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İzmir, Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey

• Head of operations related to manufacturing of zamak door handles, aluminium furniture handles and brass bathroom accessories.

Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey

• Coordination of all operations realized inhouse factory.

Kocaeli & İstanbul, Turkey

• Management Consultant at Endemix Natural Ingredients Company - Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey
• R&D Center Establishment at Segmentify Software Company - İstanbul, Turkey

Bursa, Turkey

• Established the first R&D Center of furniture sector in Turkey which is supported by Ministry of Industry and Technology in November 2015.
• Responsible from all technical operations including R&D Center, Supply Chain Management (S&OP |Sales & Operation Planning|, Product & Production Planning, Purchasing and Logistics), Lean Manufacturing Systems.
• Management of 2 mio USD transformation cost per month.
• Coordination of SKD (Semi Knock Down) project for Iran. Start-up of packing and assembly lines at the customer's factory side.
• As a result of lean manufacturing activities; 14.879 Individual Kaizen, 173 Group Kaizen and 52 Kobetsu Kaizen projects are realized between 2013-2017.
• The 2nd Prize of Turkey in 2015 Industrial Excellence Award which is jointly organized by Koç University, WHU, INSEAD and other leading European Business Schools (For Lean Manufacturing Systems).

Bozüyük, Bilecik, Turkey

• Responsible from production of faucet, bathroom accessories and concealed cistern.
• Management of production and maintenance activities including casting, hot forging, machining, grinding & polishing, chrome-nickel plating, PVD coating, assembly shop floors and maintenance department to achieve the.
• Re-organization of grinding & polishing and assembly suppliers in terms of cost, quality and delivery time in year 2008.
• Coordination of India Faucet Factory Investment Project by Kajaria Ceramics.
• Coordination of focus improvement projects related to labour, raw material, energy and consumable materials. 2,1mio USD earnings from 2613 cost reduction projects between 2008 and 2012.

Bozüyük, Bilecik, Turkey

• Maintaining the correct implementation of procedures to make certain product quality. Responsible from management, coordination and improvement of the quality control activities starting from incoming inspection to.
• Management of OEM customer claims.
• Awarded by JIPM for TPM Excellence 1st Category in 2007. Management of scrap and rework kaizen teams as a TPM Quality Maintenance Committee Manager (0,143mio USD profit by 137 kaizen projects in 2007).

Bozüyük, Bilecik, Turkey

• Approval of production tools, semi-finished and finished products. Responsible from product test laboratory.
• Management of customer claims related to export markets, product certification, external audits, calibration, SPC (Statistical Process Control) and PPAP (Production Part Approval Process).
• TPM Quality Maintenance Committee Manager; organisation of scrap and rework kaizen teams. 0,29mio USD earnings by 176 kaizen projects between 2005-2006.

Bozüyük, Bilecik, Turkey

• Organization and management of OEM assembly lines with 71 operators and 3 formen.
• Increase the production capacity 25% by changing operation steps.

Bozüyük. Bilecik, Turkey

• Experience in machining of brass faucet. Responsible of CNC machining center with 85 operators, 3 formen and 3 CNC programmers.
• 0,245mio USD earnings from 122 focused improvement projects by reforming the machining parameters, the tool layouts and the ISO part programs.
• Leadership for Focus Improvement and Autonomous Management TPM projects.

Bozüyük, Bilecik, Turkey

• Design of tool layout, cutting tools and gauges in reference to part drawings.
• Preparation of time study for CNC machines by specifying the machining parameters (RPM, feed, cutting speed, time)
• Preparing the CAM programs by GoElan V4.4 for Charmilles Robofil 230 wire-EDM machine.

Bolu, Turkey

• Member of the project teams during the new product development processes satisfying customer requests and quality standards.
• 0,176mio USD earnings by decreasing the material cost of products without affecting quality and functions.

Bolu, Turkey

• Investment of stop&go model computer controlled assembly lines.
• Installation of 1232 capacity warehouse system for oven cavity.
• Responsible of assembly lines and warehouse system during pilot production.

B.S. In Mechanical Engineering

Turquality Mt Programme

October 2015 - May 2016 Management, Marketing, Sales&Distribution Channels, Operations&Supply Chain Management, Finance, HR & Organization.

Pre-Mba

July 2004 - December 2005