Christopher Bamber Email & Phone Number

Bolton, Manchester, London

OLC (Europe) is a successful HEI with Franchise Partnerships and currently collaborates closely with NCG, EPNE and TCC on HND and Bachelors Honours Degree Topup programmes. With excellent QAA, Pearson and Partner College accreditations and operating across its 5 UK campuses, OLC student's results (through posted NSS results via Partner Franchise submissions) are out-performing all other UK private colleges. As founder of OLC with Professor John Sharp and Dr Mick Hides in 1998 I have Directed the company to achieve many accolades and become a college of global stature.OLC has a great heritage see the time line:Providing notable scholarship, education, professional training and research in management and engineering since 1998OPERATING FROM THE ORGANISATIOAL LEARNING CENTRE HEADQUARTERS IN BOLTON, GREATER MANCHESTERCOLLEGE PROFILEOLC (Europe) Ltd (The College) is a private Further and Higher Education Institute operating HQ in Bolton, Greater Manchester, in the UK. The College provides notable scholarship, education, professional training and research for UK and overseas students in a range of management and engineering disciplines.The College is accredited and certified to run education provision with approvals from British Accreditation Council, EDEXCEL, City and Guilds, IOSH, CIEH, ISO 9001: 2008, LRQA, The College of Teachers, Institute of Credit Management and many other professional bodies. The College has achieved Highly Trusted Status with the UK Border Agency.Our INTELLECTUAL HERITAGE1998 OLC (California) Professor Bob McQueen links up with John Sharp, Chris Bamber and Mick Hides.From a consulting company through to an internationally operating private college delivering education, consulting, research and training.2011 Globally active with representatives and partners in China, USA, Pakistan, India, Greece, The Baltic States, Romania, Libya, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Malta.see www.olceurope.olc for a complete heritage timeline.

Bolton, North Manchester

As part of Safety Groups UK, North Manchester Health and Safety Advisory Group (NMHSAG) is a member of The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA).

Bolton, United Kingdom

Supervising PhD research in the Business School with active research interests in Strategic Alliances, Knowledge Management in Education, Logistics, Lean and Agile Thinking, Marketing Strategy and Sustainable Business.

The Organisational Learning Centre is the campus in Bolton, Greater Manchester of OLC (Europe) Ltd for business and management studies and EETTEC Ltd for science and engineering studies. Mainly catering for UK students up to postgraduate level studies with a focus on Degree study and EDEXCEL undergraduate level Higher National Qualifications.Provides education and training for City and Guilds subjects, Institute of Credit Management, IOSH professional qualifications, CIEH short courses for environmental and health and safety professional topics.Is a Higher Education with QAA assessments and training establishment that has achieved Highly Trusted Status with the UK Border Agency, ISO 9001 Quality Management Certificate with LRQA, a member of the Chamber of Commerce Greater Manchester, Corporate Member of the College of Teachers and Member Company of Groundwork.

Liverpool, Childwall

I enjoy designing and delivering level 5 and level 7 lectures to mature students on part time professional management courses. The topics I continue to deliver for LHU include: "Human Resource Management" "Quality Management" Stakeholder Analysis" "Strategic Marketing" "Strategic Planning" "Organisational Modelling" and "Managing Change"

Aeronautical Engineering Dept / Management School

While working with Engineering Physical Research Council (EPSRC) carried out an ethnographic study of NW aerospace SMEs which analysed agile management capability and sustainability. In collaboration with The North West Aerospace Alliance (NWAA) the project visited 12 SME companies in the NW. The work included a critique of lean and agile manufacturing practice and the use, suitability and importance of these paradigms in the aerospace sector.Also worked as lecturer for undergraduate programs: reliability engineering; project management; quality engineering; statistical analysis; maintenance engineering; organisational behaviour; and human resource management.

Blackburn, Lancashire, Uk

• Strategic Operational Development implementing Total Productive Maintenance, Lean Manufacturing and Advanced Engineering Quality• Leading Improvement teams both locally and internationally across the group• Responsible for implementation, maintenance and improvement of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, CE marking initiatives, product inspection and testing• Maintenance Management and Productivity Improvement• Quality Management and Quality Control• Product development involvement and manufacturability improvement leader