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Jamie HansenGeneral ManagerJamie is passionate about technology and is committed to seeing WizBang continually provide world-class tech to the hospitality sector. He completed a Bachelor of Commerce at Auckland University in 1998 and has worked predominantly in technology, finance and food service industries over the last 20 years. His specialties includes leadership, strategic planning, sales and marketing and finance. |
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Tina LiOffice CoordinatorTina grew up in China and has had experience working in both Beijing and Auckland. Tina achieved her Postgraduate Diploma in New Zealand and her bachelor’s degree in China. She provides valuable support to the Financial and Operations Manager. Her business skills and accounting knowledge are a real asset to the team. When Tina’s not at work she enjoys travel, as she loves experiencing different cultures and cuisines. One of her dreams is to travel every inch of the planet. Fun fact: She has recently taken up photography to capture her travel moments |
Prabin KarkiTechnical Support EngineerPrabin is originally from Nepal, the home of Mount Everest. He came to New Zealand in 2012 to pursue his studies and completed a Diploma in Information Technology with excellence. Prior to joining WizBang, Prabin worked in the hospitality industry for 5 years as a Chef including time as a Sous Chef at renowned Mt Eden restaurant The Garden Shed. After his time at Circus Circus, Prabin was tasked with setting up and managing the kitchens at Garden Shed and Wu & You when they initially opened. |
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Conrad FordTechnical Support EngineerConrad brings over 15 years of experience in the IT support industry. His first foray into IT was when he was employed in the fuel retail industry, building and configuring computer and point of sale systems for the big four oil companies in New Zealand. He soon progressed on to helpdesk support and then jumped at the chance to round out his skills when he moved on to helpdesk management. These skills put him in good stead when he was offered a role with one of NZ’s largest banks, managing the internal helpdesk during a period of catastrophe mitigation change being implemented within the bank. Conrad joined the support team at NZ POS Systems in 2011 and plays a key role in supporting onetap users within the hospitality industry throughout New Zealand. |
Michael ZhangTechnical Support EngineerMichael came to New Zealand 5 years ago, from China, and obtained a Diploma in Information Technology as he is passionate about providing specialised IT solutions and service. Prior to his studies Michael had a decade working within the hospitality industry where he discovered he thrived in both the hospo environment and customer service space. Before joining WizBang, Michael worked for the Auckland City Council in ICT and then MyTech for 4 years as their Senior Engineer, providing quality IT services to a range of small to large sized organizations. It was at MyTech that Michael quickly earned a reputation for his efficient problem-solving skills and his ability to exceed customer expectations. |
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Malu TaumoepeauTechnical Support EngineerBorn and raised in Tonga, Malu immigrated to NZ with his family in 1998 completing his senior years at Auckland Boys Grammar then going on to study for a bachelor’s degree in computer science at Auckland University. Ever since he can remember Malu has always been passionate about Tech. From a young age, and with a craving to learn how things work, he began dismantling computers and electrical equipment and putting them back together. |
While studying at Auckland University he worked part-time in hospitality which gave him a taste of the hospitality industry and first-hand knowledge and experience of working with POS. This experience led him to pursuing and securing his first IT job with a POS systems company. Since then Malu has built up an impressive 14+ solid years of experience in various IT fields, with the majority of these being in the POS systems arena.
Having had rich experience in both Hospitality and IT gives Malu a deep understanding and appreciation of what is expected from each of the various stakeholders and places him in a unique position of being able to provide the highest level care and support to our clients.
When Malu is not at work he enjoys spending time with his lovely wife and four children. And when his schedule allows, he enjoys watching and playing sports, travelling and being in the sun.
Amanda MilhamSenior Software DeveloperAmanda is a born and breed Kiwi, although she has had a recent stint in Melbourne. In 1998 she completed a Bachelor of Commerce (First Class Honours) with stage 4 papers in Information Systems and has been thriving in the software development space ever since. Amanda co-founded Wizbang with her dad, John Hansen in 1997, where she designed and solely developed WizBang’s original hospitality POS system (excluding the mobile hand-held software), from scratch. The robust database and client server application design has stood the test of time and is still the foundation of WizBang’s POS system today. She had another stint at WizBang in 2007-2008 as an analyst programmer and came on board again full time in 2018 as our lead software developer. |
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At the weekends you will find Amanda spending time with her two young kids, reading who-dun-its, mountain-biking and eating gooood food.
Fun fact: Amanda’s favourite place to visit is North Head in Devonport.
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Kevin DuSoftware DeveloperKevin came to New Zealand from China as a student in 2009 and fell in love with our country. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Information Science (majoring in Software Engineering) at Massey University with Merit. Kevin’s passion in life is to develop quality software, which makes him a perfect fit for WizBang. Having worked on many software development projects, Kevin has had commercial software development experience including designing and developing in: Net Framework, multiple relational databases, Ruby on Rails and mobile development. He also has production experience with Amazon Web Services and a good understanding of OOP, software design patterns, MVC, Web API and Test Driven development. |
At the weekends you will find Kevin enjoying time with his young family or, as an avid hiker, exploring the great outdoors of New Zealand. Kevin also enjoys playing basketball.