Dennis Burns

Current

Director at Lean Six Sigma Solutions Ltd.
Director at BlueFront UK Ltd

Past

General Manager - Total Quality Assurance at Panasonic Mobile Communications Development of Europe
Quality Manager at Saitek plc
Post Development Manager at Pace Micro Technology plc

QA Staff Engineer at Granada UK Rental & Retail

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Education

The Open University
Coventry Technical Colledge
King Edward VI Grammar, Nuneaton

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Information Technology and Services

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Dennis Burns’s Summary

A highly experienced world class, total quality professional and user experience specialist, combining extensive technical experience with excellent strategic skills and strong leadership ability.

An outstanding record of generating substantial financial and market benefits, with a passion for building high-performing teams and delivering the highest levels of excellence and product quality within global blue-chip organisations.

Now looking for additional portfolio roles (NED, advisor, consultant, etc), to make a significant impact within dynamic businesses that are serious about maximising their potential. Also open to alternative challenging opportunities.

Dennis Burns’s Specialties:

QCD improvement, Lean, Kaizen, TQM, Continuous Improvement, Deming PDCA, Poka Yoke, mistake proofing, Lean Six Sigma, FMEA, RCA, Design QA, Design Validation, User Experience, VOC, usability, best practise, AQAP, 8D, 5S, SQA, QFD, NPI, NPD, Project QA, gate/ phase review management, ISO9000:2000, BABT, regulations and compliance, EMC, SAR, CE, safety, reliability engineering.

Dennis Burns’s Experience

Director

Lean Six Sigma Solutions Ltd.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

January 2008 — Present (9 months)

Providing management consultancy to SMEs who desire to make breakthrough changes and continuous improvement in QCD (quality, cost, and delivery); without necessarily deploying full-scale: six sigma, lean, or lean six sigma methodologies.
Director

BlueFront UK Ltd

(Computer Software industry)

December 2007 — Present (10 months)

Heading up and managing the expansion of BlueFront AB, an established Swedish SaaS solutions developer, into the UK market.

BlueFront AB are developers of Emrox customer returns and repair management solutions for: mobile network operators, blue-chip consumer electronics manufacturers, national retail chains/ independent retailers, and also national and local service companies.

Responsible for Sales & Marketing, New Business Development, and CRM.
General Manager - Total Quality Assurance

Panasonic Mobile Communications Development of Europe

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

July 2003 — March 2006 (2 years 9 months)

(3 year overseas assignment to Panasonic Mobile & Automotive Systems, Czech Republic).

Previous roles with Panasonic Mobile:
QA Product Review Assistant General Manager (Mar 2003 - July 2003)
QA Product Review Manager (April 2000 - Mar 2003)
Chief QA Engineer - (March 1999 - April 2000)
Quality Manager

Saitek plc

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

December 1997 — November 1998 (1 year)
Post Development Manager

Pace Micro Technology plc

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; PIC; Consumer Electronics industry)

October 1995 — December 1997 (2 years 3 months)

Previous positions with Pace Micro:
Zero Defects Manager (January 1994 to Oct 1995)
Senior QA Engineer (Dec 1992 to Jan 1994)
QA Staff Engineer

Granada UK Rental & Retail

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

March 1987 — November 1992 (5 years 9 months)

Dennis Burns’s Education

The Open University

BSc (level), Digital Telecommunications & Electronics, 1988 — 1996
Coventry Technical Colledge

1985 — 1988
King Edward VI Grammar, Nuneaton

1965 — 1970