• Experienced apparel manufacturing professional with experience in Woven tops/bottoms, denim bottoms/tops,knitted apparel for Kids & Adults, Soft Toys &Bed linen.
• Over 27 years in manufacturing & CMT operations including outsourcing out of which over 15 years as a member of the senior management team.
• Fluent in engineering and have setup engineering departments including methodology to increase efficiency, improve quality & reduce costs...
• Handled large maintenance department as head of operations with focus on preventive maintenance , make machinery requirement plan to ensure machinery is utilized at its optimum & controlling cost of maintenance & return on machinery investment.
• Created variance reporting against operational budgets, key production indicators & work in process reporting to drive awareness of costs & on time delivery to the supervisory board.
• Have built out sourcing departments from the ground up delivering over 500,000 pieces annually.
• Have built quality departments from the floor up reducing after sew, after laundry repairs, dramatically cutting costs & improving on-times.
• Good knowledge of buyer compliance requirements for social and technical audit.