Buket’s expertise are in human centric innovation, design strategy, design thinking and smart mobility solutions.
She graduated from Uludag University and earned BS degree and Masters degree in Electronics Engineering 1994 and 1999 respectively. After graduation, she started as electrical maintenance engineer in Cemtas Elk. Makina San AS. After five years working in the maintenance workshop of the company she built up her experience on electrical control and systems. She got promotion as Electrical Team Leader and improved skill sets for diagnostics and troubleshooting. She joined LEAR Corporation as an Electrical Systems Engineer in 2000 and moved to Germany to make a fresh new start in Automotive industry. She worked in a multinational environment to get experience on automotive electronics and systems engineering till 2001.
After return back home country, she followed a new career path in Ford Otosan as electrical systems engineer in 2002. She took the important role of designing Transit Connect ,which is one of the most iconic light commercial vehicle, till 2015 as systems engineer and Electrical PMT Leader. She developed great experience on both technical and business side while working on such a big project with participants from different countries and culture. Her speciality is about electrical system design, development, program management, test and validation, launch and diagnostics. In addition, total value management, financials, quality management and presentation is some of the skillsets she improved by leading seventeen members of electrical team.
In 2015, she was promoted as Electrical Systems Integration Manager and held this position until 2019. She took the integration responsibility of all members of commercial line up such as Transit, Courier, Connect and Cargo. She coordinated around thirty five engineers in electrical engineering department. Her passion to experiment and learn unknown led her to deal with innovation activities and digital transformation in the Product Development. She became intrapreneur and product development innovation champion of the company while developing a new mobile navigation app (Easy Route) together with an enthusiastic developers. Team members were transformed from different skillsets. Product was created from an idea to an app with more than 400K downloads as of Apr 2019. In paralel she created another sofware together with her team for fleet management system. She and her team were awarded as 2nd rank, Most Successful Employees in Koc Group in 2018.
In 2019, Buket Aymak made a big step and pursued her dream to found her own company “Fidelis”. She is aiming to help companies and startups to ease the innovation processes to create value for employees and customers. Her passion is to share the knowledge, create value and make people happy…