Chemical Engineering & Accounting

EDUCATION

SHAMIT MEHTA

Franklin Park NJ ***** 732-***-**** ************@*****.***

SHRI BHAGUBHAI MAFATLAL POLYTECHNIC, MUMBAI UNIVERSITY Mumbai, India Engineering Diploma (Chemical Engineering) 1979-1983 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

OCEANIC LINKWAY INC. New Jersey, USA

Manager, Operations January 2009 – Present

• Conduct research of market conditions, competition, and products to allow for competitive pricing of products and maximize profits

• Worked with various ERP software developers and finalized software module to connect to web-based inventory along with Quick books Enterprise solution.

• Business Reporting: Create management reports to highlight highest-selling products in order to understand how to best replenish inventories and create business plan for marketing and sales of slowest moving products

• Vendor Management: Identify and collaborate with new vendors to increase product line and offer more competitive prices, follow up with vendors to finalize contracts and ensure vendor satisfaction

• Supply Chain / Inventory Management:

o Manage end-to-end supply chain from creating orders, following up with vendors to manage orders, establish distribution channels to ensure that orders are accurately shipped to customers o Manage a team of four to handle day-to-day warehouse activities, such as order picking, packaging and shipping o Negotiate prices with different carriers.

• Customer Development: Helping customers at trade shows and warehouse to create new customer relationships; manage customer invoicing and proper application of payments to Quick books

• Book Keeping / Accounting:

o Manage a team of two to handle book keeping and accounting activities, such as determining financial and accounting strategies, AP/AR, budget analysis, general ledger, bank reconciliations, and credit card reconciliations, entry of Accounts Payable invoices, and manage financial statement preparation o Advanced knowledge of Quick books Enterprise and Excel

• Overall administrative support to management

POOJA ENTERPRISE Mumbai, India

Business Owner April 1986 – December 2008

Trading in Iron & Steel

PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPENTENCIES

• Highly customer-centric and goal-oriented

• Adherence to Quality Benchmark

• Excel in multi-tasking and crisis resolution

• Good verbal and written communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills

• High on initiatives and responsibility for all projects

• Team player

• Understanding people and leveraging differences

Contact this candidate