• Gender: Male
• Age: 47
• Designation: Manager
• Highest Education Level: Doctrate
• Current Gross Salary: INR  740000 /Annum
• Expected Gross Salary: INR  800000 /Annum
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Work Experience: 19 Year(s)

Education

P.H.D in Polymer Chemistry (“Studies in Graft Copolymers of Modified Natural Polymer) From Sardar Patel University, Gujarat in 2004

Master in Science (Polymer Chemistry) From Sardar Patel University, Gujarat in 2000

Skill Sets

Talented professional with more than 10 years’ experience in flexible packaging for packaging products. 
Excellent people skills with demonstrated ability to increase teamwork and achieve results. 
Established self-starter and detail oriented towards organization. 
Familiar with various types of flexible/rigid packaging materials including polymers, films, inks & additives.
Knowledge in the areas of co-extrusion blown film, injection molding, extrusion coating, lamination, Flexo printing, gravure printing and pouch fabrication. 
Familiar with various testing instruments.
Computer Skills: Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, ERP system.

Work Experience

Assistant Manager - QA 
Since July 2011 
Company Profile: A well-known producer of high quality flexible packaging materials for FMCG products like personal hygiene, milk and milk powder, bakery product, paints, pesticides and seeds industries 
Job Profile:
Build  strengthen and implement Quality systems with specific focus on reducing rejections and improving customer satisfaction index 
Minimize Internal non-conformities
Team leader of ISO 22000: 2005, HACCP and Food Safety Management System (FSMS)
Appropriate process knowledge related to blown film, flexographic/gravure printing solvent less/based lamination and pouching
Effectively deal with customer complaints /Customer audits  third party audits and plan for improvement 
Provide complete technical support to the Sales arketing & Manufacturing functions with respect to the product.
Understand the specific customer needs and deliver a complete Packaging Solution for their products keeping in mind Sustainability, Manufacturability as well as Value Addition Propositions.
Develop unique & sustainable Packaging ideas and designs for special products and for ease of handling, storage & transportation.
Coordinate with outside vendors for artwork design & development as well as all tooling development & procurement.
Develop relationships with customers, obtain product performance feedback and provide required technical assistance  support as necessary.
Attend to all customer complaints and address them effectively with a root cause analysis and prevention.
Support the Engineer to process improvements focused on packaging material production to drive cost reduction opportunities.
Support the Raw Material Team and participate to raw materials approvals in order to qualify new or alternative raw materials or structures. Attend supplier meetings to report issues associated with materials to reduce potential problems at customer plants.
Gather and analyze information on new developments, trends and best practices within the packaging industry.

Assistant Manager –product Development/ Raw Material
Nov 2010 to June 2011 
Company Profile: Manufacturer and Exporter of Flexible Packaging Material, Food Packaging Material, Agricultural Packaging Material etc.
Job Profile:
Develop different types of laminate structure as per customer requirement.
Preparing product specification as per customer requirements for internal quality testing.
Conduct laminate roll/pouches trial at customer end with all technical details of packing material.
Finalizing internal test specification of incoming raw material.
Monitoring of all incoming raw materials. (Films, Ink, Solvent, Packing material)
Analysis of competitor as well as market samples.
Preparing Quality and development presentation for MRM.

Executive  Product Development/Quality Assurance
Feb 2007 to Nov 2010 
Company Name: IDMC–Optifilm, Packaging Division 
Job Profile:
Develop of various types of polyfilm recipes for different application.
Develop different polymer recipe for personal care (fem and baby) products.
Develop 5 and 7 layer EVOH based film structure for UHT milk packaging.
Develop of different type’s pouches designed for sanitary product.
BOPA/Poly laminates for edible oil sector.

Executive Product and Technology Development
Aug 2006 to Feb 2007
Company Name: Seigwerk India Ltd.
Company Profile:
Job Profile:
Pilot scale up ink formulation for paste ink and finally for commercial production.
Established new inks formulations as per customer’s requirements.
Shade matching of UV inks on different substrate as per customer’s requirements.
Modification of inks for better improvement in quality with cost effective formulation.
Attend customer complain and prepared root cause analysis report.

Officer (R&D/QA)
Dec 2004 to Aug 2006
Company Name: Shree Rama Multi Tech Ltd.
Job profile:
Conducted different polymers grade trials for blown films, extrusion process and injection moulded articles like cap, closure and shoulder, which are used in lamitubes.
Development of UV flexo inks and over print varnish (OPV) on narrow web UV flexo machine to check inks resistance properties for different applications.
Quality testing all incoming raw material, in process quality testing and physical/mechanical properties of lamitubes.

Future Goals

To secure, a career in the flexible packaging industry with complete responsibility for the improvement and development of packaging materials and processes