Strong business acumen & leadership competence developed by managing several top notched production facilities in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bangladesh, USA, India & Vietnam during past 39 years.. Start up project management in Ethiopia for TAL Group - HK & 2nd manufacturing facility for Epic Designers in Vietnam.Broad knowledge of cost effective & performance oriented manufacturing management techniques to be continuously competitive in the market High level of people management skills & implementation experience of performance improvising supporting tools such as Industry 4.0 applications, 5”S”, Continuous Improvement, CFT, RFT & LEAN Manufacturing.My Achievements - Change management at Epic Designers, Vietnam. 'Turn Around' project in 2016. Strategizing cost effective methodologies & efficiency improvement solutions, application of automation for reducing SMV, alignment of CPM reduction, Building up a challenging Team, achieving over 99% of FPY & OTD. Fine tuning of QCO achieving 86% peak efficiency within 12 days, Creating a performance oriented & a healthy working culture. - Leading & Winning the “National Productivity Award” for two consecutive years at Bodyline Pvt Ltd in Srilanka - 1998 & 1999 - Setting up the new facility for Shanta Industries in Bangladesh with efficient Process lay-outs, HR planning, Technology & systems oriented work flow - Introducing a Quick Changeover strategy for achieving 33% to 66% to 75% on 3rd day of style change overs & increasing the overall efficiency from 67% to 78% in Sewing at Epic-Designers in Vietnam in the year 2011. - Success in facilitating the 5”S” team in Bodyline Private Ltd in Srilanka for winning the “Taiki Akimoto” award in 1997. - Managing LEAN – ‘Stand up Modular’ production system & Increasing company efficiency from 52 % – 68% & TPT of 18 minutes at Bannari Amman(PVT) Ltd in 2009- Successfully managing the expansion project of setting up 2nd shift operation at TAV (TAL Group) in Woven & Knitted production units increasing the production capacity by 35%