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Enterprise IT, Featured, Features - Monday, March 12, 2012 17:31 - 0 Comments
Passion for Human Services: DHS CIO outlines vision
feature It’s May 2011, and Australia’s whole IT industry is buzzing, with the annual CeBIT trade fair in full swing. Tens of thousands of attendees are examining the hundreds of displays in the huge cavern of the Sydney Exhibition Centre, where the crème de la crème of Australia’s technology sector is proclaiming their wares.
However, despite the carnival atmosphere and the panopoly of offerings to be examined, many of Australia’s technology journalists are crammed into a small lecture room off to the side of the main hall, listening to one man.
The reason? This man is one of the most important executives in Australia’s technology sector. With a technology budget stretching into the billions over time and an in-house staff of thousands, Department of Human Services chief information officer John Wadeson is the centre of attention. And he’s retiring. Just a few months earlier the long-serving public servant confirmed he was on his way out. Australia’s technology press are here to witness one of his last public appearances.
Wadeson has left behind him a colossal task for his successors. The CIO used to lead Centrelink’s IT division, itself one of the largest IT end user organisations in the country. But since late 2010 he’s also been in charge of the massive IT consolidation going on as Centrelink, along with other agencies such as Medicare, are consolidated into the new DHS super-agency. In that role Wadeson has overseen the commencement of one of the nation’s largest technology integration projects — an initiative which still has many years to run.








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