Product Development Manager

Umit M.Karasu

Cukurova\ADANA\TURKEY

GSM:+905*********

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Profile

Date&Place of Birth 27.07.1968 – Izmir / TURKEY

Nationality: Turkish

Marital Status: Married

Military Service: Completed

Driving License: B Class-1990

No preventation to travel.

Education

1986-1990

Ege University (EU)/Izmir, Engineering

Faculty, Department of Textile Engineering,

BSc in Textile Engineering.

_ Training at fully integrated Cotton yarn

producer in Antalya/Turkey for 1

month.(Summer 1987)

_ Completion project; “Simulation of derived

dobby designs on computer with QBasic

programming Language”/1990

Professional Experience

April 2010-November 2010 OZTEK TEXTILE/CORLU

Technical Textile Production Director

Responsible from

..Desiging of fabric and preparing price of fabric

according customers needs and specs.

..Purchasing fibre,yarn,fabric from supplier

..Make deal and price negotiations with related producers

for weaving , spinning or dying.

..Find right solutions to solve problems during production.

..Planning of whole production line for orders from begining to end.

Apr 2008 - June 2009

BOSSA Denim & Sportswear Textile

Mill./ADANA

Responsible from Product Development

July 2003-December 2006

Ozbucak Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S/ADANA

integrated Textile Mill which is producing

polyester/viscose blends with wool ,linen,

cotton etc. fabrics mostly with elasthane

(Lycra™) for formal wear for ladies.

Product Development Manager

Fully responsible from Product Development

Team to create new collections.

_ Developing new fabric constructions and

finishings by considering new materials

according to new textile trends in the

world.For examples;

- Coolmax™ everyday certified fabrics with

Lycra™

- Warp stretch(Lycra™) fabric with

uncovered metal yarn in weft.

-Bamboo/polyester fabrics with Lycra™

- Coolmax™ fabric trial with T400

- CoolTouch™ certified fabrics with Lycra™

- Polyester-viscose fabric with

Dow™Elasthane.

- Cotton fabrics with Lycra

_ Developing new collections with english and

italian designers.

Manage whole design team according to ISO9001 quality system

requirements.

March 2002-July 2003

ADVANSA SASA Sabanci Polyester Inc.

(former DuPontSA)Adana

Greater European Producer of Polyester

Fibres, Filament, Resins and Intermediates

with locations at Turkey, UK, Germany, the

Netherlands.

Enduse Researcher

(Fabric Technologist)

August 1992- July 2001

Additional Information

Language skills

TURKISH: Mother tongue

ENGLISH: Fluent

Computer skills

Responsible to complete projects about new

enduse fields for branded products

(Differentiated Offerings-

Coolmax™,Securelle™)

_ Responsible to complete fabric trial from

weaving to finishing with Flame Retardant

polyester filament (Securelle™ );This project

had been completed with success at SATI a

spanish company in Barcelona.

_ Responsible to show advantages of

Coolmax™against to regular polyester yarn in

producing of polyester chenille yarn.This

project had been completed with success at a company in

Bursa/Turkey.

Bossa Velvet&Shirting Mills(Bossa Shirting

Mill)/ADANA (Fully integrated Textile Mill

which is producing Shirting)

Product Development Chief

_ Responsible from product development of

Shirting,Terry Towel and velvet department.

_ Responsible from QC of Velvet department.

_ Responsible from Terry Towel Weaving

department(75 people and 54 machines) for

3,5 years.

_ 1 year experience in ring spinning

Department

- 1 year experience in Velvet weaving department

WINDOWS Excel, Word, Powerpoint,Outlook

LOTUS NOTES

VISUAL BASIC

Foreign country experience

Following countries have been visited frequently due to meetings, trials, fairs etc;

Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, France, Belgium,

Italy,Netherland,China,Japan.

References

Available upon request

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