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Andy Fenton is the Managing Director of NZMS. Extending his skill-set to commercial document scanning, Andy co-founded Desktop Imaging Ltd in 1997 (www.desktopimaging.co.nz); and the Heritage Materials Imaging Facility in 2003 (www.hmif.co.nz). Andy is arguably one person who is overseen more heritage digitisation projects than any other kiwi! Whilst expert in the application of digitisation services for the collections of “memory institutions” he places equal value in being able to represent the views of the wider community as well as Government and commercial user sectors and is sympathetic to the needs of iwi. He has spent over 20years working closely with a great number of such organisations throughout New Zealand. Through extensive networks and contacts nationally and internationally he is able to offer insight into historical and current programmes and projects.
Andy was elected to the inaugural National Digital Forum Board in 2006, the ARANZ Council in 2005, Archives NZ Digitisation Standard Advisory Group in 2006 and the Australia/New Zealand Joint Standards Committee (MS/4) for Information and Image Management in 1996. In the past 5 years he has been proactive in the dissemination of information in this area and is a vocal advocate of collaboration and the NDF’s Register of Digital Initiatives. This has been primarily undertaken through digitisation training workshops given throughout New Zealand and in Singapore.
Andy is married to Audrey (Co-Director of NZMS and DI) and they have two children - Michael and Kate.
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Audrey Fenton
Audrey is a founding Director and Human Resources Manager for New Zealand Micrographic Services and it's sister Company Desktop Imaging. Prior to that she enjoyed a successful sales career in Australia and New Zealand. Audrey actively ran the production and image capture aspects of NZMS before having children. After giving birth to Michael and Kate she now plays an active part in the administration, finance and HR aspects of both companies.
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Sheryl Sporle-Fahey, Group Manager Operations
Sheryl embarked on her second career when she joined NZMS in late 2004. After a successful career in the Financial Services Sector spanning 20 plus years she is relishing the challenges of learning the technical knowledge required to successfully meet all aspects of preservation microfilming and digitisation.
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Janine Delaney, Imaging Solutions Manager
Janine joined NZMS at the end of 2007 to provide a lead on projects and new initiatives for the Company. She is a qualified archivist and has an (underutilised!) library degree. Janine previously worked for Archives New Zealand where she managed two set-up units Context Control, and Digital Preservation, and had a lead role in the implementation of their archival management system 'Archway'. Janine also has stong ties to Otago having worked for the Hocken Library as the Curator of Archives & Manuscripts between 1993 and 2000, and had the added good fortune to learn her trade at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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Pauline La Rooy, Business Development Manager
Pauline joined NZMS in 2010 as Business Development Manager. She has a library background, gaining her MLIS in 1997. Over the years she has worked at Otago University Library; Hocken Library (where she developed her interest in NZ materials); The Parliamentary Library (more lovely NZ material); Victoria University of Wellington Library and the National Library of New Zealand (where she worked on the National Digital Heritage Archive Project). Her habit of looking for new challenges has led to some active involvement in LIANZA at both the regional and national level. In 2011 she was awarded her LIANZA associateship.
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Simon Gotlieb, e-Projects Manager
Simon brings 25 years experience in the graphic design and advertising industry to NZMS, specialising in scanning, photographic retouching and typography. He joined NZMS originally in 2002 to start and run the Heritage Materials Imaging Facility until a brief fit of madness led him to return to advertising in 2004. He returned to NZMS mid-2007. Simon is responsible for the management of new internet-based projects and development of processes for new operations, manages the Australasian microfilm supplies operation, designs and administers the NZMS and DI websites, develops new spreadsheets and management tools for the management team and provides specialist advice on digitisation, retouching and machine setup and calibration to Digi Unit staff. In his spare time he can be found attempting to resurrect obscure Unix computers, restoring a classic Motorcycle, playing one of his numerous musical instruments and generally living the blissful family life in Upper Hutt with his 4 wonderful children and very understanding wife Virginia.
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Jo Condon – Southern Regional Manager
Jo's career began in the library and information sector 1997. She completed her MLIS in 2000, specialising in archives management and has worked across the heritage/GLAM sector in Canterbury. Previously working in various roles for Christchurch City Libraries she has spent the past five years as a curator at Canterbury Museum. A born and bred Cantabrian, Jo has a passion for local heritage and is looking forward to helping NZMS make a difference right now and contribute to the preservation of the region's cultural heritage.
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Chris Dempsey – Technical Lead Digital Solutions
Chris started out life as a network technician for companies like Air New Zealand and in the mid 90’s turned his hand to developing for the Internet. Projects for smaller clients like Bedpost and Bartercard saw him doing the development on award winning sites for Sony, The Retirement Commission’s Sorted website and DineOut. After a long term stint developing another award winning site for the tradesmen of Crane Distribution (now Fletchers) he finally broke free and is taking heritage and archives in a brand new direction. His spare time is spent on a bike in the hills, or slaving away in the kitchen. His wife is happy either way. In 2011 he relocated to Wellington to join us at NZMS.
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Rebekah Rogers, Coordinator, Microfilm Operations
Rebekah Rogers has 15 years experience in Imaging. Starting as a Photographic Hand Printer with DAC Group has provided her with a broad range of skills from making Internegs and Print Films, Colour Theory, to Hand Printing 6 x 4in and 6ft Murals from B/W, Colour Negatives and Transparencies. Rebekah has transferred her Technical knowledge to Microfilming process and standards, with a strong focus on Preservation and Quality Control, ensuring that Clients always get images that meet their expectations. In 2010 Rebekah completed the specialised qualification Certificate IV in Preservation Microfilming. She is the first perosn from a commercial microfilm organisation to receive this formal qualification. Rebekah has also transferred her skills with Microfilm to the Digital Environment, and now provides a QA lead in many of our ebooks and transcription projects, and makes sure that Agfa microfilm supplies are delivered in timely fashion to our clients throughout Australasia.
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Margaret Murray, Team Leader
Margaret Murray has worked for NZMS for 14 years, starting as a camera operator. Margaret filmed the first newspaper printed in New Zealand and is arguably the country's most experienced Microfilm camera operator. A local resident of Tawa since 1967, Margaret enjoys the comfortable walking distance to work and the close-knit working atmosphere of NZMS.
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Martin Smith, Client Support
After working for twelve years as a chef in his homeland England, Martin chose our fair shores to start his second career in 2004 as the Production Team Leader for NZMS. Martin was responsible for the organisation and preparation of all material that goes to camera for microfilming and ensures the efficient and safe storage and transportation of your precious collections. He is also very familiar with all the workings of microfilm readers/scanners. Martin has now taken his company knowledge, his equipment skills and his sense of humour into Client Support.
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