About Me

I'm an instructional designer who's spent the last fifteen years trying to answer one question: what actually helps people learn? My academic path — a Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology, all earned in pursuit of that question — gave me the theory. My work in classrooms, universities, and corporate environments gave me the practice. The two inform each other constantly.

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What drives me is the gap between content being delivered and content being learned. Plenty of training exists. Much less of it actually changes behavior, builds skill, or sticks. I design with that gap in mind — focusing on the learner's experience, the clarity of the objective, and whether the result can be measured rather than assumed.

​I'm originally from Turkey and have called the United States home since 2011. I'm a serious coffee drinker, a soccer and basketball fan, and the somewhat-devoted servant of my cat, Arya. I think the personal stuff matters — not because it makes a portfolio more relatable, but because the way you pay attention to small things tends to show up in the way you pay attention to big ones. Designing good learning is, in a lot of ways, about noticing what others overlook.