Ozge is a Partner leading Lighthouse (Centre of Excellence for Data & Analytics) in Vancouver. He has a deep experience in bridging the business aspirations with analytical solutions to turn data into actionable insights that generate value. He has over 20 years of academic and consulting experience in helping organizations move toward being insight-driven through developing and executing analytics strategies and operationalizing analytics capabilities. He led the development of several data-driven, robust and scalable business solutions powered by descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics models. These solutions helped numerous public and private sector organizations in catalyzing growth, improving efficiency and effectiveness, and reducing risk through informing complex business decisions within back-end (HR, Finance, IT), middle-end (procurement, supply chain, operations), and front-end (customer, product, pricing) of the connected enterprise. He has worked on over 50 projects on artificial intelligence, optimization, simulation, machine learning, decision science, performance measurement, assessment and evaluation, business intelligence and big data.
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Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
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M. Eng. in Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
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B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
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Project Management Professional
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Certified Product Owner Certified Scrum Master
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Parent Coach for a local basketball club
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Active participant of hackathons for social good