Maxine Ewens is the epitome of the professional working mother, achieving career success while raising two children under the age of 5.
Maxine has over 15 years experience working with public and private sector organisations throughout Australia and currently heads up Wizard Information Services' dynamic Applications Solution Centre. This role involves her taking responsibility for and providing overall management and guidance of Wizard's application development and quality assurance projects. This role includes project planning, project directing, resource management, budget and revenue management. It includes continuous improvement and application of Wizard's quality processes, agile methodologies and reporting to senior management.
While Maxine has been involved in all aspects of project development, including product and project management, analysis, development, testing, release and configuration management and post implementation support she has a particular appreciation for ensuring quality and innovation in all aspects of a project.
Maxine has been a driving force behind the maintenance and expansion of Wizard's ISO 9001:2000 quality certification. Under her management Wizard has also introduced new development methodologies that are focused on ensuring that the solutions developed are of high quality, user focused, offer whole-of-life benefits including value for money, are designed to sustain continuous improvement and minimise risk.
As an important component of Wizard's continuous improvement program Maxine is committed to mentoring younger staff. This extends to her support for Wizard's student program conducted with local Universities, which sees her guide university students through work placement projects with Wizard, giving them invaluable work experience to boost their future job prospects.
Maxine brings enthusiasm and verve to all aspects of her work and is respected by her colleagues as an outstanding businesswoman who has also achieved an impressive work/life balance. Maxine Ewens is the April 2006 WICked Woman Award Recipient