Kağan Gündoğdu

Operations Associate

Istanbul, Turkey2 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in operational problem-solving and process improvement.
  • Strong background in manufacturing operations and workflow design.
  • Proficient in analyzing trade-offs and optimizing resources.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Textile Manufacturing Operations Specialist with a focus on process improvement and digital transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Manufacturing OperationsOperations ManagementDigital TransformationProduction Planning

Other Skills

Process ImprovementData AnalysisInventory ManagementBusiness Process ImprovementBusiness Process AnalysisOperations ResearchMathematical ModelingOptimizationCustomer CoordinationSystems Design

About

I work on making messy operations easier to understand, measure, and improve. I’m an Industrial Engineering graduate from Koç University, currently working in textile finishing operations. My work sits between production, customers, shopfloor teams, reporting, and management, so I’ve learned to look at operations as a connected system rather than separate tasks. I like working on operational problems where the answer is not obvious at first: a process that depends too much on individual memory, a customer request that creates trade-offs, or a workflow that is difficult to track. My instinct is to understand the system first, then use the most practical tool available to make the next decision clearer. I don’t believe in forcing one favorite method onto every problem. Sometimes the right tool is a spreadsheet, sometimes it is a process map, sometimes it is a model, a report, or simply asking better questions on the shopfloor. I’m especially interested in operations research, process improvement, business analysis, and consulting-style work where the goal is to use limited resources intelligently under real constraints.

Experience

2 yrs
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
2 yrs
Current Experience

Teknik apre tekstil

Process & Operations Specialist

Jun 2024Present · 2 yrs · Istanbul, Türkiye · On-site

  • Work at the intersection of manufacturing operations, customer coordination, and process improvement in a textile finishing facility.
  • Map fragmented production and customer workflows to understand how requests move from fabric intake to process planning, shopfloor execution, shipment, and account follow-up.
  • Build practical tracking and reporting structures that make production status, pricing logic, delivery priorities, and customer balances easier to monitor and discuss.
  • Analyze operational trade-offs between customer expectations, production capacity, process constraints, and the operational health of the company before turning requests into executable priorities.
  • Translate recurring manual follow-up and experience-based process memory into clearer, more standardized workflows through internal admin portal design, structured reporting, and digital workflow concepts.
  • Work closely with management and shopfloor teams in a high-pressure manufacturing environment where priorities change quickly and decisions require both speed and context.
Manufacturing OperationsOperations Management

Firateks textile

Production Intern

Jun 2023Jul 2023 · 1 mo · Istanbul, Türkiye · On-site

  • Observed and analyzed production operations at a woven fabric manufacturer, focusing on made-to-order raw fabric production, material flow, planning, and quality control.
  • Mapped the production flow from yarn procurement and warp preparation to weaving, inspection, and raw fabric roll output.
  • Studied how workload, yarn availability, capacity constraints, and customer requirements affected delivery time, pricing, and order acceptance decisions.
  • Analyzed inventory management challenges in a high-variety yarn environment with just-in-time procurement and limited real-time tracking.
  • Documented observations on facility layout, material handling, unit cost drivers, productivity measures, and quality control practices, strengthening my interest in operations and process improvement.
  • Identified limitations in manual inventory tracking and fragmented information flow, which later shaped my interest in digital workflow design.
Manufacturing OperationsProduction Planning

Education

Koç University

Bachelor of Science — Industrial Engineering

Sep 2020Jun 2024

Pertevniyal Anadolu Lisesi

High School Diploma

Sep 2016Jun 2020

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