Sammy Kocakaya

Staff Program Manager at Checkout.com

Sammy Kocakaya has extensive work experience in various roles. They have recently joined Checkout.com as a Project Manager in the Program Management Office. Prior to that, Sammy worked at Bloomberg LP for several years. At Bloomberg LP, their roles included Program Manager, Team Manager/Product Owner/Project Manager, and Finance/Accounts Payable. In the Finance/Accounts Payable role, Sammy was involved in projects, queries, reconciliations, IP, reporting (Bloomberg Terminal, Sap, Ariba, Jira), and process improvements. They also served as Deputy Team Leader.

Sammy Kocakaya attended the University of East London from 2010 to 2013, where they obtained a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Business/ Finance.

In terms of additional certifications, Sammy obtained the following:

- Leadx - Management Leadership training from LEADx in April 2023.

- Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme from Esme Learning in August 2022.

- MSP® Certifications from AXELOS Global Best Practice in November 2020.

- PRINCE2® 2017 Practitioner from AXELOS Global Best Practice in January 2020.

- PRINCE2® Foundation Certification Training from AXELOS Global Best Practice in January 2020.

- Learning Program Management from LinkedIn in October 2019.

- Scrum Master Certified (SMC) from Scrum Inc. in February 2019.

- Certified Scrum@Scale™ Practitioner (CSaSP) from Scrum Inc. in November 2018.

- Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC) from Scrum Inc. in September 2018.

- BMC certification (institution not specified) without specific date information available.

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Timeline

  • Staff Program Manager

    July 1, 2023 - present

  • Program Manager

    October, 2021