Olivia Andrea Willcocks

o.willcocks@waypointsystems.co.uk - Managing Director

Olivia is one of the co-founders of Waypoint Systems and has helped shape the company from the basis of an innovative master's degree project into the European SME that it is today. She takes the complicated terminologies and technologies of the web and packages them into user friendly services that meet the needs of our clients.

Olivia's customer relations skills have developed as a result of her career progression through a different industry, that of the world of hotels. This started with the successful completion of a degree in Hotel and Catering Management, which included a placement at the Marriot Hotel in Cambridge, Boston (stomping ground for MIT).

This was followed by enrolment on the prestigious De Vere Graduate program where she was given a whirlwind tour of life behind the scenes in the top hotels in the UK. She worked her way up through the ranks, in pressure thriving positions such as Assistant Manager of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where the UK’s political parties hold their annual conferences, through to organizing and running elaborate weddings for the rich and famous at the Compleat Angler Hotel in Marlow.

Olivia has an ability to interpret what the clients' real goals are and uses her skills to ensure the solutions we create meet their needs. This is achieved through close liaison with the client, exceptional organization skills and outstanding project management.

Olivia has developed a passion for sailing and enjoys trips to Wales to race her high performance dinghy on those precious few weekends away. She also enjoys following her passion for cooking by hosting celebrations for her friends and family.

Olivia's role in Waypoint Systems is to ensure that the business is running smoothly and efficiently, managing the day to day business administration tasks, monitoring the company's performance and ensuring our continued high levels of quality and productivity.

To help manage the development of the company as it grows Olivia is also studying on a distance learning Masters in Business Administration (MBA) at the highly rated Henley Management College.

James Samuel Charles Robinson

j.robinson@waypointsystems.co.uk - Lead Applications Developer

James is a developer with a wide range of experience of web technology. Having worked on large and small web applications James can adapt his skills to any project.

James is constantly looking at new web technologies and is able to easily add them to his growing repertoire of skills. James is passionate about web standards and making sure that any websites he creates meet the standards laid down by the World Wide Web Consortium.

He loves a challenge and thrives on projects that require creative thinking to develop a bespoke solution, in these instances, James is in his element. James is able to draw on his broad IT experience to come up with ideas that not only work from a developers point of view but are easy and straightforward to for the end user.

James also has a background in IT support and is able to give Waypoints clients the level of support they need without blinding them with science. If a user has a problem then “Jim will fix it”.

When James isn't hard at work at a computer he can be found playing a variety of musical instruments such as Guitar, Mandolin and Bagpipes. James and his wife Clare have also recently had their first child named William and James has high hopes for the second generation of bagpipe playing web developers.

Ben James Nimmo

b.nimmo@waypointsystems.co.uk - Applications Developer

Ben is the newest full time member to the Waypoint Systems team. He has recently returned from traveling after graduating from Nottingham and is keen to get stuck into some of the projects the company has to offer

Raised on Windows he later found his real routes with Unix based operating systems at University, and recently Mac OS after joining the Waypoint. Web programming and design are his main focus but also has learnt some of the more core programming languages at university such as C, C++ and Java, which he still maintains an interest in. Ben likes to find simple and neat solutions to problems, as well as finding original ways to solve them.

He loves a challenge and thrives on projects that require creative thinking to develop a bespoke solution, in these instances, James is in his element. James is able to draw on his broad IT experience to come up with ideas that not only work from a developers point of view but are easy and straightforward to for the end user.

Ben will be working with James on Waypoints two core products, the Waypoint Ecommerce Store and also the content managed website package which Waypoint develop for small to medium businesses throughout Shropshire, Mid Wales and the West MIdlands.

While Ben spends most of his time in from of a screen he also finds time for his outdoor activities. Some of these include off-roading, power kiting, skiing and traveling around Africa. Ben also maintains his own website NimmoNet.co.uk where he has published some of his programs.

Rafal Maciej Jachimczyk

r.jachimczyk@waypointsystems.co.uk - Freelance Web Developer

Rafal is a true child of the computer generation. Brought up in Poland where the preferred operating system is UNIX based distributions of Linux in an environment where every ounce of hardware resource is precious. He is skilled in getting the best performance out of any machine he uses and is equally at home on any operating system. He prefers the Debian variation of the Linux system, as well as Mac Os X operating system for Apple Computers.

Rafal brings latest technologies like AJAX, PHP5, and XML to Waypoint and utilises them whilst building bespoken websites including Recruitment agency portals, e-commerce shops and community portals.

He is as at home on the Internet as a duck is to water. He is continually finding new projects, software and solutions to problems in forums and blogs, to ensure that we stay aware of the latest actions on the net. When he is stuck in the middle of an exciting problem to solve - His best friend is Google.

Rafal is also a creative thinker, coming up with clever solutions to the software challenges of web development. He has a talent for putting his hand to any problem that is thrown at him. From his knowledge of the UNIX environment he understands from the ground up how software works so is quick to adapt to new scripting and programming languages.

In his free time Rafal enjoys spinning records on his decks, running a Polish community website (www.liverpool.one.pl), “Polish businesses in UK” online catalogue together with his girlfriend Sara and travelling to places he hasn't been to before.