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Mick Huxley - Poker fiend, AuTechEd attendee & AuTechHeads core team member
Date: Jun 18, 10 Time: 14:00 Category: Technology |
The tweeterview as recorded:
| Q1: | "Thanks so much for your time, Mick! Glad you could make it." |
No worries.. happy to be here
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Can you give us the condensed "Mick Huxley" story?
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Been in IT for 9 years, started on a Service Desk to Server Support, have moved around since then and now I'm a solution architect
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Why did you get into IT?
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It's hobby, that's turned into a career.. Did IT at school and then whist having a year of Uni, got a job and never looked back
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That's not uncommon, even still today. Would you recommend IT as a career path?
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100% but your heart needs to be in it. People who have the passion are the best IT Pros / Devs I've found
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Always with the passon... :)
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| Q2: | "How is the IT landscape different now to when you first joined the industry?
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Virtualisation has changed everything, DR is easier, Mgmt is easier and IT is more dynamic as a result.
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Are you seeing any resistance to some of these "new" technologies from other techs or management?
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All the time. I find as well as documenting ROI and TCO, getting a demo working for Mgmt often gets things over the line
| Q3: | "What key technologies do you use predominantly in your professional life? Which ones do you really like? ;)
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I've always loved Exchange and now OCS too. But these days work with anything from storage, servers, software. I like NetApp gear
| Q4: | "What about personally - what gear do you use when you're getting your geek on at home?" |
Not much.. I've got a lappy and my #auteched netbook from last year and an Xbox. Nothing more then that..Don't geek much at home
oh and I've got iQ2 so never invested in a PVR
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That's not unreasonable. You have to be able to "switch off" from work sometimes...
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| Q5: | "You're active within the Microsoft community in AU, particularly SYD. How many #auteched events have you attended? " |
4 now.. 2004 in Canberra, 2007 Gold Coast, 2008 Sydney and 2009 Gold Coast.. we had red bull fridges in 2004, that was good
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Like #geeks need more caffiene!! ;) All fun for you, I'm guessing. Why do you attend?
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I attend sessions about products I don't know too well, so I can learn where they work and integrate in landscape
I find I develop better solutions as a result
Last year the community side of #auteched really was a big thing for me, and twitter enabled that
| Q6: | "What are some of your #AuTechEd highlights?" |
Any of Steve Riley's or Jesper johansson's sessions. I discovered some Marcus Murray's sessions on the DVD and he is awesome too
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I concur - Jesper is a voice in the security wilderness quite often.
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I've got the Windows Server 2008 Security Resource book that Jesper wrote on my bookshielf. He dives too which is cool
| Q7: | "You mentioned the community vibe from last year's #auteched - what made it different to previous events?" |
I met more people last year then all the others together and twitter and you enabled that
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Aw #Shucks. <blushes>
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| Q8: | "Will you be attending this year? What are you looking forward to from the 2010 #auteched?" |
I hope so. It's the 1st b'day of #autechheads. Also want to learn more about Sys Centre. I've always used competing products
| Q9: | "What #auteched #toptip (or tips) would you offer to people attending for the first time?" |
Get on twitter and get involved. Also be able to drink hard and back up early the next morning. It's a big week
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It's the biggest week my liver and lack of sleep mechanism deals with every year, that's for sure!...
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| Q10: | "Are you a member of any user groups?" |
I've been to #sbtug once and I'm always at the Sydney Windows User Group #swug that @aussienick heads up..
I'll be presenting Remote FX at #swug later this year
| Q11: | "What is this #AuTechHeads thing ppl keep seeing pop up in relation to #auteched? Are you involved in that?" |
#autechheads is the brain child of @ohcrap and I see it as a user group in the cloud.
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Pfft! The cloud. Like that makes anything better... ;)
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It's not geographically based which gives it a cloud feel.. but we have meet ups as well (occasionaly)
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Is it exclusive? Can anyone join?
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No anyone can join. We've got 138 members now and it's a mix of junior and senior people. Dev's, IT Pro and Sales people
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So, it's really a 'superset' of user groups - a resource base where ppl can learn, share and communicate with techs at all..
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.. levels?
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Yeah get involved, if you want to just read that's cool but the more you contribute the better.
| Q12: | "Why do you think other people should get involved with #AuTechHeads? Why did you?" |
I've learned a lot out of #autechheads, it comes back to the passion you have for IT and wanting to learn from your peers
I joined to learn more but also to help others
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Got a couple more questions, if you've the time? Really appreciate your availability so far...
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yeah go for it
| Q13: | "You're a identified poker fanatic - how long have you been playing?" |
| Q14: | "Any great #pokerhux successes?" |
Had a few tournament wins and lotsa cash wins as well. I spend a lot of time in Melbourne with work and I give Crown a work out
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One more question, if I can push my luck?...
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Go for it
| Q15: | "What 3 essential items should *all attendees* bring with them for #AuTechEd 2010?" |
The right attidude (be prepared to learn), a lappy for tweeting and lots of business cards
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Nice work! Thanks Mick - appreciate your time for this @tweeterview. See you at #AuTechEd!
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