I was born in Isparta, a Mediterrenean city of Turkey on 04.10.1982. My brother Barış,who is an organ transplant surger, wanted my parents to name me “Burcu” – means great smell of flowers – . I m living in Istanbul with my family and 3 cats.
I am a 3 degreed PADI advanced scuba diver. I dived in Red Sea/ Egypt, various places in Turkey ( Kaş, Saros, Istanbul Bophorus, Bodrum, Marmaris,…) I also love water sports like rafting, water ski and surfing.
I am a video game addict, especially to PS3. My brother and me are generally playing PS3 at home at the whole weekends. Sometimes we are organising tournaments between friends.
As a horror movie freak, love watching horror movies and my favourite horror movie is the “Nightmare on Elm Street”.
I am a Fenerbahçe fan since i was born.
EDUCATION INFO:
I graduated from an English lectured Anatolian High School, in which i studied science and maths .
I studied German lectured Business Administration and Business Informatics for 2 years in Marmara University in Istanbul / Turkey. By the time unfortunately i had an accident and broke my neck vertebra.I had to pause my education.
Later with DAAD support, i caught the chance to study Marketing major in Berlin Freie Universitaet.
After graduation from Berlin Freie und Marmara Universities, i attended to Sports Administration & Sports Business Management certificate program which took 2 year term in Sports Management Worldwide.
Right now, i m studying “Integrated Marketing Communication”mba programm of West Virginia University.
WORK EXPERIENCE INFO
When i was a student, i worked as call center agent in CMC for Shell, as sales assistant in Marks & Spencer, call center agent in Siemens Business Services for HSBC Bank CRM Project.
I took a break for my broken vertebras healing periode, then i started working again. I worked as customer director and marketing communication specialist in C-Section New Media for Arçelik, Beko, Istanbul Modern Arts Museum and Efe Rakı. I was responsible for online campaign management, proposals for new projects, researchs about new products, balancing the creative team and media plan agency, integrating the offline to online media, online media planning, directing and briefing to creative team, annual online marketing plans of customer.
Then i was transferred to Project House Smart Marketing Agency as Special Projects Manager. I directed The customers Toyota, Sony Ericsson Turkey, Microsoft Turkey, SGGM, Moulinex and Rixos Hotels. I was responsible for online campaign management, proposals for new projects, researchs about new products, balancing the creative team and media plan agency, integrating the offline to online media, online media planning, directing and briefing to creative team, annual online marketing plans of customer.
Since graduation i have been working as marketing consultant for 4 international brands.
You can find the details in projects – done section.
