Quality Assurance Manager

DIVYAKANT JANI

706-***-****(Cell). ******@**********.***

EXPERIENCE: Director of Quality Assurance

**/** - ******* * ******* Textile Company in North Carolina.

**/** - **/** ******* Mills, LLC, Hickory, NC

. ISO 9001: 2000 certified reputed textile company consisting

of two open end, one ring spun plant with doubling & twisting

and one fabric weaving operation.

. Supervised state of the art corporate lab, 4 labs at plant

facility, and 6 lab technicians. Followed ISO, ASTM and

AATCC test methods for testing yarn and fabrics.

. Headed product development for yarn plants and fabric

weaving.

. Implemented statistical process control and six sigma

methodology in four plants. Improved quality while reducing

costs, customer complaints and claims.

. Improved fabric hydrostatic pressure from 26 to 45, water

repellency from 80 to 100 %. Reduced customer complaints by

50 % and improved productivity by 15 %.

. Responsible for quality assurance, color matching, R & D,

technical support to manufacturing and sales, establishing

vendor specs and certificate of compliance.

. Produced cotton, poly/cotton, tencel/polyester, polyester,

modal, acrylic single & plied yarn.

. Yarn count: Single yarn - 2.8 to 30s. Plied yarn - up to 10

ply.

. Handled primary duties of weaving plant manufacturing cotton,

P/C, polyester, nylon, natural and solution dyed acrylic

fabric for industrial, furniture, marine, and medical use

with various fabric finishes.

Albany International, Albany, NY

05/06 -03/07 Yarn Technical Manager

. Implemented development and quality assurance of patented

PrimaLoft fiber blend with cotton, wool, polyester, rayon,

and model fibers for socks, knitting, weaving, specialty yarn

and fabric manufacturing facilities in USA and China.

. Helped build state of the art yarn and fabric testing

laboratory in USA and China.

. Wrote work procedure, process parameters, raw material and

finished product specifications for USA and China facility.

Swift Spinning Mills, Columbus, GA March 1997 -

Dec. 2001

3/97 - 7/98 Swift Spinning Mills Columbus, GA Process

Engineer promoted to GM

. Implemented statistical process control, reduced fiber waste

by 4.5%, reduced raw material cost by 1.5 million/year with

10% yarn quality improvement.

. Played critical role in sourcing raw materials, mill supply

and yarn globally.

. Had an integral role in technical joint venture to build

75,000 spindles capacity yarn mill in India to produce Ne 30s

to 100s combed cotton yarn with 5 % Uster statistics 1997-

yarn quality parameter. Designed raw material specifications

for different yarn count to suit quality requirements,

developed process parameters, labor compliments and job

descriptions.

8/98 - 9/99 Swift Spinning Tifton Inc. Tifton, GA - General

Manager (Promoted to QA Director)

. Reported to the President

. Had direct responsibilities of P&L, production, quality,

purchasing, customer & vendor relations, and safety of 21,120-

spindle capacity combed ring-spun yarn mill.

. Reduced work force by 10% while increasing productivity and

efficiency.

. Reduced losses by half from 4-million/ year to 2-million/

year.

. Completed $6M dollar modernization project in a timely

manner.

3/0 3/00 - 12/01 Director of Quality Assurance (Yarn

Division)

. Reported to the President of the company.

. Controlled state of the art online quality monitoring system,

three physical testing laboratories and 8 quality

technicians.

. Managed the quality assurance, product development, customer

service of three combed cotton ring spinning and one open end

plant which produced 1.6 million pounds/week.

. Served renowned customers such as Nike, Adidas, Cross Creek,

Hanes, Reebok, and Fruit of the Loom among many others in

apparel, hosiery, denim and weaving industries throughout

USA, Canada, and Latin America.

. Reduced customer claim for bad quality yarn by 200% and

return yarn by 40% compared to previous year by implementing

SPC.

5/90 - 2/96 Churchgate Group Industries Nigeria Ltd. in

Nigeria (West Africa) Asaba, Aba and Kaduna Textiles Ltd.

(Vertically Integrated Company)

Spinning Manager of 92,000 spindles capacity mills.

. Reported to the CEO.

. Oversaw duties of Production Manager, Maintenance Manager, 3

Deputy Managers, 21 Supervisors & 600 hourly employees.

. In charge of production, planning, IE, plant & machinery

maintenance, training, safety, quality, customer services,

vendor relations, production costing, raw material purchase,

and machine part imports from Asia and Europe.

. Increased spinning production from 5000 kgs to 10,000-kgs/

day in two months.

. Played integral role in the company making 22 million Naira

profit in the first 15 months for the first time in the

history of the company after having a debt of 50 million debt

during the previous year

. Nominated to handle responsibilities of polypropylene woven

sacks plant with film extrusion, 120-tape winder and 20

circular weaving looms.

. Increased woven sacks production from 15,000 meter/day to

40,000 meter/day.

. Acquired 150,000 kgs. polypropylene chips quota from the

Nigerian Government Refineries at a 60 N/kg cheaper than

market price.

. Polypropylene plant made 4 million Naira profit in the first

15 months.

. During yearly performance reviewed by the Board of Directors

in the year 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 scored more than 7

points in the above average/very good performance category.

4/87 - 4/90 The Bombay Dyeing and Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Jamnagar (100% synthetic unit) India.

Spinning Master (Plant Manager)

. Reported to the CEO.

. 25,000 spindles capacity mill, average yarn count 55s Ne.

. Supervised work force of 20 supervisors and 190 hourly

employees.

. Handled production, planning, I.E, maintenance, purchasing

mill supplies, yarn quality, customer service, yarn packing,

and warehouse.

5/84 - 4/87 Saurastra Co-operative Spinning Mills, (Gujarat

State) India.

Spinning master (Plant Manager)

. Reported to the CEO.

. 25,000 spindle capacity mill, average yarn count 30s Ne.

. Supervised work force of 20 supervisors and 450 hourly

employees.

. Executed cotton purchase, mill supply, packing material,

production, maintenance, production costing, yarn quality and

customer service.

1975-84 PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:

Deputy Spinning Master, Junior Assistant, Supervisor

EDUCATION:

. 4 years of Associate degree in Textile Manufacture from R.C.

Technical Institute, Ahmedabad (India) in 1975. Graduated

with 5th rank in the State Technical Examination Board.

. Six Sigma Black Belt and Green Belt certificate from Southern

Polytechnic State University, Georgia

. Lean Manufacturing: An Overview, Executive Introduction to

ISO 9001:2000 certification from Georgia Tech.

. Color Basic for Textiles, Dyeing and Finishing Fundamentals,

Fabric formation- Knitting, Non Woven and Woven classes from

NC State University.

YARN COUNT SPUN: Ne

2.5s to 150 Ne

PERSONAL DATA: U. S. Citizen

Willing to

Relocate

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