Luke Halliday is a dedicated problem solver who believes in making the impossible possible with a driven passion to transform technology explicitly into tangible business values. Most recently, he has been doing it for the Australian airport industry.
He was previously an Executive Technology at Australia Pacific Airport Corporation, the operator of Melbourne and Launceston Airports, Where he is transforming airport technology and shaping the organization’s future trajectory by building a real-time, predictive data analytics capability and enterprise data platform.
In his role as CIO, Luke has combated cost challenges, redesigned the operating model of technology to integrated outsourced and internal teams and set a strategy that is modernising technology across the airport. He is passionate about how data analytics and AI will improve overall airport operations and security.
He completed his Executive MBA at Bond University, graduated from the Australian Institute of company directors as a qualified director and acquired a range of expertise in business management, marketing, IT infrastructure and systems engineering.
In his early 20’s he co-founded an IT services business which went on to be listed twice in the top 10 fastest growing IT service businesses in Australia – Mercury IT. Through a journey which included merging two other IT businesses into mercury, establishing a management team and eventually stepping out of the daily operations of the business to take move into a director role, he has remained steadfast in his ambition to help organisations improve their business through the intelligent use of technology.
This talented man has won several awards such as a Technology Innovator, Owner Manager of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, and 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur for his brilliant contributions in business insights, IT intelligence, and data analytical acumen.
In this episode, Luke shares with us the challenges he overcame to achieve the technological transformation in Melbourne Airport and how data analytics was the biggest part of the job. He shows us with some real-life examples of how data made the passengers’ journey easier, faster, and more comfortable and enabled the airport staff to better assist the passengers, as well as creating great customer experience.
He also sheds light on the best strategy for a data infrastructure for any kind of business and discusses the enormous use of enterprise data platforms and predictive analysis to enhance the customer journey and help everyone involved.
Apart from that, we also get to learn how he found out the right resources to use and companies to merge with while building his own company Mercury IT. And, much more!
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Mercury IT:
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One book that he would gift it to his younger self: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance –
Published Articles:
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/approach-digital-disruption-innovation-luke-halliday/
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/update-my-change-position-luke-halliday/
Licenses & Certifications:
- Cisco Sales Expert, Issuing authority Cisco
- Certified Executive Coach, Issuing authority NS-NLP, Power + Training
- Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Issuing authority Australian College of IT
Learn more about Luke from the news:
- https://www.crn.com.au/news/mercury-technology-solutions-founder-luke-halliday-named-melbourne-airport-cio-471135
- https://www.melbourneairport.com.au/Corporate/About-us/Corporate-Information/Leadership
- http://anthillonline.com/luke-halliday-2010-anthill-30under30-winner/
- https://www.sita.aero/pressroom/news-releases/melbourne-airport-plans-for-the-future-with-technology-transformation-partner-sita