After his graduation from the University of Guelph, Allen had a production management role at Electrohome and a service management role with Bell Canada.  He then had an additional 33 successful years in supply chain management at Massey Ferguson and Unitron Hearing.  At Massey Ferguson his focus was on priority planning systems in a highly complex and vertically integrated manufacturing environment.  At Unitron Hearing, a high-technology and regulated medical device environment, he was focused on international purchasing, priority planning systems, inventory management and global distribution. Allen was also a member of a global purchasing and negotiating team within Unitron's parent corporation (Sonova AG) which had significant success in reducing product costs from common suppliers. He also successfully managed international supply contracts and subcontracting agreements.

His last assignment at Unitron Hearing was as the Project Manager to create a new distribution centre in Switzerland which consolidated global distribution to over 60 countries throughout Europe, Asia, South America and Africa. At the same time he also developed common reference tools using Microsoft Sharepoint so that global customer support could be integrated with employees situated around the world in various time zones.  
 
Allen has experience implementing a number of different ERP systems including Baan and SAP.  He has been an APICS member and supporter since 1981 and has been on the Conestoga College Program Advisory Committee for Materials and Operations Management since 1998.
 
Recently retired, Al has been exploring many other areas of personal interest and doing some volunteer activities.   This included a volunteer role in Venue Communications at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

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