Management Expert (College) - Business Management

• Major: English writing

Liberal arts, including: major in English writing, plus courses in economics, accounting, anthropology, psychology, calculus

- Managed international entities (in Turkey, Mexico, Russia, China): overseeing and improving the performance of each entity in reaching student markets and developing partnerships to offer unique study opportunities to meet evolving demand
- Created successful, cohesive teams: developed and supervised a headquarters staff of eight people and directors of four overseas entities, which included expatriate and locally-hired staff
- Oversaw all budgets, business performance and processes for the local office and overseas offices, achieving efficiencies, cost savings and effective performance
- Determined and executed the annual strategic plan for international and global affairs
- Developed and administered various initiatives, including setting and measuring KPIs, for areas such as change management, competitive grant programs, externally-funded projects and contractual arrangements with external stakeholders
- Responsible for the system’s strategic partnerships with institutions throughout the world
- Responsible for directing and co-creating content and vehicles for internal and external communication
- Ensured the integration of changes in organizational culture and initiatives from the highest levels of university leadership to the global affairs area and its direct stakeholders
- Developed and continually revised policies and procedures covering a multitude of areas, ranging from organization-wide (64 campuses) to all international entities and home office administration

- Supervised staff, oversaw budget and activities of the office in Turkey
- Developed strategy and implemented system-wide partnerships throughout the world

- Established representative office in Ankara, Turkey, to support the largest US-Turkey educational partnership, focused on providing unique study programs to the growing Turkish student market
- Responsible for strategy and all operations of the office, including business performance and processes, developing and implementing HR policies and procedures, hiring and supervising local staff members, budget, banking, external service provider contracts, physical space and lease
- Established and maintained official status of the office with local authorities
- Responsible for compliance with headquarters policies, Turkish laws and regulations
- Established and maintained relationships with Turkish universities, government entities and U.S. Embassy

- Developed and implemented system-wide partnerships throughout the world
- Developed and administered grant-funded programs to support partnerships
- Supervised interns

Master's thesis project in B2B e-commerce

Week-long, intensive workshop on leadership techniques offered only to selected managers

Series of workshops conducted over four months to train managers in change theory and implementation

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Certificate of participation in level B1

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