About ITstuffed

Daniel founded ITstuffed in 2017.

He originally studied IT in Austria before becoming a paramedic and later a registered nurse. After moving to New Zealand, he worked for the Cancer Society before returning to technology full time.

As Managing Director, Daniel is responsible for where ITstuffed is going and how the business operates. He spends much of his time improving the way we work, planning what comes next and working with clients when there are bigger technology or business decisions to make.

He is also still close to the day-to-day work, regularly reviewing technical decisions with the team, getting involved when something complicated needs sorting out and building automations and internal systems.

David has close to twenty years of technical experience, much of it gained in major hospital environments including Christchurch Hospital. He joined ITstuffed in 2020 and is now one of the people our long-term clients know particularly well.

He has spent a lot of his career working with systems where reliability, documentation and getting the detail right matter, and he brings the same approach to the environments he looks after at ITstuffed.

Clients regularly ask for David by name, which probably says more about how he works than we could.

Laura is exceptional at keeping things moving.

She looks after administration and accounts, coordinates follow-ups, helps keep the day-to-day parts of ITstuffed organised and supports the team.

Before joining ITstuffed she worked across healthcare administration, travel and construction, so dealing with customers, paperwork and competing priorities is familiar territory.

Outside work she also volunteers in secretarial and team management roles with community sports clubs. Apparently organising things is something she chooses to do in her spare time as well.

David's relationship with ITstuffed started well before he joined the team. He originally mentored Daniel during the earlier stages of the business and has been involved in one way or another for years.

He has a background in psychology as well as many years around technology and professional services, and he tends to start conversations by asking questions rather than launching into a sales pitch.

David is usually one of the first people a prospective client gets to know. A large part of his job is figuring out what they are trying to solve, how their current IT arrangement works and whether ITstuffed is the right fit.

Renée has spent around 25 years working in sales and marketing, including more than a decade in digital marketing.

At ITstuffed, she looks after marketing, advertising and business growth, and is part of the conversations about where the business is going, who we want to work with and how we communicate what makes us different.

Her background working with New Zealand SMEs means she understands the commercial reality behind the technology decisions our clients are making. She is particularly good at cutting through ideas that sound good on paper and asking whether they will actually work for the business.

She also has an inconvenient habit of asking whether something is genuinely useful before we spend money promoting it, which fits ITstuffed rather well.

Andrew brings more than twenty years of senior IT experience, with a background spanning technology leadership, planning, risk and organisational change.

At ITstuffed, his focus is less on fixing the problem sitting in front of somebody today and more on making sure the wider technology environment is heading in the right direction. That includes helping clients make sensible decisions about systems, risk, investment and the changes that need to happen as their business develops.

He has worked with organisations where technology decisions have commercial, operational and regulatory consequences, which makes him a useful person to have in the room when the answer isn't simply another piece of software.