Account manager

•	Over 20 years experience in QC/QA/QM, manufacturing, production, sourcing, product development, mainly in managing
positions covering garment, accessories, footwear and consumer goods field
•	Excellent multi-tasking, organisational, problem solving skills
•	Creative, enthusiastic, self-motivated, entrepreneurial and pioneering thinking, innovative and efficient approach
•	Strong leadership and communication skills in cross - functional and cultural work environments
•	Working independently, taking responsibilities and ownership, when needed, collaborative across departments
•	Hands-on work is as familiar as administrative work
•	Consulting manufacturers and brands in sourcing, costing, price negotiation (BOM) and production related matters
•	Streamlining production processes (SAP, lean, 8D)
•	Factory assessments and audits, cooperate with 3rd party labs, office management, hiring and onboard training of staff
•	Frequent travel to liased factories and exhibitions throughout APEC, Middle East, North Africa, India, Bangladesh
•	Microsoft Office, Adobe Illustrator, Keynotes, Outlook, computer literate
•	Fluent in English and German, conversational French

•   Customise tech packs for embroidery, screen and digital printing
•   Managing and handling of incoming orders, customer service

•	Creating tech pack,
•	Product development,
•	Quality assurance, improving fit and risk assessing styles for production and quality issues

Garment technologist

09/2008 - 08/2015
•	QC/QA, project manager, product developer for various companies and designer/brands,
•	Sampling, production consulting and monitoring, sourcing, factory assessement and audit
•	Streamlining production
•	Brands: PHP (HK), Native Shoes, Alcantara, TORA clothing

Freelance

•   Researched, evaluated, created new and innovative products for existing and potential clients
•   Hiring, training and briefing new team members
•	Reporting to senior business development manager
•	Brands: Alcantara, Apple, Incase, Samsung, RIM, Amazon, LUMO bodytech

Business Development Manager, Product Developer

•	Improving technical issues on men dress shirts
•	Overseeing and creating fitting comments for all pre-production samples
•	Working closely with sampling room on improving fits and patterns, workmanship and quality improvement
•	Crossfunctional communication with customers, technical and design teams
•	Onboard training at JC Penney and Abercrombie & Fitch
•	Brands: Dillard's, ANF, Polo, SAKs, Nordstrom
•	Market: USA

Senior Technical Manager

International Fashion Consultancy GmbH
•	Hiring, onboard training of new team members, leading a team of four
•	Managing development and production of high-end ladies fashion, creating Tech Packs
•	Sourcing new fabric and garment suppliers
•	Factory assessments and audits, quality assurance implementation
•	Reporting to director in Germany (company dissolved mid of December)
•	Brands: Passport, Frankonia, Virmani
•	Markets: Europe

Team leader of German branch of ITC

•	Assessing and organising merchandise and QA departments
•	Implementing tools streamlining and monitoring supply chain, rating production outcomes and improving quality quotas
•	Heading and initiating internal departments and buyer meetings
•	Developing new products for functional sports wear, knit and woven products
•	Holding in-house lectures on new fabrics, technologies and important production and quality issue
•	Advisor in QC/QA department interviews
•	Bands: Haggar, Byer, Rawlings, RAI
•	Markets: USA, Europe

Consultant, time contract

•	Hiring, on board training, briefing of internal QCs in all product ranges (outerwear, knit and woven, activewear, textile accessories, trims, sundries)
•	Implementing QA and QC tools to improve and monitoring supply chain
•	Sample development, efficiency solutions with liased factories, pre-production planning, including presentations
•	Order discussion and briefings with merchandise and procurement teams
•	Industrial engineering for all of company's products
•	Onsite trouble shooting, factory assessments, evaluations, audits, co-operate with external labs on international standards
•	3rd party inspection planning, briefing and supervision
•	Reporting to owner/director
•	Brands: Teamsport BMW, Toyota, Yamaha; Redbull, apple, cote et ciel
•	Market: Europe, USA

Head of QC/QA

•	Establishing rep office for Protrade Corporation, Binh Duong, Vietnam
•	Hiring, training and briefing new team members
•	Sourcing potential customers, communication and price negotiation with existing and new customer
•	Monitoring orders placed at Vietnamese factory
•	Sourcing, merchandising and monitoring fabric and accessories within APEC
•	Reporting to director in Vietnam, signature authorisation
•	Brands: Kohls, Fred Myers, JC Penney, Declathon, main product: denim
•	Markets: USA

General Manager

Establishing Hong Kong rep office for Karl Rieker GmbH & Co KG, Germany
•   Overall supervision, instructing and managing quality control and merchandise related matters for all product ranges
(men, women, kids underwear, outwear, functional/active wear in woven and knit)
•   Establishing strategic alliances with suppliers, supply chain monitoring
•   Administration of Hongkong office, supervising budgets of all branches in SE Asia
•   Reporting to director/owner at German headoffice, signature authorization
•   Brands: Aldi
•   Markets: Europe

•   QC/QA at offshore liasion factories
•   Ensuring quality issues are being rectified or reworked within given timeline
•   Ensuring ontime deliveries
•   Outerwear to underwear in woven and knit
•   Countries: Romania, Turkey, Jordan, Indonesia, China, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Myanmar

Quality Control Officer

Textile division, maternity cover
•	Overall supervision of business operations of ABA's textile division
•	Overseeing all orders and quality matters
•	Managing, accounting, administrative matters of division
•	Teaching and supervising of textile trainees in sewing and quality matters
•	Supervising trainees school work and grades, tutoring in some cases

Instructor

•	Stationed in Hong Kong (Nelly Knot Enterprises Ltd)
•	Quality control on ladies heavy knit products
•	Liased with suppliers and buyers in Asia
•	Frequent trips to Indonesia and China
•	Brands: Kapalua


ADDITIONAL:
Instructor for Vocational Training - Garment Industry	Hohenstein Academy 03 March 1995
MTM System (Method Time Measurement)	Hohenstein Academy 12 January 1995
REFA - Work Study	Hohenstein Academy 02 July 1994
Managing WEEE/RoHS with GPMS and IECQ QC 08000	held by SGS-HK 02-June 2006

Quality Supervisor and Merchandising

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BEATRICE WALTER: Account manager

BEATRICE WALTER

Shirtworks Ltd

Animal

Native Shoes, Alcantara, TORA clothing

cosmosupplylab Ltd

Smart Shirts Ltd

FDC Ltd

Talent Creation Ltd

cosmosupplylab Ltd

Coolway Co Ltd

Maceton Ltd

Karl Rieker GmbH & Co KG

ABA

Kapalua Strickwaren GmbH

Technical School for Apparel, State