• BSc (Hons) Applied Physics
• PhD in Communications
• AIoD, MIEEE, SMACM
• Chartered IT Professional (CITP)
• Fellow Institution of Engineering & Technology (FIET)
• Fellow British Computer Society (FBCS)
• Chartered Engineer (C.Eng)

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• Director

Colin has a degree in Applied Physics and was awarded a PhD for his work on spread spectrum local area networks; both degrees were from the University of Durham (UK). During the past 30 years he has worked in both the academic and the industrial world. He has been a lecturer at the Universities of Durham and Surrey, worked for several years at Logica Ltd., was the founder and managing director of the systems consultancy Hyperion Systems Ltd., has acted as independent consultant to many private and public organisations, and has also given numerous industrially oriented training courses on communications and software engineering.

From 1992-1999 he was a member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield where he was Head of Department and Professor of Computer Science. During the time at the University of Sheffield his research activity was focussed on the modelling and performance analysis of data networks, particularly those based on cable network architectures.

Since October 1999 Colin has been consulting for the IMS Global Learning Consortium. The IMS Global Learning Consortium is the World’s premier e-learning specification development organisation. He is currently the IMS Chief Architect and as such he is responsible for managing the development and maintenance of the full suite of IMS specifications.

During the last ten years he has worked on a number of public and private sector e-learning projects and has given presentations on this topic in many parts of the world. He joined the British Computer Society (BCS) in 1999 at which time he was made a Fellow of the BCS and became a Chartered Engineer. He was Chair of the South Yorkshire branch of the BCS 2002-2004. He was Non-Executive Director of Digital South Yorkshire (d-SY) from 2003-2005. Currently he is a Non-Executive Director of the International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS).

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