Candidate of the week: Quality Printing Technician
CAREER OBJECTIVES
In spite of a minor physical challenge – a partial loss of hearing and consequent mild speech impairment – I am determined to prove myself in my chosen career – Printing & Graphic Designing. My Career objective is to excel as a Quality Printing person par excellence.
HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATION
Completed Diploma in Multi Media in Flash, Photo Shop, Corel Draw, Page Maker , Adobe illustrator ., at the Aptech – Arena Multi Media College . Completed a one year Central Govt. Screen Printing Course at the Vocational Rehabilitation Centre in 1987-88. Underwent 2 months Internship at Avigna Technologies as a designer in their creative department, gained experience in Art direction, Photo shop and Flash.
WORK EXPERIENCE
I Started work with M/s. Usha Screen Printers, a screen / offset printing plate making proprietary unit located at Chennai in the year 1988 run by my family as a printing apprentice. I continued to work here till date but for a three month work exposure in a Multi Media Firm.
My Job responsibilities at Usha screen printers during the first two year period from 1988 to 1990 included screen printing of visiting cards, letter heads, covers, greeting/invitation cards, pocket calendars, Stickers, ID cards, and Certificates, ensuring minimum wastage of raw materials and at the same time ensuring quality of the printed products.
From 1991 onwards I took up responsibilities apart from printing, to purchase of raw materials. I was responsible for the quality of raw materials and its availability at production. From 1994, apart from maintaining quality of the finished products, I took responsibility for marketing and sales. I was responsible for order booking as well as payment collection. We also under took printing of Scratch Cards, Textile and Batik Printing.
With growing customer demand for computer based designs, I took a brief break in the year 2000 to undergo an intensive program in Multimedia Application (Diploma Program) to equip myself with the latest tools needed for Digital Designing and Printing. After a brief exposure at another firm specializing in Multimedia Printing, I took back the acquired skills to my parent company Usha Screen Printers.
From the 2001, I am actively using these skills at Usha Screen Printers to improve the firm’s business and also to enlarge our customer base. With these new skills I am now able to undertake jobs on banner printing, printing of calendars, pamphlets/ brochures, and Posters.
Usha Screen Printers now has a vast range of Customers from small business to enterprise customers. A few of the clients of Usha Screen Printers I have generated and handled are given herewith as reference
After a specialized program on digital design and printing, I joined through campus placement, M/s. Avigna Technologies Private Ltd., Chennai. I joined as a trainee designer in the Creative Dept. After a three-month period of internship, though the firm offered me opportunities to continue, I opted to go back to Usha Screen Printers and use my acquired skills for the growth of my parent company.
GENERAL DETAILS
As being in charge for the whole unit I have been exposed to dealing with a wide range of people and challenges . The kind of confidence my clients have shown in me has helped in building up my independence and develop my interpersonal skills and at no point of time I have found my partial loss of hearing be a handicap in my life. I am also enclosing the certificates of appreciation from my clients for your kind perusal.