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Expert in Apparel Productivity, Ethical Compliance and Quality Management in Underdeveloped Countries
Available for your Consulting and Expert Witness Needs
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Summary of Expertise:
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Expert has thirty years experience in quality management starting when this discipline was in its infancy in 1981. Wrote and instituted the original standards and procedures for Gap and managed their US and Caribbean suppliers. Subsequent to that he worked with the best manufacruters suppyling stores like Talbots, Brookes Bros, J.Peterman, Lands End and Sigrid Olsen. Thereafter he was recuited by Kurt Salmon to provide consulting services to a licensee of VFCorp to set a world-wide quality assurance and ethical compliance program mainly in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Dominican. This involved writng the standards manuals, recriuting and training the staff of inspectors and deploying them to the factory locations.
More recently he was recruited by Booze Alan to provide expertize to the Serbian Enterprise Development Program, which he did for 3 years, advising and guidiong apparel companies there how to improve productivity and quality.
Over decades of sewing in underdeveloped countries he has created a quality improvement program that does not require much capital expenditure yet yields excellent results.
He is a creative problem solver and a strong motivator and trainer.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Boston, Massachusetts;
Worcester, Massachusetts;
Springfield, Massachusetts;
Lowell, Massachusetts;
Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Brockton, Massachusetts;
New Bedford, Massachusetts;
Hartford, Connecticut;
Manchester, New Hampshire;
and Providence, Rhode Island.
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1959
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MBA
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Business
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London School of Economcis
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1957
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B.Comm
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Economics and business
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University of Cape Town
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2009 to 2010
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Southern New Hampshire University
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Continuing Education
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Adjunct Professor
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Teach adult learners.
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1999 to 2009
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New Hampshire Technicl Institute
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Adjunct Professor
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Taught undergraduste students
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2004 to 2008
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Serbain Enterprise Development Program
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Consultant advisor
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Visited cleints to advise them how build capacity and improve quality with little capital expenditure.
Made 7 trips of about 3 weeks each to Serbia, and worked with over 50 client companies.
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1997 to 1998
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Kikomo
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Independent consultant
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Set up world wide quality assurance and ethical compliance program. (see above in written section).
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Associations/Societies
Was a Senior member of ASQ until 5 years ago.
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Publications and Patents Summary
Many articles on quality and general economics issues, e.g. Apparel Magazine
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1996 to 1999
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USAid
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Advisor
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Worked in Serbia as apparel consultant on USAid project there.
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USAid......Serbian Enterprise Development Project. Was the primary consultant to the apparel/textile cluster on this capacity building project. This involved in visiting and providing consulting serices to over 50 client companies in country, conducting seminars and industry-wide meetings.
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Project for VFCorp to set up and manage a world-wide apparel quality and ethical compliance program at a licensee of theirs (Kikomo of NY).Wrote the manuals and standards, went to Asia to recruit and train selected staff, and then deployed them around SE Asia. Monitored the program on site and remotely until it was run in and going smoothly.
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Gemline Inc. Wrote quality manuals for the bag/luggage division and then the apparel division, and trained their inspectors to perform these tasks.
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Recent Client Requests:
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Expert in textile quality audit and training for consulting on Textile Quality Control Auditing, systems and training.
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Expert in clothing textile manufacturing for consulting on military clothing manufacturing processes.
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Textile expert for consulting.
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Expert for a free initial screening call regarding your expert consulting needs.
Expert is available for consulting to corporate, legal and government clients.
Remember, your initial screening call to speak with
Expert is free.
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Expert Witness Experience Summary:
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Has provided expert witness services in 2 lawsuits involving apparel.
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Recent Litigation Client Requests:
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Faux leather garments expert for litigation involving international shipping from China of ladies faux leather jackets.
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Expert witness dry cleaning process for consulting on Dry Cleaning Processes and Contamination resulting from release of solvents.
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Textile expert witness for consulting on uniform quality issues.
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Click the green button above to contact
Expert for a free initial screening call regarding expert testimony,
litigation consulting and support, forensic services, or any related expert witness services.
A few litigation needs include product liability, personal injury, economic loss, intellectual property
(patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright), and insurance matters. Remember, your initial screening
call to speak with
Expert is free.
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I have worked on the ground in 45 countries producing apparel.
Asia, Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, Europe.
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English
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Excellent
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Coming from the underdevelopd world and having produced goods in 45 countries, he has unique perspectives on what works and how to achieve it.
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Expert for a free initial screening call regarding your marketing research, industry research, and company
research needs. For research needs involving multiple experts or secondary research,
a Research Director can be assigned to coordinate the work into a custom report for you as a potentially quicker
and more cost effective alternative to doing this work yourself or hiring a boutique consultancy.
Remember, your initial screening call to speak with
Expert is free.
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Training/Seminars
Quality assurance and productivity training for inspectors and factory management.
Introduced unique productivity and quality protocols and trained factory personnel to use these.
College professor for over 10 years.
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection Previously managed huge sourcing programs but not in the last decade.
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