BEATRICE WALTER: Account manager
BEATRICE WALTER
Account manager
United States
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Shirtworks Ltd
Account manager | 08/2015 - Current
• Customise tech packs for embroidery, screen and digital printing
• Managing and handling of incoming orders, customer service
Animal
Garment technologist | 03/2017 - 02/2019
• Creating tech pack,
• Product development,
• Quality assurance, improving fit and risk assessing styles for production and quality issues
Native Shoes, Alcantara, TORA clothing
Freelance | 09/2008 - 08/2015
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
cosmosupplylab Ltd
Business Development Manager, Product Developer | 10/2011 - 06/2013
• 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
Smart Shirts Ltd
Senior Technical Manager | 02/2008 - 08/2008
• 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
FDC Ltd
Team leader of German branch of ITC | 09/2007 - 11/2007
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
Talent Creation Ltd
Consultant, time contract | 02/2007 - 07/2007
• 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
cosmosupplylab Ltd
Head of QC/QA | 05/2004 - 08/2006
• 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
Coolway Co Ltd
General Manager | 06/2002 - 05/2004
• 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
Maceton Ltd
General Manager | 07/1999 - 06/2002
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
Karl Rieker GmbH & Co KG
Quality Control Officer | 11/1997 - 07/1999
• 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
ABA
Instructor | 09/1996 - 07/1997
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
Kapalua Strickwaren GmbH
Quality Supervisor and Merchandising | 07/1995 - 02/1996
• 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