Our Team

Soon after graduating in physics in 1972, John found himself working for Cutler-Hammer NZ designing microprocessor supervisory, control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems for South Australian Railways and Sydney County Council. 
 
This experience in the early adoption of a new disruptive digital technology inspired John’s “possibility” mind-set and set him on a trajectory of innovation.
 
He started his own electronics and software design consultancy and was commissioned to design many industrial and commercial systems. Among these was a microprocessor weighing and production control system for wire manufacturing, a spot welding machine digital controller, a messaging system for large electromagnetic and LED outdoor advertising displays, a numerical machine controller for the manufacture of printed circuit boards, a digital codec for wireless data transmission and radio paging and a vehicle speed detection system.
 
With this experience behind him, John saw the possibility of developing commercial software with scalable global potential and took the opportunity to work for an enterprising South African company to develop a complete financial and point of sale system for furniture and clothing retailers, known as Furnpac and Ragpac.
 
Returning to New Zealand in 1987, John co-founded Pacific Business Systems (now Excellent Software and Services) and developed a successful big ticket retail point of sale system known as Retail-Plus and a hire purchase ledger financial control system.
 
In 1997, John and his family who had all become confirmed café junkies were inspired to find a way to make life easier for waiters. The dream was to create a ground-breaking and innovative new hospitality point of sale system, encompassing wireless hand held technology for taking orders from tables. Wi-Fi was not available for portable devices at the time, so the solution required the design of a plug-in digital wireless transceiver circuit board for the Palm Pilot PDA and a corresponding wireless base station transceiver.
 
The solution John designed utilised a UHF FM narrow frequency band, with a range of 300 metres. Extremely low power consumption was a design objective with four days battery life being achieved through the use of CMOS technology.  In order to keep hardware production costs down, collision avoidance, radio noise filtering, and error checking and correction were designed into the transceiver software drivers rather than the hardware.
 
The success and reliability of this mobile solution, known as WizBang Waiter at the time, was the genesis of WizBang Technologies.
 
Today, John leads WizBang Technologies, with the single-minded purpose of driving innovation and growing global distribution channels.
 
In his time off, you’ll find John sampling local hospitality with family and friends, keeping fit pounding the streets or swimming at the local beach where he currently lives in Millwater, Auckland. He also somehow finds time to fuel his fascination for science and technology, especially cosmology which seems to resonate with his curiosity about the nature of things. John is also passionate and concerned about environmental issues, food quality, food supply and organics, and thinks the extraordinary movie “Food, Inc” should be mandatory viewing for all!

Chris holds an Advanced Certificate in Computer programming and is passionate about new technologies.  His more recent background prior to his current role includes both sales and management roles within the computer retail industry.  Before working for WizBang he was successful in both sales and installation of onetap software, working for EFTCO, a reseller for onetap software.  In 2005 WizBang approached him to work directly for them to help establish a second office in Christchurch.  He jumped at this opportunity as he was passionate about both the onetap software and the hospitality industry, and it appealed to his pioneering nature.

Chris owes much of his success to a strong focus on building and retaining relationships with our clients. He loves seeing businesses within the hospitality industry succeed and is always willing to go the extra mile to ensure our clients thrive.

The hospitality industry was hit hard after the Christchurch earthquakes. Fifty two percent of our clients in Christchurch were initially unable to trade.  All of those who have reopened have returned to the onetap system. This is a reflection not only of a great product but of the integrity of a sales manager committed to both company and customers.

Chris lives in Christchurch with his wife, three kids and the family border collie. Over the years Chris has been heavily involved in the local Surf Life Saving Club. He raced inflatable rescue boats and won numerous national titles.  His present day interests include new technologies and spending time with good friends.

In 2014 Garth was head hunted and became a valued member of our sales team.  Garth has worked in many different roles and styles of business in the hospitality industry.  Because of his extensive experience, and ownership of a successful bar, he instinctively understands what each unique business needs from our onetap system.

In 2007, Gavin joined the WizBang family and in the first five years of being on the support team he developed an exceptional knowledge of point of sale systems. Gavin’s understanding of technology and obvious aptitude for software development soon saw him being appointed to WizBang Technologies as an invaluable part of the development team, responsible for the stability and functionality of the various onetap products.

He has a love of travel, having explored the UK, North America, Southeast Asia and Oceania.  He loves to eat out with friends and family or even to host an expertly cooked home meal.

Her understanding of business coupled with her hospitality experience enables her to provide full accounting and administration support to our team at both NZ POS Systems and WizBang Technologies as well as relating well to our clients.

Jessie continues to study and her aim is to achieve full membership to the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.

He played a vital role in WizBang’s early years, installing and supporting some of our early adopter sites.  He is a shareholder, and former director of WizBang Technologies.
 
Jonathan is married to Lucy, and they have an adorable little girl. He is a talented guitarist, and can solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 30 seconds!

As a member of the support team, Louie has an incredibly strong customer centric approach to his work and he takes this with him into any new business relationship.  He has exceptional problem solving skills and enjoys dealing with a diverse range of customers and their specific needs.  The skills he learnt in the hospitality sector made it an easy transition into his current support role.  Louie enjoys the opportunities to go off-site to different cities nationwide to get amongst the hospitality industry again to help out his old profession – just on the other side of the bar!  
 
In his spare time, you’ll find Louie playing computer games (yes, he most definitely fits the nerdy persona that often comes with an IT job), or playing Warmachine, a strategic Dungeons n’ Dragons style table top game.  He also loves keeping true to his hospitality roots and you’ll often find him down at the local bar or pub enjoying a nice cold beverage and catching up with his friends!