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Mehmet Yildiz

Stockholm, Sweden

About

Title: Program Manager

PROFILE

10+ years experience in professional software development within different roles. Having experience in managing, coaching and developing together with co-located and distributed international teams. Taking an active role in agile transformation and release management of two companies; have several agile certifications. As SAFe Program Consultant being allowed to teach SAFe certification courses as a trainer. Digitalisation project experience in medical technology and telecom. A true problem solver. 

EDUCATION

University of London, England—  2019-2023

MBA.

Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden—  2008-2010

MSc. Networks & Distributed Systems

Sabanci University Istanbul, Turkey (Merit scholarship) (Honor list) —  2004-2008

BSc. Computer Sciences & Engineering

Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden (Sokrates scholarship) —  2007

Exchange Student at Computer Science Faculty

EXPERIENCE

Program Manager  Cepheid,  Stockholm Office — 2021-Present

Cepheid is an American molecular diagnostics company.

Senior Scrum Master  CSG International Inc. (NASDAQ:CSGS),  Stockholm Office — 2015-2021

CSG International (NASDAQ:CSGS) is an American Company with more than 3500 employees around the world with offices in more than 30 countries. The company is a leading business support solution provider with the software products it develops for customers such as British Telecom, AT & T, Orange, Telefonica, Vodafone, Etisalat, Telstra, Telenor and Telia.

Systems and Integration Manager (Agile Coach)  Diabetes Tools Sweden AB, Stockholm — 2010 - 2015

Diabetes Tools was nominated for “Best Mobile Innovation for Health” at the Global Mobile Awards and named “MedTech Company of the Year 2014” by the Swedish Medtech Association. The company holds an ISO 13485 certificate. We developed e-health products called Triabetes and TriabetesClinic. Triabetes is Software as a Service (SaaS) available to use via web browser or mobile app for iPhone and Android where diabetes patients can enter daily data and get feedback. 

TUBITAK funded research, Istanbul — Nov 2007 - June 2008

Multiphase secure key distribution in wireless sensor networks algorithm design and implementation.

Software Developer  Vestel Electronics R&D — June 2007 - Nov 2007

Vestel is a Turkish appliances manufacturing company with more than 15000 employees and 1.2 billion euro revenue per year.

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 2021-06-01 - present - Cepheid (Program Manager)
    • 2007-06-04 - 2007-11-02 - Vestel Electronic (Software Developer)
    • 2010-01-04 - 2014-05-02 - Diabetes Tools Sweden AB (Software Developer)
    • 2014-05-02 - 2015-08-07 - Diabetes Tools Sweden AB (Systems and Integration Manager)
    • 2015-08-10 - 2021-05-31 - CSG International (Senior Scrum Master)