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Colin was born in Cape Town, and educated in Zimbabwe and England, where he graduated from the University of London with a BSc Engineering. After working on the Zambian Copperbelt as an electrical engineer, he joined Eskom as a project engineer, and was eventually appointed to the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station project. After its completion, he was given the task of assessing the spare parts requirements and optimising the power station's spares inventories. From 1989 to 2009 he was employed as Materials Manager and later as Operations Manager by Petrel Engineering, a manufacturer and major exporter of marine equipment and was also responsible for Quality Assurance and Information Technology. Colin currently serves as a director of SAPICS, having been chairman of the SAPICS Cape Town Chapter Committee from 2001-2002 and has presented papers at the annual SAPICS conferences in 1994, 1995, 1998, 2004 and 2009. In 1996, he became the first practitioner in South Africa to be awarded a Fellowship in Production and Inventory Management (CFPIM) by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS). Since 1994, he has assisted other companies with ERP and ISO 9000 systems implementations and regularly presented APICS and SAPICS training courses, initially on a part-time basis, then full-time from 2009. He had been accredited by APICS as a Lead Instructor. In 2010, Colin was invited to speak at the APICS conference in the USA and in 2011 this was followed up with speaking engagements at the SMART Conference in Australia and the Supply Chain World Southeast Asia conference in Singapore. |
