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• Handling Sourcing/ Production and Quality of:Denims - Ladies: 60% (2.4 Million Pcs), Mens: 10% ( 0.4 Million Pcs)Woven – Ladies 20% (0.85 Million Pcs)Knits/ Sweaters - Ladies 10% (0.40 Million Pcs)• Clients Handled: New Look, Next, Dorothy Perkins (UK), LRG, Pacific Sunwear, Mountain Khaki (USA), FOREVER NEW (Company’s own Brand: Australia), Target (Australia), C&A (Europe), Woolworths(South Africa), EDCON (South Africa), MIM (France), Mango (Spain)….etc. - 
•	Integrating all Sourcing/ Production and Quality related activities into short-term and long-term strategic vision.
•	Collaborate with Design, Product Development and Production; lead the process of identifying manufacturing needs for each season; attend Product Development meetings on a regular basis to integrate sourcing into the product development process and provide additional insight regarding manufacturing challenges and opportunities.
•	Lead and manage the production, sourcing and quality control team to ensure business requirements are met.
•	Involve in production trade regulations, testing protocol, product integrity, production cycle timeline, fabric and garment construction
•	Proactively review supplier compliance, capability and capacity to ensure that existing and future business requirements are met.
•	Establishing and developing new relationships and expectations with domestic & international vendors to enhance sourcing strategy, creating respectful, symbiotic relationships for combined growth.
•	Consistently meeting production deadlines and ensuring meeting product specifications and quality standards.
•	Participate in the execution of cost process and negotiations and tracking of cost submittals from factories; aim to achieve specific margin goals.
•	Oversee all fabric and manufacturing negotiations. Establish parameters for effective negotiating and pricing
•	Facilitate implementation of existing and new vendors to ensure conformance to the required quality standards, compulsory social compliance requirements and corporate standards.
•	Frequently travel to factories to attend Production/Quality and Delivery issues and resolve.
•	Monitor and inform/ communicate/ apply standards - created/ maintained by external bodies and integrate within internal quality management systems.
•	Manage staff according to company standards (Appraisals, discipline, training, development, budget/ cost effectiveness, etc…)

Sourcing/ Production/ Quality Manager

?	Manage Production/ Quality of Woven/ knit garments and sweaters for company owned brands (Bill Blass Jeans, Blass sport, Joseph A and Takeout Sweaters) for USA.
?	Manage Production/ Quality of several private label production such as CATO, MAURICES, KOHLS, JCPenney, TARGET, SEARS, POLECI etc..
?	Responsible for giving local approvals for wash standards, hand feel, color standards etc….
?	Conduct Factory Evaluations prior to order placement.
?	Inspection planning and scheduling.
?	Controlling costs on traveling expenses for audits.
?	Provide sound technical advice to vendors/ factories for upgrading quality systems of the production facilities.
?	Visit various exhibitions from time to time in China, Hong Kong and Macau for identifying potential vendors.
?	Frequently visit various production facilities in several parts of south and north China for Production Status and conducting random audits of merchandise under production.

Production/ Q A Manager

?	Responsible for achieving a minimum output of 10000 bottoms per day (Denims & Twills)
?	Handle shipments of outsourced production with one expatriate manager
?	Established in-house Mini Testing Lab for conducting routine tests on Product safety/ color standards etc..
?	Handling team of over 150 local Cambodian employees (QC & QA) with two expatriate Managers and one Cambodian Manager (Promoted)
?	Responsible for conducting R & D for all new style bookings
?	Represent Company in handling customer/ representatives in explaining existing and proposed Production/ quality assurance systems of the company
?	Approvals of bulk washing standards against buyer’s approved targets
?	Travel to different destinations in Far East & South East Asia and USA to obtain sample/ wash approvals/ discuss technical issues with Buying Offices/ representative offices.
?	Train & Promote deserving Local Cambodian Employees to Supervisory/ Managerial positions

Sr. Manager - Production/ Q A

•	Company/Factory situated in Bien Hoa City of Dong Nai Province
•	Started with managing the Quality Assurance Department of In-House Production of Men’s & Women’s Tops & Bottoms.
•	Client base : J C Penney, Wrangler, Kohls, Joneswear, Jordache, Sears, Roytex, TSI
•	Handled Production/ Quality from Fabric to Shipment of all the production out-sourced in sub-contract/ direct order factories.
•	Price negotiations with sub-contract factories prior to order placement
•	Monitor & Control Production, Quality & Delivery as per schedule

Manager Production/ Quality Assurance

? Established Embroidery Factory with 150 Manual Embroidery Machines with a staff strength of over 200 workers.
? Sourced Embroidery job-work from various Apparel Exporters in New Delhi/ Noida/ Gurgaon.
? Specialized in Embroidery on Woven & Knit apparels/ soft goods.
? Achieved an Annual Turnover of Rupees 12.5 Million.

Business Owner

?	Introduced and implemented Inspection Platform system for pre-shipment quality control of merchandise.
?	Was able to control department costs through advance inspection planning and scheduling.
?	Handled Quality of both Woven/ Knits Apparels and Soft furnishings.
?	Monitored QC activities of all quality assurance inspectors on all India level.
?	Monitoring quality audits conducted by sub-agents in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
?	Improved the quality of QC file content for conducting smooth audit of merchandise.
?	Suggested/ Implement corrective measures to vendors on problematic issues from time to time.

Q C Manager

•	Hired and established Quality Assurance Department in the company.
•	Implemented factory and compliance evaluation program for all vendors in India and Nepal.
•	Established direct communication with the DNT department of corporate office in St. Louis (USA) regarding approvals and testing issues.
•	Conducted vendor evaluation and generated reports regarding financial status, quota holding, product specialization etc.
•	Conducted surprise quality control audits at vendors’ production facilities.
•	Resigned and started own Embroidery business


Manager Quality Assurance

?	Established and handled operations of inspection center independently for more than two years.
?	Conducted QA audits for textile garments, leather garments, shoes, small leather goods and sports goods.
?	Handled shipments from initial inspection stage to final inspection.

Quality Assurance Inspector

?	Worked with fashion designers and coordinated with sample unit for development of sample range.
?	Conducting inspections for salesman samples and shipments.
?	Managed sample material sourcing and procurement.
?	Follow up of samples produced at vendor locations for timely submission
?	Help field QA’s in conducting inspections of shipments during production seasons

Sample Co-ordinator/ Quality Auditor

Chandra Sekhar R is a Sourcing/ Production/ Quality Manager at Indochine Textiles Co, Ltd, Guangzhou, China in Bethesda, MD.

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DTEA Sr. Sec School, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi

University of Delhi