I am a Manufacturing & Operations Leader with over 20 years of progressive leadership across FMCG sugar and continuous process manufacturing, specializing in plant commissioning, operational excellence, OEE improvement, cost optimization and cross-functional leadership. As Deputy General Manager (Plant Head) at PRAN Group, I led the commissioning, stabilization and commercial start-up of a 100 TPD food-grade liquid sugar plant, directing Production, Maintenance, Utilities, Engineering, Warehouse and Quality with full operational accountability.
Earlier, as Head of Quality Assurance at City Sugar Industries (3,000 TPD & 2,000 TPD refinery), I built HACCP, FSSC 22000, ISO 22000 and ISO 9001 systems from the ground up and maintained zero major non-conformances across nine years of Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Transcom supplier audits. I am currently a Senior Chemist (Laboratory Systems & Technical Advisory) on a World Bank-supported DPHE water quality project, and have strengthened my leadership toolkit with Data Analytics (Power BI, SQL, Python), PMP and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt preparation, which I applied together with my team to complete automation initiatives across plant operations.