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Ali Osman Yilmaz (CEO)

Hello, I'm Ali Osman YILMAZ. I was born in Antalya in November 1983.

When I was in the 5th grade of primary school, I worked in a bicycle workshop, an electronics repair shop, a satellite installation businessa tradesman doing advertising and signage works on weekendsin middle school, I worked in an electronics workshop on weekends and summer holidays. This is how my professional business career started actively from 1995 to today. I successfully graduated from the electronics department of Antalya Industrial Vocational High School and received the title of technician. Realizing that the electronics technician profession was not suitable for my future career, I decided to work in the field of informatics and improve myself. During my high school years, I did an internship at Bilser Bilgi İşlem Bilişim Company, one of the best IT companies in Antalya, and worked as a computer technical support staff.

After working as responsible and technical staff in various internet cafes and gaining experience, I attended Akdeniz University Vocational School of Technical Sciences graduated from the Department of Industrial Electronics (Electronic Technologies) and received the title of Electronic Technologies Technician.

During my student life, my business life continued actively and when I was 21 years old, I worked as the Mediterranean region IT manager at Başak (Groupama) Sigorta A.Ş., one of Turkey's best insurance companies and a state-owned enterprise. In this role, worked as the Mediterranean Region IT manager for 90 Private Agencies and 65 Ziraat Banks for on-site technical support for the online insurance program, operator of computer systems within the company, providing Backup and VPN Connections, IBM AS400 Systems installation technical support.

In the state institution of Tedaş Electricity Distribution Organization Antalya, I first worked as a control technician in my diploma profession, Electronic Technologies branch, in the work done by the Contractor Companies, but since this task did not fit my vision, I was promoted to the position of special executive assistant of the General Manager and Deputy General Manager of this institution.

Since my career has always been about moving up and high technology, and I moved away from IT in this job, I started to work as an IT Specialist at Unifree Dutyfree İşletmeleri A.Ş. Airport in AntalyaI provided IT support on networkEAN Labeling systemsBeetle-M hardwareATU software, Wincor Nixdorf POS support, etc.

In order to improve myself, I participated in the Microsoft Certified IT Professional trainings the worldfamous software developer Microsoft and successfully passed the 8-month training process and 7 exams afterwards and received the title of Microsoft Certified IT Professional (Microsoft Certified IT Professional - MCITP).

After working successfully in the fields of maintenance, repair and software support of Wincor Nixdorf (Siemens Nixdorf) POS devices during the time I worked at Unifree Dutyfree, I moved to Wincor Nixdorf Turkey A.Ş. upon an offer and as the Mediterranean Region IT Manager. I adopted the German discipline and working mentality while working at the world-famous Wincor Nixdorf (Siemens Nixdorf) based in Germany. During this period, I successfully managed the POS Systems maintenance, repair, support and software development processes of 260 stores (Burger King, Mc Donalds, File, Mediamarkt, Hey Market, etc.) using Wincor Nixdorf POS Systems in the entire Mediterranean region in a period of four years.

After doing this duty, I was selected to a special unit in Ankara Anıtkabir to do military service in the Republic of Turkey and completed my military service for 15 months, which I was appointed as the Anıtkabir Command Information Processing Officer, where the grave of Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, is located.

After completing my military service, I started to work as Mediterranean Regional Manager and IT specialist at Devoteam Integra A.Ş., a French Global IT company. I provided high-level IT support to many companies such as French technology company Devoteam A.Ş., Denizbank, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Arti and Arti, HP Turkey, Koç Sistem as the IT representative for the Mediterranean region.

Later in my career, I started working as an IT representative at Saturn Palace Resort Hotel, which operates in the tourism sector. At this facility, I had the opportunity to learn the structures of tourism facilities and after successfully managing the local network, server structures, internet structure, camera systems and online systems in the facility, I contributed to the facility's ranking in the top 15 in Turkey on TripAdvisor, Green Star certification and ISO 10002 certification and continued to improve myself in this field.

I realized that an IT career would not be enough for me because I had reached the top of my career and I continued to develop myself in the field of software. First, I learned PHP (PDO) software language and started programming projects because this software language could run on all devices. Also, this software language was used by Facebook, the most popular social media application in the world at that time. The basic software development language of all web pages was PHP. In addition to PHP, I started to develop many software languages such as Html5, CSS3, Javascript, etc. I have programmed websites in PHP (PDO) for more than 40 institutions and small companies.

Recently, while continuing to work at Saturn Palace Resort, I developed the guest management system "Guest Portal" software, which is actively used in the tourism field and in the facility. In this process, I learned the business about hotel management, management of various tourism facilities, experiences. Guest Portal project is an intranet software used only by the hotel management. Various reports, statistics, in short, it was a hotel management software. It was actively used in this facility for 5 years. During this time I developed the website and online reservation software.

I developed the online tourism portal for the city of Antalya (Antalya City Online) and actively managed it for a few years, but I stopped the project because I could not find enough investors and could not finance the project. This project was a successful and promising project with 1000+ visitors per day and based on a minimum profit model of 100€ per month. Antalya City online project was a project to guide tourists coming to Antalya on vacation as a web portal where all hotels and restaurants in Antalya would be presented. Unfortunately, it had grown too big to be financed only with the salary earned at the hotel, so I ended the project.

Due to the problems experienced in internet sharing in tourism facilities in Turkey, I started an AYZ Hotspot project that could solve this problem. Thanks to the software I developed in the facility where I work, internet complaints decreased by 98%. Continuing to develop the Hotspot project, I coded the ability to receive and evaluate surveys and comments over Hotspot for the first time in the world. This capability, supported by the artificial intelligence model I first developed, is a CRM software that takes into account many criteria such as the age of the guests, the day of the stay.

AYZ Hotspot and developed a fully autonomous software that allows the business to increase its TripAdvisor-HolidayCheck scores.

The software I developed was accepted by many businesses and was a great success. I started to sell copies of this high-tech software system I developed by establishing a sole proprietorship and continued to develop it. I named the software Guestranet, which is a combination of the words Guest - Intranet. Guestranet means local internet network for guests. I completed the trademark registration.

I programmed new features for this software, which evolved every year, and continued to sell to resort hotel level customers. Thanks to its distinctive features and artificial intelligence behaviors, it was revolutionizing even in its first version at that time when artificial intelligence was not available and was given a standing ovation by tourism professionals. I achieved very good sales from the Guestranet project and for this reason, I left Saturn Palace Resort, where I worked as a full-time senior manager, and continued my work by establishing AYZ Informatics Software, a private company registered under my own name.

As the company grew, I continued to hire staff and expand the business. In the projects I have developed, I have developed software projects that touch the hotel guest and software projects that touch the hotel guest, facilitate the hotel guest's holiday and ultimately enable the hotel guest to come to our country on vacation again, thus our country and our citizens by developing national software that brings more foreign currency to our country.

Since 2016, after the modules in Hotspot - CRM, Guestranet project, I developed myself in mobile application development and started to develop Apple mobile applications for tourism facilities. My goal was to reduce human dependency and human error by using Industry 4.0 and digitalization in tourism. There had to be a system and even if the teams changed, the newcomers had to adapt immediately and not disrupt the services.

On the one hand, I developed software for the project, and on the other hand, I made sales upon the demand of hotels. The company I founded grew very fast, and since I had no competitors in this field, the dealer network was constantly expanding.

I transformed the sole proprietorship I established in 2014 into AYZ Bilişim Yazılım Limited Company in 2018 because I was exposed to very high tax brackets and paid very high taxes. This would both reduce the tax burden and make progress in terms of institutionalization.

I constantly opened booths at IT fairs, introduced the product to more customers, created brand awareness and continued on my way by multiplying the company's turnover every year.

I participated in a TV program called "Partner" on NTV, one of the leading TV channels in Turkey, where investors participate and invest in projects. The purpose of this program was to select and invest in entrepreneurs who develop high technology. I explained the Guestranet project I developed in this program with a nice presentation on TV and two investors were interested. After six months of negotiations, an agreement could not be reached because the investment was insufficient. You can watch the NTV-Partner program I participated in from the link.

Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3WC5p0QEe0

Thanks to the development of the Guestranet project and the technologies I developed, I applied to Akdeniz University Technopolis Technology Development Zone based on my research and based on their research, I moved my company AYZ Informatics Software LTD. ŞTİ with my company to the Technopolis by giving a projectThus, we have become a technology company that develops technology in the long termhas a 63 square meter campus, which is tax exempt and supported byproduces high technology.

As a result of the Guestranet project as a continuously developing high-tech R&D project, it has received a high-tech R&D project certificate from the Ministry of Industry. It continues to be actively sold. Many new features have been added with Covid19 in the Guestranet project. QR code menus, online restaurant ordering system, facility management operation center, IOS and Android applications, cost control software, document management system, digital food name tags, etc. This system is used in more than 650 facilities worldwide.

On the way to becoming a global brand and worldwide company, AYZ Software LTD was established in the United Kingdom - England with 100% shares in the London center and plays an active role in our E-Commerce projects.

Another step towards becoming a global brand and a worldwide company is to establish a company in Germany, the most powerful country in Europe, the 3rd largest export giant in the world, and to open the high-tech projects we produce with an investor visa to all European and world countries and to bring foreign currency to our country. I prepared a strong Business plan, prepared a Plan Bilanz and a 5-year vision, completed the necessary capital and company establishment processes, spent about 180 days of overtime, and as a result of 3 years of European visits and business meetings, I established AYZ Software GmbH, which was approved by IHK Wiesbaden in the category of European investor visa and high-tech manufacturer skilled immigrant, in the city of Wiesbaden, the capital of the State of Hesse, Germany. I succeeded in this challenging process. As of 2023, our Germany-based company AYZ Software GmbH continues to grow actively with its corporate office, company vehicle and more than 10 customers.

In Turkey tourism technologies in Antalya Teknokent based Talya Bilişim Elektraweb company Mr. Kemal Oral evaluated the business partnership offer from Antalya Teknokent based Talya Bilişim Elektraweb company and made AYZ-Elektraweb partnership agreement and we made a big noise in Turkey Tourism.

Turkey tourism technologies in Antalya Teknokent-based Kod Yazılım Veboni company Mr. Ahmet Erdal and Ilyas Türkkan evaluated the business partnership offer from AYZ-Elektraweb signed a partnership agreement and took a big step forward in Turkish Tourism.

My native language is Turkish, A2 German, B1 English. I have more than 25 years of professional experience in Turkey.

I have a high level of knowledge in the field of information technologies. I can digitize a company, develop web, mobile phone, etc. applications, launch, sell, industrially reproduce these applications, create a business model, manage a company and create brand value.

At the point we have reached, we are one of the largest software companies in Turkey, with global customers, with open growth potential and continuous development,As one of the rare people who contributes to the country by exporting, I am aware that I am still at the beginning of the road and that I need to develop more. I would like to thank all my colleagues who have come and contributed, and the tourism professionals who prefer us and work with us.

You can see detailed information about the software and projects I have developed below.

• Guest Portal: Hotel management software.
• Antalya City Online: Advertising project for the city of Antalya (Technopolis R&D project approved by the Ministry of Industry)
• Web Pages: Designing web pages for more than 40 corporate companies (MÖN Construction, Ulu Construction etc.).
• AYZ Hotspot Project: Wifi connection Captive portal project. (T.C. Ministry of Industry approved Teknokent R&D project)
• Tourholic: Online travel agency and tour app.
• Beach Ticket automation project.
• Personnel Mobile Application: Mobile application for company employees (Technopolis R&D project approved by the Ministry of Industry)
• Guestranet CRM Project (Technopolis R&D project approved by the Ministry of Industry)
• Guestranet Operation Center project (Technopolis R&D project approved by the Ministry of Industry)
• Guestranet Application Project (Technopolis R&D project approved by the Ministry of Industry)
• QR Code menus project (Technopolis R&D project approved by the Ministry of Industry)
• QR Code Ordering project (Technopolis R&D project approved by the Ministry of Industry)
• Online Room Service Project (Technopolis R&D project approved by the Ministry of Industry)
• Buffet Digital Food Nametag project
• Towel tracking project for Resort Hotels (Technopolis R&D project approved by the Ministry of Industry)
• Taxi hailing application (Technopolis R&D project approved by the Ministry of Industry)
• Online booking project
• Online Offer System
• Pre-accounting software
• In-house job tracking software for hotels (Technopolis R&D project approved by the Ministry of Industry)
• Artificial intelligence modeling and development software (Technopolis R&D project approved by the Ministry of Industry)
• E-Commerce Systems
• Lifestyle changing software (Technopolis R&D project approved by the Ministry of Industry)

AYZ Software Global Customer numbers by years (Resort Hotel, Cafe, Restaurant etc.)

• 2014 - 3 Clients
• 2015 - 18 Client
• 2016 - 40 Clients
• 2017 - 60 Customers
• 2018 - 92 Clients
• 2019 - 200 Clients
• 2020 - 270 Customers
• 2021 - 350 Customers
• 2022 - 420 Customers
• 2023 - 550 Customers
• 2024 - 600 Clients

The Turkish nation is hardworking, the Turkish nation is intelligent. M.Kemal Atatürk.

Sincerely yours.

Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliosmanyilmaz/