Tolga Cimen

• Leading meetings with a team from 8 countries around EMEA. • Partnering with global teams for migrating local software applications to EMEA wide applications. • Responsible for software application roll-outs to all EMEA plants. • Managing software projects using methodologies including lean, agile, Kanban. • Working with global service providers to coordinate DB, server and software needs for IS projects. • Online and on-site training of plant users about regional software projects.

• Designed and developed three regional and 50+ local software solutions to solve daily manufacturing problems, productivity improvement and process standardization. • Managed the end-user support and maintenance of the developed IS solutions. • Led and supervised 3 software engineers for 5 years. • Enterprise software systems Design & Development o efficiency & productivity improvement, o process standardization, o solving daily manufacturing and management problems.

Built and managed online technology and software community which had 5000+ daily user visits.

 Operations Research  Lean Production Systems  Production Management  Inventory Systems Analysis  Software Quality Engineering  Software Team Management  Assembly line balancing/rebalancing  Multi-objective, multi constraint optimization problems

Took lectures from industrial engineering bachelor's degree

 Artificial Intelligence  Advanced Software Engineering  Software Project Management  Warehouse placement optimization

Exchange student for a year in 7th & 8th semester – Erasmus Scholarship