David Wright
C. Eng. (I.E.T.), B.Eng. (Birmingham), M.B.A. (Lough.), Ph.D. (Lough.)PROFILE
David T. Wright has more than twenty years award-winning engineering (i.e. space, aerospace, motorsports, defense, oil/gas, and mining), management consulting, teaching and research success. The last seven years have involved innovation leadership (to Chief Scientist & Engineer, Vice President, and Professor levels) on the global stage. Specifics include: leading teams to 51 direct (367 indirect) reports, budgetary responsibility exceeding $52.4 million, and annual personal sales exceeding $31.3 million. Blue-chip employers and project clients include: Dowty (aerospace, mining), Fluor (oil & gas construction engineering), PERA (technology innovation & consulting), TAG-McLaren (formula one), Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Boeing, Airbus, Corning, Unilever, British Army & Royal Navy, QinetiQ (ex-Dera), SOM, IBM, ABB, and Computer Associates amongst others.
David’s areas of expertise include: industrial engineering, operations management, innovation science, new venture leadership, management consulting, project management, supply chain, strategic marketing, and enterprise information systems. David is widely published in these areas (33 international publications in a legacy 5 year period, with 15+ current additional publications pending in 2007 alone), has a 60% academic research grant success rate, has taught 65 sections of Diploma, Bachelor and MBA students in Canada (over 2,000 students to date), was founding organizer of an international conference series (with 200 delegates, 26 countries, and 20 journal co-sponsors), and sits on numerous journal and conference editorial boards since 1992.
EDUCATION
MBA, Business School, Executive part-time three year program, Loughborough University, UK, 1998. Dissertation- “Reengineering Enterprise Information Systems Using Intranets” with Morris Mechanical Handling.
PhD. Manufacturing Engineering & Computer Science, SERC CASE industry-based, Pera International and Loughborough University, UK, 1996 (completed 1995). Collaborator Fraunhofer-IKV, Aachen, Germany. Thesis- “Novel Analysis and Modelling Methodologies Applied to Pultrusion and Other Processes”.
BEng. Manufacturing Engineering, thick-sandwich co-op course with Dowty Group (Aerospace), at University of Birmingham, UK, 1991. Dissertation Project on “Sustainable Appropriate Development” with Intermediate Technology in Sri Lanka. Led more than 20 collaborative industry project successes.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCATIONS & SELECTED COMMUNITY SERVICE
MCMI- Member, Chartered Management Institute (UK).
MACM- Member, Association of Computing Machinery (US).
FRSA- Fellow, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, manufactures & commerce (UK).
CEng MIET- Chartered Member, Institution of Engineering & Technology (UK).
SMSME- Senior Member, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (US)
SMIIE- Senior Member, Institute of Industrial Engineering (US).
SMIEEE- Senior Member, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (US).
Supporter, Voluntary Service Oversees, and Intermediate Technology (sustainable development), (since 1990).
COURSES TAUGHT AT KWANTLEN
Variously teach diploma and BBA degree program courses in: BUSI 1210 Essentials of Management, BUSI 1215 Organizational Behavior, BUSI 2425 Enterprise Development and Business Planning, BUSI 2405 & ENTR3130 Production & Operations Management, and BUSI 1205 Supervisory Skills.
Have taught a range of MBA and MEng courses at other universities, including but not limited to: strategy, innovation commercialization, marketing, engineering management, supply chain operations, factory automation, software engineering, e-commerce, and management information systems.
SELECTED SERVICE TO ACADEMIC COMMUNITY & CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Editorial Board- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Journal- new journal to be published 2007, Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
External Ph.D. Examiner: University of Victoria; Canada; University of Northern British Columbia, Canada (since 2003).
Editorial Board- International Journal of Value Chain Management- journal published by Inderscience (since 2003).
Editorial Board- Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal- published by Emerald (since 2003).
Editorial Board & Book Review Editor- Business Process Management Journal- published by Emerald (since 2003).
Editorial Board- Campus Wide Information Systems- journal published by Emerald (since 2003).
Editorial Board- Information Technology & People- journal published by Emerald (since 2003).
Book reviewer, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management (since 2000).
Book reviewer, International Journal of Logistics Research & Applications (since 1999).
Organizer, IEE colloquia on Scenario Planning, UK, 1998.
Organizer, ME-SELA’99 held in Newcastle, Australia.
Founder and Organizer, International Symposium KE-MLM’97 at Loughborough University, UK.
Founder and Organizer, International Conference ME-SELA’97 at Loughborough University, UK co-sponsored by 20 professional journals and institutions; attended by towards 200 from 26 countries.
Session Chair, International Association of Management 14th Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2-6, 1996.
International Editorial Board, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (since 1996).
Session Chair, International Symposium on Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Systems and Technologies, Bradford 26-27 March 1996.
Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vancouver, Canada, 22-25 October 1995
Warden David Collet, Loughborough, UK, international hall of residence- 367 students, 50 countries (1993-1995) (with associated residential committee posts).
Referee, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Taylor & Francis, UK (since 1994).
CURRENT RESEARCH
“Towards a Sustainable Framework of Product-Market Innovation Commercialization Operations in the Emerging Economies of Middle Europe and Asia” This research focuses upon the resource challenges (for example internal staffing and equipment, external regulatory, structural, knowledge and so on) faced within formerly socialist countries, and the innovative operations management strategies they have adopted to manage the transition to competing in global markets. In short, plans are to explore how firms have successfully aligned dynamically operations excellence and the value-adding innovation transformation-engine of “supply” with the moving target of market opportunity “demand”, and leadership decision-making lessons. For many countries in the study, the fifteen or so years of economy transformation is sufficiently long for significant conclusions to be drawn.
This research centers upon customers, competitors, and corporate capability with the strategic operations choices made in different marketplaces; and has less detail on technological aspects.
The research method involves literature research, liaising with Middle European and Asian Universities, attending an IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Factory Automation in Prague, design and future deployment of a computer-based survey tool, future use of data for management consulting rapid-analysis of more than one hundred and fifty companies, plus in-depth visits, data gathering, and research at several companies.
