About Me
I am a driven and curious person. I thrive in environments where I am challenged and I work continuously on improving my skill set. I have a wide area of expertise and throughout the years, I have collaborated with colleagues with wide range of competence and background. This has enabled me to analyze situations from different perspectives and come up with diverse solutions to problems.
Work Experience
2022 - Present
Visual and Industrial Designer
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2017 - 2022
Content and Product Designer
Arduino
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Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for anyone making interactive projects. During my time at Arduino, I have established the usage of 3D visuals. In the recent years, I have mostly worked with creating 3D visuals and animations which are used for both product contents and marketing campaigns. Throughout the years, I have worked with developing, prototyping and designing physical products and preparing technical drawings. I have also had experience with laser-cutting, 3D printing and CNC production. In the last years, I also had chance to focus on art direction for our marketing campaigns and brand identity.
2015-2016
Project Manager
TAK Kartal
TAK is an organization which collaborates with different municipalities in Turkey with the aim of increasing the participation of the inhabitants in municipalities' decision making process. I worked as a project manager and strategy developer at TAK Kartal for project in various scales in the Kartal municipality in Istanbul. I worked mostly with organizing workshops, arranging events where designers and inhabitants can meet and creating detailed infographics for the strategy department to use for improving the resource delegation for different neighbourhoods in the municipality.
2014
Product Designer
OTIMSAN
OTIMSAN is a company that is specialized in designing and producing signage for hotels and shopping malls. During my time at OTIMSAN, I worked on creating mood boards, reading architectural drawings, locating and designing signage such as emergency exits, hotel rooms and entrance signs as well as prototyping and supervising production.
Education
2016-2017
Lund University
Management
Masters
The management program has, through case studies, focused on creating learning opportunities to be an ethical manager/leader.
The program had included several casestudies about leadership styles, change management, leadership on a global market, team dynamics, teambuilding, risk analysis, difference in organizational structures and more. During the program, I have also written a thesis about "Developing Teams in Startups" together with my thesis partner.
2013-2014
Lund University
Industrial Design
Bachelor - Erasmus
During my bachelors, I studied 2 semesters at Lund University as an exchange student. The courses I participated in included; product design, project development and material knowledge. I also had the chance to take the thesis project as a course during my studies.
2011-2015
Istanbul Technical University
Industrial Product Design
Bachelor
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Industrial product design program had courses covering the whole design process of a product from identifying a problem, concept development, prototyping, material knowledge, technical drawings to product visualization and product communication.
Languages
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Turkish (Native)
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English (Fluent)
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Swedish (Fluent)
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Danish (Limited fluency)
Software
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Adobe Suit (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro)
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Rhinoceros 5
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Blender
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Figma