Brett Burns is currently a Director in the Advisory Services practice at KPMG. His primary responsibilities include new business development, practice management, and client service delivery. Brett focuses on HR and Financial business process transformation. He specializes in transformations powered by Workday, an HR and Financials management enterprise software-as-as-Service (SaaS).

AXIA Consulting is a premier consulting firm that provides technology and business consulting services to middle-market and Fortune 500 companies as well as government agencies.Brett was an associate practice lead within AXIA's Workday practice. Brett is Workday-certified in Core HCM, Integrations and Project Management. Brett worked on new Workday implementations, various post-production initiatives and support-related contracts in addition to new business development activities and proposals. Workday is an enterprise, on-demand human capital and financial management software as a service (SaaS).

MSDSonline is a provider of on-demand safety management products and services designed for businesses to access, manage and deploy a compliant material safety data sheet library and manage their various safety compliance programs from an Internet connected computer.As the Director of Content Management at MSDSonline, Brett was responsible for the budgeting and staffing of department, annual short and long-term goal setting and achievement, maintenance and currency of complex databases, document repositories and content on company web site.Designed, planned and delivered regulatory document cross-referencing product to market in 2011.Assisted in testing and delivery of each release of company web site since converting to SaaS in 2007.Scoped out, planned and implemented back-office applications used by organization.Built and managed team based on appropriate blend of full-time employees, in-house contractors and overseas partners tailored to specific departmental needs.Created business processes to reorganize interdepartmental functionality in order to maximize efficiency and productivity.Researched, screened and trained several offshore facilities in India in order to outsource the majority of department’s workload realizing an 80% savings in day-to-day operations and 75% increase in throughput.