Defne Ayyıldız
Industrial Engineer
industrial engineer
digital marketing
FMCG
Supply Chain
Management
27 years old
London United Kingdom
Professional Status
Employed
Unavailable
About Me
Fresh graduate from Middle East Technical University Industrial Engineering department as of 2021 July. Fast learner, enthusiastic in mathematical modeling and optimisation tools. Adapts easily to changing conditions in life. Honour student in university. During her high school years, she has been to Japan for an exchange year. Then, after completing high school, she was enrolled to one of Turkey’s best universities’ Industrial Engineering Department. During her studies, she was actively taking place in European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management club, where she was a Vice President of Public Relations. She gave trainings to many mentees. Academically, she has conducted two internships including manufacturing and defense technologies industries. Worked for her Systems Design project for her senior year regarding Cloud Resources Management Decision Support System. Currently, International Management master student looking for a role in supply chain and planning to improve to managerial positions in the future.
Experiences
Product Specialist and Digital Content Specialist
Boomkin Tech - Gizli Sekme project
Since September 2021
- Creation of the marketplace and photoshoot of the products
- Building strategies for social media
Systems Design Project Team Member
Finopsy LLC
October 2020
to July 2021
- Finopsy is a Cloud Cost Optimisation company where they provide cost optimising decisions regarding cloud services to their customers. For our Systems Design project, we worked on a decision support system where in any point in time a customer can utilize it to find out what resources should be employed via reservations or on-demand utilization.
Demand Planning
Demand Forecasting
Cost optimisation staying within the constraints
Production Planning Intern
SDT Space and Defense Technologies Inc.
August 2020
to September 2020
- I have conducted the mandatory summer practice there. I have built a simulation in ARENA simulation software of the production process of a subassembly.
- Production Planning
Simulation
Quality Tests
Industrial Engineering Intern
Brisa Bridgestone
July 2019
to August 2019
- I have conducted mandatory summer practice there. I was given a root cause analysis task which includes 10% of the tire manufacturing machines regarding what could be the cause when there is an unexpectedly long processing time.
- • Data Analysis including many machine types, 6 months-long data
- • Root Cause Analysis regarding the tire changing times
Business Analyst Intern
WebGazer
June 2018
to October 2018
- WebGazer is a SaaS company which makes necessary alerts when the users’ websites are down, not working. I have conducted a voluntarily internship.
- • Competitor Analysis
- • Blogpost
- • Field research were some of the works I have achieved
Exchange semester in host school. Currently conducting a Business Project with HubSpot in scaling up creative capabilities in-house. Other modules are Brand Management and Global Leadership where in the former one we learn about past and current styles and elements of building an effective brand strategy and in the latter one, we learn leadership concepts in global environments.
Home School for the CEMS Program. Main studies were about finance including Portfolio Management, Financial Management and Financial Technologies where I gained many insights about Financial instruments and business finance. Moreover, Business Strategy in a Global Environment module was very informative and beneficial in understanding how to come up with an inclusive strategy plan. Finally, with the Marketing Communications module we learned about marketing techniques, how to build a proper marketing strategy and at the end of module we created a campaign with all its strategies and shootings for the commercial. Ranked 2nd best in among the teams.
Full Scholarship
Home School: Koç University Graduate School of Business
Host School: University College Dublin Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business
Home School: Koç University Graduate School of Business
Host School: University College Dublin Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business
cGPA: 3.33/4.00
Supply Chain Management including Sales & Operation Planning, Master Scheduling Planning, Materials Requirement Planning and Rough Cut Capacity Planning;
Forecasting Methods, Inventory Management, Statistical Quality Analysis, Facility Layout Optimisation, Mathematical Modeling and Optimisation Tools
Supply Chain Management including Sales & Operation Planning, Master Scheduling Planning, Materials Requirement Planning and Rough Cut Capacity Planning;
Forecasting Methods, Inventory Management, Statistical Quality Analysis, Facility Layout Optimisation, Mathematical Modeling and Optimisation Tools
Skills
Academic
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Mathematical Modeling
Advanced
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Simulation Modeling
Advanced
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Decision Analysis
Advanced
-
Statistics
Good
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Supply Chain Management
Advanced
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Data Mining
Good
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Systems Design
Advanced
Technical
-
Matlab
Good
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GAMS
Advanced
-
ARENA Simulation Software
Advanced
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MySQL
Good
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Microsoft Excel
Advanced
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Minitab
Good
Languages
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Turkish
Expert
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English
Advanced
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Japanese
Intermediate
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French
Intermediate
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German
Notions
Extracurricular Activities
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European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management
VP of PR of Local Group Ankara-METU
PRC Instagram Responsible -
METU Productivity Club VakaVT Case Competition Winner
First Place
Interests
Sports
- Yoga
- Running
- Volleyball
- Tennis
Food
- Filter Coffee
- Baking
YouTube
- Content Creator
