Iain Burns Creativity CV

https://www.linkedin.com/in/iaincliveburns

Available UK&NI NED roles or consulting in any sector.

Lifelong leader in building personal, individuals’ and team creativity to improve Enterprises

Drove benefits exceeding $1.5Bn over 5 decades. Successful Exec in many areas needing creativity, deep analysis, innovative strategies and teamwork.

3 times created a World first in different sectors.

2014 IT CONSULTANT. Personaly created Worlds first report for  using IT for 25% reduction in Global CO2 emissions

97-99 Global IBM TEAM LEADER creating first unified corporate Sales Process for 120,000 People in over 100 countries. Benefit >$0.5Bn/yr

76-82 CREATIVE NUCLEAR DESIGN ENGINEER

A lead designer on the Worlds first Dry Storage for Spent Nuclear Fuel at Wylfa, Wales.

WIDE SECTOR EXPERIENCE

Creative Strategies Education

Nuclear Engineering Design

Manufacturing Design

IT Hardware and Software

B2B Marketing

Services

Business Consultancy 

Sustainability research

Design Invention and innovation

2020-today Director & Trustee @ Creativity Centre Educational Trust (CCET)

2010-today SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT

2022 Post Graduate Studies in Artificial Intelligence @ Imperial College

Leading many creative research projects.  bit.ly/2mikEjN

00-09 IT EXEC

exceeded all targets for IBM

EMEA IT services Marketing

UK Head of Emerging Technologies Creation

UK Senior Consultant Green IT Services. Creating IBM UK Sustainable IT leadership

97-99 Global IBM team leader creating first unified corporate Sales Process. Benefit >$0.5Bn/yr

98-99 Went beyond Global role to convince IBM Chair to create and lead a project for Global system to ensure product messages flowed unchanged into marketing materials in >100 countries. Beat scope, budget,  timescale. Benefit >$100M/yr

97-99 Influenced Global Process teams in Opportunity Mgmt + Product Development for $100Bn of revenue

95-EMEA Mainframe Product Marketing Manager. Exceeded $10Bn target by $250M with creative sales promotions.

93-94-IBM UK Product Mgr grew installed mainframe power by 50% in 18 months. Benefit $21M

92-93 IBM UK Creative UK expert Mainframe sales Consultant to all UK Account Managers. NO LOSS TO COMPETITION IN 76 DEALS. #1 advisor in UK. Benefit of no losses >$21M

IBM UK 100% Sales Club 5 years running. Benefit $7M over targets

Other Qualified IT Roles

Systems Engineer

Industrial Systems

CADCAM & GIS & 3D Modelling

Data Centre Design

Green IT

Software

Innovative Client Management across many sectors in Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, HMLR, MOD, DVLC, Local Gov, Retail, Aerospace, Mining

.University of Bath. Aged 23, Won UK National Undergraduate Creative Design prize for breakthrough Nuclear Inspection device