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Onur
What captured your interest about your new role? What
interested me most about this position was the opportunity to work in a
team environment and with a big data set. I always wanted to work with
hard-working, professional, experienced people because I believe that I
can be one of them one day in the future if I work with them. I also love
sharing the team effort, bringing out the best in myself and in my
teammates for fulfilling our work goals and reaching top results.
Beside these, the new role is not just a regular role for me. This role
is the best opportunity to increase our member’s life quality and also
being a volunteer.
What do you think you bring to the table? I don’t know what
kind of skills everyone else is bringing to their company but I bring
an idea of being part of solution and an open mind to support the
knowledge earned from my old work experiences and educational
career. I think they’re important to be able to understand the
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customer’s needs and produce good solutions for their needs. I hope I
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can also increase our team’s productivity, which I know is the backbone
for this organization. Finally, I bring a mind like water – shapeless and
formless but trained. I said water because when you put water into a cup
it becomes the cup or when you put water into a bottle it becomes the
bottle. Because it is water and water has potential energy it can stay or it can
flow and turn to kinetic energy. At the end of the day, whatever our goal is,
water can take shape of the needs and can be used to achieve good results.
Tell us a little about your background and experience? I received
my bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering of animal science at the
University of Ankara (Capital University of Turkey). I am a third year student
of the Business Department of the Anatolia University and also in the Master’s
degree program of Economic Forecasting at the University at Albany. On
top of that, I am working on our research project – Forecasting New York
State Revenue Using Principal Components, the Kalman Filter and Jagged
Edge Data. I published my first research poster at the conference of European
Federation Science and Technology of Lipids in Poland while I was in my third
year of engineering school and at the same time, I was the supervisor of my
own project for rural development which was supported by The Scientific and
Technological Research Council of Turkey. I used to work for a Corporation
Development Dairy Farm in an assistant engineer position and I worked
for The Global Institute for Health and Human Rights at SUNY in an intern
researcher position. I am now an employee of Leading Age New York.
What is one thing about you that would surprise people? After my
first statistics class now, six years later, I am in a Master’s degree program
to take advanced statistic and research courses and I am working in a
statistician position and I guess, I am in love with statistics. What a world!
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