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About Heath Raftery
Heath Raftery is a Newcastle electronics engineer who co-founded NewieVentures, an electronics engineering consultancy that turned clients' ideas into working products. He started the business in 2015 and was its head of technologies; Design + Industry, the product design and engineering consultancy, acquired NewieVentures in 2021.
His experience spans electrical design, software development, product design, research and project management. He founded the Newcastle IoT Pioneers, a local collaborative exploring the Internet of Things, and in 2019 received the Joe Award at Newcastle's NEWi awards, presented by The Lunaticks Society.
On Welcome to Day One with Adam Spencer in 2019, he told the story of NewieVentures and why he grew it carefully even as its client base tripled.
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NewieVentures was a Newcastle, NSW, engineering company that designed and developed electronic products for clients, covering electronics, embedded software and firmware…
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