The long version, for people who want to know where each capability was actually forged.
1984 · Programming before owning a computer
Urfa · age eleven
Graphics logic written out on paper, circuit diagrams drawn for machines I hadn't met yet. Rules waiting for hardware to catch up. Everything since has been that same kid, with better hardware.
University years · The techy one at the design agency
Ankara · my cousin's graphics agency, then a photography lab
Not the designer: the one who made the designers faster. While studying at METU, I built the entire technical architecture of a digital photography lab from scratch. The pattern was set early: walk into a craft, find the system inside it.
1997–1998 · Hired as sysadmin, became a web designer
Sysadmin → Webmaster, CNA · Ankara
Hired for system administration; within months I was one of the company's first web designers. No computer science degree behind it, just an associate's in food technologies from METU and a habit of taking machines apart to understand how they think. The degree never mattered.
On the side
Code into metal, literally
Freelance, during the CNA years · for a souvenir workshop in Urfa
A workshop engraved text onto copper trays by hand, letter by letter, in a circle. I wrote a CorelDraw script that placed text on a circular path automatically. Small job; complete worldview: find the repetitive human step, replace it with logic, keep the craft. This page is dressed in metal because, honestly, I never stopped engraving.
1998–1999 · Interactive media, delivered on disc
Digital & Printed Media Specialist, Prost Production · Ankara
Database-driven interactive CD-ROMs in Authorware for corporate marketing: concept, interface design, data model and scripting, shipped as complete experiences on disc.
1999–2006 · Full-stack for governments and embassies
Webmaster → full-stack lead, ADA Net · Ankara
Became webmaster within a short time, then the full-stack lead. Design, development, requirements and client consulting, all at once, across 200+ client sites: ÖSYM, the British and German Embassies, TOKİ, and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, whose site took Gold at the Golden Spider Awards 2002.
2006–2008 · Built TOKİ’s digital asset management in-house
Webmaster / IT Specialist, Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry, Housing Development Administration (TOKİ) · Ankara
Took the client relationship in-house. Dynamic, database-driven boards and a web-based digital asset management portal for image and video archiving: conceived, proposed and programmed from scratch, instead of waiting for a product to buy.
2008–2011 · Into pharma, at global scale
Delivery Service & Project Manager → Delivery Service Manager, F. Hoffmann-La Roche · Istanbul
E-marketing initiatives, product and patient websites, search campaigns; work that contributed to the team earning Roche's CEO and CIO Awards. Then global customer data migration projects with complex architectures, where I introduced a match-and-merge cleansing solution that cut the cost to 5% of the incumbent tool.
2011–2012 · Running digital marketing delivery
Project Manager, Roche Digital Marketing Agency · Istanbul
Ran e-marketing delivery end to end: new digital tools and platforms, product and patient websites, search engine marketing, with every piece of content held to brand, UX and SEO standards at once.
2013–2026 · A platform portfolio, owned end to end
Business Analyst & Digital Product Owner, F. Hoffmann-La Roche · Basel
Thirteen years owning content platforms: vision, backlog, delivery, adoption, optimisation. Proposed and built the Website Accelerator (100+ sites, up to 80% faster and cheaper). Introduced Campaign Monitor and scaled it to 20M+ messages a year at under 20% of competitors' cost. Led the initial IT build of a regulated medical-information and pharmacovigilance platform under GVP and GDPR.
Mid-2026, the Roche chapter closed
New current. New color. Same metal.
Eighteen years at one company shows you exactly what survives pressure. What survives every title change is the habit: structure the complicated thing so the next person can build on it.