[3] Colvin began his career at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1979 in the Chemical Division.
In 2001, he joined Solvay Engineered Polymers, where he worked on thermoplastic polyolefins for automotive applications.
[4] In 2005 he joined Cooper Tire and Rubber Company working on tread compounds as an advanced chemist.
[5] He returned to Cooper in 2011 to lead a successful $6.9 million DOE-funded Biomass R&D Initiative grant to produce and test an all-guayule tire.
[6][7] Following his retirement from Cooper Tire in 2017, he has taken consulting roles with the USTMA,[8] Silpara,[9] Kengos,[10] and Smithers.