Professional Background

For over ten years, Collier Management Consulting has provided clients with counsel, training, management services and support to establish, improve and register Quality Management programs that win and retain customers and increase productivity. We have the experience and ability to help you integrate Quality Management with other management functions, including Safety and Environmental management.

Paul Collier, P. Eng., CMC

  • Developer and implementer of integrated quality management systems.
  • Registered ISO 9000 Specialist and Certified Management Consultant, Canadian Association of Management Consultants
  • Registered Professional Engineer, PEO
  • B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science, U of T.
  • Experienced Quality Systems Trainer and Auditor in ISO 9000, ISO 13485 and QS9000.
  • Fourteen years of quality and engineering management in medical devices, electronics and engineering mega-projects.

Paul Collier

  • Over ten years of management consulting.
  • Member of ISO Working Group on Statistical Techniques and contributing author to ISO TR10017, "Guide to the application of statistical techniques for ISO9001:1994".
  • Voting Member of CSA Technical Committee Z289, Quality Management and General Aspects for Medical Devices.
  • Senior Member of the American Society for Quality, former chair of ASQ Toronto Section and chair of the 2001 Toronto Quality Forum.
  • Author and presenter  at the 2001 ASQ Annual Quality Congress in Charlotte, NC

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Quality management

  • Quality Manager of the joint ventures designing, building and operating a $650M, 195 kilometer highway project in New Brunswick
  • Quality Manager of a major Canadian switch-mode power supply designer and manufacturer supplying military, communications and computer markets.
  • Quality Assurance Supervisor of a major designer and producer of custom military and aerospace hybrid microcircuits to MIL STD 883C, MIL M 38510F, MIL Q 9858A, MIL STD 1772 and AQAP 1.
  • Manager of QA and Engineering of the premier Canadian manufacturer of cardiac pacemakers, operating under US FDA and Canadian HPB quality requirements.

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Management consulting

  • Collier Management Consulting continues to contribute quality engineering and quality management expertise to engineering, contracting and manufacturing enterprises.
  • Paul. Collier has provided services to clients in Canada, USA and Europe.
  • As Senior Managing Partner of VenturEdge Inc., an international firm of Certified Management Consultants, developed methodologies for rapid documentation and deployment of business procedures.
  • Advised and trained participants for quality management projects and team quality improvement and successfully prepared several clients for ISO 9000 registration.
  • As president of the Canadian Supplier Institute Inc., a not-for-profit consulting and training corporation, consulted and developed quality improvement training programs in the automotive and other industries and facilitated ISO 9002 registration of a leading metal roll-forming company.
  • As Senior Consultant in GR Technologies, Ltd., an influential Ontario training and consulting firm, advised SMEs in TQM, QA, Quality Engineering and Management, SPC, Problem Solving, Quality Costs, QFD, Z299, ISO 9000.

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Certificates, Licences and Professional Memberships
Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CAMC): Certified Management Consultant (1996) and Registered ISO 9000 Specialist.
Association of Independent Consultants (AIC).
International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
Professional Engineer, Ontario, # 08955015, PEO, 1976.
American Society for Quality (ASQ), 1978, Senior Member since 1985.

Certificates and licences not maintained because they are not required for present work:
Professional Engineer, New Brunswick, Registration # M5160, APEGNB, 1999 - 2000
QS 9000 Auditor, AIAG, 1995
Quality System Auditor (QS-A), Certificate #Q04417, RAB, 1995 - 1999
Certified Quality Auditor, Certificate #5632, ASQ, 1993 - 1996
CQE, Certificate #229, ASQ, 1980 - 1998

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Committee Memberships
ISO/TC176/SC3/WG6: Supporting Technologies; Statistical Methods (Contributing author to ISO/TR 10017:1999 Guidance on statistical techniques for ISO 9001:1994 and the year 2001 revision of same.)
Chair, 46th Annual ASQ Toronto Quality Forum, March, 2001
Advisor to 47th Annual ASQ Toronto Quality Forum Committee, 2002
Member of CSA Canadian Advisory Committees to ISO: CAC/TC176/SC3 and CAC/TC210 (Quality Management and Medical Device Quality).
Member of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association ad hoc Committee on ISO 9000 Consultants' Qualifications - October 1993 to February 1994.

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Other Memberships and Service Roles
Rotary Club of Toronto West, President 2003/4
Fair Vote Canada, Toronto Organizing Committee
Longboat Roadrunners Club

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