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Dublin, Ireland & London, United Kingdom

• Developed social media strategy and content, managed and grew all social media platforms for the Europe headquarters • Maintained day-to-day relationships with 58 programs in the region as well media stakeholders in the United Kingdom• Represented Special Olympics in prospective donor meetings and create concept notes for potential partnerships• Led various projects by crafting video concepts and scripts, managing agents and suppliers, and coordinating distribution • Managed corporate partnerships with Europe’s lead sports clubs Juventus FC and Galatasaray SK for brand awareness • Published stories for Special Olympics website, revamped the newsletter look and feel and created monthly newsletters • Ran all Special Olympics branding projects including partnerships with the European Union on brand visibility

Greater New York City Area

• Supported the development and execution of traditional and social media outreach programs• Assisted in the execution of multiple scale events, driving traditional and social media results on P&G Oral Care, Tourism Australia, Verizon HopeLine and Aflac accounts• Developed relationships with key media stakeholders, influencers and suppliers• Worked in news bureau material development including press releases, pitches and client wrap reports • Monitored competitor news, issues and trends and share weekly reports with clients • Supervised junior staff by motivating, coaching and consistently providing feedback

Istanbul, Turkey

• Supported the Agency VP in PR and corporate communications strategy development for multinationals such as Oger Telecom, Korn Ferry, Telesure and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey (TMMT).• Worked on content development for Faber-Castell, Tetra Pak, Finansbank, General Electric, the Rezidor Hotel Group and TTNET in forms of international award pitches, speeches, internal and external messaging boards, social media, etc.• Provided end to end support on business pitches from idea development to structuring presentations for global and national target clients in various industries such as F&B, Retail, Technology, Telecom, Insurance and Travel.

Washington, D.C.

• Arranged accommodations, venue bookings, contracts and logistics and managed material preparation for a guest portfolio that consists of the 50 most prominent businessmen of Turkey for TUSIAD Washington Office’s 15th year anniversary events. • Published weekly and monthly newsletters in Turkish and English about the current events in Turkey and the United States.• Managed interns, attended think tank meetings representing TUSIAD, transcribed meeting notes and made translations in English and Turkish.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Communicated with VIP guests of 2013 World Winter Games via direct follow-up for RSVPs during the invitation process and via periodic phone calls and email exchanges for accommodation and flight arrangements, scheduling matters and payments pre and post Games.• Built relationships across business units and functional areas within the organization as well as with external constituents for managing data collection, producing weekly status reports, invoicing for accommodation arrangements and tracking incoming payments post-Games.• Hosted VIPs such as heads of states, NGO representatives and other high-level guests on-site in Korea by creating personalized itineraries for their World Games experience as well as personally supporting them with any of their needs during events we organized.• Produced on-site documents during the Games such as press releases, special event invitations, daily announcements with regards to change of schedules of events as well as PowerPoint presentations and PDF fact sheets for distribution to guests and meetings with other constituents.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Assisted in organizing various events such as galas, weddings, conferences and meetings by producing the tangibles such as invitations, menus, name cards, schedule of events as well as by coordinating the duties of departments involved before and during the events.• Supported the Marketing team in translating articles from English to Turkish for the Four Seasons Magazine and created content for the magazine with regards to the events we organized.• Reached out to Four Seasons Istanbul Hotel at the Bosphorus corporate customers to update the customer database for the Sales Department and prepared sales kits and visited customers to foster the corporate relationship in between the two parties and to update our databases.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Prepared balance sheets and income statements for various customers of PwC such as Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.• Assisted in analyzing annual reports during auditing visits to various customers and prepared presentations to update the rest of the team.• Translated financial reports from English to Turkish and from Turkish to English for PwC database records.

Master Of Professional Studies, Public Relations And Corporate Communication

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Management, French

Activities and Societies: Georgetown University European Club: - President, April 2011 – May 2012 - Treasurer, April 2009 – April 2011

International Baccalaureate (Ib) And Turkish Diploma, Turkish-Math Track