Objective

To use my experience and skills in a designation that allows me to build

and implement creative solutions.

Education

MBA in International Business, Goldey Beacom College

Wilmington, DE, August 2011

GPA 3.96

Master of Fashion Technology, National Institute of Fashion Technology,

New Delhi, India 2007

CGPA 6.6

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Uttar Pradesh Technical

University Lucknow, India 2004

Certificate Courses

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, New York School of Design

New York, September 2009

Pattern Making, New York School of Design

New York, July 2009

Product Management, Fashion Institute of Technology

New York, 2008

Work Experience

Coach Inc. New

York, 11/11- Present

Costing Coordinator

. Responsible for providing cross training on all costing functions to 5

members of the Product development team.

. Created & Implemented new workarounds that helped in improving

efficiency for processes including:

> Running margin scenarios based on change in retail & landed

cost.

> Estimating Hangtag cost

> Calculating zipper cost

. Use SAP to successfully validate all costs -

> Reaching out to SP in case of any discrepancy (for yields, wf,

labor, overhead costs)

> To set STD costs for newness, sku adds, transfer styles

. Estimating landing factors

. Working with cross functional teams and CIL costing to meet PDT

deadline - (LLT, yields due, Working costs 1&2, Line Finalization).

. Running Access Database, Pivots & SAP reports to determine Margin

update, missing costs, missing yields report

. Margin reporting.

. Tracking all missing costs (Final, P1, P2, P3)

. Create and maintain cost estimate reference data (product and

material).

. Maintaining all costs in database.

. Working on estimating costs based on bench styles.

. Provide support in Early Costing - working on Optitex patterns to

determine effective yields to estimate costs.

. Worked on a project to validate leather yields using Illustrator &

Optitex to reduce wastage & optimize leather usage.

. Approving monthly's & Final costs

. Determining effective solutions/ workarounds for any issues (PRN,

packaging)

. Support special projects as directed.

Perry Ellis International - Menswear

New York, 03/10- 11/11

Sourcing Coordinator (Sportswear - B/J/O)

Work closely with the Sourcing Director on the following:

. Maintain ongoing and regular communication with vendors to gather

information regarding fabric costs, trims and garment costs.

. Proactively work with agents and offices to analyze costing details,

sourcing alternatives opportunities.

. Compiling and formatting costing chart by season for the different

divisions in a detailed and organized manner.

. Negotiate to bring down costs based on expected IMU & product

performance.

. Work on fabric developments library by season/account

. Ensures quick resolution of product related issues with appropriate

Merchant, Technical Design and / or Designer/Product Development.

. Negotiate to validate costs and achieve initial markup without

compromising production quality.

. Negotiate the final price confirmation, garment details, factory

allocation.

. Coordinate with purchasing to ensure delivery of final product.

Perry Ellis International - Menswear

New York, 09/09- 03/10

Product coordinator & Technical Design Intern

. Creating and maintaining style packages using Web PDM, market week

changes, writing PO for salesman sample, writing comments, fabric

library updates, maintaining a development swatch/trim book per

season, sending fabric swatches, and specs for development, passing

comments on all submits, tracking and ensuring time delivery of all

samples.

. Review measurements & construction of all samples (bottoms, jackets,

outerwear, shirts, knits and sweaters); attend fittings, writing

comments, creating of initial tech packs, analyzing patterns to make

sure it is as per standards.

Alisha Trimble - Custom dresses, lingerie and RTW

New York, 02/10-03/10

Technical Design and Production Support Intern

. Patterning, sewing & draping. Checking finished garments before they

leave the workroom. Drawing technical flats by hand, assisting in

model casting, fabric sourcing.

Speciality Merchandising Services Pvt. Ltd - Buying Agency

India, 07/04-07/05

Asst. Merchandiser (home furnishing & apparel)

. Correspondence with buyers and vendors, coordinating inspections,

sample approvals, Order and sampling Follow Ups, costing, Tracking

shipments and documentations, updating information in ERP and excel

sheets.

Other Relevant Experience

Reach Technologies, Final Year Research Project, Bangalore

12/06-05/07

Garment Manufacturing Technology Department - NIFT, Project, New Delhi

07/06-12/06

MRS Fashions WLL., Bahrain

05/06-07/06

Summer Internship

. Development of a Training Manual for Quality Checkers, increasing

production floor capacity by reducing SAM, merchandise planning

Additional projects undertaken

. 2 weeks of Sewing Performance Data analysis at Aanchal Creations at

Gurgaon, India in April 2006.

Skills Inventory

. SAP, Optitex, Apparel CAD, Microsoft PowerPoint Outlook, Microsoft

Word & Excel (Advanced level), Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Web

PDM, PLM and Patternmaking

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