• Gender: Male
• Age: 53
• Designation: Manager
• Highest Education Level: Post Graduate Diploma
• Preferred Country: India
• Preferred Location: Chennai
• Work Experience: 31.3 Year(s)

Education

Diploma in Polymer Technology from Institute of Chemical Technology, Tharamani in 1991.
Graduate in Business Administration (BBA) from Madras University.

Skill Sets

Monitoring Competitor Activities And Devising Effective Counter Measures.

Work Experience

Assistant Manager - Process & Quality
Since Mar 2011
Company Profile : World leader in Manufacturing of Plastic Ophthalmic Lenses of Leading Brands
Job Profile :
Overall in charge - RX Flow, Responsible for Hard Coating & Multicoat Operations, Yield, Process monitoring, Lead Time, Key Performance indicators follow up, Continuous improvement and MIS - MTD, YTD.
In-charge of overall Coating Process Control and ensure good Product Quality and safety.
In-charge of Visual Management across the plant. Carried out CI Projects in the areas of Yield improvement, Lead time improvement etc.
Responsible for maintaining & monitoring control charts & Process capability (CPK) studies on different process parameters on ongoing basis through Statistical Process Control techniques.
Management of Process control laboratory tests on day to-day basis to ensure process and product is always within specified tolerances.
Responsible of evaluation of process validation studies on different type of lenses

Follow up of quality and continuous improvement actions to reach Departmental Objectives.
Set and maintain productivity and quality standards compliance.
Ensure excellence in delivering Quality of Outgoing product.
Ensure excellence on time service of goods to customers .
Co-ordination with customers – Internal & External.
Schedule Plant meetings, Quality meetings, Staff meetings.
Ensure good procedures & best practices in industry are put in place.
Follow up of KPI – Daily, Monthly for all the departments.
Oversee Inventory management, maintain vendor relations.
Customer complaint followup & Closure.
Schedule maintenance and upkeep of plant facility.
Communication to Top management & downward.
Release of Monthly plant level MIS reports.

Manager- Opticals (Chennai )
from Dec 2009 to March 2011
Company Profile : Hospital engaged in Conducting Continuous Training and Research and Development Programs and has over a Period, Developed an Excellent Team of highly skilled Ophthalmic Specialists and Surgeons, to assist in its Growth Plans.

Job Profile :
Heading 13 branches Optical Department in and around Chennai. Managing a team of 45 members
Derived system in Increasing Sales and in reducing pending orders to 60% in all the branches, got appreciation from chairman.
Improved sales by imparting training program to all sales people to have accurate technical knowledge of the products.
Systemised in reducing Inventory level of frames on the Showroom and Returning Back Non Moving frames and damaged frames to vendors to Avoid Blockage of Working Capital.
To reduce cost and to improve margins, consolidated and shortlisted the vendors and made them to give 25 - 30% discount.
Heading the team in implementing new software for all optical outlet and also creating centralized warehouse in vasan’s group.
Member of Internal auditing team.
Expertise in functions like Merchandising, Customer Service, Inventory Control, MIS, Accounting, and Promotional Offers.
Distinction of significantly enhancing business across various assignments; have always ensured that standards for quality and customer service .
Acknowledged as an excellent people manager who has fostered teams that delivered positive results and met organisational expectations.
Monitoring competitor activities and devising effective counter measures.

Proprietor
From 2003 to Sep 2009
Solar Vision Technologies
Job Profile :
Setting up the plant for RX processing of lenses by using Norville, U.K machines and also setting up of 8 tank ultrasonic dip coating machine from NGL Switzerland to hardcoat polymer optical lenses to avoid scratches on the lens.
Responsible in setting up quality standards for lens quality and Hardcoating laquer quality.
Responsible for quality output of product and servicing to the customers within time.
Training of technicians on quality importance of the product.
Marketing of products to all eye hospitals which includes Sankara nethralaya, Dr.Agawal eye hospitals, Vasan’s eye Hospital and all leading Optical Outlets in Tamilnadu and South Andhra Pradesh.
Coordinating with marketing team to achieve the targets and meeting Customers for Feedback and other Related Issues.
Working out special schemes to the customers to boost up sales.
Coordinating for timely collections of payments.

Quality Assurance & Product Development Engineer
From 1995 to 2003
OLMIL – Bangalore
World Number One Company in Optical Lens Manufacturing.
Job Profile :
Responsible for Installation of Machineries for setting up Production plant for Casting Polymer Lenses.
Identified Quality Testing for the lens and for Hardcoating.
Prepared SOP’s for the Process and Quality Standards.
Trained Technicians on Quality Standards and its Importance.
Responsible for introducing online Product Testing and Final Product Testing of Lenses.

SRF Limited :
Job Profile :
Responsible for finalizing Cr-39 and High Index Lens formulation and hard coating formulation by inmould spin coating method.
Responsible for Troubleshooting on Product and Coating Related Process.
Designed quality parameters for lens product and Hardcoating
Introduced Raw Material Inspection on Monomer and Intiator used for casting lens.

Production Supervisor
From 1993 to 1995
Reynolds Company Manufacturers of Pens.

Supervisor Trainee
From 1991 to 1993
SRF Ltd in R& D Department .
Job Profile :
Assisting Scientist in Preparing Trials for their Projects.
Assisted in Developing PPS Material by Extrusion Method and also did Coating By Using This Material.

Future Goals

To work with an organization to foster my professional skill through challenging team work.