PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

A result-oriented professional with 18 years of experience in managing fast-paced and quality conscious areas in Advertising, Pre-press or Printing in leading commercial printing organizations. Proficiency in managing production workflow, communication and co-ordination with marketing, quality control to ensure most efficient and the best quality output standards. Possess excellent knowledge of printing and Prepress to satisfy the most demanding clients. Gained in-depth knowledge of working in Graphic Art and repro equipments. Have the widest exposure in offset, rotogravure, flexography, screen, dry offset etc. An excellent communicator with good analyzing problem solving and crisis management skills. Always updating knowledge and skills, ready to accept and adopt every new generation technology.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Project Management

Formulating long term/short term strategic plans to enhance operations, ease of execution and achieve targets. Implementing new technology and equipments related to production.

Production / Inventory Management

Overseeing the production Operations which includes Pre-press and Finishing. Optimizing man & machine utilization; develop new supply chain to achieve pre set production targets. Maintaining outputs as per the delivery schedule and quality standards. Co-rdinating with other departments and marketing to make the workflow smooth.

Process Enhancement:

Planning and effecting preventive maintenance of various equipment to increase machine up time and equipment reliability. Upgrading software and hardware as and when available. Proactively identifying areas of failures and take steps to rectify them. Executing cost saving and energy saving techniques by fine tuning the process and by upgrading technology.

Operational capabilities:

Capable of managing Creative, Prepress, engraving and galvano sections of rotogravure cylinder plant. Have the widest experience in executing assignments for Photography, Displays, Promotional and Packaging materials. Offset, Screen, Flexography, Rotogravure, Dry offset, Textile Transfers etc. Can handle Mac and PC High-end work stations, software installations and upgrade and networking. Exposed to Hell and Daetwyler based Electronic engraving of Rotogravure Cylinders. Capable of training a technical team for prepress.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

From April 2009 till date

Acuprint Systems, Taloja, New Bombay, (A unit of Positive Packaging)

Worked in CBD prepress and Nigeria Cylinder Plant on deputation.

Dec '06 - March `09 Prepress in-charge

Sharp Industries Ltd., Vasai, Dist. Thane

Role:

Managing designing and prepress operations for Electronic engraving of Rotogravure Cylinders. Technology and manpower skills upgrade in the department, Improvisation of procedure periodically to smoothen workflow. Maintained Job work flow records, job archiving and retrieval, co-ordination with marketing and other departments etc.

Major Accomplishments:

We have started from zero when the company was re-launched. Equipments recalibrated to get the best quality output in the industry. The company kick started and one more printing unit installed and running.

Process improvements: Crisis management to cut short all time and material wastage operations in the department. Calibrated prepress, engraving equipments to run the job without making any test piece or trial runs.

Mar '06 - Sep'06 Assistant Manager (Pre-press)

First Middle East - Jabel Ali Free Zone, Dubai

Role:

Got trained and exposed to the latest equipments, software in Prepress, electronic engraving process for Rotogravure Cylinder production, simultaneously helped to achieve production targets.

Supervising production of 12 hour shift of the prepress in Rotogravure Cylinder Plant.

Major Accomplishments:

Production increased and doubled.

Dec '04 - Feb '06 Production Manager

Alternative Media, Al Fardan Centre, Sharjah, UAE

Role: Monitoring the production & customer service infrastructure of the agency. Spearheading the creative department and other suppliers like production of Media Commercials, Visual Merchandising, Outdoor & indoor signs, promotional displays, Vehicle branding, fabrication of displays and kiosks, Acrylic, wood and Metal fabricators, event organizers, stage decorators, printing presses, Multimedia, web designers and photographers.

Mar '04 - Dec '04 Senior Designer in Art & Prepress Department

Interplast Co. Ltd, Sharjah, UAE

Role:

Executed design and prepress Production related operations of Flexible Packaging & in-house promotional materials.

Processed different type of designs and their preprss for Rotogravure and flexographiy printing. In addition to packaging materials, we handled promotional materials, luxury shopping bags, disposable thermoforming containers, etc.

Jan'00 - Jan'04 Creative Consultant (freelance)

Worked for few a Printing based production industries in Mumbai

Role:

Provided advertising Services and creative Consultancy for a few marketing, printing, export organizations.

Monitoring production of subject based bulk creative designs and their colour separations for Garment, Textile Transfer applications for US markets.

Execution of advanced pre-press processing of Agency jobs from US & UK for Garment Printing industry (Multinational brands Levis, Walt Disney, and many US & UK brands reproduced at international quality for the original manufacturers).

Feb'95 - Dec'99 Graphic Designer

Saudi Paper Cups & Containers Company, Jeddah

Pre-press operations of Rotogravure and Flexography printing of the pioneer flexible packaging company in the Middle East.

We managed each project independently right from job feasibility study, design development, coordination with production, QC up to the first print run. Job planning, job data management, Creative, photography, job related communications

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENTS

1992-1995 Panorama Visual Communications, Thane

Designing, Photography & Desktop Publishing

1987-1989 Sun Pharmaceutical industries as In-house Commercial Artist.

Bold India (Daily Tamil News) Bombay, India

Editorial Assignments, News translations, VIP interviews, Photography, Cartoons and illustrations both for News and Magazine section.

TRAINING

Trained in Adobe and Corel Group of software. for Print, Web and multimedia.

Attended ArtPro Prepress Software training by Artwork Systems, Belgium (1996).

Prepress equipment training in Scanner, Image setter, Dupont Cromalin proofer,

Digital proofers: Tektronics Phaser, Cannon CLC, Xerox Colour lasers

Large format Inkjet printers and EFI RIP software,

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by FDA Mumbai for formulation and Packaging of Food and Pharmaceutical products.

ACADEMIC

MBA (Mass Communications) National Institute of Management, Mumbai 2008

B.Sc. (Chemistry) Kamaraj University, Madurai 1978

Diploma in Desktop Publishing EDP Systems Institute, Thane 1992

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth 15th May, 1958

Address 17, Takshila, KV Complex, NCH Colony, Kanjurmarg West, Mumbai 400078

Phone: 91-22-257*****,  919*********

Email: qjlv1a@r.postjobfree.com

Alternate Email: qjlv1a@r.postjobfree.com

Date of Birth: 15 May 1958

Gender: Male

Nationality: India

Languages Known:

English, Hindi, and Tamil. Malayalam. Can read and type Arabic.

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