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The Rocket Retail Team
Stephen Holmes
Lead Web Developer
Originally pursuing a career in animation and graphic design, Stephen Holmes found web design initially rewarding but wanted a greater challenge. About five years ago he studied web programming and has focused on this discipline ever since.
Specializing in PHP/mySQL, Java and HTML programming his portfolio tops over 60 websites personally developed in Australia.
His recent major achievements include www.blinkdating.com.au which is recognized as the leading ‘Singles Event Management’ web software in the world. Blink Dating software is currently marketing the software into the US and Europe markets.
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Jason Weathered
Application Developer
Jason qualified from Queensland University with a Bachelor of Information Technology in Software Engineering. He has had success in developing and marketing award winning computer software on the internet, including Access Autopilot (www.access-autopilot.com).
He has been programming since the age of nine and is savvy with C++, PHP, Visual Basic and HTML. Jason is the lead developer for the back office components of Rocket Retail including our Point of Sale, Customer Service and Logistics modules.
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Chris Jack
Managing Director
Capitalising on a database software development background over the past seven years, Chris established an internet based data recovery company www.datarevive.com in 2002. Due to his diligent focus on internet marketing and search engine optimization, this quickly became a very profitable and successful company attracting clients from all over the world.
Within three months of launching DataRevive the site was generating more profit per month than Chris had earnt in the entire previous year. This from 100% search engine marketing efforts, and consequently zero real advertising and marketing costs.
In fact, the web site was so lucrative that it became possible very early on to employ additional staff and establish several other companies. One of which was Blink Dating www.blinkdating.com.au, launched in February 2003 and already one of the leading speed dating services in Australia. This success was again driven by an emphasis on search engine marketing and internet presence.
Rocket Retail was born in December 2002, and was invented from the ground up to mimic the successes of his other ventures, by incorporating these ‘search engine secrets’ into the architecture of the shopping cart.
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Ben Yaldwyn
'Extreme' Windows Developer
Ben joined the team in 2006 as an advanced Windows applicatoin developer to work on Shibby.com.au the price comparison shopping site which is an off-shoot of Rocket Retail. Ben also works on integrating Rocket Retail with Shibby, and on increasing the number of visitors and products in Shibby, thereby increasing sales for the Shibby merchants and Rocket Retail customers.
Ben has been programming for 22 years, since the age of six. His first independent commercial application is a gym management platform called FlexManager, which is still sold and supported throughout Australia. He has also developed a time and attendance software system called Aus On Time, which was sold to a third party company in 2001.
Taking advantage of his advanced Windows programming and manipulation skills, Ben was heavily involved in the security and cryptography industry and in 2001 he notoriously cracked the Norton Xtream Lok software protective mechanism. He was immediately head hunted by Symantec the second largest software company in the world, and joined their core security team in San Francisco.
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Aidan Reay
Warehouse Logistics Manager
Aidan has been with Rocket Retail for three years as our warehouse logistics manager. Aidan is responsible for inventory management, purchase ordering, product magagement and logistics for our own ecommerce stores, and is based at our warehouse in Hemmant, QLD. He also takes professional photos of products using a lightbox for our stores, and on contract to our Rocket Retail customers who want top quality product images.
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Hilton Devitt
Solutions Integrator & Customer Support
Hiltons role is to skin or implement new Rocket Retail sites, in consultation with the client. Hilton has a broad range of networking, website designa and PHP programming skills required for this mutli-faceted role. Hilton works under the supervision of Stephen Holmes, our Lead Web Developer. Hilton has worked previously in a range of IT related positions including web designer, networking and hardware support.
Hilton is also responsible for 'first line' Rocket Retail support, and is the person you are most likely to deal with for day-to-day support issues.
Discover for yourself how we can work together to create and market an online store that sells more. Get a free on-site demonstration in Sydney, Melbourne, or Brisbane.
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