Providing consultancy for GLOBAL GAP certification

Managing projects assigned by the global strategic team in Asia. Currently working on process improvement project on variety creation.

- Managing the QA projects assigned by global strategic team - Project management in QA such as Continual Improvement in Supply chain, Phyto- sanitary practices, R&D, QC, Operations - Root cause analysis for the major issues to enhance customer satisfaction - Securing IP in the chain of custody in sensitive processes, working with breeders & production - Establishing systems & tools to ensure quality - QMS- Being QMS Lead auditor- Training internal auditors as audit is tool… Show more - Managing the QA projects assigned by global strategic team - Project management in QA such as Continual Improvement in Supply chain, Phyto- sanitary practices, R&D, QC, Operations - Root cause analysis for the major issues to enhance customer satisfaction - Securing IP in the chain of custody in sensitive processes, working with breeders & production - Establishing systems & tools to ensure quality - QMS- Being QMS Lead auditor- Training internal auditors as audit is tool to improve, auditing the vendors in seed, production (farmers)- Complaint handling and thus making continual improvements by taking inputs from complaints- Training people - Continually on all QA related areas- Bringing Production Vendors under Quality Management Control- Working to bring Sales under QM - Lead audits to certify phytosanitory, seed treansport and maintaining disease free seeds production status internally Show less

Maize raw seed rejection reduced from 23% to 4.5% in 2 seasonsInitiated field quality assessments/formats/training Initiated Quality Manual, complaint management process, ISTA protocols, Generated SOP/ WI / Flow Charts Initiated compliance with National Seed Law in Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda

Supply reliability Lead production/QA team resulting reduction in ~ 6 % of green flag failures & 15% lead time Lead cross functional team to achieve >15000 Kg of tomato seed export from India Implemented Field Quality Scoring System & use of hand held devices, trained people for >1200 man hours for field quality improvements within 7 months Implemented Clean Seed Production in association with regional Seed Health team resulting 20% TMV… Show more Supply reliability Lead production/QA team resulting reduction in ~ 6 % of green flag failures & 15% lead time Lead cross functional team to achieve >15000 Kg of tomato seed export from India Implemented Field Quality Scoring System & use of hand held devices, trained people for >1200 man hours for field quality improvements within 7 months Implemented Clean Seed Production in association with regional Seed Health team resulting 20% TMV reduction in Pepper and Tomato, No incidence of CGMMV in melon & cucumber, ~55% reduction in viral load for export oriented seed production Initiatives on the Operational Excellence  Contributed to QA team site making available important procedures, SOP/QMS documents & information for field people Designed diagnostic key documents for genetic quality improvement, disease identification, sanitization process charts and delivered trainings ( ~250 man hours) Show less

Leadership & People Development Hired & developed 3 people in China for PGO, Germ Lab and Field Pathology & 1 person as successor Pioneered 9 major Clean Seed Production training sessions for vendor education  Routinely completed ISO Internal audits (as Certified ISO Auditor)Analyst & Problem solving - Decisive  Instrumental in making import and export quality decisions Identified the cause of Carrot complaints resulting in saving of >1 mio.US$ for… Show more Leadership & People Development Hired & developed 3 people in China for PGO, Germ Lab and Field Pathology & 1 person as successor Pioneered 9 major Clean Seed Production training sessions for vendor education  Routinely completed ISO Internal audits (as Certified ISO Auditor)Analyst & Problem solving - Decisive  Instrumental in making import and export quality decisions Identified the cause of Carrot complaints resulting in saving of >1 mio.US$ for manufacturing departmentOperational Excellence Initiated Field quality inspections for supporting disease free seed production  Initiated TMV testing, GP Testing in labs that saved lead time of 2-3 weeks Initiated heat treatment for gourds (elimination of ZGMMV) & improved spinach GP on size separation  Identified need & established testing of PGO, Bacterial Lab, Accelerated Ageing (AA) & Bioassay in China that saved lead time of ~35 days Show less

Initiation & Support Drove efforts to establish QA testing facilities in India Raised trials, collected & compiled data, identified pepper, tomato, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Cucumber hybrids for marketing potentiality Business orientation Provided technical support to sales for disposal of inventory

Active listener – Willing to learn and listen Successfully completed training in Netherlands for production, quality, processing, disease testing and established QA facilities in India Implemented SOP and QMS procedures in India QA Creative and innovative Developed semi-automized seed putting system indigenously with home vacuum cleaner Designed indigenous vigor rating system resulted in “no manufacturing” complaintsContinuous Improvements … Show more Active listener – Willing to learn and listen Successfully completed training in Netherlands for production, quality, processing, disease testing and established QA facilities in India Implemented SOP and QMS procedures in India QA Creative and innovative Developed semi-automized seed putting system indigenously with home vacuum cleaner Designed indigenous vigor rating system resulted in “no manufacturing” complaintsContinuous Improvements Improved protocols for tests and inventory management Started visiting production fields for understanding needed quality improvements Advised periodical quality checks of inventory to avoid quality decline surprises Trained manpower to improve reliability of analysis in QA Show less