Collis, Robert

Recent customers: Philips Lighting, 3M, Rhodia Engineering Plastics, Honeywell, and Renault DIAC.

'I enjoy drawing on my real-life experiences of using statistics when teaching courses in the European company environment. I try to make our Minitab training courses practical, accessible and memorable. My role as a trainer is made all the more interesting as I am able to roll out the same training programme in both French and English for our customers with multiple sites across Europe.'

Robert is one of two Minitab trainers based in the Minitab office in Paris, France.
Robert joined the Minitab team in May '97. During his first four months with us, he worked on a part-time basis, whilst he completed his Marketing Masters degree at Coventry University. Taking up a full time position in September '97 Robert became responsible for the provision of technical support to all the Minitab users across Europe.

Coupled with his linguistic talent (bilingual French-English), the statistics degree that Robert attained at the University of London gave him a good head start in understanding what our customers needed.

In June 1998, Minitab launched its first fully-translated French product, MINITAB Version 12 en francais. Several months later in 1999, following the completion of the Institute of Personal Development course in Training, Robert transferred to Minitab Sarl in Paris.

From the Paris office he provides exclusive service to French speaking customers (excluding French-speaking Canada). Robert offers technical support and also delivers on-site training courses to Minitab customers.

Since transferring to our French office, Robert has trained many influential companies throughout France and North Africa, including Air France Industries, Philips Lighting, Rhodia Engineering Plastics, Honeywell, and Renault DIAC. Robert has also been instrumental in providing training courses to those companies who are working to implement Six Sigma quality initiatives.

Robert joined Minitab having worked for several years as a market analyst in a sales forecasting organisation in Paris.

For all your French Minnitab training enquiries/needs, please do not hesitate to contact Robert at the French office on +33 (0)1 55 33 12 60, or e-mail formation@minitab.fr.