Devdatta Chitale Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Columbus, Ohio

Fremont, CA

Rochester, New York Area

Research on biodegradable plastics.Working on evaluations of aerobic bio-degradation of bio-based plastics.

Van Nuys, CA

• Development of innovative retail packaging solutions, corrugated displays, & protective / supportive package inserts for a variety of consumer goods
• Interpret and transform sketches into 2D die lines using current CAD software
• Generate detailed package material specification sheets for cost estimation
• Debug files prior to release to production & graphic teams
• Assist in daily cutting, folding, and assembly of package die lines and preparation of package concepts for marketing and sales presentations

Rochester, New York Area

• Research on biodegradable plastics.
• Studying and experimenting on ASTM D6400, 5338, ISO 14855 standards for determining degree of compostability.
• Running and designing experiments on MFI, OTR, DSC, TGA, Blown film making,
• Supporting ‘American Packaging Corporation’ lab operations, Writing reports and literature reviews

Mumbai

• Packaging development and testing- Corrugated displays, Printed Cartons, PDQs, Pallets, slip sheets, fitments, inserts,, vinyl bags, pouches, rigid boxes, HTL, woven labels, barcodes, RFID.
• Responsible for design, development and sales for hard line and home soft accounts
• Structural design, cost estimating, proposing cost effective, feasible, and sustainable packaging solutions.
• Dealing with global customers and suppliers, Executed packaging programs for Wal-Mart, Sam’s, ASDA, Target, Costco, GAP, BJ’s, JC Penney, Kohl’s, Bed bath & Beyond, The Home Depot, Tchibo, Carrefour, Orchestra etc.

Pune

Involved in Design and development of folding cartons, corrugated packaging, E Flute Litho Cartons and heavy Duty Boxes. Creation of art work, die line drawings, print production feasibility, color matching, material selection, process improvements, troubleshooting.Sales and Marketing, Planning, Procurement, Estimating, Costing, Customer negotiations.

Mumbai Area, India

Managing Sales and Technical Support of Print Consumables like printing inks for offset, water based, UV flexo inks, metallic inks, oil based, drip off, UV, water based varnishes. Anilox rollers, photo polymer plates, double sided mounting tapes for narrow web flexo. UV screen printing varnishes such as texture, scratch and sniff, velvet, thermochromic.

Mumbai Area, India

Prepress work like graphics designing, page lay outing, proofing, color management, making dummies. Interacting with customers. Packaging designs and developments.

Master’S Degree, Packaging Science

Activities and Societies: Working as Research Assistant in biodegradable and compostable plastics research. Member, Institute of Packaging.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Operations Management

Learnt basics of management and skills to manage a business. This course helped me to venture in to setting up my own business and I could.

Bachelor’S Degree, Printing Engineering And Graphics Communication, 1St Class