Translator, Editor

B?LG?N G ZEL

Address: Esentepe Cd. Simitciler Sk.

No:13/13 Mecidiyekoy/SISLI

Istanbul / TURKEY

Mobile: +90-533-***-**-**

E-mail: ********@*****.***

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth: 03.07.1980

Place of Birth: Manisa

Marital Status: Single

Driving License: B - (2004)

Military Service: Completed - (2006)

EDUCATION

1999 - 2004 Bachelor of Arts (BA):

Bosporus (Bogazici) University / Istanbul/

Turkey

History

GPA: 3 / 4.00

1996 - 1999 High School:

Manisa Lisesi

Manisa - TURKEY

4.5 / 5.00

WORK EXPERIENCES

WORK EXPERIENCE 3

10.2010 - 02.2015 Dow Jones Newswires / The Wall Street

Journal

Istanbul

Chief Translator, Finance and Foreign News Chief

Editor

Leading to a team which is monitoring forex,

equity, commodity markets, and news received

from the Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street

Journal reporters. After evaluating these

articles I was giving decisions how to deliver

them to Turkish readers. Having also supervisory

responsibilities and managing this team. I was

responsible also the Turksih foreign desk news

team on WSJ.com. In addition to these I was also

proxy of the Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall

Street Journal in Turkey coordinating

communication between Istanbul office and London

headquarter.

WORK EXPERIENCE 2

08.2008 - 09.2010 Milliyet Newspaper

Istanbul

Finance News Chief Editor

Worked as finance news chief editor for

Milliyet.com.tr, the internet site of Milliyet

newspaper, one of the leading newspapers in

Turkey.

Watching Turkish and foreign economic markets,

making use of economic news received from the

newspaper reporters and domestic/foreign news

agencies. Evaluating news and giving decision

how to deliver to readers. Additionally,

preparing economic and finance headlines for the

site which is at the 2nd biggest internet news

portal, taking 3 million daily hits according to

Alexa data. At times, writing financial and

economic commentaries was also among my

responsibilities.

WORK EXPERIENCE 1

10.2006 - 08.2008 Dow Jones Newswires / Ihlas News Agency

Istanbul

English News Editor

Reporting, editing, translating, redacting and

interpreting current economic news by tracking

Turkish stock, exchanges and other markets for

Dow Jones Newswires London under responsibility

of Ihlas News Agency Istanbul. Being in contact

with the officials and editors from Dow Jones

Newswires, coordinating Turkish reporters to

obtain latest and important domestic economic

news and developments, writing English market

talks by watching Forex trading markets and

interpreting data released by Turkish Treasury,

Central Bank, Statistical Institute, etc. were

also my responsibilities.

COURSES

. Micro Economics - Bo?azi i niversitesi - 108 Saat (2000-2001)

. Macro Economics - Bo?azi i niversitesi - 108 Saat (2001-2002)

. Statistics - Bo?azi i niversitesi - 144 Saat (2000-2001)

LANGUAGES

. English (Advanced)

. German (Intermediate)

. Turkish (Native)

COMPUTER SKILLS

. MS Office Applications (Word, Access, Excel, Groove, Infopath,

Outlook, Powerpoint, Publisher

. Adobe Photoshop CS

. Adobe Acrobat

. Macromedia Dreamweaver

. HTML

. Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7

. Image Ready

. MS Expression Web

. Macromedia Flash Windows NT

. Windows 2000

. Linux

. QuarkXpress

. Ms FrontPage

SCHOLARSHIPS and AWARDS

. Bogazici University Scholarship for Special Success

INTERESTS & HOBBIES

. Computer, chess, books, traveling

. Writing poetry and novel

. Making amateur music tracks.

REFEREES

. 1 - Gren Manuel - Executive Editor, Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones

Newswires, Europe, Middle East and Africa

. 2 - Anita Greil - Deputy Head Group External Communications at UBS

. 3 - Marc Champion - Editorial Board Member at Bloomberg

. 4 - Joe Parkinson - Bureau Chief at The Wall Street Journal

. 5 - Erkan Oz - Producer at Al Jazeera Turk

NOTE: Contact information of the referees is available upon request.

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