Deniz Altuntas Email & Phone Number

Ghent, Be

Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium

Ghent Metropolitan Area

Gent Area, Belgium

EN: In Stad Gent, we are striving to celebrate the diversity of Gent's population and reflect it into our organization. I work on applying and continuously renewing our Diversity Action Plan. I also organise Design Thinking workshops for various challenges such as: creating a more open and human-centered organisational culture; how to avoid and deal with the emotional burden at workplace, etc.NL: Bij stad Gent, krijg ik de kans om een aantal Design Thinking workshops te organiseren. Voor het begin, proberen we nieuwe oplossingen te vinden om de gewenste organisatiecultuur beter te verspreiden, en omgaan met emotionele belasting op het werkplek.Bovendien ondersteun ik bij het diversiteitsactieplan uit te voeren, dat de diversiteit van de Gentse bevolking wil vieren en verder weerspiegelen in de Stad Gent.

Brussels Area, Belgium

As Twisted Studio:We help organizations in designing services and projects. We are inspired by human-centered design and social entrepreneurship. Our focus is primarily the public and non-profit sectors.How we do it:RESEARCH: We always start with the target group. We use various participatory research methods to document the user experience. Our methods are well suited to get feedback from children and vulnerable audiences.PROJECT AND IDEA DEVELOPMENT: We develop services, campaigns or projects from your audience's experience. We try to involve maximum stakeholders in this process: your target group, the team and other parties involved. We use many different methods for ideation and quick-testing. We support you making the ideas tangible, by simple prototypes built with simple materials.COACHING and WORKSHOPS: You are the best experts to address your organization's and your target groups's challenges. We give tailored workshops and coach you through different steps of your innovative idea.POLICY DEVELOPMENT: Our co-creative methods provide a very low-threshold for participation in policy development, making it much easier for your target group and stakeholders to be truly involved. This increase the chances of gaining valuable and useful input out derived from their experience. Our methods guide people to think out of the box.

Brussels Area, Belgium

3DExcite is a creative and innovative company: we produced CGI (computer generated images) and animations, as well as augmented reality projects. Our main customer was Toyota Europe.As a project manager, I: * gathered all necessary input from clients and partner companies* planned the timings in communication with our operational departments* created costs and supported Sales department* briefed our production teams* followed up the production process, to ensure it is running timely, smoothly and up to high expectations.As product specialist, I:* learned the details of the projects by heart, using the gathered data* translated the gathered data to briefings that our production teams required* throughout the production, guided the teams to create product-correct outputs* control the final delivery to ensure a high end-quality.

• established the brand identity• 3d modeled the product (an 11m yacht)• solved production details that are confronted during manufacturing• organized 2d presentation and technical sheets• administered to formal authorities for licenses and monitored the procedure

Brussels Area, Belgium

• designed graphics and simple animations to be used in company’s TV shows and documentaries

Cologne Area, Germany

• conducted necessary market researches for different on-going projects, compiled files• completed the details and modelling of lighting product, and helped the set up of it• designed a set of fair stands for Cologne Expo with necessary graphics on them for BAYER company

Cologne Area, Germany

Bachelor, Industrial Design

some off-curriculum activities: 6/2008: Sustainable Design Workshop: how to achieve more sustainable service design.Organized by Eindhoven.

Master Degree, International Business Management & Economics

some off-curriculum activities: * Registered to JADE Seminars and joined in workshops on marketing and entrepreneurship in Belgium. *.

Erasmus For 2 Semesters, Product Design Engineering

Completed and got certificate from Multidisciplinary Design Workshop in Belgium, an international and 2-weeks long workshop where.

Bachelor, Computer Engineering

Industrial Design

Education record