hold valid Professional Scrum Master and PMP certifications.Specialties: Team Development, High-Performance Teams, Agile Product Development, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution, Software as a Service, Leadership, Requirements Management, Strategic Partnerships, Process modeling and improvement, and Off-shore Product Delivery.

Experience

1. Project Manager

   Octomass

   Feb 2025 — Present · Cincinnati, OH, US

   Led full lifecycle development of a decision-support application, coordinating offshore engineering resources and managing schedules, scope, and releases• Oversaw platform migration, testing, and production deployment across.NET and Django environments• Managed Kanban workflows, backlog prioritization, and vendor communication to maintain predictable delivery.

Education

• Ankara High School of Science

  High School Diploma, STEM

• Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

• University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business

  Master of Science - MS, Information Systems

Skills

• Enterprise Architecture
• Organizational Leadership
• Business Process Modeling
• Business Process Design
• Project Delivery
• Data Warehousing
• Project Implementation
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Testing
• Analytical Reporting
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Ms Project
• Product Development Project Management
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Operations Management
• Managing High Performance Teams
• Telecommunications
• Project Management
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Business Process Improvement
• Rup
• Project Planning
• Project Execution
• Saas
• Pmo
• Integration
• Sql
• Microsoft Project
• Project Portfolio Management
• Organizational Behavior
• Program Management
• Business Intelligence