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Cetin CANBEK
Product Owner
's-Hertogenbosch
Summary
Product owner and project management professional with over 10 years of global experience. Skilled in end-to-end product lifecycle management, Agile implementation, and cross-functional team leadership. PMP-certified professional known for proactive problem-solving, risk management, and delivering high-impact product improvements that meet stakeholder and market needs. Enjoys identifying and removing roadblocks, seekong areas of improvement and implementing solutions. Experienced in handling numerous projects simultaneously while ensuring accuracy. Effective at prioritizing tasks and consistently meeting deadlines.
Overview
15
years of professional experience
3
Certificates
4
Languages
1970
years of post-secondary education
Work History
ASML
Product Owner
01.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Led a cross-functional team of 15 professionals, including architects, engineers, supplier quality engineers, and industrialization engineers, within the Machine Source Conditioning department for NXE and EXE Product Lines, ensuring seamless project execution and delivery of critical milestones.
- Pioneered the creation of the first 6-quarter plan across 6 teams, setting a standard for long-term planning and improving cross-team coordination for future projects.
- Saved the company over €1M through strategic decision-making and foresight, avoiding scrap costs and minimizing project risks by addressing issues proactively.
- Led the transition to Agile Way of Working, improving team predictability and achieving over 95% of committed work completed each quarter, making the team the most reliable within the department.
- Solved unforeseen issues under tight deadlines, coordinating teams to prevent late shipment and factory hard-downs, maintaining customer satisfaction and operational continuity.
- Backed up the product management team, taking on additional responsibilities and becoming the first in line for promotion to Product Manager due to demonstrated leadership and strategic contributions.
- Collaborated with logistics and optimized sub-supplier processes, improving coordination and workflows to ensure seamless delivery and enhanced supply chain efficiency.
- Prioritized and streamlined backlog management using Jira, ensuring alignment with business goals and transparent prioritization for on-time delivery of high-impact features.
- Facilitated Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives, enhancing team communication and achieving consistently high completion rates.
ASML
Product Change Leader
03.2019 - Current
Job overview
- Coordinated cross-sectoral project teams on the product change process for several projects in NXE and EXE Product Lines
- Organized and chaired project level change control board and ensured the impact of changes are clear for all stakeholders
- Collaborated with project leads on planning of deliverables in order to ensure the requirements of product-level milestones are met
- Managed quality of impact analysis of changes to minimize processing time and cost
- Acted as planning key-user within the CM department, worked on several process improvement initiatives and coached colleagues on use of MS Projects
- Led the project team in adaption of the new ASML change process
- Improved project planning reliability and predictability metrics by conducting root cause analysis
DNV GL
Consultant
08.2017 - 02.2019
Job overview
- Managed the entire project life-cycle of 5 projects from proposal stage to delivery for key customers in electrical energy transmission sector
- Acted as the communications link between external stakeholders and a team of internal consultants and engineers
- Independently identified areas of improvement in technical and organizational processes, proposed and implemented solutions
- Assessed technical compliance of 2 large (>EUR 10M) electricity transmission projects
- Identified new market opportunities and expanded the current customer base in Baltic countries
Mitas Energy
Project Engineer
10.2014 - 06.2015
Job overview
- Delivered end to end structural design of more than 20 power transmission projects for global partners such as ABB, Siemens, Alstom, Andritz and ATCO
- Led a technical team of up to 6 members to oversee detail design of steel transmission towers, electrical substation structures and their foundations
- Maintained an efficient and accurate flow of project data between the customer, internal technical team and company's manufacturing related departments
- Independently wrote Visual Basic macros and Mathcad worksheets, resulting in a reduction of time spent in several phases of calculations and reports
Su Yapi Engineering and Consulting
Project Engineer
02.2012 - 08.2014
Job overview
- Conducted structural design of 5 underground stations and 2 ventilation buildings for Istanbul Metro Project, having a total area of 40,000m2
Steinzeit-Berlin
Lead Production Engineer
08.2010 - 02.2012
Job overview
- Managed a team of 10 and reorganized work streams for the implementation of a more efficient and automated manufacturing process
Florida International University
Research & Teaching Assistant
08.2009 - 12.2010
Job overview
- Contributed in research including structural use of fiber composites, net zero energy houses and wind effects on buildings
Education
Florida International UniversityMiami, FL
M.Sc. from Construction Management
University Overview
- Honor Student
- Thesis: "Life-cycle cost study of ground source heat pumps in hot humid climate zone"
- GPA: 3.72/4.00
Florida International UniversityMiami, FL
M.Sc. from Structural Engineering
University Overview
- Honor Student
- Thesis: "Development of a hurricane-resistant roof-to-wall connection using high performance fiber composites"
- GPA: 3.78/4.00
Middle East Technical University
B.Sc. from Civil Engineering
University Overview
- Honor Student
- Graduated 6th among 278 students (Top 2%)
- GPA: 3.36/4.00
Skills
Agile methodology
Certification
CM2
Interests
Timeline
Product Owner
ASML
01.2023 - Current
Product Change Leader
ASML
03.2019 - Current
Consultant
DNV GL
08.2017 - 02.2019
Project Engineer
Mitas Energy
10.2014 - 06.2015
Project Engineer
Su Yapi Engineering and Consulting
02.2012 - 08.2014
Lead Production Engineer
Steinzeit-Berlin
08.2010 - 02.2012
Research & Teaching Assistant
Florida International University
08.2009 - 12.2010
Florida International University
M.Sc. from Structural Engineering
2 2018
Middle East Technical University
B.Sc. from Civil Engineering
6 2007
Florida International University
M.Sc. from Construction Management
2 2018
Languages
Turkish
Native language
English
Proficient
C2
German
Elementary
A2
Dutch
Elementary
A2
Hobbies
camping atc
Publications
Canbek, C., Mirmiran A., Chowdhury A., and Suksawang N., Development of a Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Roofto-Wall Connection, ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, 2010
Hobbies
camping atc
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