Jack Soutter completed his Bachelor of Science and Masters of Research at the University of Southern Queensland before joining the university’s staff as a senior technical officer for the Mt Kent Observatory. He has been responsible of the development and installation of a number of projects at the Mt Kent Observatory including the MINERVA-Australis telescope array, and the Shared Skies partnership. Jack has also been involved in a number of large research collaborations and follow-up campaigns for projects such as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT), and Kelper.