Joanne Wakelin PMP AgilePM Change Mgt Practitioner

Experience

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  Capital and Coast Health Limited

  Mar 1993 - Sept 2000

  Project Manager, Advisor Support Solutions, Systems Analyst
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  Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

  Sept 2000 - Jul 2005

  Senior IT Consultant/Project Manager
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  Simpl

  Aug 2005 - Jun 2012

  From 2010 ran the national practice and reported to the Chief Executive. Average 2 to 3 direct and contracting reports.Established coherent modus operandi for the Strategic Consulting business. Assignments commercially successful.Designed and/or led consulting assignments ranging from strategy development, governance, client management service design through to politically complex multi-party procurement. Outcomes included:Client obtained technology platform required to achieve desired competitive edge within a cost constrained and complex funding environment.Client able to grow maturity of internal information technology function while supporting regional transformation of service delivery.Established collaborative procurement and service transformation programme by 7 District Health Boards (responsible for the health of approximately 26% of the New Zealand population) as an initiative of national importance. Developed the most mature and clinically led definition of patient centred integrated shared care in the country at the time. Procurement confirmed information technology required was available. Key thinking from this initiative informed significant health programmes in New Zealand. Show less

  • Principal Consultant

    Apr 2008 - Jun 2012

  • Senior Consultant

    Aug 2005 - Mar 2008
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  Taking a break

  Jun 2012 - Sept 2012

  Taking a break
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  Joanne Wakelin and Associates

  Sept 2012 - Dec 2019

  Principal Consultant

  Hutt Valley District Health Board: (Agile Project Management, stakeholder management).Electronic Wait List Management: Leading deployment for all (9) elective surgical specialties.Digital x-ray scanners and image storage: Leading deployment for the regional community child health service. Largest deployment of its kind for scanner vendor.MidCentral District Health Board: (Project management, inter-agency relationship & stakeholder management, process re-engineering, business case development, governance). Digital Hospital Operations Centre: Led implementation. Enabled optimised patient flow through inpatient services (ED, 19 wards, theatres, 2 geographic locations: over 1,200 users). Benefits being realised. Organisational change management very successful in a turbulent high pressure environment. Governance Group formally commended the excellent work delivered by the project manager and team.Pharmacy Management System: Led implementation. Benefits: Improvements to delivery and management of medicines; exceeded expectations. Created foundation for a regional solution. Led development of local and regional business cases. Instigated the Central Region Pharmacy Leaders Group, facilitated regionally agreed shared data sets. Instigated the National ePharmacy Users Group for prioritisation of changes; enabled coherent vendor response and sharing of costs.Enable New Zealand (Procurement, project mgt, strategy) Led development of Integrated Web Presence Delivery Plan. Enabled move from disparate websites to coherent web presence. Options analysis of suitable technology solutions. Led ‘selective’ procurement of Web CMS and service provider.Canterbury Lab Service Level Alliance: (Project mgt, facilitation, inter-agency relationship mgt) Led identification of approach for provision of Laboratory Information System, for delivery of integrated lab services by Canterbury DHB and SCL. Outcome approved for implementation by internal and regional lab governance groups. Show less

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  New Zealand Police

  Dec 2019 - now

  • Change Manager

    Dec 2022 - now

  • Senior Project Manager, Transformation and Change

    Dec 2019 - Feb 2023