By Justin Hendry on Jan 14, 2021 4:30PM Christian Rasmussen
Finds new tech chief from Lotterywest.
Western Australia’s health department has named former Lotterywest tech chief Christian Rasmussen as its new chief information officer.
Rasmussen, who replaces former CIO Holger Kaufmann, will start at the department’s shared services arm, Health Support Services (HSS), on Friday.
Kaufmann resigned in June 2020 after two years at the helm, having joined from the then Office of the Government Chief Information Officer in May 2018.
Rasmussen comes to HSS with decades of experience in IT leadership, most recently at Lotterywest, otherwise known as the Lotteries Commission of Western Australia.
Christian Rasmussen
Western Australia s Health Support Services (HSS) has appointed former Curtin University tech boss, Christian Rasmussen, as its new chief information officer. Rasmussen replaces Jonathan Smith who has been acting CIO since Holger Kaufmann s departure last July.
Rasmussen will start with the WA agency responsible for providing ICT services to public hospitals in the state on February 15. He had been CIO at Lotterywest since August 2019.
Rasmussen is a has a long track record of successful digital transformation and change management leadership. He spent more than five-and-a-half years at Curtin University where he led a team of more than 300 staff that oversaw the improvement of Curtin IT Services and the university s learning and teaching technologies.