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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Production Manager utilizing Lean Six Sigma methodologies to optimize manufacturing processes for chocolate-making machinery, driving operational excellence and ensuring superior quality and efficiency in manufacturing.• Achievements: o Reducing manufacturing labor waste time by 22%.o 9% reduction in production costs by reducing raw material and semi-finished product levels by 20%o Implementing Kanban project management and daily Asakai meeting with manufacturing team.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Istanbul, Turkey

Create department-based lean management development plan according to company corporate strategy. Training and mentoring all aspects of Project Management, Lean and Continuous Improvement to all personnel throughout the deployment.Determine improvement needs and cost effects for lean transformation to grow business for the employees. Monitor all processes&create VSM (Value Stream Map)Provide Lean Leader development trainings; train the leaders of lean transformation in the companyWork as an internal lean & agile consultant for lean & agile transformation and development of company departments. Consulting departments:- Logistics: creating lean flow in all logistics processes- Supply Chain: lean and agile flowing in all sample production processes, leading the Obeya room, coaching Kanban teams- Domestic Retail Store: lean flowing in store Warehouse- Laboratory: Lean 6 Sigma problem solving techniques in all laboratory processes

Determine improvement needs and cost effects for lean transformation to grow business for the clients.Monitor all production processes&createVSM (Value StreamMap)Define future state goals for bottleneck processes and losses in VSM, define lean tools(5S, Kaizen, TPM, Kanban..)to be implementedPrepare the project plan and implement lean tools to reduce wastes, overcome cost challenges, improve profitability, grow the business and increase employee engagement&customer satisfactionProvide Lean Leader development trainings; train the change agents –the leaders of lean transformation in the companyConduct periodic review meetings to demonstrate the improvement with board management

Istanbul, Turkey

2 main processes are carried out as Continuous Improvement and R&D projects coordinating• Leading and coordinating Lean production activities• Creating Value Stream Map (VSM) of production and improvement plan for production bottlenecks • Coordinating and monitoring the Kaizen projects carried out in the company and leading 5S and TPM activities, monitoring and supervision of project team activities.• Leading problem-solving activities and coordinating suggestion reward system• Production process development (new product start up, product line optimization)• One-piece flow optimization on production lines. • Leading the Tübitak and state-sponsored R&D projects in both PARSAN&OMTAŞ

Istanbul, Turkey

Technical Trainings• Preparing, managing and publishing training procedures and processes• Crating the training plans with the trainers and publishing to relevant departments• Analyzing the training objectives, targets and preparing the implement action plans for the required points.• Measuring the effectiveness of trainings and to providing the trainings and development follow-up.• Checking the preparation and content suitability of the training documents.• Using the appropriate methods and flexible communication skills to helping to create an interconnected team andreaching the goals of the team.• Checking the necessary tools and materials belonging to the classroom, library and offices an to analyze the needs.• To train the internal trainer from the production departments and making the necessary organization.• Providing the technical training to engineering teams and the blue collar technical staff.• Providing the «train the trainer which is called TTT» trainings to technical trainers and monitoring their progress.

Istanbul, Turkey

Plan and organize DAF Trucks sales, parts, service, after sales technical trainings to all relevant employee on DAF distributor offices.Provide EcoDrive trainings to fleet customers.Maintain training schedules, create project timelines,manage team and material to complete jobs on schedule and within budget guidelines.Manage DAF E-Portal, TMS authorizations of all users.Lead and coordinate problem solving activities.Lead Lean production activities as 5S, TPM and kaizen. Provide technical support to distributor service points on warranty and spare parts as technical help-desk

Batman, Turkey

*Managing and coordinating service proccess and effectiveness.*Making periodical visiting to the customers to increasing for the customer satisfaction.*Managing the CNC machine assembly and service team.*Generating the parts sales team and warehouse.*Managing all waranty claim and aftersales proccess to OEM companies.*Providing CNC machine user training to the end customer.*Meeting with the product and quality department to improve the product quality.*Submitting the periodical budget, part sales volume and waranty claim reports to mangement.

Adana, Turkey

*Providing lectures in Adana Mechanical Technician School as a lecturer. Given lectures: a) Electrics & Electrical Systems, Gasoline Engine Technology (Class1) b) Engine Diagnostics & Tuning (Class 2) c) Alternative Engines & Fuels (Class 2) d) New Technologies in the Automotive (Class 2) e) Mechanics of Motor Vehicles (Class 2)*Preparing the midterm, final exams and transfering to Çukurova University exam. system.*Submission of an internship possibility for students, according to the lectures and exams that students success and the creation of the report for use in the recruitments process for students.

Adana, Turkey

Provide bus service-technical, sales, customer drivers trainings to the domestic and international service points and customers. Manage and coordinate on-line service training system.Prepare training documents & booklets, maintenance and warranty booklets, standardization of the driver manuals and service technical booklets.Working 6-sigma problem solving teams, Kaizen and 5S activities as active team player. Prepare the maintenance and warranty booklets.Standardization of the Driver Manuals and Service booklets.Make cost analysis of trainings and providing the income and expense balance.Manage and coordinate the on-line service trainings.

Sakarya, Turkey

Followup and manage technical service system by means of work order and standard operations forms.Coordinatethe field activities and manage the technical workshop.

Sakarya, Turkey

Manage and facilitate trainee driver's license official transactions.Provide technical trainings for automobile mechanical and electrical systems.

Master'S Degree, Mechatronics

Mba

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Automotive Education/Teaching

Vocational High School-Welding Technology

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Business Administration