Glenn is an experienced ICT leader who spent 22 years in senior roles at the Department of Education (WA), overseeing the design, monitoring and management of statewide technology and telecommunications infrastructure.
He led key initiatives including the rollout of a fibre optic network connecting 98% of public schools across 2.5 million square kilometres of Western Australia, the implementation of a standard operating environment (SOE) focused on school network and servers, centralised cloud services and IP telephony, and the development of school-based management tools such as ICT dashboards and self-service systems. His work has ensured robust cyber security and provided schools with powerful tools to manage and monitor device and internet performance on their local networks.
This blog is contributed by guest author, Glenn Veen. For more than twenty years, I have witnessed first-hand the evolution of technology in education, from...