<p>news Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads this month revealed it had recently lost its most senior IT executive; a move that comes as the department gears up for an extremely wide-ranging refresh of its fundamental IT infrastructure designed to bring it up to date with modern desktop and application environments.</p><p>For the past several years, since November 2010 (according to the executive's LinkedIn profile), the department's chief information officer has been Chris Fechner. During that period, the executive's profile states, Fechner was responsible for implementing "major reforms" in enterprise information and linear asset management, productivity and collaboration, enterprise resources planning and online services.</p><p>Fechner also "completed large scale ICT organisational reform" including the design of new roles within Transport's IT department using the Skills Framework for the Information Age, as well as implementing the Prince2 project management methodology, the ITIL service management framework and an enterprise architecture framework from The Open Group. Fechner also worked on consolidating and optimising some of Transport's IT contracts during that period. Further information on Fechner's time at Transport can also be found in this iTNews article.</p><p>If you look back through Fechner's LinkedIn profile, it is apparent that the executive has held pivotal roles within the state government's IT operations for some time. Immediately before becoming CIO at Transport and Main Roads, he held an eight month role as chief information officer of Information Services at Queensland Rail's National arm. He had previously held another post as senior manager of solution services/customer and delivery services at Queensland Rail, as well as leading an ERP team and several other senior positions dating back to May 2005.</p><p><a href="http://delimiter.com.au/2013/06/24/qld-transport-loses-cio-at-critical-juncture/">Keep reading...</a></p>