Account manager

Accounting & Finance

•	Over 20 years experience in QC/QA/QM, manufacturing, production, sourcing, product development, mainly in managing
positions covering garment, accessories, footwear and consumer goods field
•	Excellent multi-tasking, organisational, problem solving skills
•	Creative, enthusiastic, self-motivated, entrepreneurial and pioneering thinking, innovative and efficient approach
•	Strong leadership and communication skills in cross - functional and cultural work environments
•	Working independently, taking responsibilities and ownership, when needed, collaborative across departments
•	Hands-on work is as familiar as administrative work
•	Consulting manufacturers and brands in sourcing, costing, price negotiation (BOM) and production related matters
•	Streamlining production processes (SAP, lean, 8D)
•	Factory assessments and audits, cooperate with 3rd party labs, office management, hiring and onboard training of staff
•	Frequent travel to liased factories and exhibitions throughout APEC, Middle East, North Africa, India, Bangladesh
•	Microsoft Office, Adobe Illustrator, Keynotes, Outlook, computer literate
•	Fluent in English and German, conversational French

•   Customise tech packs for embroidery, screen and digital printing
•   Managing and handling of incoming orders, customer service

•	Creating tech pack,
•	Product development,
•	Quality assurance, improving fit and risk assessing styles for production and quality issues

Garment technologist

09/2008 - 08/2015
•	QC/QA, project manager, product developer for various companies and designer/brands,
•	Sampling, production consulting and monitoring, sourcing, factory assessement and audit
•	Streamlining production
•	Brands: PHP (HK), Native Shoes, Alcantara, TORA clothing

Freelance

•   Researched, evaluated, created new and innovative products for existing and potential clients
•   Hiring, training and briefing new team members
•	Reporting to senior business development manager
•	Brands: Alcantara, Apple, Incase, Samsung, RIM, Amazon, LUMO bodytech

Business Development Manager, Product Developer

•	Improving technical issues on men dress shirts
•	Overseeing and creating fitting comments for all pre-production samples
•	Working closely with sampling room on improving fits and patterns, workmanship and quality improvement
•	Crossfunctional communication with customers, technical and design teams
•	Onboard training at JC Penney and Abercrombie & Fitch
•	Brands: Dillard's, ANF, Polo, SAKs, Nordstrom
•	Market: USA

Senior Technical Manager

International Fashion Consultancy GmbH
•	Hiring, onboard training of new team members, leading a team of four
•	Managing development and production of high-end ladies fashion, creating Tech Packs
•	Sourcing new fabric and garment suppliers
•	Factory assessments and audits, quality assurance implementation
•	Reporting to director in Germany (company dissolved mid of December)
•	Brands: Passport, Frankonia, Virmani
•	Markets: Europe

Team leader of German branch of ITC

•	Assessing and organising merchandise and QA departments
•	Implementing tools streamlining and monitoring supply chain, rating production outcomes and improving quality quotas
•	Heading and initiating internal departments and buyer meetings
•	Developing new products for functional sports wear, knit and woven products
•	Holding in-house lectures on new fabrics, technologies and important production and quality issue
•	Advisor in QC/QA department interviews
•	Bands: Haggar, Byer, Rawlings, RAI
•	Markets: USA, Europe

Consultant, time contract

•	Hiring, on board training, briefing of internal QCs in all product ranges (outerwear, knit and woven, activewear, textile accessories, trims, sundries)
•	Implementing QA and QC tools to improve and monitoring supply chain
•	Sample development, efficiency solutions with liased factories, pre-production planning, including presentations
•	Order discussion and briefings with merchandise and procurement teams
•	Industrial engineering for all of company's products
•	Onsite trouble shooting, factory assessments, evaluations, audits, co-operate with external labs on international standards
•	3rd party inspection planning, briefing and supervision
•	Reporting to owner/director
•	Brands: Teamsport BMW, Toyota, Yamaha; Redbull, apple, cote et ciel
•	Market: Europe, USA

Head of QC/QA

•	Establishing rep office for Protrade Corporation, Binh Duong, Vietnam
•	Hiring, training and briefing new team members
•	Sourcing potential customers, communication and price negotiation with existing and new customer
•	Monitoring orders placed at Vietnamese factory
•	Sourcing, merchandising and monitoring fabric and accessories within APEC
•	Reporting to director in Vietnam, signature authorisation
•	Brands: Kohls, Fred Myers, JC Penney, Declathon, main product: denim
•	Markets: USA

General Manager

Establishing Hong Kong rep office for Karl Rieker GmbH & Co KG, Germany
•   Overall supervision, instructing and managing quality control and merchandise related matters for all product ranges
(men, women, kids underwear, outwear, functional/active wear in woven and knit)
•   Establishing strategic alliances with suppliers, supply chain monitoring
•   Administration of Hongkong office, supervising budgets of all branches in SE Asia
•   Reporting to director/owner at German headoffice, signature authorization
•   Brands: Aldi
•   Markets: Europe

•   QC/QA at offshore liasion factories
•   Ensuring quality issues are being rectified or reworked within given timeline
•   Ensuring ontime deliveries
•   Outerwear to underwear in woven and knit
•   Countries: Romania, Turkey, Jordan, Indonesia, China, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Myanmar

Quality Control Officer

Textile division, maternity cover
•	Overall supervision of business operations of ABA's textile division
•	Overseeing all orders and quality matters
•	Managing, accounting, administrative matters of division
•	Teaching and supervising of textile trainees in sewing and quality matters
•	Supervising trainees school work and grades, tutoring in some cases

Instructor

•	Stationed in Hong Kong (Nelly Knot Enterprises Ltd)
•	Quality control on ladies heavy knit products
•	Liased with suppliers and buyers in Asia
•	Frequent trips to Indonesia and China
•	Brands: Kapalua


ADDITIONAL:
Instructor for Vocational Training - Garment Industry	Hohenstein Academy 03 March 1995
MTM System (Method Time Measurement)	Hohenstein Academy 12 January 1995
REFA - Work Study	Hohenstein Academy 02 July 1994
Managing WEEE/RoHS with GPMS and IECQ QC 08000	held by SGS-HK 02-June 2006

Quality Supervisor and Merchandising

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Technical School for Apparel, State