Use Case and Personas

Case 1 : Hulya, Manager, 43

Hulya is a professional at supply chain management for 15 years, and working as a manager at automotive company at Istanbul. She's an engineer, having intense technical skills. She's very good at Microsoft Office programs, and has knowledge as expert level at MS Excel with here experience with complicated logistics routing problems, and supplier constraints. As a manager, she prepares presentations and demonstrate it in front of crowded audiences. She believes that she can share her experience and skills to university students or inexperienced people at business life. She thinks she's competent, and share services on management skills, MS excel in different levels from beginner to advance, communication skills, logistics, and supply chain. She likes painting so much, but has limited time to practice, therefore she's at beginner level. She tends to improve herself if she can find someone to help her on some basic techniques. Unfortunately she is not available for face-to-face activities, she can give only online services. However, she can create some time slot for learning painting.

• Good at : #Microsoft_Office, #Logistics_Routing_Problems, #Presentations, #Management_Skills, #MS_Excel, #Logistics, #Supply_Chain
• Wants to Learn : #Painting
• Availability : Online Meetings
• Location: Istanbul

Case 2 : Melis, Student, 19

Melis is a junior university student. She's learning Mechanical Engineering. She stays with her family at İzmir. Even though she studies hard, she finds math, and physics difficult. Her first exams are not that good, and she needs to improve before semester ends. She's also a very social girl, and has a girl-band called BluePink. She has been playing guitar since she was 8 years old, and very good at both classical and electric guitar. Their dream is to have concert at their community and being popular on her guitar skills. By the way, she also plays volleyball very well, and she was at squad for high school team. She's desperate to find some friends to help her for studying math and physics before next exams. She teaches her brother playing guitar, and it looks like she has a talent at teaching as well. She can attend both online and face-to-face activities

• Good at : #Music, #Playing_Guitar, #Volleyball
• Wants to Learn : #Math, #Physics,
• Availability : Online Meetings, Face-to-Face
• Location: İzmir

Case 3 : Ahmet, Retired, 75

Ahmet is a retired software engineer. He's living with his wife at Muğla, and spending most of his time at their garden and PC. After retirement, he searched for new hobbies, and now he has a garden with full of different kinds of flowers. He spent 10 years to organize it, and his garden is his precious. Even his grandchildren cause mess at garden when they visit, he doesn't bother as before. He finds this new opportunity to seed new plants and flowers. As a software engineer, he has quite enough experience for web page development. So he decided to combine his experience on previous job and his hobby. He created a website about planting, flowers, and gardening. He demonstrates views from his garden at this webpage. The webpage has interactions as well, and he's very happy to get positive feedbacks about his planting skills. He even invited some of the very interested web-visitors to his garden, and showed some gardening skills to invitees as well. As a discipline old corporate-employee, he still has a checklist for to-do for his retirement period. Top item is to learn tango with his wife. He couldn't find a proper dance course at community fitting at his criteria. Course schedule should be dynamic, and pace should fit his age.

• Good at : #Software_Engineering, #Gardening, #Flowers, #Planting, #Web_Development
• Wants to Learn : #Tango
• Availability : Face-to-Face
• Location: Muğla

Case 4 : Murat, Unemployed, 25

Murat is a graduate from Architecture. Even tough he worked at various studios after his graduation, he couldn't find a proper environment satisfying this expectations. He's living alone at Ankara. Murat is from Gaziantep, a famous city with its food. While he was a child, he usually observed her mother at kitchen, and asked questions about delicious food. Moreover, he also likes to cook traditional food. He invites his friends to eat together, and most famous comment about his meals is "Why don't you run a restaurant?". He even try different tastes by changing recipes of traditional food. His favorite recipe is eggplant-kebap. He's also good at baklava. During his unemployed days, he start to search for some online courses about video editing. He has a plan to setup a Youtube channel for cooking. However, he needs to learn more about cameras, video editing and rendering. He is looking for some technical staff to help him for taking videos.

• Good at : #Cooking, #Eggplant-kebap, #Baklava, #Friend_Evets
• Wants to Learn : #Video_editing, #Rendering, #Cameras
• Availability : Online Meetings, Face-to-Face
• Location: Ankara