Dr. Engr. Md. Fazley Elahi

Experience

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  Giant Group, Bangladesh

  May 2000 - Aug 2001

  Production Officer

  • Planning, executing and following up the production activities and control the quality production.

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  SM Group of Companies

  Sept 2001 - Mar 2006

  Manager, Dyeing and Finishing

  • Carrying out hands-on management of the dye house operations and improvement of dyeing operations ensuring dye house to meet all production and quality needs. • Oversee scheduling, materials, and labor to ensure that dyeing deadlines are achieved.

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  Technische Universität Dresden

  Apr 2006 - Dec 2008

  MSc in Textile and Ready-Made Clothing Technology
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  Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH (IVW)

  Jan 2009 - Aug 2009

  Guest Researcher

  • Manufacturing and development of Textile composite materials with different high performance fibers like carbon, glass and aramid and Resin (Thermoplastics and thermosets) materials with different methods.

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  Southeast University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Sept 2009 - Aug 2011

  Assistant Professor

  • Taking the responsibility for the development and delivery of learning, teaching materials, and assessment. • Organizing teaching and learning, for curriculum development, or for the student experience more broadly.• Demonstrating innovative approaches to teaching and support for students through the use of a wide range of learning resources and appropriate pedagogic practice, such as the use of blended learning approaches in teaching.• Ensuring that students have an effective learning experience by providing high-quality academic guidance and advice and by enhancing their employability.• Preparing and modifying the course syllabus and course outlines relevant to the current demand of globally renowned Buyers. Show less

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  Donghua University

  Sept 2011 - Oct 2014

  Doctoral Researcher
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  Turag Garments & Hosiery Mills Ltd.

  Jan 2015 - May 2015

  Head of Textiles

  • Looking after all the activities including required yarn, finished fabric, solid dyed, AOP, etc. • Fill up the dyeing capacity with orders and coordinate with the Marketing team for any new/repeat/development orders. • Competitive pricing/costing & sourcing of yarn, fabric-grey, solid color, white, wash, Brush, AOP in any fabrication/compositions. • Fabric Merchandising, Master planning/TNA for Yarn, Knitting, Dyeing Finishing & AOP, and Monitoring of the same. • Coordinating with Factory for all the new /repeat/development orders to ensure the TNA and OTD. • Coordinating with Marketing & Factory for any issues/complaints related to fabric. Any other responsibilities as assigned by the management. Show less

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  Urmi Group

  Jun 2015 - Apr 2017

  Head of Research & Development

  • Partnering with design and production from the beginning of a season to understand seasonal concepts/aesthetic fabric qualities needed to evolve each category, offering fabrics that meet the objective at a cost effective price.• Sourcing and maintaining relationships with the mills on follow up regarding prices, lead-times & yarn details.• Attending national and international tradeshows and global mill week with the goal of identifying relevant trends and establishing new resources to help us evolve our quality while ensuring our price value proposition is maintained.• Attending weekly cross functional meetings with merchandising, production and design partners to discuss open issues so we can ensure neither product integrity nor delivery is compromised.• Providing fabric technical support to Product Development and Merchandising teams.• Analyzing Client’s requirements for particular fabrics and developments and ensure that fabric quality is achievable and can be maintained from development through to bulk delivery. Show less

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  DBL Group

  May 2017 - now

  Head of Research & Development, Fabric Division

  • Lead R&D and industrialization of the fabric division comprising the state-of-the-art manufacturing operations of DBL Group.• Drive continuous improvement across all business units ensuring world-class operations to delight global & local customers. Ensure all compliance requirements of the buyers.• Drive R&D initiatives to cater to ever-changing customer requirements in the fashion industry, offering multiple options to buyers to choose from at optimum cost.• Ensure agile & responsive supply chain to cater to all customer orders, focusing on short lead time orders. • Drive all capacity expansion projects and induction of new technology to cater to increasing demand & to remain cost competitive with superior quality delivery.• Drive improvement in SC matrices, e.g., OTIF, Cost, Quality, Compliance, and KPIs. Show less