Peter M. Collins of A2B Tracking Named to Providence Business Journal 40 Under Forty List

Peter M. Collins, President and Founder of A2B Tracking Solutions, Inc. has been named to the 40 Under Forty List of young business leaders by The Providence Business Journal. Under Collins’ leadership, A2B Tracking Solutions, Inc, of Portsmouth, RI has developed UID Comply!™ software, a total lifecycle management system for contractors who must comply with the Department of Defense (DoD) mandated UID policy.

Portsmouth, RI (PRWEB) November 28, 2005 -- Peter M. Collins, President and Founder of A2B Tracking Solutions, Inc. has been named to the 40 Under Forty List by Providence Business Journal. The list recognizes 40 young men and women in the Rhode Island area who have made outstanding contributions in their respective fields.

Under Collins’ leadership, A2B Tracking Solutions, Inc, of Portsmouth, RI has developed UID Comply!™ software, a total lifecycle management system for contractors who must comply with the Department of Defense (DoD) mandated landmark policy requiring all assets and personal property owned by the DoD to be marked with a unique serialized identification number (UID) and placed in the UID Registry database. As a bar code and tracking expert, it was natural for Collins to become recognized as one of this country’s foremost experts in UID compliance.

This very complicated mandate affects 43,000 government contractors and literally billions of individual parts. Contractors must comply with the UID mandate in order to continue to do business with the government. The net affect is an elimination of waste, with the whereabouts and lifecycle of these parts visible to military personnel and contractors.

A2B Tracking Solutions, Inc, has been providing innovations in turnkey solutions to time-sensitive tracking challenges since 1994. Collins’ experience in bar code and automatic data collection (ADC) technologies grew from his early development of successful Newton MessagePad products and continued with bar code and automatic data collection (ADC) applications on the CE and Palm OS platforms. He has particular expertise in the area of mobile computing utilizing bar code scanning and radio frequency (RF).

In 1998 America’s largest parcel shipping company contracted with A2B to complete development of its parcel tracking system. Under Collins, A2B Tracking continues in that development role and is the sole provider of technical support to 700 users around the world.

One of Collins’ earliest successful ventures, The MacBarcode® Company, developes bar code, label-generating software for vendors to retail giants K-Mart and Wal-Mart. Collins has also consulted on the streamlining of operations, through bar code tracking, in virtually all industry sectors including insurance, finance, hospitality, manufacturing, defense contracting, education, shipping and telecommunications.

Collins is a frequent featured speaker at national events such as Department of Defense forums and association meetings such as the National Property Managers Association, the National Defense Industry Association and the Defense Acquisition University. He is an extensive contributor to trade publications, on the subject of time-sensitive tracking and UID compliance, as well as a frequent lecturer and seminar instructor. He has consulted on time sensitive tracking and UID subjects to hundreds of companies here and abroad.

Collins, who is a member of EO (Entrepreneurial Association), achieved ICSA All-American status while on the University of Rhode Island sailing team. Prior to collegiate sailing, Collins won the International 420 sailing class national championship in 1987. He later competed in the International 420 World Championships in Sydney, Australia.

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