BALAMURUGAN.A
About Candidate
A result oriented professional having around 18 years’ experience in merchandising, production, sample development activities in knitted garments with reputed concerns. Adept in merchandising, production planning, costing, and new developments, and Export Analysis. To Resourceful in interfacing with the production team for meet the deliveries on time. Very understanding of production management with factories. Maintain excellent relationship with buyers, management and factory.
Fabrics
Mercerized Fabrics– Single mercerized, Double mercerized
Eli Twist yarn fabrics
Pima cotton fabrics
Blended fabrics – 65% cotton 35 % polyester, 60% cotton 40 % polyester
Poly cotton double dyed fabrics
Yarn dyed – Feeder stripes, Auto stripes, Engineer stripes,
Jacquard fabrics & 4 track fabrics
Plaited single jersey with blended & Yarn dyed
Heavy Jersey – Coarser count – low gauge – Higher Gsm
Fleece fabrics – French terry , Brushed fleece, Lycra French terry
Twisted – Grindle – Injected
Interlock, Birds eye, pointelle
Velour
Printing
See through screen print technique
Burn out technique print
Discharge Technique – Reverse print technique
Plastisol – High Density, Puff print, Foil, Flock
Motif technique
Non PVC, ELF, Gel print
AOP – Foil & Glitter
Embroidery
Cut out appliqué, Felt appliqué embroidery, Chinley embroidery
Thicker thread embroidery, All kinds of hand embroidery
Whip stitches, Tuft embroidery
Washing
Enzyme wash
Golf ball wash, Rubber ball wash
Stone wash with different timings
Bio polish
Acid wash
Crush wash
Burk wash
Elastomeric wash
Cpd-Tie & Dye
PRODUCTS HANDLED
Inner wear
Men’s Wear
Ladies wear
Boys wear
Girls Wear
Baby’s wear
Sleep suits
Toys wear
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
New Product Development, New Buyer Development, Samples Development for new buyers and exciting buyer,
Knitting follow-up, Fabric Dyeing Follow-up, Yarn Dyeing Follow-up, Rotary, and Manual Printing Follow-up.
Making the initial costing & confirm the Orders.
Production follow-up with factories, Production planning and organising. Communicating all the updates for the running orders to various departments like sample, fabric, production, and quality assurance through mails.
Maintaining updated information in excel sheet, with regard to daily production and timely compilation of various operations
Correspondence with Buyers on all issues related to Sampling & Production
Location
Education
Diploma in Textile Technology, (D.T.TECH) Rukmani Shanmugam Polytechnic College – Madurai – TN. I class 77% Period: 1997 – 2000 (Central Board of ANNA University, Chennai)
Bachelor of Computer Application, (B.C.A) Madurai Kamarajar University – Madurai – TN. Period: 2000 – 2003 (Approved by AEPC, Delhi)
Diploma in Fashion Designing, (D.F.D) College of Design – Madurai – TN. I Class. Period: 2000 – 2001 (Approved by AEPC, Delhi)
Work & Experience
EASTMAN EXPORTS Tirupur as a Merchandising Manager Polo Ralph Lauren (U.S.A) JD Williams (U.K) JC Penney (Arizona boys, Arizona Men’s, St john’s bay, A.N.A) Pac sun (U.S.A) Levis (U.S.A) Dockers (U.S.A) Carrefour (U.S.A) Sainsbury’s (U.K) Belk (U.S.A) Logo shirt (GERMANY)
Apr’ 10 to Dec’14 in Keya international (BLR knits) Bangalore as a Senior-Merchandiser Handling Buyers Groupe Andre Life style Chantal (FRANCE) LTB (TURKEY)
From Jul’05 to Mar’2010 in Goodwill Apparel’s Tirupur as a Merchandiser Handled Buyers Reebok (U.S.A) – Underwear (Direct) Us Polo (U.S.A) – Underwear (Direct) Sears(CANADA) Lee cooper (MEXICO)
