Since April 2006 – Academic Enterprise Manager within the School of Engineering with the following responsibilities.

• Developing open two way communication between the School of Engineering and manufacturing organisations, local support organisations such as business link and the DTI

• Manage sales opportunities for consulting and research  revenue income

• Develop a pipe line of KTP  opportunities and sales

• Help support student placements and employability activity

• Manage the Resettlement Programme

• Develop and deliver short public courses

Relevant Previous Experience

March 2003 – Now Worked as an independent consultant ( Colin Wilson Consulting) key projects;-

• Set up a SAP Automotive Centre of Excellence for Cap Gemini in Waldorf Germany.
• Wrote and Directed a short movie on the automotive supply chain
• I was a judge on the Automotive News European Logistics Awards
• Worked with a supplier of  factory automation systems to develop their new family of products for which they were awarded the Business Link Essex “ In Bloom Innovation Award”

1990 – 2003 Cap Gemini During this time I worked as a management consultant and had the following responsibilities;

• Manager of the ERP consultancy Team
• Manager of Manufacturing Best Practice Consultancy
• Global Account manager for Lilly Industries (pharmaceuticals)
• Project Manager for the development and implementation of a European wide manufacturing execution system for a major steel manufacturer in six plants
• Project managed an Automotive ERP system in eight sites in Europe.
• Project managed an ERP implementation in seven sites in Europe for an electronics company.
• 1998 – 2003  global manager of manufacturing and supply chain in the Cap Gemini Global Automotive Centre of Excellence  where I was responsible for;
• The design of a Manufacturing Execution System for a large General Motors plant in Detroit.

• Design and implementation of  CKD systems in Germany and Indonesia

• Designed a global survey on Lean Manufacturing in Automotive this survey was conducted By Gartner in the USA, Europe and Asia and published by Cap Gemini

• I organised a major conference to the leaders of the Global Automotive Industry, This was a three day annual event by invitation only to senior managers from the industry

• I was part of the UK Governments Three Day Car Research Programme

• I am media trained and I appeared on a live Sky TV Automotive Channel interview on the future of the automotive industry.

1986-1990    Computer Management Group  (CMG) where I worked as a management consultant some key projects include;

• Managed the development of CMGs consultancy methodology

• Run and delivered a number of education programmes both client based and internally

• I was trained by Eli Goldratt (author of the Goal) in the theory of constraints and managed a team of OPT consultants

• Managed a number of MRP implementations in the UK and mainland Europe

1972 -1986 During this period I had senior management roles in a number of manufacturing companies.

Papers Published

I have published a number of papers in ISATA on Automotive Manufacturing

I have spoken on Automotive, Pharmaceuticals and Supply Chain at a number of international Conferences in Europe and the USA.

Research Interests

• Optimisation software for the sequencing of complex manufacturing assembly lines such as automotive.
• The use of lean techniques to provide benefits to organisations by reducing their carbon footprint and reducing risks to the environment.