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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Strategically lead the supplier lab accreditation program, by accessing the supplier’s internal labs proficiency and issued lab accreditation certificates.• Lead the vendor onboarding program including training on Aritzia’s standards and testing. • Supported quality issue resolution by providing technical expertise, root cause analysis and resolutions. • Collaborated with suppliers to ensure that fabrics, trims, washes, and applied graphics are executed to Aritzia and regulatory standards and meet physical performance standards. • Collaborated with other cross-functional teams to incorporate product integrity requirements in a sustainable and scalable way.• Identified and defined the care for garments based on testing and regulatory requirements. • Defined and refined raw material and garment testing protocols based on the product type, end use and marketing claims, to ensure product declarations are validated and confirm to legislation where applicable. • Lead the root cause analysis of the customer product feedback, providing insight on the performance based on product testing. • Revised and improved business process documentation and workflows.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Responsible for collaborating with other business functions and function owners on industrial design, cost engineering, marketing, risk management and regulatory compliance requirements. • Vetting new technologies, facilitating product safety testing, regulatory compliance testing and quality control processes. • Seeking out new materials and construction, developing new design ideas, evaluating materials and construction of new products. Making digital and physical mockups, prototypes and conceptual models. • Responsible for reviewing prototype and reference samples to ensure the final product meets all quality and design criteria. • Establishing raw material testing protocols based on the product type and marketing claims on the product. • Responsible for developing test plans, facilitating testing and creating reports on product characterization. • Managing and guiding vendors throughout the product development cycle. • Determining the care instructions and labeling requirements for products based on the product characteristics and country of sale.

• Responsible for ensuring finished products meet Canada Goose product safety, regulatory compliance, quality, performance, and labeling requirements. • Responsible for managing vendors assigned for development testing and compliance and quality testing of production parts. • Review prototype and reference samples to ensure the final product meets Canada Goose quality standards. • Analyze potential in-use issues. Formulate and coordinate testing of prototype samples to address potential in-use issues before the design gets into production. • Interface with Project Managers, Product Developer, Sourcing, Merchandising, QA and Operations to determine solutions for quality issues. • Review test reports for prototypes and production parts and provide feedback to Product development. • Participate in the update of existing protocols for raw materials to better serve the needs of the business and customer. • Work with Warranty and Returns team to understand customer complaints and feedback the concerns with solutions to the design, material development and product development team.

Fort Worth, Texas

• Managed large-scale projects for the development of customer specific aircraft seat covers and other soft goods from concept to production, in accordance with customer requirements and specifications.• Developed, managed, and maintained dress cover specification and quality standard documents.• Collaborated with Airline customers to understand their vision of their cabin interiors and worked with the vendors and internal teams to bring the customer’s vision to life.• Analyzed ergonomics study of new cushion and cover designs to provide best product to Airline customers.• Managed vendors throughout the product development cycle.• Held workshops with vendors and customers to meet and exceed customer expectations.• Worked collaboratively with the internal and external customers to anticipate their needs and provide support accordingly. Provided accurate reporting on project status throughout its lifecycle to project team and stakeholders.• Provided support to sourcing for strategic selection of vendor for seat cover and cushion development and production.• Responsible for market research of new products and designs that provide best guest experience and deliver a high performing product to the customers.• Provided support to sales, technical support and repairs department for any customer queries and complaints.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Schwaebisch Hall, Germany

• Coordinated the development of customer specific aircraft seat covers and other soft goods with the vendors based on the customer provided specifications.• Worked collaboratively with the customers to understand their requirements and worked with the team membersand vendors to find ways to best support the customers.• Collaborated with Ergonomics department for the development of cushions and standard cover designs for a new product line.• Created detailed road maps, plans and schedules to complete every project on time. Reported the status of theproject to the project team in a weekly meeting.• Coordinated with sourcing, design, project management and QA to identify roadblocks and determine solutions to the issues.• Managed seat cover vendors throughout the product development cycle.

• Interfaced with internal departments and customers to jointly determine customer needs and expectations.• Single-handedly established and maintained the seat cover development process of RECARO at their USA site.• Strategically supervised the vendors to ensure the timely and cost-effective completion of projects.• Was responsible for managing the timeline for the development of seat covers and troubleshooting issues to deliver the project within the set schedule and budget.

Fort Worth, Texas

• Reviewed the Dress cover development process of RECARO USA and compared it to the global dress cover development process of RECARO.• Created a presentation outlining the flaws in the current process and provided suggestions for improvement.• Collaborated with the vendor, QA, production, sourcing and design department to review the quality issues reported on the production lines and determine a solution.

Michigan

• Maintain textile testing laboratory at Eastern Michigan University.• Assist in teaching textile science courses to undergraduate and graduate students.• Conduct textile science laboratory classes of undergraduate and graduate students • Assist in Research work. • Perform testing on textile testing machines like tensile tester, abrasion tester, thermal and heat resistance testing machine (comfort tester), Resin coating machine, DSC, FTIR, ultrasonic sewing machine, crockmeter, taber stiffness tester and air permeability tester for research projects. Teach undergraduate and graduate students to operate these machines and instruments.

Baddi, India

• Studied the complete process of the chemical processing of fabric: preparation of fabric for dyeing, dyeing and finishing.• Gained knowledge of preparatory, dyeing and finishing machines and material flow in in a cotton mill.• Gained knowledge of Standard Operating Procedure of chemical finishing of fabric.• Project "To study the effect of different parameters on the wrinkle resistant property of resin finished fabric" in Product Development Department of Vardhman textile mill.

Vapi, India

-Gained knowledge of worsted manufacturing system.• Gained practical experience of operating textile testing machines in worsted (wool) manufacturing unit.• Gained practical knowledge of dyeing and finishing of wool fiber.• Project to study “The effect of yellowness of wool on wool dyeing".

Master Of Science (Ms), Apparel, Textiles And Merchandizing, 3.96

Activities and Societies: 1. Vice President of Marketing, International Student Association. 2. Vice President of Event Planning, Indian.

Bachelor Of Technology, Textile Technology, 3.81

Activities and Societies: 1. Secretary of AATCC (American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists) student chapter at Government.