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Fashion Industry Managent & Support Resume
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| Desired Industry: Apparel/Fashion/Sewing |
SpiderID: 22250 |
| Desired Job Location: New York, New York |
Date Posted: 8/21/2008 |
| Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent |
Availability Date: 9-8- 2008 |
| Desired Wage: Negot. |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Management (Manager, Director) |
Willing to Travel: |
| Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors |
Willing to Relocate: |
Objective:
Results-oriented, highly self motivated, proactive, strategic, creative, and sophisticated professional with broad experience in management and support service in areas of Product Development, Design, Creative Services, QA, Merchandising, IT, Manufacturing Research & Development, Sourcing, Engineering, Pre-Production and Production with proven proactive management style in the development and implementation of strategic plans to ensure company growth.
Experience:
Over 12-year track record demonstrating strong analytical and problem solving skills, computer proficiency and ability to follow through with projects from inception to completion.
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Exceptionally well organized, strong work ethics and willingness to work hard to achieve employer objectives
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Highly-disciplined with ability to manage multiple assignments efficiently under extreme pressure while meeting tight deadline schedules
Education:
Professional Degree, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)
New York City, NY: 1996-2001
Five-year education focused on Computer Graphics, Design (CAD/CAM), Marker Making, Grading, Patternmaking, Materials and Textiles. Over 12 years of advanced training and professional experience in CAD/CAM Technologies, Engineering, Design, Product Development, Merchandising, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality and Production.
Affiliations:
Coach Inc. New York-NY
Skills:
Multiple area advanced skill proficiency including CAD Design Systems| Engineering Process | Management Development | Product File Conversions on various Design Programs | File Digitizing | CAD/CAM Equipment use and Calibration | Data Checking and Processing | Costing-Pricing and Consumption Calculation | Design Program Software Installation Upgrade and Support | File Inspection, Completion and Archiving
Familiar and proficient with most common computer programs including OptiTex Design Software System Version 8, 9 and 10 | OptiMark Program Version 8, 9 and 10 | TOPS Engineering, Packaging and Distribution Software | Adobe Illustrator | Novell GroupWise | SAP Database System | KARAT Database System | Microsoft Word | Excel Office Professional
Additional Information:
Built and maintained cross-functional and cross-departmental relationship between 11 departments within company by agreeing to several projects outside immediate responsibilities
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Set up a 2D CAD Design program to be used by new and existing users, as well as managed training and assistance on how to operate the system on daily basis for 50+ employees
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Trained and managed over 20 patternmakers, 15 engineers and 18 other employees on computer operation and usage for CAD design requirements that benefited the company in improved efficiency and timing resulting in over 35% increased productivity
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Managed training of 5 QA department employees on 3D packaging software usage that resulted in 24% transport cost savings
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Traveled for seminars, shows, training, equipment purchase and software program conventions in order to be in top of the latest technology
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Acquired over 20 design cards requests per week then assigned to patternmakers for initial development stage while simultaneously managing the process until product completion ahead of schedule
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Administered the monitoring and routing of high volume e-mails on daily basis according to needs and priorities
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Managed testing, calibration and improvement of design CAD/CAM program, software and hardware value over $1/2M, established feedback process with software providers and requests for upgraded service packs
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Interacted with multiple departments within company in daily basis where flexibility, interpersonal communication, problem solving ability, creativity, teamwork, budgeting, timing, focus and management are crucial in order to meet diversity of needs
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Provided hands-on management on the costing of over 30 new products monthly, pricing of fabrics, leather, fillers, hardware, calculating material consumption, SAH’s, transport, sourcing overhead and other charges that resulted in 30% average production savings
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Managed the engineering change process (ECN) with over 8 requests per week, ensuring the implementation of all cross-departmental procedures to be accurately processed and approved for completion
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Managed conversion and documentation of hand-made patterns for further usage in electronic formats resulting in increased productivity
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Managed line presentation patterns ensuring ahead of deadline quarterly collection averaging over 120 initial stage created presentation files to be delivered to overseas vendors for further usage and development into final production, contributing company’s goal of meeting tight deadlines
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Approval stage product cross check and inspection, identifying engineering and design modification needs and applying accordingly by using BOM, tech drawing, engineering comments, patterns and confirmation sample
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Managed company’s file archiving process by permitting over 20 vendor product files per moth and accurately archived them into database system as per set company standards, for permanent future reference
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