anna burns

operational excellence manager

About

A business improvement leader with experience across a variety of industries and value streams, implementing change as well as identifying where it needs to happen. Delivering sustainable results through a balance of lean and organisational development, analysis, problem solving, team leadership and coaching.

Country

united kingdom

City

brighton

Industry

telecommunications

Skill

lean manufacturing, operational excellence, change management, continuous improvement, leadership, process improvement, six sigma, project management, business strategy, management, business transformation, process engineering, cross functional team leadership, business process improvement, value stream mapping, facilitation, organizational development, kaizen, employee learning and development, customer experience, cross functional problem solving, employee engagement, presentation skills

Experience

honeywell operating system leader

honeywell

2009-3 - 2015-5 · 6 yrs 3 mos

internal lean consultant

airbus

2004-4 - 2006-10 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Member of the Airbus Production System internal improvement team. Driving lean transformation in the A380 business, conducting program analysis, and supporting work teams in Toulouse.

marketing excellence leader

honeywell

2016-12 - 2017-4 · 5 mos

* End-to-end improvement for the Honeywell Personal Protective Equipment business including: * Product line recovery program leadership. * New Product Introduction process. * Business and operational excellence.

continuous improvement manager

trend control systems

2006-11 - 2009-3 · 2 yrs 5 mos

* Increased MTO process flexibility, improved quality, reduced labour costs whilt delivering 12% additional capacity (saving over $400K). * Supported SAP deployment, production routing planning, capacity and cost modelling. * Led Trend to win the prestigious Manufacturing Industry MX awards.

english teacher

future english china

2003-1 - 2003-1 · 1 mo

operations management consultant

tefen

2000-1 - 2002-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Delivering operational improvements for pharmaceutical, electronics and semiconductor clients across Europe.

velocity product development leader emea

honeywell

2016-5 - 2016-12 · 8 mos

Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address tough challenges linked to global macrotrends such as safety, security, and energy. With approximately 132,000 employees worldwide, including more than 19,000 engineers and scientists, we have an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything we make and do.

business excellence leader

trend control systems

2015-5 - 2016-5 · 1 yr 1 mo

* Delivering cross-functional strategic business priorities and operational excellence. Leading change projects across end-to-end business value streams, problem solving and developing a continuous improvement culture. * Business-wide Strategy Deployment Process. * New Product Development strategy and deployment framework. * Customer experience/VOC analysis to improve product and wrap-around services offerings * Lifecycle management and marketing communications process improvement.