Chrishan Abeywardena
Team Lead Practice Improvement @Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities
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WORK HISTORY
Team Lead Practice Improvement @Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities
Auckland, NZ
As Team Leader of Practice Improvement, I lead a regionally based team focused on driving operational excellence and fostering a culture of continuous improvement across Kāinga Ora’s place-based teams. By leveraging data-driven insights and collaborative methodologies, I work closely with regional leaders to address local priorities, implement scalable solutions, and align practice improvements with our national service delivery model.Key contributions include:Establishing and embedding a robust practice improvement function.Empowering teams to adopt continuous improvement practices for sustainable performance.Building strong partnerships to ensure impactful and aligned service delivery.Translating local insights into scalable, national practice enhancements.This role reflects my commitment to delivering high-quality, professional services that meet the diverse needs of our communities.
EDUCATION
Carey College
English
SKILLS
ABOUT CHRISHAN ABEYWARDENA
I am a natural, leader, complimented by my analytical thinking and logical approach to tasks. I have a quiet strong personality that enables me to produce results with speed and accuracy. I am a rational strategic thinker and take up challenges with vigour and zest.My experience and skill levels have been honed within the shipping industry for approximately 15 years, covering all aspects at an operational level and subsequent strategic engagements during his extensive travel. Myin the market leader here are the united international breadth of experience and capacity for adaptation, integration, change and delivery is seen as pivotal in the Operations Manager role. A fundamental inherent quality is his ability to interact with ease at all levels and within many diverse cultures, a critical component of the role.As an inherent function of his position in the current role of Process performance and Design Manager, of paramount importance, is performance measurement. Process Improvement is the driver to ensuring monitoring systems are in place, analysis of problem identification and ensuring application and implementation of MAERSK methodology which includes Six Sigma, Lean Principles, Lateral Thinking. In conjunction with this methodology, the tools utilised to achieve these concepts is MINITAB which encompasses Control Charts, Pareto Charts, Capability Analysis Charts, Histograms just to name a few, reducing the cost of non-conformance.My accountability includes the global engagement (internally and externally) of all aspects of the Process Re-engineering discipline in terms of development, support, research and development to ensure best practice is always maintained and projects are delivered according to MAERSK methodology standard.I have been trained in CPH under PMI Consulting (Green and Black Belt )Certified Black Belt / Green Belt Specialities: Certified in Black Belt (Lean and Six Sigma)Lean & Six SigmaLateral ThinkingProject Management
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