• Gender: Male
• Age: 52
• Designation: General Manager – NPD / NBD
• Highest Education Level: Masters - Degree
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Preferred Location: Thane
• Work Experience: 27.3 Year(s)

Education

M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry) from Mumbai University, D G Ruparel College (Mumbai) in 1995.

Skill Sets

An accomplished and result driven professional with over 24 years of cross-cultural experience in R&D, Technical Services, Product development, Sales support, and Customer Relationship Management in performance coatings, plastic and paper coatings, pressure sensitive adhesive, silicone release coatings, labels, printing, flexible packaging industries.
Worked within defined process in various Technical Projects, Involved in development stages of Idea generation, Idea Screening, Concept testing, Cost analysis, Product development, Test marketing, Review market performance, and commercialization
Presentations and training sales force, Being a perfect information bridge between R&D and sales force, Application engineering, Building project pipeline, kick off commercialization of products, My key areas of work, Visiting Customers, Tracking on sales target, Dealer Management, Customer Relationship & Retention, Coordination between the QA, R&D Team, Marketing Team and the customers for co

Work Experience

General Manager – NPD / NBD
Since April 2016
Company Profile : Manufacturer of Biodegradable compostable film, conversion and Certification process, Recycling pet / poly based laminate structures, Stand up spouted laminated pouch for liquid packages, Alumium Lid foil heat sealable coating recipes, Lid polyethylene film extrusion recipes, Heat Transfer label, High mvtr / otr 2 ply flexible laminates, In mould label, Precut Aluminium Lids, Alu Alu laminate for pharma blister pack, High barrier coatings, Microperforated fruit bags
Job Profile :
Projects Worked:
Develop packaging for new products / packaging innovation through stage gate reviews
Develop & Drive the project requirement in packaging initiatives, from idea to implementation which include conceptualization, prototyping, feasibility, capability, & deployment at manufacturing plant
Build product development project pipeline
Formulate supplier audit standards and lead analyses of the quality, and price of every packaging material
Trouble shooting / Quality Improvement deal with packaging problems during production as needed, serve market complaints
Lead cost saving projects
Shrink LD blown film development – machine parameters, recipe development, film mechanical properties,
Heat seal coating for Aluminium foil, polyethylene flexible material for pvc, hips, pp, pet bottom cups
MAP based lid laminate, butter foil lid laminate, Jelly pasteurizable lid laminate
IML substrate ink validation & project trials
Biodegrada

Segment Lead Technical Manager
2 years 6 months
Job Profile :
Generating product concept from ideas & translating into business opportunities, Designing project path forward
Working closely with team of Post doctorate, doctorate scientists, in material analysis through FTIR, Weather o meter, Contact angle, Peel, Tack , Shear, Tear strength, uv printing, lab roll coater, Rheometer, Humidity Temperature climatic chamber, Scuff tester, Scanning electron microscope, Gas
chromatograph.
Handling Home Personal Care, Graphics, Durables segment of labels and packaging division,
Meeting market information by directly working with Marketing, End users, Technology vendors
Projects worked:
Lab roller coating machine equipped with mayer rod, gravure, & slot die coating head with on line corona supplier evaluation, Personally visited to supplier RK print coat (UK) & successfully installed & conducted operation trials at Avery R&D center.
Uv Flexo , thermal printable top coating
Special printable non silicone based release liner evaluation
Bio compostable water proof paper coating
Fragrance slow released label coating
Uv resistant rubber hot melt psa label for hair oil application
Lenticular printing & film development for security label
Localization of PSA adhesives, Vendor evaluation
Customer complaint trouble shooting related with print anchorage failure, printing defects, through equipment analysis
Label laminate die cutting conversion trials

R&D Executive /Product Manager (DPM)
Sep 1998 to Dec 2012
Company Name : TechNova Imaging Systems (P) Ltd, as
Job Profile :
Research & Development
Coordinating with customers for understanding their technical requirements and facilitating the internal departments for developing technical projects.
Analyzing the various processes / applications and recommending process modifications to enhance the operational efficiency of the projects.
Responsible for product formulation to support existing business as well as new business.
Assisting marketing team by providing technical expertise to support business.
Maintain a learning environment conducive to personal growth which meets company objective.
Marketing Support
Understanding customer need and analysing the information for formulating effective product development strategies.
Gathering market information by closely interacting with local user industries & traders.
Closely interacting with key decision makers and also with operating executives of customers for getting in depth understanding of their requirements and translating the same into business opportunities.
Team Management / MIS
Imparting continuous on job training to the workforce for enhancing their productivity & operational efficiencies through knowledge enhancement / skill building.
Formulating MIS reports master data base for marketing and technical presentations, Respond to FAQ’s of Sales team and customers in an effective manner.
Key Result Areas:
Collated the information and feedback from the customers voice from Dubai Region in 2008.
Formulated new low cost inkjet backlit and indigenous micro porous inkjet formulation in 2008.Successfully participated in the Europe Inkjet Conference held in Delhi.
Individually participated in Printing Exhibition an event for APPEXPO 2009 in Shanghai.
Assisted for manufacturing micro porous inkjet product through slot die coating at Hindustan Photo Films in 2010.
Delivered a presentation on the Product Management Overview in Annual Budget Meeting for the year 2011- 2012.
Designed profitability improvement programme with the help of product design / raw material sourcing & designing value added formulation.
Formulated Hp indigo printable coating.
Addressed the issues related to the Backlit media compliant of fading with hp inkjet inks from customer was lab, test evaluated, explained with technical understanding resulted media repeat orders from all over India Holds the distinction of developing the following products for Mayer bar, / gravure / comma doctor / slot die
coating of:
Glossy Resin Base Coating for Eco Solvent & Solvent Digital Inkjet Printer.
Matte Resin Base Coating for Eco Solvent digital Inkjet Printer.
Laser Imageable Water Base resin Coating for HP, Canon, and Xerox Colour Laser Printer.
HP Indigo Imageable Matte and Glossy Resin for Paper Coatings.
Resin Base Cloth Coating for HP Inkjet Printer.
Textile Thermal transfer coating – laser printer imageable
Paper Coating for Eco Solvent –Solvent Digital Inkjet Printer Coating.
Micro-porous Inkjet Photo Paper Development.
UV Fading Studies of inkjet inks & inkjet receptive Coating’s.
ICC Profiling of Inkjet Media on various RIP Printer Software.
Siliconisation of Polyester, Pet, SCK paper Base Material.
Characterizing visco elastic nature of psa adhesive through rheometer
Pvc calendaring and supplier localization

Production Supervisor
Jul 1997 to Aug 1998
Company Name : PRS Permacel Ltd
Job Profile :
Knowledge of Direct & Reverse roller coating, knife over web coating, extrusion coating, mixing and compounding of Natural rubber applied for psa adhesives
Handled outsourcing operations for the heavy insulation tape through extrusion coating manufacturing.
Handled rubber compounding, solvent based acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive & silicone pressure sensitive adhesive coating on paper, aluminium foil, polypropylene, hdpe,Teflon, pvc, polyester film substrates,
Manufacturing of elastomeric heavy insulation silicone tape for aeronautics railway engines, electrical motors,
Manufacturing rubber based solvent psa adhesives, two roll rubber compounding.
Working knowledge of PVC film calendaring process monitoring
Formulated electrical insulation varnish for tissue paper tape

Chemist
Aug 1994 to Jun 1996
Company Name : New India Industries
Job Profile :
Developed photographic emulsion recipes,
Working knowledge of dip coating
Raw material Quality Control, photographic emulsion R&D at pilot scale
Supervision of emulsion production,
Photo lab QC, Lab documentation
Development of inkjet ink receptive coating formulations

Future Goals

Seeking leadership assignments with a reputed organization preferably in Flexible Packaging, printing industries, Performance coatings, pressure sensitive adhesive, Silicone Release coatings, Labels & Laminates,