Rukiye has over 10 years of consulting and implementation experience in all realms of the company portfolio. She has provided customer service to clients in Power Portfolio Optimization, Bid Management, Gas Optimization, Market Analytics, Planning and Risk, nMarket, and Retail Operations. She has provided leadership in analyzing and designing software solutions and client-specific business workflows through the use of analytics and operations software. Her current responsibilities include coordinating business development activities (campaigns, workshops, webinars, blogs) to explore new business models (including renewable integration and de-centralized grid applications – microgrid and DERMS) and integrate Energy Portfolio Managemetn solutions to ABB's broader portfolio and leverage ABB channels. She also has prior experience as a class instructor/lecturing assistant for the Department of Mathematics at North Carolina State University. She has two master degrees in Mathematics Education from Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey and Financial Mathematics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.