University of Chicago MBA and Six Sigma Green Belt with eleven years of work experience

Open to challenging opportunities that offer career growth, upward mobility, high visibility, and continuous learning. Especially interested in positions in charge of developing strategy.

TYCO VALVES AND CONTROLS, Houston TX 2002-2005

Product Marketing Manager 2003-2005
Develop, maintain, and support butterfly and check valve products. Act as a liaison between the plants and the company owned distributors.
* Repositioned product offerings and pricing against the competition.
* Working with sourcing department to continuously improve product costs.
* Developed strategy for E&O inventory and product rationalization.

Senior Manager, Pricing Strategy 2002-2005
Formulate pricing strategy for nearly fifty brands in a newly created role for North America. Realign pricing for products to maximize their profitability.
* Developed first framework for setting pricing based on market intelligence.
* Led a six sigma project on creating an automated web-based price sheet distribution program.
- eliminated costs associated with printed price sheets.
- ensured the timely distribution of the new prices.
- built in a price calculator function to make quotations faster and more accurate.
Project completed successfully. In maintenance mode. Savings for the company are expected to be hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
* Compiled a comprehensive 2003 sales plan working with company-owned distributors and factories. The plan is at a product group level, a company first.


ZENITH ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, Mt. Prospect IL 1993-2001

Senior Manager, Market Planning 2000 – 2001
Responsible for all aspects of pricing, industry analysis, and consumer research.
* Successfully managed $1 million market research budget.
* Identified the target consumer segments for the new strategy of the company.
* Developed and supervised consumer focus group studies, working with outside agencies on consumer preferences for new product, brand perception, and advertising campaign selection; all projects achieved goals within budget and formed the basis of a new advertising campaign.

Manager of Pricing and Market Analysis 1998 – 2000
Responsible for all aspects of pricing and industry analysis. Act as an internal consultant and report to the President of the Sales Company.

Senior Market Analyst 1995 – 1998

Research Analyst 1993 – 1995

University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, Chicago, Illinois 1998
MBA with concentrations in Marketing, Finance, Business Policy, Strategic Management

Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin 1993
BA with majors in Economics, and Math/Computer Science

* Six Sigma - Green Belt Certified in 2002.
* Six Sigma - Black Belt trained in 2004.

* Exploring foreign languages and cultures. (Fluent in English and Turkish, advanced in Russian, intermediate in German, beginner in Spanish)
* Excellent knowledge of MS Office. Expert level in Excel and Access.
* Team player and leader.