Meet the team

Steven is responsible for ensuring that everyone is where they are supposed to be and doing what they should be doing.  His eagle eye watches over all aspects of the business and ensures that we are meeting our customers’ needs quickly and accurately. 

From his training as a teacher Steven wields the whacking stick with resolute calmness and vigour and his background in Finance means he actually knows what Variable Costs and Cash flow means.

Unique qualities: has two young children so is in a constant zombie-like state of sleep deprivation.

A skilled Linguist in French, Italian and Japanese, Sarah has transferred her skills to the online world and has become instrumental in the information architecture and language translation aspects of website design. 

Her qualifications as a landscape designer are also used to create structured, beautiful designs to reflect the client’s needs and the desires of her clients’ customers. 

As a founding partner of Datasearch Internet Services, Sarah has added Customer Relationship Management and Business Planning to her list of skills.  

Unique Qualities:

• Knows nothing about AFL but regularly wins the AFL tipping competition, much to Martin’s disgust
• Has a ferocious dog by the name of Skip.

Favourite Quote: Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.

As Programming manager responsible for the cutting edge innovation and hi tech facilities that Datasearch can now offer its customers, Warren has been at it for more than 20 years. 

From the days of the Tandy TRS80 and the Commodore 64 (and long before the advent of the internet) Warren has been enthusiastically overseeing the creation of programs for Datasearch clients to use and enjoy.  

He taught his first computer course at the age of ten and is now an integral part of a growing, customer-focussed company.  Warren helps us to adapt to the many changes in the industry with style and grace. 

Unique qualities: can remember the times when computers took up three rooms of a house

Matthew once wore a white lab coat and performed precise chemical experiments for a Pharmaceutical manufacturer, now he creates precise websites for a wide variety of companies.  Matthew revels in the feeling of accomplishment from a job well done and is relied on by staff and customers for his cool designs and attention to detail.  He has a Bachelor of Applied Science majoring in Life Science from QUT.

Matthew arrived at the chaos that was Datasearch four years ago accutely aware of systems / procedures and documentation, he set himself the onerous task of transforming Datasearch into an efficient and productive company.

Has two children under the age of 4. 

Unique qualities: Hard-core rocker, fisherman, cook and music enthusiast

Favourite quote: NEVER play leapfrog with unicorns.

Meredith is trained in Multimedia Integration & Graphic Design, Business Administration, PR, and Hospitality & Hot Bar (throwing glasses around when making cocktails). She is highly sought after for her website building skills (and at office parties).

Unique qualities: Used to be in a folk band doing back up vocals and playing guitar and likes to jump out of perfectly good planes

Favourite quote: Life is not about winning, it's about who shows up for the race, the type of race and making the race your own

A trained artist who once spent long hours studying the technical art of animating the human body, Martin has adapted his talents to the online world and now specialises in website art and flash animation. 

He is now an expert in the art of building dynamic, functional websites and is adept at understanding customer needs and devising online plans to help meet them. 

As one of the business's founders, Martin has climbed from working long hours scrubbing oil vats in a fish and chip shop to helping Datasearch Internet Services grow into what it is today – a flourishing, dynamic workplace. 

Unique Qualities:

• knows copious amounts of useless information about AFL but still manages to regularly come last in the staff footy tipping competition
• has toured australia managing country and blues bands including Red Rivers and Rockbottom James & the Detonators
• Created the Rockdogs

Daniel is the brains of the operation.  He can make anything work online and has been responsible for some of Datasearch’s most complex code.  He is constantly working to create better, more user-friendly features to include in our clients’ websites. 

He has completed IT degree majoring in Emerging Technologies at QUT. 
 
Unique qualities: ask him if he likes fishing……

Favourite quote: There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.

Sean started programming way back in the 80’s with an Apple II. He taught himself BASIC and then 6502 assembler but since then has moved on to programming in C# and ASP.NET with ASP.NET AJAX.  He prides himself on keeping up to date with the latest technologies, which is no mean feat considering that if you blink, you will open your eyes to find something has changed in the IT industry. 

Unique Qualities:

• Has a wife, two children, a cat and a mortgage and can remember when Space Invaders was cool.  He also plays drums in a band.

• tickle-inc.com (an online IQ test) reckons he has an IQ of 140 (no, it’s not out of 1000!)

Katie assists all members of the team by performing a range of necessary and important tasks such as answering phones, scanning pictures, helping with email enquiries and assisting clients in whatever way she can.

Unique Qualities:

• Currently studying a Bachelor in Business (hospitality management)
• Also has a Diploma and an Advance Diploma in hospitality management, which naturally leads onto a job in IT...
• Previous positions include housekeeping, housekeeping and waitressing.

Favorite Quotes:

• As long as I dont have to clean a toilet, I'm fine with it.
• Its about as much fun as pulling teeth with toothpicks.