Glenn Valiukas Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Developed strategies for Australian universities to optimise cloud spending and led multi petabyte data migrations for major organizations.• Implemented cost-saving measures for leading retailers, insurance, and financial organisations in Australia.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure successful execution of data migration projects.

Providing presales, advanced architectural and consulting services to customers including Origin Energy, Rackspace, Macquarie University, Westpac, Woolworths, ATO, Datacom, Dimension Data, Optus, Japan Telecom, and Israeli Ministry of Defence.The Israel MOD engagement was well received by customer “…and most importantly – your professionalism and customer focused attitude were of essence to successfully conclude this step of the engagement - Strategic initiatives lead EMC Israel; …They see [EMC] as integral part of their strategic planning… - Ministry of Defence”.Working with a major Australian university, in a presales role, to transform their current obsolete and expensive environment to a state of the art flexible and cloud integratable solution, “…you are going to be called out at the APJ Level Senior Management. Congratulations - Client Services - Enterprise Director”Providing guidance to customers on their transition to cloud, providing strategic roadmaps, and transformation of organisations operating environments to modern standards. During my time with EMC I have received numerous corporate awards for; Business Passion, Sales Success, and Core Corporate Values.

Sydney, Australia

Macquarie Bank is one of Australia’s leading investment banks with a world wide presence. Part of Macquarie’s technology divisions Leadership team, and leader of the global Unix engineering group across Sydney and Manila and working with the support teams across the organisations business units which spanned the globe.Leading financial management of an operational budget exceeding $35M for the Unix discipline, including financial analysis and compliance with budgetary guidance across the business units on both monthly and annual basis. Extensive management of technology vendors.Introduced consistent engineering standards to the organisation and addressed many long term support and contractual issues with vendors. Resulting in a long term reduction in operational costs and identification of organisational wastage.

This was a concurrent secondary role to my "Manager Platform Architecture and Engineering" role at BigPond.

The role continued to expand and development of products to support the interchange needs of a broader credit union base were conceptualised and created in conjunction with these credit unions. Working with the credit union stakeholders product was developed that not only reduced their costs, but achieved faster funds transfers to members as well as reducing personal risk to credit union employees by eliminating the need to arrive at their office in the early hours of the morning.I assisted other technology areas within CUSCL to achieve their diverse business goals, with the majority of these being non-functional such as achieving a “…initiative that will give us a significant marketing opportunity, Well Done! – Head of Product Development”.Achieved ISO 9002 quality certification for the network services group, the first department within CUSCAL to achieve this certification.

Applied Science, Information Technology

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Graduate Disploma Of Stratigic Leadership, Business/Corporate Communications