Taylan Sarı

• Owned the creation of pre-release marketing materials for 7 automotive LED products, supporting customer engagement • Conducted competitor analysis for 50+ LEDs, benchmarking pricing and driving data-based positioning improvements • Coordinated global shipments of LED products to 10+ Tier-1 automative customers, improving delivery accuracy • Developed a market model to optimize pricing and demand strategy, improving sales forecast accuracy by 13.5%

•Supported digitalization by increasing EDI adoption across 3000+ vendors to improve supply chain efficiency in Europe •Built 2 defect analytics dashboards using SQL and Quicksight, reducing EDI defect rates from 21% to 15% in a year •Led pre/post performance analysis of different workflows (ASN/INV/COSTINV/POA), boosting adoptions by up to 4% •Standardized country-specific GS1 requirements through cross-border stakeholder communication across EU5 markets

•Analyzed 80+ automotive cable production steps on the shop floor to enhance lean manufacturing practices •Built 8 Excel-based Yamazumi charts to analyze and optimize production workflow, reducing cycle times by 12.8% •Created 5 operational reports using LaTeX to support managerial departments, boosting operational visibility by 35% •Conducted 5S audits across 12 production lines, resulting in up to 20% reduction in setup time for critical machinery

•Led the simulation sub-team of the fuel systems of a 50-person R&D project developing an innovative aircraft prototype •Provided 20+ Siemens AMESIM simulation results supporting 500 km+ range and two-person payload requirements •Reduced fuel tank volume by 8% and increased the range from 489 km to 521 km while maintaining safety requirements •Employed CATIA/ANSYS for design and 4 structural analyses, achieving 97% accuracy against real-world performance

•Held a combined technical and product-focused role, contributing to 4 high-impact control system projects •Implemented embedded C# software for a surveillance system, handling 200+ real-time signals at 95% accuracy •Conducted 20+ control systems simulations using MATLAB and Simulink, improving system prediction accuracy by 4.6% •Analyzed large-scale production/inventory data (500M+ records) for different devices using SQL, cutting costs up to 2.9% •Created 4 dashboards tracking 100+ metrics

•Improved 100+ aircraft manufacturing operations with a focus on sheet metal forming and CNC machining workflows •Used Excel-based tools such as Yamazumi charts to optimize workflows, reducing cycle times by approximately 10% •Collaborated with 20 production engineers to improve workflow on 4 stations, boosting on-time production by 6.4% •Analyzed production cycle times over 20 stations to standardize work structure, cutting cycle time variability by 8%

cGPA 3.13/4.00 (2.3 German GPA) •Specialized in Management & Marketing and Finance & Accounting

cGPA 3.48/4.00 (1.7 German GPA) •Ranked 15th among 387 students •Specialized in Control Systems and Computational Sciences: High-Performance Computing

cGPA 3.78/4.00 (1.3 German GPA)