İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi

Istanbul Technical University

Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi ve Maarif Koleji

Senior Trainer & Coach  -  I help my clients become their best through training, coaching and mentoring

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Wordworks brings together a highly specialized team of professionals and offers public speaking courses and coaching to corporate executives and managers, professionals, academics, job seekers to become effective, persuasive and memorable speakers in international settings.
I coach clients from "FEAR to FREE" so they can have fun expressing themselves in public and discover their full potential.

WordWorks-Express Your Business

Cofounder

Our District is composed of the following 8 Divisions:
Division A – Italy (San Marino, Vatican City), Malta
Division B – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Israel
Division C – Switzerland (Basel, Bern, Luzern + Surrounding Areas)
Division D – Switzerland (Geneva, Nyon, Lausanne, Neuchatel + Surrounding Areas)
Division E – Switzerland (Zurich, Winterthur, Baden + Surrounding Areas)
Division F – Austria, Slovenia
Division G – Greece
Division H – Turkey

Toastmasters International

District Director

DARAG is a leading international insurance and reinsurance group specialising in the assumption of legacy business and the provision of capital relief solutions.
I help my client regarding the unification projects with the parent company, optimizing IT architecture in line with business needs, managing IT suppliers and interfacing with audit, cyber security and compliance functions within the Darag Group for IT activities and competencies.
Our goal is IT Agile, cost efficient, resilient, and compliant with local and Group policies.

DARAG Group

Senior Information Technology Management Consultant

CoachHub.io is the European market leader in digital coaching. Their mission is to democratize coaching and to create a personalized and measurable coaching program for employees at all career levels.
As a CoachHub Coach I am part of a global pool of more than 600 coaches that coach in 30+ languages. The CoachHub “mobile coaching cloud” allows personalized live coaching sessions via video conferencing on CoachHub's platform. It supports the coaching process through digital learning and progress tracking. In regular, bi-weekly sessions, I help prepare managers for better leadership, teams for better group performances and employees for personal and professional growth.

CoachHub - The digital coaching platform

Certified CoachHub Coach

My clients are entrepreneurs, executives, managers and professionals. I serve them through:
- Coaching: The quality of your answers is the result of the quality of the questions. My coaching is based on asking you the right questions to improve your awareness. This leads to more freedom and better decisions.
- Consulting: I’ve held managerial positions in top-notch multinational companies. Chances are I’ve been there and done that. I share my experience, skills and knowledge with my clients to improve their business and grow their own skill set, so that they can be independent.
- Mentoring: I support my mentees to reach their full potential, sharing my experience and asking empowering questions.
- Management: I fill in temporary management roles for my clients, such as IT manager, Project Manager, Change Manager.

International Coach Federation

International Coach & Management Consultant

Club Growth Director

I lead and support the Division A of District 109 through the supervision and support of our 6 area directors. Division A at the moment covers Italy, San Marino and the Vatican. My primary goal is to ensure that each club achieves its mission and fulfills its responsibilities to its members. I coordinate division activities, set division goals, and assist in the training of area and club leaders.

Division Director

Mentoring and developing the leadership skills of executive officers of four Toastmasters clubs in the Lombardy region.

Area Director

Mentoring and assisting Toastmasters in Italy (D109-Div A) for projects and providing project management support to fellow project managers.

Project Manager

TSA Europe is specialized in human performance management.
Delivered Customer Service Excellence workshops to Turkish management teams of the multinational Greif Inc., a worldwide leading producer of industrial packaging and containers.

TSA Europe Ltd

Turkish Country Principal

I coach executives and managers and lead workshops for organizational and cultural change.
I train and mentor for project management, customer service excellence and IT transformation.

Instrumentation Laboratory, A Werfen Company

Senior Coach & Trainer

The Navigli District Toastmasters club is a bilingual club. We meet at least twice a month on Monday evenings. If you want to improve your Public Speaking and Leadership skills, come visit us.

President of Navigli District Club

Comez is a manufacturer of Crochet and Warp Knitting Machines based in Cilavegna.
Mentored and coached the Managing Director to create an effective organizational structure.
Mentored and coached the heads of Post Sales, Production and Training in the areas of delegation, interpersonal skills, empowerment and conflict management.

COMEZ International srl

Senior Consultant

Conducted the assessment of managers using the Facet5 assessment tool and coached them during the assessment process to identify their development needs.

HypoVereinsbank - UniCredit - Deutschland

Axalta is a manufacturer of liquid and powder coatings and their Italian operations is based in Cavenago di Brianza.
Conducted the assessment of managers using the Facet5 assessment tool and coached them during the assessment process to identify their development needs.

Axalta

Tiv Valves is a manufacturer of ball valves for the Oil & Gas industry based in Rescaldina.
Reduced IT running costs by 40% through rationalization of Service Level Agreements, of sourcing options and software licensing models.
Designed, sourced and deployed a new state of the art server room.
Analyzed and implemented IT disaster recovery procedures and business continuity plans.
Created due diligence information and scenarios of IT integration with new shareholders.
Recruited, trained and mentored IT manager to fully cover the position.

TIV VALVES S.R.L.

Interim IT Manager

Organizational Development, Leadership Development, Individual Assessments with Facet5, 360° Feedback, Customer Service Excellence Training

Performance Technology Solutions

SAM International specializes in Executive Search, Recruitment, Headhunting, Onboarding & Outplacement.
Conducted selection and recruitment of executives, managers and specialists, with focus on internationalization, IT and financial services.

SAM International

Executive Consultant

Microdos produces and commercializes a wide range of complete dosing systems, dosing pumps including peristaltic pumps, solenoid pumps, complete panels, control instruments, probes and accessories suitable for different sectors and kind of uses.
I am developing the Turkish market for OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer - and through distributor channels for resellers.

MICRODOS - dosing systems

Business Developer for Turkish Market

Chemicount produces a wide range of professional cleaning and lubrication chemicals.
I am developing the Turkish market through distributor channels for professional cleaners.

Chemicount

LBDI is a Public Relations Agency and part of the Eurocom Worldwide B2B network.
Developed B2B PR proposals, sales and support for the following:
-  Online and offline press office;
-  Telemarketing and lead generation;
-  Media plans and online advertising campaigns;
-  Events and fairs organization;
-  Market research

LBDI

Associate

Cherubini SpA produces motors for awnings, rolling shutters, venetian blinds.
Designed, trained and oversaw the implementation of an internationalization plan to explore potential markets and identify distribution channels.
Designed, trained and rolled out a budgeting and planning system for the Italian sales force.

CHERUBINI GROUP

Senior Coach & Consultant

Bringing my multinational management experience and skills to growing SME's, we provide coaching and management consultancy to company owners, management and sales force. These include:
-  tools and techniques for sales force effectiveness
-  development of internationalization plans
-  project management training
-  social media training

Labormentis

Kiter is a manufacturer of chemical products for professional cleaning.
Researched and developed the Polish, Ukrainian and Turkish markets for chemicals applied to professional cleaning.

Kiter S.r.l.

Business Developer

Hired though AiZoon.it. Reported to deputy CIO.
-  Directed a major credit cycle transformation program, requiring design and implementation of a new workflow for credit requests.
-  Conducted a scoring-based IT supplier selection process.
-  Launched a new credit product involving Credit Suisse companies within the EMEA region, from design to rollout of cross border monetary data exchange interfaces.
-  Trained Credit Suisse IT staff on project management applied to ISDF methodologies for application development and facilitated CMMI level 2 certification process.
-  Designed an IT supplier management framework to improve software quality, streamline implementation schedules and to reduce costs.

Credit Suisse

Senior Project Manager

Start-up online bank specialized in residential mortgages and debt consolidation, matrix reporting to business CEO and country CIO.
-  Created a bank wide project and change steering committee for project prioritization, optimal resource allocation and business IT alignment.
-  Developed a business need driven prioritization model to score change requests and created a companywide program reporting.
-  Accountable for budget of 2.2 M[euro], optimized IT outsourcing and insourcing to move the web/extranet platform to the UK and to service through India with 24x7 support.
-  Outsourced software development and servicing to cost effective offshore Indian companies for Management Information Systems - MIS, document management and imaging systems.
-  Negotiated internal and external Service Level Agreements - SLA's with process owners and IT suppliers.
-  Created a centralized IT help desk in Mondovi, outsourced desktop management to Hewlett Packard - HP reducing operating costs and decreasing headcount.
-  Reduced headcount and processing time for loan originations process through workflow implementations and automated system interfaces.
-  Solved all regulatory and internal compliance audit issues within agreed timeframes.

GE Money Bank Italy

IT Manager

UniCredit Headquarters in Milan reported to Head of Organizational Sizing department.
-  Determined appropriate staffing levels of 27 UniCredit local businesses and in Eastern Europe with organizational-sizing benchmarks and activity mapping.
-  Created an Operational Tableau de Bord for organizational performance monitoring.

Unicredit

Project Manager & Organizational Sizing Expert

During the merge and acquisistion of KocBank and Yapi Kredi Bank, in Istanbul, reported to Head of Organization of New Europe Division.
-  Optimized branch openings, relocations and closures by developing a scoring system with budgeting, break-even analysis and cost optimization model.
-  Facilitated the integration of branch networks for the 2 merging banks.
-  Unified branch procedures, customer service models, branch layout and network brand proposition.

In Bank Pekao reported to the Head of Organization of New Europe Division.
-  Directed the full cycles of business requirements, testing, training, pilot and roll-out phases for a Management Information System - MIS for to a population of 6000 users, of which 5000 in branches, spanning across retail, commercial and private banking divisions.
-  Interfaced with and facilitated communication across functional and IT teams as well as between local and Polish stakeholders.

Reported to CEO of Unicredit Banca per la Casa.
-  Supervised the integration of Abbey National Italian business into UniCredit Banca per la Casa, including organizational restructuring, business process review, systems integration & migration, post sales due diligence.
-  Facilitator for the executive committee and for corporate culture integration.

Reported to CEO.
-  Facilitator the executive committee in preparation for the acquisition by UniCredit

Abbey National

Process Quality and Knowledge Management Director

Matrix reporting to country CEO and Group CIO. Member of the bank board and executive committee.
-  Accountable for budget of 5.4 M[euro], 30 internal staff and 40 external consultants.
-  Performed IT due diligence for the acquisition of Royal Saint George's Banque and post-acquisition IT integration.
-  Deployed technology for sales force mobility and distance working.
-  Achieved full Year 2000 - Y2K compliance on all systems, ranking 3rd place amongst 17 Y2K programs with Abbey National Group companies.
-  Realized full Euro compliance on all systems and processes for the transition from French Francs to Euros.
-  Implemented a new loans-administration system Evolan developed by Sopra.
-  Created a web-based loan origination application for introducers, integrating expert systems and credit scoring.

IT Director

Reporting to CEO.
- Project-managed the implementation of a core banking system named ICBS from Fiserv.
- Managed a cross-functional team of 12 staff and project budget of 2 M€.
- Planned and executed company-wide training, testing, quality assurance and rollout.
Key achievements:
- Achieved full Y2K and Euro compliance through implementation of core banking system.

Workgroup and Workflow project specialist in the Research & Development Department, reporting to head of department.
- Project-managed the design and creation of the Bank’s Internet site.
- Created Prototypes for various Intranet applications.
- Performed feasibility studies and pilots for optical archiving, document and image-management and information retrieval systems.

Banco Ambrosiano Veneto Spa

R&D Project Manager

Reporting to deputy managing director.
- Project-managed the outsourced development of an integrated asset liability management software.
- Project-managed the Workgroup program within a company wide business re-engineering program.
- Designed and developed a liquidity management system for the Italian domestic Lira treasury.

Centrale Supporti Operativi Spa

Software house specialized in foreign exchange trading systems in  Milan, reporting to managing director.
- Designed and developed an interface to Reuters Dealing 2000 for the foreign exchange market with on-line data processing and integrated front/back office position keeping.
- Automated PC-Mainframe communications.
- Functional analysis and project-management of an integrated foreign exchange treasury position keeping system in various Unix environments, co-developed with Italian and foreign software houses.

S.O.A.Ge. Srl

Reporting to deputy managing director.
- Consulted in the reorganization and implementation of the information services for the integration of Citibank Italia and Citifin Treasuries.
- Refined and finalized a Trading Management Information System featuring concurrent US/Italian Trading and Investment Bond P/(L) and position keeping.

Citibank Treasury Milan

Computer Consultant

Citibank Italy, Middle East, Greece and Africa Region Headquarters in Naples and Southeast Europe Regional Office in Rome, reporting to deputy managing director.
- Prepared executive presentations using multimedia software.
- Provided technical assistance and consultancy to expat and executive directors.

Turan Tanin

Turan Tanin