Wayne Bucklar

Wayne Bucklar started his computing career while with the Education Department in 1984, just a year after the Personal Computer was launched. He says it was entirely accidental, but he quickly became fascinated with the possibilities for businesses to use computers. He set about understanding the business technology story.

In 1992, the WWW was released in Australia and Wayne was one of its first commercial users. The pace of the story quickened and by 1999 he was running the largest commercial web development operation in Australia prior to his stint in academia.

In 2005, he resigned from his former role as a full-time Lecturer in Electronic Commerce in the MBA program at the Brisbane Graduate School of Management, Queensland University of Technology and dropped back to part time lecturing to focus on the establishment of technology company Truecom Pty Ltd as their founding CEO.

Now back in the Private Sector, Wayne is a Director of Truecom Pty Ltd and E-Business Strategies Pty Ltd, as well as a board Consultant with the Professionals Real Estate Group and the Queensland Audit Office. He hosts a weekly ABC Radio 612 segment, and is commentator on their breakfast show and for ABC TV2.

Detailed Bio

Wayne Bucklar is the CEO of Truecom Pty Ltd, a Small Business Technology Specialist provider, Director of E-Business Strategies Pty Ltd, and has been applying IT and internet related technologies to business and management objectives for 20 years, giving him a rare depth of experience and expertise.

Previously, he was Manager of the Queensland Chamber of Commerce and Industry's e-Business division, acknowledged by leading Australian Internet Research Company www.consult as the largest commercial internet developer in Australia at the time.

He is a part-time Lecturer in Electronic Commerce in the MBA program at the Brisbane Graduate School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, having resigned from his full-time teaching role to focus on his private sector interests.

Wayne writes a monthly technology column for the Queensland Business Review, hosts a weekly radio segment, "Technology and the Internet", on ABC Radio 612, as well as serves as commentator on their Breakfast Show. He is also a technology commentator for ABC TV2.

He is an acknowledged computing and e-commerce expert, providing high level strategic and technical advice to both small business and government organizations. His passion is harnessing computers and internet related technologies to gain maximum commercial value and the lowest possible total cost of ownership.

Mr. Bucklar has proven to be a much sought-after speaker at conferences and other events, where he is consistently rated the best speaker. His presentations on technology, the Internet and their implications for business and government are rated highly because he is an experienced communicator, skilled at explaining even the most complex of concepts in simple terms that everyone in his audience can understand.

These skills have also made him a preferred presenter for board and senior management briefings designed to assist organisations to better manage their information technology and electronic commerce strategies.

This diverse range of experience and skills has given Mr. Bucklar the ability to effectively bridge the gap between management and technical experts: he understands both and can translate between them in situations where it is critical to ensure the entire organisational team is clear on goals and steps to achieve them.