Manoj Ahire

Cell +1-313-***-**** Email - ac8spv@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Result driven change agent with excellent record of quality assurance, operations, and leadership success. Hold 9 years of industrial experience with proven talent for aligning organizational strategy and objectives with team collaboration and project management paradigms to achieve maximum operational impacts with minimum resource expenditures. Growth oriented expertise spanning printing production, client service, team development & training, engineering, design, and analysis. Ability to lead diverse teams and perform effectively in challenging environment. Additionally two months of industrial training with designing in ESKO Artpro graphics systems, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop for Gravure cylinder preparation. Exceptionally dedicated administrator with keen interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Process Improvement

• Strategic Planning

• Team Player

• Strategy Development

• Budgeting

• Stakeholder management

EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS

MASTER OF SCIENCE (M.S.) IN PAPER AND PRINTING SCIENCE, 2015-2018 GPA 4.0 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (B.E.) IN PRINTING TECHNOLOGY, 2002-2006 GPA 3.6 College of Engineering and Technology, Pune, Maharashtra, India PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PRODUCTION & TECHNICAL MANAGER – Shakti Printers Co, Ltd., Pune India Aug 2011 – Aug 2015

• Cultivated customer-centric department to ensure high-level of service to external and internal customers which resulted in an increase of 15% in revenue per year.

• Adopted latest technology automated screen printing which contributed to increasing revenue by 10% per year.

• Managed pre-press department including production, maintenance, and planning of Computer to Plate (CTP).

• Gained knowledge of IFRA standards and worked in Adobe Photoshop CS5, InDesign, and CorelDraw.

• Successfully ran line trials to determine plant capability which resulted in increased productivity by 10%.

• Supervised more than 30+ people of department.

SENIOR MANAGER – The Time of India, Mumbai, India June 2006 – Aug 2011

• Managed project to improve production which resulted in saving $6K per year in manhours.

• As a Leader of paper-saving project team; improved printing procedures and saved approximately $25K per year in paper and electricity. Waste reduction

• Ran ink optimization project which reduced waste in every paper edition by 6%.

• Created processes to improve operations and simplify methods to meet organizational goals.

• Ran daily production and related newsprint reports in MIS, SAP, and consumables.

• Executed online embossing in newspaper production processes increasing revenue by 15%.

• Managed a team of employees, communicated company goals and safety practices. TRAINEE ENGINEER – Acuprints Systems, Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India June 2002 – Aug 2002

• Worked in pre-press department to oversee design for consumer-care products on ESKO Arturo graphics systems, Adobe illustrator, and Photoshop.

• Organized sample matching and managed all repro activities for gravure pre-press, including packaging, jobs development, and cylinder lay outing & engraving for gravure press. Manoj Ahire 2

INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS

“NOISE MITIGATION & FREQUENT STOPPAGES.” SHAKTI PRINTERS.

• Due to excess atmospheric heat, frequent stops of air compressor of screen-printing process occurred and resulted in increased waste and low production rates. The enclosed and air-conditioned chamber reduced compressor temperature resulting in reduced number of stops and increased productivity by 10%.

“IMPROVED WEB-LEADING ON GEOMAN.” THE TIMES OF INDIA.

• All print towers were connected via horizontal and vertical shafts in Geoman. To reduce waste with successive webs, we implemented the individual tower clutching/web leading method, thereby improved product loading, which saved $25K per year in paper and electricity costs.

“START-UP WASTE REDUCTION, PRE-INKING FOUNTAIN ROLLER.” TIMES OF INDIA.

• Every edition contained unprinted white waste, so we modified the old sequence and created a pre-inking sequence to reduce that waste. Putting impression rollers ON at a low speed 0 – 4000 cph, we minimized the gap between water and the ink touching plate cylinder and activation of inking roller early to facilitate ink charging. Another product made as a fountain roller was already inked in restart sequence.

“PARALLEL PRINTING OF TWO EDITIONS.” TIMES OF INDIA.

• We achieved printing two editions simultaneously in the same time it would take to print one edition without hampering output time.

UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT AND PRESENTATION

• UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT:

Sponsored Project: “Print Quality Analysis on Matt And Gloss Paper”, By Ballarpur Industries Limited, India. Objective: To determine problem of “Picking” with high-resolution Cyan image with different densities on BILT paper in comparison to SAAPI paper. Generated materialistic results which helped BILT to make modifications to base mineral imported from “IMERYS”.

Summary: Different grades of paper supplied by Ballarpur Industries Limited, India were printed on Mitsubishi 4-color sheet fed offset machine and all parameters related to printing such density, slur, dot gain, dot loss, dot shape, color gamut, shades of paper and ink were studied and compared with different grades of paper.

• UNDERGRADUATE PRESENTATION

“Actual & Ideal Inks”

The actual conditions of color reproduction encountered in practice contain shortcoming and deficiencies such as Proportionality Failure, Additively Failure, and Ink Deficiency. AWARDS & HONORS

• Awarded “Best Employee of The Year” Shakti Printers: increased productivity & waste reduction 2013 – 2014 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Experience User: PPM Module, Print Service • Technical Proficiencies: MS Word, PowerPoint

• Design: Adobe, Photoshop, and Corel Design • Statistical Software: Excel, Minitab References will be available upon request.