Corey Burns

Develops, implements, and maintains governance frameworks, policies, and standards to ensure vendor relationships comply with PSPC’s and federal regulations. Conducts periodic reviews and audits of vendor processes, ensuring alignment with organizational standards and continuous improvement. Advises internal teams and vendors on compliance requirements, providing guidance to support risk mitigation and adherence to policies.

Plans, executes, and monitors projects within Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Management to enhance efficiency, reducing risk, and improves vendor management outcomes. Develops project timelines, allocate resources, and reports on progress to stakeholders, ensuring alignment with PSPC goals. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to drive the success of project initiatives, including improvements in information management, process optimization, and vendor engagement.

Creates, reviews, and update policies, procedures, and best practices related to vendor governance and strategic sourcing. Manages the documentation of policies and processes, ensuring they are readily accessible and understood by internal and external stakeholders. Provides training sessions and materials to promote awareness and understanding of governance standards within the organization.

Assess and monitors vendor risks, developing mitigation strategies to address potential compliance or performance issues. Analyzes risk data to identify trends, offering insights to improve vendor management processes and enhance compliance. Collaborates with teams to proactively address and resolves vendor-related risks, ensuring PSPC’s sourcing practices are secure and resilient.

Builds and maintains relationships with vendors, ensuring productive and transparent communications that foster mutually beneficial partnerships. Serves as a key point of contact for cross-departmental projects and governance-related inquiries, supporting collaboration and alignment with PSPC objectives. Facilitates regular meetings and workshops to engage stakeholders, shares insights, and address challenges in vendor management and compliance.

Provided advice to senior management on the application of Government of Canada IM policies and their impact on Finance Canada & Justice Canada – CAP (FCAC/OSFI/FINTRAC/PSC/TBS), anticipating long-term projected client information requirements, capacity checks, and various other trend-identifying methodologies. Enabled IM solutions to support the organizations business intelligence and knowledge sharing capabilities, identifying, and securing the IM rules, tools, and resources required to support business intelligence and knowledge sharing.

Developed an enterprise-wide approach to data governance and the management of data assets in defining opportunities and implementing business process and system improvement toward the management of enterprise data. Provided project management expertise in the development and implementation of corporate IM projects (GCDocs, Digital Workspace, SharePoint, LEX, RDMS), developing project strategies and plans and supervise the execution of project deliverables. I also recommended change management strategies to facilitate transition to new policy and/or processes.

Provided comprehensive administrative support to legal professionals, including drafting, reviewing, and finalizing legal documents, correspondence, and reports. Developed and present options for structuring, implementing, and maintaining an improved records management/case management system to support client program and business line activities. I was responsible for contact with counsel from the departmental legal services units of several other federal departments and agencies.

Worked with client groups to define and implement information architectures and classification structures for use in enterprise systems (GCDocs, Digital Workspace, SharePoint, National File Plan, network drives), to ensure JUS information resources are effectively organized, discovered, shared, and managed. Developed IM performance measures, compliance reviews, and monitoring/reporting mechanisms (e.g., to support MAF responses) to ensure alignment with JUS and Central Agency planning and reporting requirements.

Provided professional analysis, advice and recommendations on sector business information, data, and systems, to support sector priority setting, strategic planning, planning of operational needs, implementation of plans, monitoring, evaluation, and performance management as well as the review and reporting activities of the Director, Business Management-ADMO. This involved a wide-range of subject matters including legal issues, resource issues, and various department-wide and government-wide priorities, objectives, and initiatives.

Planned, developed, and implemented sector business management information and databases, systems, processes, guidelines, and procedures to support the decision-making management activities of sector managers. Developed an enterprise-wide approach to data governance and the management of data assets in defining opportunities and implementing business process and system improvement toward the management of enterprise data.

Developed and provided analytical advice, interpretation and recommendations to senior management and stakeholders on planning and reporting systems, data, and information holdings, in conjunction with departmental functional areas. Developed and maintained analytical methods and assessment techniques and practices to assess the impact of issues on business planning. Implemented review mechanisms and initiatives to ensure the integrity of the information in the systems were compliant with departmental and central agency directives and policies.

Provided liaison, communication, advocacy, and information and facilitation links with officials and Executive Offices within the department and with key external stakeholder and partner organizations. Communicated links and working relationships with clients, colleagues, sector, branch and departmental employees, other departments, levels of government, and private sector organizations, to collect, provide and exchange information to contribute to management's strategic, operational, and business plans and activities for the delivery of programs and legal services to clients.

I provided high-quality, substantive, and timely information and documentation to ADMO (FIN) and its staff by building, managing, preserving, and optimizing access to the office's information assets, including corporate records. I was responsible for providing professional expertise in information and records management functions. I participated in the development and lead the implementation of standards and guidelines for records and archives management, adhering to legal requirements, business goals, and historical considerations.

Supported the IM/IT Business Manager in the day-to-day management of the ADM(Fin) information holdings as well as to lead the Records Management cleanup initiative and to oversee the consolidation, reduction, and migration of ADM(Fin) Information holdings into the DND Corporate Management System known as RDIMS/GCDocs. Assisted the IM/IT Business Manager in continuing efforts to reshape its information holdings as to ensure the preparedness for the migration of information to GCDocs are in place.

Provided strategic advice and recommendations to senior management, in developing and implementing strategies, policies and/or directives related to information management and training and coaching on the effective use of IM tools, in documenting and analysing business and IM processes to provide solutions, advice and recommendations to clients. Developed an enterprise-wide approach to data governance and the management of data assets in defining opportunities and implementing business process and system improvement toward the management of enterprise data.

Defined and analyzed client IM requirements and recommended solutions in an operational client service-oriented environment and contributed to the development of information and records management policies, directives, and procedures. Monitored a full project lifecycle for the implementation of electronic tools to deliver or support IM Services, identifies/resolves problems managing a complex workload and conflicting priorities.

Managed the development and delivery of information holdings systems, policies, procedures, disposition, and the records retention and disposition program, for the management of hard copy and electronic information holdings of the Division and the Office of the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Law Branch (Finance) and Central Agencies Portfolio (Justice) in accordance with the requirements of the Department of Finance, the Department of Justice, Treasury Board and National Archives legislation, regulations, and directives and under the general direction of the Director/General Counsel of the Division.

Identified, defined, and reported on records management operations, current and emerging requirements. Developed and presented options for structuring, implementing, and maintaining an improved records management system to support client program and business line activities. I was also responsible for the ongoing development and implementation of the electronic document management system GCDocs for the Law Branch-Assistant Deputy Minister’s Office of the Department of Finance Canada and Justice Canada (Central Agencies Portfolio – FCAC/OSFI/FINTRAC/PSC/TBS).

Provided legal research/analysis services for counsel using Westlaw, Quicklaw, and CanLII, as well as through the use of other search mechanisms and the quarterly time keeping system iCase for the Department of Justice legal staff, as appropriate in response to requests of counsel responsible for legislative or litigation cases work or in response to requests for information under the Access to Information Act, or for other purposes, and prepared reports on findings.

I provided information and administrative support to the Director by organizing and managing her personal and working files, draft letters for her signature, analyzing background material and summarizing highlights for the Director, ensuring processing in the appropriate format and in the allocated time frame of ADM, DM or Ministerial dockets, Budget documents, Cabinet Documents Parliamentary Questions, MOU’s, and policy papers.

I was responsible for the knowledge and information life-cycle management standards practices and tools to select and apply appropriate procedures and effectively utilize available tools when providing services including the: classification, coding and filing of records; retention and disposition of records; preparation of records for storage; information retrieval and transmission services and file room maintenance activities and the ongoing development and implementation of the electronic document management system GCDocs for the Information Solutions Branch-Records Services Division of the Department of Justice Canada.

Applied and informed clients of prescribed document/records management procedures, practices, and policies, including security and access policies and restrictions, to ensure records (electronic or physical) are effectively and consistently managed through-out their life cycle and that access is restricted to those with valid clearance and need to know.

I was responsible for documenting and analysing business and IM processes in order to provide solutions, advice and recommendations to clients, interpreting and administering information management (IM) related policies and directives, and classifying records or documents for storage in an electronic document/records management system in accordance with an organization’s classification scheme to facilitate storage, search, and retrieval.

Reviewed, indexing, and applying approved Records Retention and Disposition Schedules as well as Records Disposition Authorities to all (operational and administrative) corporate records holdings. Maintained file rooms, labels physical record containers and maintains index information for all records sent to off-site storage facilities. I provided advice and guidance to clients on all aspects of IM, IRBVs, Record Keeping, Government IM policies and procedures.

I was responsible for the records storage facility and the ongoing development and implementation of the archives management file plan, filing, and the electronic document management system IRIMS. I provided advice on federal and departmental policies, procedures, regulations, and pertinent legislation relating to information and records management. I also produced policy and procedural documents for use by clients in implementing records management activities, which are in compliance with government/departmental legislation/regulations.

Maintained file holdings by collecting or receiving, analyzing, recovering, classifying, indexing, and converting records for the Department of Justice Aboriginal management portfolio. Revised procedures, formats of correspondence and verified documents, processed records in electronic document & records management system iRims/EDRM.

Managed, organized documents, correspondence of legal services department, provided legal administrative service to clients including legal counsel and other senior staff. I provided the following records management functions: inventory, boxing, archiving, retention and disposition, and transfer of records to Library and Archives Canada (LAC).

Provided advanced administrative support to Counsel, and Senior Executives, ensuring the efficient operation of the office and the organization. This role involved a high degree of professionalism, discretion, and the ability to handle a wide range of responsibilities. Prioritized and managed the executive's calendars to optimize time and productivity, planned and coordinate travel arrangements, including flights, accommodations, and transportation. I also drafted and proofread correspondence, reports, and presentations on behalf of the executives, maintained and organized files, records, documents, and prepared agendas and materials for meetings.