Presentation for SB&D-SLP in Operations

Hi, my name is john this is my presentation for

Stanley, black and decker for the position of the slp

role in operations.

I was trying to come up with an idea to

present my story in an original way, both professionally and

personally and I thought that the slp role and myself,

we share something in common.

It requires many different things to be combined together to

bring out something good and I believe this is analogous

to a cocktail because perhaps the ingredients of a cocktail

might be seemingly irrelevant, but when you combine them together

and mix them up, you end up with cold refreshing

drink. And throughout this presentation, as you can see there's

a europe map in the background, we will be moving

back and forth between the pinpoint locations on the map.

Two collect the ingredients for our cocktail so we can

start with our first one.

It is uh huh and it's the town I was

born at and is the border of Turkey to Greece,

it's a really small town.

As you can see on the image.

The purple line is the border between Greece and Turkey.

And obviously this has an impact in the culture of

Ennis. It's quite international in a sense that it's a

balkan country.

I had the privilege to grow up participating in a

lot of school projects with balkan countries and getting to

meet friends from countries like Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia etcetera.

Then I started high school in Vienna is the city

and its belongs to.

And for me the highlight of the high school was

my participation in an Erasmus project exchange project with Germany.

We went to Germany with a bus and stayed there

for a week.

It was a really eye opening experience for me.

I got to really be involved with inter inter cultural

activities and making friends from all around the world, especially

Germany and it was really eye opening experience for me

and that I was a really social kid, I was

the captain of high school basketball team.

We had a really active music band.

I I took multiple roles in the band, I was

singing, playing drums, playing bass, whichever was needed.

Then I moved to Istanbul, one of the biggest cities

in the world, from a quite small town.

And here in the first years of the university, I

was more focused on social activities.

I was playing the faculty basketball team, I stepped off

the music game, I was playing regularly at a bar.

I I played into album recordings in one, I played

the drums in the other, I played the bass, but

then eventually I started to pay attention to my classes

as a metallurgical and materials engineering undergrad and started to

learn to think like an engineer to solve real world

problems. We already have our first ingredient, so let's move

to Czech Republic together.

Our second ingredient.

I did Erasmus exchange during my Bachelor's in Czech Republic,

the city of Australia here I spent two semesters and

I literally, I believe this was the turning point of

my life as I got to meet so many people

from all around the world and live with different people

from different cultures, work, work with people from back different

backgrounds, group projects, presentations, et cetera.

And even I received an unofficial invitation for a PhD

from one of my professors there, he asked if I

wanted to stay for an academic career and if I

will ever consider Technical University Australia there, which was quite

an honor because most of the time Erasmus is remembered

for uh extracurricular activities, so I was quite honored so

we can move on to our next ingredient.

We're back at Turkey, finishing the bachelors and in parallel

with the bachelor thesis, I did a long term long

term internship at Mercedes Benz and also in Volkswagen group

here. Coming back from Erasmus.

I really wanted to experience in different aspects of business

life and have a broader view of how things worked.

So in Marseillaise, I was in after sales unit in

in bus department, I got to manage a cross departmental

project where I get data from 63 dealerships nationwide and

I pinpointed the technical issues related to customer feedback with

the help of the engineering teams, to sales teams et

cetera. It was really um interdisciplinary in aspect and I

used this data to build reports and created dashboards.

I also did a similar thing in Volkswagen group.

I was basically monitoring our sales data for our spare

parts and uh reporting my findings to the management and

we were trying to come up with corrective actions for

the identified issues that perhaps prohibits sum of our parts

sales. Yes.

Starting out as a very social kid and ending up

graduating in the honours list, I have received my bachelor's

degree and we're moving to our next ingredient to Italy.

During my long term internships at Mercedes Benz and Volkswagen

Group, I realized how much it helps to have a

technical background to come up with some solutions to problems

encountered. So I decided to continue my education in a

technical department.

I studied materials engineering and nanotechnology in polytechnic University of

Milan. It's obviously a prestigious and globally recognized university.

I received a terry heavy and quite difficult education there

and I got to make uh more difficult projects with

people from all around the world.

Again, it has a really international student base and I

also received a perfect score on my master thesis defense.

But I will come back to that later because for

our next ingredient we are moving to Switzerland where I

have conduct my master thesis research.

The the experimental work here in uh Switzerland.

I was based in san gallon but I was going

to I was trying to Zurich twice, twice a week

to conduct different experiments here.

I pushed myself out of my comfort zone yet once

again by conducting a thesis work related to biology and

I have not seen biology classes since high school.

So it was quite a challenge.

And this institution Swiss Federal Laboratories of Materials Engineering was

a really top much institution under the domain of E.

K. Subic University.

So everybody was super smart, everybody was super hardworking.

You always have to bring the best is quite competitive.

So I had to work even more than everyone else

because I had to cover my ground in biology.

But it all worked out.

In the end we managed to carry a project that

from the backbone of a bigger project which we are

currently publishing a paper about.

I'm one of the top authors in that paper.

It's currently under editorial review.

Hopefully it will be out this year.

And so I presented my thesis work back in Italy

and graduated from polytechnic University of Milan with a perfect

score on my master thesis defense but gathering experience also

in research and development.

I came back to Turkey and the pandemic start.

Meanwhile I started collecting my final ingredient for my cocktail,

which was the Youthworks initiative.

Me and two other friends from my hometown Internet prepared

voluntary group and created a project that AIM to increase

awareness between employability rates and emotional intelligence.

We prepare an exchange project to train 28 youngsters from

seven different countries on soft skills to help them with

employment. And I designed a creative and interactive training activities

for this project.

And I also wrote the project application for a EU

grant. Then I started working as an engineer at Turkish

Airspace Engin Industries as a manufacturing special process engineer.

I am currently working directly on the shop floor to

operate the equipment operations.

I am also assisting in plant operations, troubleshooting or trying

to come up with corrective actions to problems encountered on

shop floor and making out of root cause analysis.

Well, starting at a small town in the border of

Greece to becoming a special process engineer that manufactured jet

engines. I enjoyed preparing this presentation a lot.

I hope you also like it and thank you for

your time and attention

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