Osman Oksoy

Osman Oksoy

Business Development & Risk/Regulatory Technology Leader | VP-Level Media Systems & Automation

27 yrs experience · New York, NY · <10 hrs/week

About

Business Development Executive and technology leader with extensive experience across media & entertainment application development and financial services risk and regulatory technology. Previously served as Director at PwC (Risk and Regulatory Technology) delivering risk/compliance automation solutions, and Vice President at NBCUniversal leading broadcast scheduling, automation, media management, and fulfillment platforms with high reliability and large-scale operational improvements. Former GE Global Research Center architect/engineer with patents spanning single sign-on, database consolidation, real-time/distributed systems, and state machine tooling.

Skills

AWSAffiliate MarketingAutomationBroadcastingBusiness DevelopmentCloud ComputingComplianceDatabase ManagementDevOpsDistributed SystemsDistributionIntegrationLean Six SigmaMedia ProductionNatural Language ProcessingResearchRisk ManagementSchedulingStrategy & Business DevelopmentSupply Chain Management

Experience

  • Business Development Executive · Railroad192019

    Strategy through Execution • Created Financial Services Vertical for software development engagements serving o Insurance Regulatory Compliance software solutions o Banking Regulatory Compliance software solutions • Source and lead large-scale application software development engagements for very large Media and Entertainment clietns • Thought leader developing strategy and implementation roadmap for o Ad Sales linear and digital convergence o IP and video network convergence o Media supply chain cloud migration

  • Director, Risk and Regulatory Technology · PwC2013 – 2019

    Financial Services Risk and Compliance Analytics • Develop key solutions in risk, compliance, and finance organizations using analytical systems and techniques. • Led multiple large-scale risk and compliance remediation and automation efforts to address regulatory concerns and automate large-scale, critical, manual processes. • Led the development, marketing, and delivery of new technology service offerings in the PwC Risk and Regulatory practice including: o Regulatory Reporting Automation § Automated systems to link and manage regulatory reporting requirements to client data elements, globally. o Regulatory Compliance Automation § Automated compliance testing for consumer regulations. Cloud hosted and workflow supported; detailed testing reaching back to the original customer and loan documentation. o Model Validation Automation § Automated validation and monitoring of retail and wholesale credit risk models. o Automated Market and Economic Data Evaluation § Cloud based, 24x7, near real time, global system to monitor for Market and Economic news data.

  • Vice President, Application Development: NBCUniversal · NBCUniversal2001 – 2013

    Led the groups that design, develop, and maintain the broadcast scheduling, automation, library, and post production prep applications for the NBC and Telemundo networks, NBCUniversal cable and regional sports networks as well as the order management, library, and media management systems of NBC and Universal Studios. • Led the design, development, and maintenance teams for the NBCUniversal On-Air Software Technology group. o Developed operational procedures, practices, and systems to maintain 24-hour broadcast operation with 99.999% reliability. • Built the network scheduling system integrating all NBCU broadcast and cable networks o Developed real-time integration from sales through automation with the elimination of manual intervention o Integrated all Program Scheduling, Sales, Traffic, Affiliate Clearance, and Research Actuals under one software platform. The scale of the operation covered the two broadcast, 25 cable, and nine regional sports networks. o Built the stable platform that integrated eight Sales/Traffic systems in use across the networks. Enabled the migration onto 1 overall Sales/Traffic system at NBCU • Rebuilt and scaled the broadcast automation platform for the 34 additional networks integrated into one operation o Integrate all networks under one seamless scheduling and broadcast operation. As a result shut down multiple broadcast facilities o Delivered 10-x increase in scale while reducing total operating costs by 7-x. • Designed and built the NBCU Media management platform. Integrated all digital media libraries with all edge playout devices for seamless media integration across the studios, post production groups, and broadcast operations o Designed the operational processes and the applications to support the unification of media management and distribution from studio to broadcast under a digital distribution model. o Awarded a patent for the infinitely scalable architecture to address the complexity that is studio through broadcast fulfillment • Redesigned and built the Universal Studios Vault, Order, and Fulfillment management systems o Turned around struggling effort that had spent 4 years and ~$100MM attempting to digitize vault operations and media fulfillment o Delivered all required functionality within 15 months while reducing the run rate from $20MM per year to $2MM per year.

  • Lead software architect (R&D for GE Plastics) · General Electric Global Research Center1997 – 2001

    R&D for GE Plastics: Lead software architect. Web application development. Managed the inventory of GE Plastics customers remotely, integrating the inventory levels with reorder points to drive higher inventory turnover at the customer site as well as better production planning at GE Plastics. • R&D for GE Medical Systems: Software Engineer, embedded and real-time systems. Developed state machine interpreter functionality. The new platform allowed GE Medical to modularize X-Ray products for better reliability, service, and support. • R&D for GE Corporate: Co-lead architect. Single Sign-On (SSO) architecture. New SSO architecture used across General Electric to manage employee and outside access to General Electric web sites and applications. US Patent Award for SSO architecture. • R&D for Lockheed Martin: Lead architect. Database consolidation. Heterogeneous, distributed database management. Developed method for interrogating the many Department of Defense databases with a natural language query. US Patent Award for design work. • R&D for Lockheed Martin: Software engineer. Real-time/distributed computing. Developed state machine simulations for C130-J combat/cargo aircraft and F22 combat aircraft avionics simulation and design tools. This tool was used by Lockheed Martin to port the avionics algorithms of the US C130 and F22 aircraft to a newer generation of hardware. • Six Sigma: Developed all course material for the GE software 6 Sigma community.

Education

  • Columbia University, Graduate School of BusinessMBA, MBA, Executive MBA program
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteMS, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
  • Syracuse UniversityBS, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering

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