About me

Hi, I'm Yağız.

Engineer by training, PLM person by heart. I studied mechatronics in Sofia, started my career as a Teamcenter developer in Istanbul and have spent the last 14 years making product data work for engineering teams. Today I lead a Siemens PLM cluster at Capgemini Engineering.

Away from the screen you'll usually find me around cars and motorcycles, on a road trip somewhere in Europe, or being supervised by our cat.

Yağız Canpolat

Career.

The CV, short version.

14+years in PLM & digital transformation
€4M+budget managed (P&L)
23+people in my cluster
20%revenue growth enabled
  • Roadmap planning, status reporting and optimisation of billable offshore and nearshore resources (10 direct and 13 indirect reports, 3 teams)
  • Lead RFP and RFQ processes, define technical scopes and effort estimates for complex enterprise deals
  • Run international knowledge-sharing sessions to standardise best practice
  • Solution Architect with Siemens Healthineers on the ITL project
  • Led customer use-case scenarios and demos for lead generation
  • Digital Enterprise Plan (€4M+) across 5+ divisions and 40+ people; MES and PLM data exchange raised transparency by 40%+
  • Solution blueprints based on product capabilities and integration needs
  • Advised 10+ sales team members on POC setup, enabling 20% revenue growth
  • Polarion within the Teamcenter process; NX and Teamcenter CAD/CAM/CAE templates
  • Implemented CMII methodology for 30%+ more transparency and efficiency than the paper-based process
  • Led the PLM implementation (4 developers, 1 architect): 200+ users, NX, Aveva PDM, MS Project and SAP in 2.5 years
  • Boeing, Airbus and internal configuration audits
  • Teamcenter administration (100+ users), CATIA integration, VBA macros
  • PLM roadmaps, training and hotline support for Teamcenter and NX
  • BMIDE data models, CAD integrations (NX, CATIA), workflow handlers
  • Roll-outs for B/S/H Teamcenter and Ford C3P

Skills

Teamcenter (admin, configuration)PolarionSiemens NX templatesBMIDE data modellingCMII change managementSolution architectureRFP / RFQ managementP&L / budgetCross-functional leadershipOracle, SQLGit / CI/CDPower BICopilot & AI tools

Education & certifications

Engagement ManagementCapgemini2026
Enterprise ArchitectCapgemini2025
Connected ManagerCapgemini2025
Siemens Turkey Award: Technology with PurposeSiemens2021
Siemens R&D Project Manager (S-PM)Siemens2021
PLM Leadership CertificateCIMdata, Amsterdam2018
Certified Scrum Product OwnerJeff Patton, Munich2018
SAFe AgilistScaled Agile
CMII 1 & 2Sempro, Ankara2017
Project Planning & ManagementVirginia University2016
EASA Part 21STM, Istanbul2015
AS9100 StandardAdres Consulting, Istanbul2015

B.Eng. Mechatronics, Technical University of Sofia · Languages: Turkish, English, German

Off the clock.

Cars, bikes, road trips and the small crew at home.

Two wheels & four

Petrolhead field trips

On the road

The crew

Giving backI volunteer as a mentor for FRC FIRST robotics teams with the Darüşşafaka children's charity, sharing engineering with the next generation.

Let's talk.

Always happy to exchange ideas on PLM, Teamcenter and AI. Or cars.