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              BIOGRAPHY
 
 I was born in Ankara in 1972, however raised in Izmir. I was 
              student of Izmir Private Turk College. Afterwards, I went to Izmir Ataturk 
              High-School  and finished this very well-known schools 
              with an average of 7.0/10. I was Math student and my second 
              language was German which I began to learn in Izmir Private Turk 
              College.
 In 1990, I got the 
              534.00 in OYS exam and had to chance to get into Istanbul 
              Technical University at Business Engineering Faculty. During my 
              bachelor's degree I was a member of faculties soccer team as 
              striker and we became 3rd within the ITU in year 1995. I was also 
              lead singer of rock band which we gave 5 concerts in different 
              faculties between 1994-1995. I got my bachelor's degree in 1995 
              Summer with an average of 53/100. In 1996 I went to USA, VA to 
              attend a ESL program to improve my English and to have a chance 
               
              get an MBA degree in states. It took me 1.5 years to get 
              required TOEFL score and  I applied to College & Universities. 
              While I was taking ESL courses  in Virginia, Fairfax, I 
              worked as lifeguard in Winkler Pool Management  Inc. and 
              assigned to several buildings' pools as head lifeguard. I personally saved two kids life 
              during my shift. In 1997 New York Institute of College  had 
              approved my application as MBA student and I began my study in NY. 
              While I was attending to MBA program, I worked as sales person in 
              Tursan Travel agency. It helped me to improve my English and 
              sales & marketing skills by interacting with many different 
              cultures and people. I also developed the website of company and started 
              to make sales through e-mails.  In 2000 I finished my MBA 
              study and decided to return back  home.  In October 2000 I 
              started to work in Turkport A.S., which was an internet company 
              (portal) as Product Director.  My job was mainly to find and 
              search new ideas that would improve our websites appearances. I 
              coordinated editorial, design, technical and marketing departments 
              to develop new projects. Turkport was closed at beginning February 
              2001 and all workers had to resign. After several months I started 
              to work in Kahome Textile which is representing  two agencies 
              from USA that have business in Turkey. I was sales & marketing 
              director of VIPAC ( www.vipac.com) in Turkey. I developed marketing 
              strategies and plans to improve sales of VIPAC in Turkey and 
              coordinated sales. VIPAC 
              produces vinyl packing bags that mainly use for home textile, 
              cosmetics. While I first  started to work for VIPAC, they were selling only 
              to one company in 
              Turkey. With the help of our sales & marketing strategies we 
              sold our products to 20 home textile exporters/producers in Turkey in year 2004-2005.  
              We build our website (www.pvccanta.com) and reached many potential customers in 
              Turkey also countries around Turkey such as Russia, Greece. Our 
              sales will reach around $500.000 in year 2006.I had decided to 
              quit in August 2006 since I believe that I completed my mission in Kahome. 
                   
              Currently, I am working as Coordinator at INTEM Insaat A.S.. I am responsible from production, purchasing and logistics of FLSmidth projects which has currently 500,000 euro order in the company. We are planning to extend our business to 1200 tons for year 2007.
 I like to play 
              guitar, go fitness and read in my spare time. I am also playing 
              soccer every week with a group from ITU  (www.zapatistaspor.org/zapat.asp?z=5). 
              I like to travel and explore new places.
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