Jane Wakeling

Background

About Jane Wakeling

Project Director with over 15 years full project life-cycle delivery experience gained from working at Westpac Banking Corporation for more than 25 years. Strong in the delivery of complex application projects involving multiple systems, interfaces and vendors/partners.An motivated and professional individual with excellent interpersonal skills, who has the ability to build relationships at all levels. A lateral thinker, with a strong business and technology focus who can trouble shoot effectively and achieve project outcomes. A highly motivated, confident and proactive person with the ability to make balanced decisions based on people, customer and stakeholder interests. A leader, who can inspire others and bring them on a journey, through my passion, drive and integrity.Specialties: • project management and delivery of large scale, multi-million dollar projects ($5-25 million), involving mobile apps, packaged software solutions and custom technologies• planning, scoping, estimating and end-to-end project management of software development projects utilising different project methodologies (agile & waterfall)• building and developing relationships with key business stakeholders, with the ability to lead and influence key decisions• proactive management of project risks and issues• detailed financial management of project budgets and costs• project business case formulation and presentation• strategic architecture and solution design• strong people leadership and mentoring of direct and virtual teams (10-30 people) consisting of permanent, contract resources