With a strong foundation in chemical engineering and extensive experience in chemical manufacturing, I am eager to take on leadership roles where I can drive organizational success. My expertise spans across all aspects of operations, including safety, finance, manufacturing, and quality assurance. I excel in optimizing processes, ensuring the efficient delivery of products and services, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives. With a deep understanding of business practices and a proven track record of fostering leadership and effective communication, I am well-prepared to lead teams towards operational excellence, profitability, and strategic growth.
Bachelor of Science: Chemical Engineering - June 2013
Spearheaded the Maintenance Excellence Program, implementing strategic initiatives to enhance equipment reliability, streamline work order management, and achieve industry-leading maintenance standards.
Optimized the maintenance budget by aligning resource allocation with site objectives and the strategic plan, ensuring cost-efficiency and maximizing ROI.
Led a diverse team by clearly defining roles and responsibilities, assigning tasks strategically, and conducting regular performance reviews to uphold high standards and drive accountability.
Administered disciplinary actions with fairness and transparency, maintaining comprehensive documentation to support decisions and ensure compliance with company policies.
Championed employee engagement in the Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) program through proactive leadership, conducting plant inspections, behavioral observations, and participating in risk assessments to promote a safe work environment.
Pioneered IoT solutions for real-time monitoring and management of equipment performance, achieving a 25% reduction in maintenance costs and enhancing overall operational efficiency.
Executed a Black Belt project using the DMAIC methodology, leading to a 30% improvement in right-first-time metrics and achieving $217K in annual savings on rework costs.
Leveraged Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) methodology to conduct in-depth risk assessments, creating detailed risk sheets and actionable plans to mitigate potential hazards and significantly reduce risk probability.
Developed and submitted detailed capital expenditure requests for new and upgraded manufacturing facilities, successfully obtaining project funding approvals and driving key infrastructure improvements.
Led a team of technicians in the transfer, optimization, and scale-up of new products within the pilot plant, successfully developing a product suite currently undergoing customer qualification.
Partnered with business developers, supply chain, and technical teams to manage new product trials on manufacturing assets, demonstrating expertise in preparing, prioritizing, and executing activities on high-value, limited-availability assets.
Collaborated effectively with union employees at the manufacturing plant, ensuring smooth technology transfers and maintaining process consistency while upholding high safety standards.
Created comprehensive project plans for new product launches, including multi-year capacity modeling, CAPEX estimation, and conducting thorough failure and hazard analyses.
Synthesized catalyst material via co-precipitation and incipient wetness methods
Qualified, maintained and ran manufacturing equipment including blenders, calciners and mills
Scaled up and transferred new powder technologies from R&D to commercial manufacturing
Designed full suite of characterization and test techniques utilizing XRD, BET, TPR, PSA, TGA, XRF
Developed and maintained DOE, SOP, SDS, Control Plans, FMEA, NPI documents and project schedules
Supported process and product development for new materials and formulations
Audited process and product line for continuous improvement and ISO/TS 16949
Selected by faculty to lead team of engineers for chemical engineering senior design project
Oversaw the execution of a steam optimized ethylene plant to be located in Brazil
Communicated client requirements to team through scheduled group and individual meetings
Developed process flow diagrams with Microsoft Visio and simulate with PRO/II and Aspen Hysys
Sized and costed various unit equipment using indexes
Calculated 10 year cash flow analysis to determine plant feasibility
Assisted in drafting a P&ID for a transportable desalination plant using Microsoft Visio
Drafted the transportable desalination plant in 3D with SolidWorks
Assisted in designing membrane monitoring module system for early mineral scale detection
Involved in the selection and incorporation of pumps, valves, water quality instruments, reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration
Synthesized and tested photostimulable phosphor powder
Worked with tube furnaces, vacuum oven, convection ovens, x-ray, milling
Maintained and ran tube furnaces, vacuum oven, convection ovens, x-ray, and wet milling
Designed and created photonics based telemedicine technology for portable cellular imaging
Handled and analyzed micro bead and stained blood cells/smear
Researched and designed techniques for super-hydrophobic surfaces for spherical lens applications
Worked with LabVIEW software to automate blood cell imaging
C++, CSS, HTML, MatLab, PHP, VBA
Computer Aided DesignAutodesk Inventor, SolidWorks
SoftwareMicrosoft Office, Microsoft Visio, LabVIEW, Microsoft Access
Process SimulationPRO/II, Aspen Hysys
LanguagesEnglish, Turkish, Spanish
Report on economics and feasibility analysis of algae based biofuels
Analysis on the removal of methylene blue from aqueous solution via activated carbon
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S.O. Isikman, W. Bishara, U. Sikora, O. Yaglidere, J. Yeah, and A. Ozcan, "Field-Portable Lensfree Tomographic Microscope," Lab on a Chip (2011)
W. Bishara, U. Sikora, O. Mudanyali, T. Su, O. Yaglidere, S. Luckhart, and A. Ozcan, "Holographic pixel super-resolution in portable lensless on-chip microscopy using a fiber- optic array," Lab on a Chip (2011)
Tseng, O. Mudanyali, C. Oztoprak, S.O. Isikman, I. Sencan, O. Yaglidere and A. Ozcan, "Lensfree Microscopy on a Cell-phone" Lab on a Chip (2010) - Cover Article
H. Zhu, O. Yaglidere, T. Su, D. Tseng, and A. Ozcan, "Cost-effective and Compact Wide- field Fluorescent Imaging on a Cell-phone" Lab on a Chip (2010)
M. Lee, O. Yaglidere, and A. Ozcan, "Field-portable reflection and transmission microscopy based on lensless holography," Biomedical Optics Express (2011)
H. Zhu, S. Mavandadi, A.F. Coskun, O. Yaglidere, and A. Ozcan, "Optofluidic fluorescent imaging cytometry on a cell-phone," Analytical Chemistry (2011)
S.O. Isikman, W. Bishara, O. Mudanyali, I. Sencan, T. Su, D. Tseng, O. Yaglidere, U. Sikora, A. Ozcan, "Lensfree On-Chip Microscopy and Tomography for Bio-Medical Applications," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
W. Bishara, U. Sikora, O. Mudanyali, T. Su, O. Yaglidere, S. Luckhart, and A. Ozcan, "Handheld and lensless microscope identifies malaria parasites," SPIE Newsroom (2011)
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