JC
John Chacon
Professional Summary
Work History
Bella+Canvas - Production/scourcing Director
City Of Commerce, California
*************@*****.***
**** ***** Ave, Downey, CA 90241
Skills
2 year pilot program at Cal State LA
Textile Dyeing and Finishing
2 year on site Dye Apprentice Program
with LA DYE & Finishing
Dye studies in Switzerland at Ciba/Geigy
Dye Stuff Factory and Training School.
14 years on site dye and finishing training
Swisstex California (production Manager)
Strategic sourcing, negotiation skills
Education
1982
Gladstone High School
Azusa, CA
High School Diploma
Citrus College 1 Year
Glendora, CA
Technical director consistently rewarded for success in planning and operational improvements.
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Experience in policy development and staff management procedures positively impacting overall morale and productivity.
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Experienced production director with over 20 years of experience in textile industry and manufacturing.
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Excellent reputation for resolving problems, improving customer satisfaction, and driving overall operational improvements.
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● Consistently saved costs while increasing profits and quality. Worked as lead in development of all new product also responsible for sourcing raw materials and finished fabric.
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● Sourcing and negotiating all contracts for raw materials
●factories Global QC director for all Asia and India
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Responsibilities include managing all sewing factories and personal that coordinate production domestic and international. Coordinate all QC personal to ensure company quality standards
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Manage all sewing factory coordinators (priorities inventory control
,ASN factory control)
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Manage domestic factories as well in house sewing factory of 200 employees
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Manage cutting facility of 600 employees with capacity of 3.5M garments per week
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Negotiate all contracts for raw materials as well as finished fabrics in China. Responsible for costing of all new product development
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Responsible for all quality control personal/for overseas full package product in other divisions
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Responsible for developing all new product (i.e.yarn.knitting and costing )
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Manage all trims department, coordinate trims for all sewing factories and negotiate all pricing for trims
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● Managed company operations, including staff hiring, training, aspects of quality control.
Swisstex California - Senior Production Manager
Gardena, CA
01/1997 - 02/2011
Accomplishments
● Development, scheduling and supervision
● Manage all local and over seas dye houses scheduling and costing Provided training in the operation and maintenance of production equipment including [Equipement] and [Equipment] for staff
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Oversaw 150-person team of employees handling production of dye and finishing
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● Managed quality control
● Responsible for all customer service
●operations Managed all day to
Received training and certification from Swisstex California in dyeing and finishing
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Kept employees in full compliance with safety practices, environmental controls and operational guidelines
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Checked production logs and reports to assess trends, identify weaknesses and catch problems early
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● Improved the over all direction of the company
● Managed to lower cost in all areas of production
● Decrease labor cost and improved company profit.
● Increase quality and production
● Help built the largest t-shirt manufacturing company in the US Successfully built a quality control team for global manufacturing of full package garments
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