George Kurien

Experience

• 

  Test

  Aug 2006 - Aug 2009

  Software Engineer

  • Role – Worked on software development and maintenance tasks of Web and Windows applications (built using DotNet and Sharepoint framework) Led a team of 3 software engineers in the Intranet migration project from Sharepoint 2003 to MOSS 2007. Projects included the Cybage intranet, a point-of-sale application, 2 content management systems, website migration from a legacy system to Sharepoint, and a lead tracker tool for resellers.• Skill Set - Knowledge of entire software development life cycle, experience with agile (scrum) development process, one-on-one client interaction, SQL Server 2000, C# 1.1, ASP.Net 1.1, HTML, JavaScript, Sharepoint 2003, MOSS 2007 and various version control systems. Show less

• 

  Kama Jewelry

  Jan 2011 - Aug 2019

  Assistant PPC manager

  1. PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL:• Analyzing department-wise production capacity, every month.• Preparing rough-cut production plan and liaising with seniors to set monthly sales target.• Understanding delivery priorities of the sales team and communicating the same to the procurement team.• Reviewing received raw material dates and escalating delivery failure if these dates are not feasible.• After teleconferencing with stakeholders, preparing the weekly production plan for domestic factory.• If business priority changes and/or delivery dates communicated are not acceptable, then reshuffling the above production plan and emailing to all stakeholders.• Communicating the ‘frozen’ production plan to the production team in the daily stand-up meeting and stressing on critical deliveries.• Calculating production target (asking rate) daily and identifying the need for additional overtime/contract labour/sub-contracting.• Monitoring the production plan daily and highlighting important parameters in daily stand-up meeting. As also, escalating raw material unavailability and production shortfall with respect to target.• Making temporary production plans such that key customers’ deliveries do not get affected, as also, backlog orders are delivered side-by-side.• Prior communication of delays and revised delivery dates to sales team and customers.• Following-up aggressively with sales team for dispatch of orders ready-in-full but shipment kept on hold by B2B customer for various reasons.• Calculating the percentage of on-time deliveries, shipped-in-full, and analyzing reasons for shipment delay.2. MANPOWER PLANNING: Calculated the total data entry operator strength required during peak production season by employing work-study and time-study methods.3. PRODUCTION PLANNING AUTOMATION MODULE (in WIP stage) - Requirements gathering, creating high quality functional documents, discussing with IT team, identifying defects in the module and suggesting enhancements. Show less

• 

  Gold Star Jewellery Pvt Ltd

  Feb 2020 - May 2020

  Assistant Manager - MIS

  Created department manuals for casting dept and PPC team by reviewing existing manuals and interacting with team members. Improvised existing manuals by introducing additional sections like process map, detailed flowchart, team hierarchy, reference charts and tables, reports and FAQs.

• 

  Jasani Jewellery (UNIT II)

  Oct 2020 - now

  PPC Manager

  Head the planning team for product development and production of jewellery.