ASLI AKÇAY AHLATCI

Senior Program Manager-Amazon-SSGB

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

-Head of Inventory Control and Quality Assurance Department in Amazon -6 Sigma Green Belt & Lean Practitioner -Worked at Avery Dennison- Heat Transfer Label department as Team Leader / Production & Process engineer. -Strong ability yo work under pressure -Good at production planning, scheduling and reporting -Graduated from Master of Science in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Koç University with 4 publications and 1 thesis. -Completed the Bachelor of Science in Chemistry Department at Boğaziçi University with the third highest GPA and honor degree. -2 years laboratory experience and worked on the projects funded by TÜPRAŞ and TÜBİTAK. -3 months working experience in the R&D department of a textile company. -2 months internship in Appling laboratory at University of Texas at Austin. -2 months internship in R&D department of Biota'laboratories (Bioder-Bioxcin).

Experience

  • Amazon (Full-time · 4 yrs 3 mos)
    • Sr Program Manager
      Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    • TR Country ICQA Manager
      Dec 2024 - Feb 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • ICQA Operations Manager
      Apr 2022 - Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Eaton (5 yrs 1 mo)
    • Continuous Improvement Coordinator
      Dec 2019 - Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    • OpEx Lean Manufacturing Senior Analyst
      Apr 2017 - Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Heat Transfer Team Leader- Process Engineer at Avery Dennison Label and Packaging Materials
    Mar 2015 - Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Analyses & elimination of non-value added steps in shop floor to improve production processes Daily control and analyses of efficiency and scrap rates. Successfully initiate, lead projects and perform cost savings analyses Efficiency (UEE) improvement in production area Scrap reduction in production area Implementation of Andon system to production area Implementation of 5S to production area Development and sustainability of competence building system Development of the methods on improvement of operator quality error awareness. Implementation of the best practices obtained through business site visits. Find solutions to most common production problems to achieve operational excellence (kaizen on work flow of ink laboratory and management of over-production stocks with a computer based system)

  • Chemical Engineer- Research & Teaching Assistant at Koç University
    Sep 2012 - Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Material Characterization for the Stabilities of Supported Ionic Liquids in Catalytic Systems Successfully initiate, lead projects on alternative fuels Set up high pressure catalytic reaction testing unit and characterization of samples Determination of structural factors controlling thermal stabilities of bulk and supported ionic liquids (ILs) Analyses of obtained data sets from TGA, FT-IR, SEM, TPD/Mass, BET techniques to elucidate effects of individual factors on ILs.

  • Research Scientist at Denge Kimya ve Tekstil San.Tic.Ltd.Sti.
    Jun 2012 - Sep 2012 · 4 mos

    Analyses on formulations for enzymatic bleaching of cotton materials Improvement methods of silicone based anti-foam products