OUR TEAM
Semiha Yaşar
Semiha Yaşar is the founder of Sempro Consultancy and Engineering and trainer of CM2 modules and a consultant to define all processes that set up products and services and the necessary infrastructures for them.
She graduated from Middle East Technical University Mechanical Engineering Department in 1983. She got her master's degree in the same department. She started her career as a design engineer in Aselsan, and continued as a minister's consultant in the field of Science and Technology between 1987-1990. Between 1990 and 2015, she worked for 25 years at FNSS Defence Systems Inc. which is the partnership of Nurol Holding and BAE Systems, respectively, as design chief, R&D Manager and Development Programs Director. She established and managed the R&D Center within the scope of this job. She led the product development processes and design of FNSS armored wheeled and tracked vehicles. She left FNSS in 2015 and founded her own consultancy company SEMPRO. In addition to her consultancy services with SEMPRO, he worked as the Deputy General Manager at BMC Automotive AŞ between March 2016 and January 2018. She served as an independent board member at Kordsa A.Ş. between 2018-2020.
Ayşe Kayhan
Ayşe Kayhan, Sempro Danışmanlık ve Mühendislik bünyesinde PLM eğitmeni ve danışmanıdır. CM2-P sertifikasına sahiptir.
2004 yılında Marmara Üniversitesi Teknik Eğitim Fakültesi Tasarım ve Konstrüksiyon Öğretmenliği'nden mezun oldu. Mercedes Benz Türk A.Ş.'de CATIA Uygulama Uzmanı olarak çalışma hayatına başladı. Çalışma hayatına devam ederken Marmara Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Makine Eğitimi'nde yüksek lisansını tamamladı. 2007-2010 yılları arasında Dassault Systemes firmasının Türkiye çözüm ortağı ArGe PLM firmasında CATIA Uzmanı olarak; 2010-2013 yılları arasında ise yine Dassault Systemes firmasının Türkiye çözüm ortağı olan infoTRON firmasında PLM Uzmanı olarak çalışarak çeşitli PLM projelerinde görev aldı. 2013-2016 yılları arasında FNSS firmasında Kıdemli PLM Uzmanı olarak görev yaptı.
Belkıs Teksöz
Belkıs Teksöz is a Project Management trainer and consultant at Sempro Consultancy and Engineering. She is a Program Management Professional (PgMP) accredited by the leading global organization PMI (Project Management Institute) in the field of project management and owned by only four people in Turkey. At the same time, she is the consultant and trainer of REFA Association, which is Germany's leading organization in the field of Business Design, Business Organization and Development.
She graduated from the Middle East Technical University Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department in 1995. She specialized in the management of high-budget, multi-partner, national and international technological defense programs in MİKES A.Ş., as the Program Manager within the Program Management Office. She managed the entire life cycle of these programs, which included comprehensive stages from design to post-delivery customer support activities, including proposal management. She worked as a consultant at RMK Marine, one of the Koç Group companies, in the areas of bid management, contract and supply management between 2008-2012.
Her main areas of work include corporate project management, corporate organizational structuring, performance management, process analysis and process improvement / regulation, efficiency and resource optimization.
Ayça Tümer Arıkan
Ayça Tümer Arıkan, is Organizational and Process Performance Measurement Consultant within the structure of Sempro Consulting and Engineering. She has CM2-P certification.
She received her Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from Middle East Technical University in 2000. Then in 2002, she received her Master’s degree in Business and Administration (MBA) from the same University.
In 2003, she stated to work as Project Tracking Expert at MilSOFT Software Technologies. Between 2006 and 2016, she assumed the responsibility of establishing and maintaining the measurement system at the organization level and worked as Organizational Performance Manager in MilSOFT.
Since 2017, she owns the globally valid facilitator certificate of PuMP® methodology. She works as a measurement consultant/mentor to help companies in their journey to become high performing organizations with the use of measurement in a meaningful way. She facilitates PuMP® implementations for her clients to ensure they get the most value from their measures and to help them achieve their business results
Ayca joined the PuMP® global team in 2020 and offers PuMP® consulting as a Licensed PuMP® Contractor for Turkey, Europe and UK regions to support her clients.
Efe Gürman
Efe Gürman is Sempro’s PLM training trainer and consultant. He has CM2-P certification.
Efe Gürman, who has more than 12 years of experience in PLM, act as associated partner role in the European Parliament ERASMUS+ project “RAPROMISE”, “Product Lifecycle Management in Europe” which is managed by Ege University Product Lifecycle Management Center of Excellence and supported by Fraunhofer IAO, Kaiserslautern University, Vienna Technical University, Vestel and CMS partnerships. He continues to work with Ege University's Product Lifecycle Management Center of Excellence and gives seminar courses to PLM graduate students.
Efe Gürman, who received his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Celal Bayar University in 2002 and his master's degree in Izmir Institute of Technology Engineering Management in 2005, continues his Phd studies on PLM and digital transformation at Ege University, Department of Business Administration.
Throughout his professional life, he has worked in companies such as BMC, OTOKAR, CMS in the roles of quality engineer, R&D engineer, project manager and product development manager. Efe Gürman has been working as a PLM consultant in his own business since 2016.
The main subjects of study are PLM deployment and business consultancy, PLM, ERP, MES, IIoT integration consultancy.,
Tuncay Yağcı
Systems Engineering instructor and consultant at Sempro Consulting & Engineering.
IRCA Registered Lead Auditor and 6 Sigma Green Belt certifications.
Graduated from Department of Materials Engineering at Middle East Technical University in 1995. He started working at Şişecam in 1996. He has worked as quality assurance & quality control chief and project responsible. He has worked as project and quality management responsible and chief in modernization and green field investments in Turkey and Bulgaria. Later, he has worked as a team leader in systems engineering and project quality team leader at Roketsan Inc. for 12 years. In this process, he carried out systems engineering, ILS and project quality engineering activities in many rocket, missile and ballistic protection projects. Products and production lines qualification of many suppliers were realized in Turkey and Europe.
Main topics of study include systems engineering, configuration management, process analysis, gap analysis and process improvement/mapping, root cause analysis.
Birşen Erdem
She is an instructor and executive of INCOSE SEP Course on behalf of Sempro Consulting and Engineering. She has CSEP certification.
She graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Aeronautical Engineering in 1996. She started to work as a researcher at TÜBİTAK SAGE in 1997. In 2003, she completed her master's degree from the Middle East Technical University, Department of Aeronautical Engineering.
Between 1997-2012, she worked as a researcher / expert researcher / chief researcher in the Warhead, Aerodynamics and Systems Engineering units respectively at TUBITAK SAGE. As her main working areas, she carried out requirements, management of verification and validation activities in the field of warhead design, production, tests, business development activities, aerodynamic analysis and systems engineering activities.
Between 2013 and 2017, she worked as a flight performance certification and qualification panel coordinator at STM A.Ş.
Between 2017-2022, she worked as a Chief Engineer at TEI A.Ş.. In the Turboshaft Engine development project, she carried out system engineering studies and at the Chief Engineering Office she performed technical reviews related with system engineering activities and process analysis and gap analysis activities.
Ayşe Temiz
Ayşe Temiz, is product development processes and systems engineering consultant within the structure of Sempro. She is also instructor of Systems Engineering and Process Management trainings.
She received her Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 1990. She worked in the production, design, and technology management departments of TAI, Turkish Aerospace from 1991 and 2021. In the production, she worked as a system specialist, production specialist, and foreman of the wing and rear fuselage components in the CN235 Assembly and Field Operations department. She joined to the design and engineering department and worked as the structural design, system safety, certification, and design quality responsibility in YARASA, ZİU ve A400M Projects after the rear fuselage production was finalized. During these activities, she took an active role in the establishment of the company's processes and procedures required to have a design organization that conforms with international regulations. As a member of the integrated project team, she worked on the Anka, Hürkuş, Erciyes and T38 projects in the Aircraft Group from 2007 to 2014. While performing these tasks, she held the positions Chief of Product Integrity and Chief of Specialty Engineering respectively. She also contributed to studies on technology management and knowledge management. During the conceptual design phase of the MMU Project, she was a member of the team that established and applied the product-based technology management methodology. Between 2014 and 2017, she was the Chief of Technology Competency Management, and until 2021, she undertook the responsibility of Technology Management Manager in the R&D Directorate.
Her main areas of expertise are Systems Engineering, Product Development Processes, Process Analysis and Modelling, Technology Management, Intellectual Property Management, University-Industry and Industry-Industry Collaborations, Innovation Management, Innovative Problem-Solving Techniques, Specialty Engineering, Airworthiness and Certification, Design Organization Approval (DOA), Design Quality Assurance, Structural Design, Aircraft Component Manufacturing.
Hande Kayalı
Hande Diler KAYALI is an Agile Project Management trainer and consultant within the structure of Sempro Consultancy and Engineering. She has CM2-C, ICP-Agile Certified Coach, ICC-Agile Team Facility, Scrum.org-Professional Agile Leadership (PAL)I, Erickson College International-Professional Coach, NLPAT-NLP Practitioner certificates.
She graduated from Middle East Technical University Industrial Engineering Department in 1993. In the same year, she started working at ASELSAN Company as a business analyst in the digitization of financial management processes project. She completed METU Executive MBA with the first place in 2015. Between 1993 and 2022, she gained different experiences in different projects at ASELSAN and worked as a manager in the field of Information Technologies for more than 10 years.
Her main areas of work include agile philosophy, value-oriented team agility, agile project/product management, adaptation of agile frameworks according to context, SCRUM framework, PMI- Disciplined AGILE, value-oriented planning, and prioritization of requirements.