Yimeng Ge Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Knitwise is a Knit On Demand platform offering fully customizable knitwear with a minimum order quantity of one piece. Our mission is to revolutionize the knitwear industry with a transparent supply chain, making on-demand knitting accessible to everyone through technology.

• Gain extensive knowledge & experience of window covering manufacturing and its textile application. Enhance ability to identify issues and persistence to drive solutions within cross-functional team.
• Develop & Qualify New Fabrics: 1. Lead new fabric development projects with cross-functional teams in order to meet business needs successfully. Develop and conduct qualification test plan or benchmark testing for each.
• Solve Fabrics Quality Issues: 1. Investigate root causes of internal failures and field complaints. 2. Plan and execute short-term actions in order to reduce negative business impact and drive the long-term solution or.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: 1. Lead improvement project with methodical and statically approach so as to drive consensus on the solution which results in establishing new data collection process and modifying current.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Gain experience and knowledge in the yarn production and the area of personal protective. Work closely with factory director and R&D department, and improve interpersonal skills.
• Quality Assurance: Check the quality of incoming materials, such as yarn number, fiber length, color, and etc., and report monthly.
• Procedure Optimization: Assist to establish and optimize the procedure of incoming materials quality assurance, like how many quantities of each materials should check, how each department should cooperate, and etc.
• Assistance in the R&D department: Help to work on the SOP (Standard Operating Procedure), and learn testing methods.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Grundy Lab Assistant:
• Conduct testing on textile material based on ASTM and AATCC Standard Tests like tensile strength, yarn number, abrasion, air permeability, and etc., and then evaluate the results.
• Assist to maintain the lab clean and organized.
• Instruct undergraduate students to conduct various ASTM and AATCC tests.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Learned screen-printing skills and gained practical experience in the real printing production environment.
• Reclaiming Screens: Remove emulsion and others from screens to make the screens can be reused.
• Burning Screens: Coated dry screens with emulsion, and then transferred design from film to screen.
• Screen Printing: Registered screens on an auto or manual screen-printing machine in the appropriate position, and operated the machine to print.

Philadelphia

Leveraged the utilization of school’s surplus assets (embroidery machine), with students’ design concepts, to launch a D2R (Design to Retail) business model, wholly run by students. Coordinated different parties involved in the project and learned the machine.

• Clients: Woolworths (South Africa), Industrie (Australia), Lloyd (Karstadt), C&A (China & Brazil), NEXT(Britain).Responsible for each client from the beginning to the end and integral part of the supply chain to drive.
• Development: Assisted clients with the development of new styles, fabrics and trims and arranged samples. Negotiated with fabric mills to get better price, and then made quotation sheets to get more orders.Assisted the.
• Production: Communicated with factories (China & Cambodia) and different suppliers to ensure production flow smoothly. When fabrics or approvals delayed, I negotiated with the factory director about the production plan.
• Sourcing: Source new fabrics suppliers with advantages in products (new fabric like digital printing) or price. Assisted clients to source fabrics based on their ideas, like floral print, new denim fabric, etc., and.

• Good experience to learn both soft skills and new knowledge outside of textile:
• Magazine: Helped Highline United China (Footwear company includes brands like ASH, Miss Sixty, and UN.) issue special magazines for their new channel “Villa Rouge”. My main job was like a bridge between the client and.
• Forum & Lecture: Hold the design lectures (cooperated with Shanghai Theatre Academy) and a design forum from planning, organization to execution.

Master'S Degree, Textile Engineering, 3.86/4.0

Activities and Societies: Grundy Lab Assistant -- Textile Testing & Evaluation● Project – Created a new unisuit combined with wearable.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Textile Sciences And Engineering

● Excellent Graduate, May 2011 ● Donghua University Scholarship [Top 5% of the Major], October 2009, November 2010 ● Excellent Student of.

Exchange Student, Distribution Design And Management

Activities and Societies: Major courses: Advanced Mass Customisation; Supply Chain.● Accomplished my first project on my own-- virtual.

Graduate, Fashion/Apparel Design

Activities and Societies: Award for the Most Potential of “World Expo” Green Creative Fashion Design Contest