CloudTech Staff
The power behind our business is people. Our people are the ones that go the extra mile to ensure our customers achieve their required business outcomes, and they all have different talents and abilities:
(Please note that not all of the details below are true)
Apart from donating his hair to science in 1998, Tom has many other glittering achievements during his career in Sales and Marketing, including the White Goods Salesman of the Year 1987 (Freezer Division, Arctic Region).
Tom is a co-owner of CloudTech and Sales Director to the Stars, and in his spare time plays football for the HBCAFC Invaders despite being mainly held together with bandages and bits of string.
James Wilson was a founding member of U2 in 1978, but left after he felt they lacked innovation and a real "rockstar" mentality. He then embarked on a meteoric rise through the IT sector, becoming co-owner and Operations Director of CloudTech.
James is currently working on CRM Applications in the Cloud delivered through the medium of song and interpretive dance.
Matthew has over 25 years' experience in all things technical, especially development and code and joins CloudTech having spent 10 years working for the New Zealand GCIS based out of Angola...
Matthew is a serious individual who occasionally cracks jokes and has been spotted skiing down Mt Ruapehu at a rate of knots trying to get a picture of a rare Ruapehuan Rabbit that has never been sighted before... he is also partial to using a whiskey bottle as a walkie-talkie.
A connoisseur of fine wines and author of the best-selling book "The Cucumber Whisperer", Chenssi brings a different dynamic to the CloudTech team by combining expert PHP and javascript coding while trying to reconcile cucumber consumption and wine tasting.
Chenssi also uses public transport every day, for which he was awarded the New Zealand Bravery Medal (NZBM) in 2016.
Doug is an international man of mystery: Having spent his earlier years larking around on Super Yachts in the Bahamas he then acted as a body double for James Bond in Casino Royale before finally settling into a calmer lifestyle here at CloudTech as a Business Development Manager.
He brings with him a wealth of knowledge from his years on the sea including the ability to a tie a Lanyard Hitch blindfold and he also has a range of bawdy sea shanties that he is able to sing having first consumed a bottle of Tapanga Rum!
Growing up in the Everglades of Florida, driving heavy trucks and alligator-wrestling were Samantha's twin passions, until she found her calling as a CRM Consultant. This has prepared her well for the high-intensity world of CloudTech, where her mechanical skills and reptilian grappling techniques are directly applicable to the successful delivery of CRM solutions and extreme customer satisfaction.
Samantha also has a talking raccoon called Bucky*, who accompanies her to client meetings.
As a small child, Dewald ("D") Eksteen drifted to New Zealand on the branch of a baobab tree, where he was rescued by a small but fierce tribe of Technology Research Salesmen, who brought him up as one of their own.
At CloudTech, D fearlessly hunts down value for customers as an 'independent' Business Development Manager, clad only in his ancestral leopardskin loincloth and Optimus Prime Gumboots, which has made dress down Fridays quite challenging.
Chriselle has spent the last 3 years preparing for the UK Version of MKR (My Kitchen Rules). Famed for her Flaming Baked Alaska, Wasp Crackers and Baked Haggis she made a brief appearance on Channel 4 where unfortunately 2 of the 3 judges were allergic to Haggis so she had to made a quick return to New Zealand.
CloudTech is now fortunate to have Chriselle on board as a CRM Consultant. Chriselle has responsibility for delivery of business outcomes for our customers and combines a steely determination, a calm demeanor with a flair for spicy foods!
We are all looking forward to ‘bring a dish’ Friday!
A Bronze Medal winner for NZ at the 1992 Barcelona Accounting Olympics in the 100m Bought Ledger Sprint, Fiona moved away from the world of competitive financial athletics to focus on learning the Ukelele and currently moonlights as the Accountant for CloudTech.
Fiona likes to say "Ker-chinngggggg!" all the time.
While representing the Philippines in the rubber duck world cup, Cezar tragically veered off course and was marooned on a tropical island in the Philippine archipelago, with only a balding tennis ball called George and a laptop for company.
Cezar set about building a marketing empire. Like star-crossed lovers, Cezar and CloudTech’s worlds collided, with Cezar’s razor-sharp marketing skills and CloudTech’s killer cloud CRM technology combining to achieve world domination!
Lucian had a background in acting and starred as a very young replicant alongside Rutger Hauer in the 1982 Film Bladerunner. With a passion for all things technical he then moved into an IT related career and joins CloudTech with a wealth of experience as a dedicated SugarCRM Support Consultant.
Lucian has an eye for detail and is very keen on solving our customer issues. He is also partial to Airsoft and Paintball and even has his own gun! For those that don’t know a ‘Replicant’ is a Bioengineered Android so this may well explain his excellence in this space.
Jessica is a passionate artist and is a distant relative of Paul Gaugin, the French Post-Impressionist. Her most famous work included a charcoal portrait of Sachin Tendulkar, the famed Indian cricketer that she sketched with her toes. She is also an expert Yoga master, referred to as a Yogini.
(A Yogini is a Sanskrit term for a female master practitioner of yoga, as well as a formal term of respect for female Hindu or Buddhist spiritual teachers in the Indian subcontinent)
Jessica joins us as a Business Analyst and is looking forward to understanding and mapping our clients' business processes. She will be using her artistic skills and flexibility to ensure that CloudTech continue to deliver business value to our clients.
Mike joins us fresh from his recent role as an Uruk-hai in the Lord of the Rings. (for those that were unaware Uruk-hais were the result of crossbreeding of orcs and men.) A fearless warrior he can actually be seen out running on the black sands of Bethels Beach as he maintains peak fitness!
Mike has significant experience at a senior level in PHP, MySQL, Html5, CSS3, Flex, Bootstrap, and JavaScript and is a welcome addition to the technical team at CloudTech.
