Office Hours Mentor: Harry Watson

Office Hours is a free mentoring program designed to connect upcoming entrepreneurs with experts. Mentors provide advice, help you develop a specific skill or gain knowledge. This micro-volunteering (four hours a month) program puts you in contact with members who want to give back and share their insights.

February 8, 2018

Name: Harry Watson

Current Position: Network Engineer

Linkedin Profile: Harry Watson

Relevant Work Experience:

IT;
Network and security experience from ISP;
Large enterprise to SMB;
Co-owned hosting company; and
Co-share compute/rack space for my own projects.

Education Background:

BSc: IT & Human Factors
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
Certified Information Systems Security Professions (CISSP)

Key areas you can assist with:

Assistance in most IP related areas, management, security, automation.
Connecting the ‘Internet of Things’, Raspberry Pi, Perl, Python, Django.

Something people will find interesting about you:

I like to paraglide at the local WA beaches.
Wrote a Twitter bot to let me and others know when the wind is on: https://twitter.com/perthpara

What are you passionate about:

Happy to share what I can, also share within schools via http://www.scientistsinschools.edu.au/ if anyone has the time please look.
Technology wise I’m very interested to see now ideas for big data, connecting ‘things’ to the internet and automating monotonous tasks.

Do you give permission for Spacecubed members to contact you directly via email? Yes

Day of the week you prefer to volunteer: Friday