Email: michael@wichit.com.au
 

My name is Michael Sticpewich and I am WichIT. I develop web based applications and have many years experience in delivering robust, easy to use and responsive solutions.

HMV and SANITY

I was solely responsible for the development and continued maintenance of the application behind the HMV Australia online store, www.hmv.com.au. Although this site has now been closed the application and fulfillment functions are still utilized by the Sanity site, www.sanity.com.au. So in effect, my application has been utilized since 1999 by one of the largest music retailing sites in Australia.

The application I have developed for HMV Australia / Sanity is fully featured and includes mechanisms for:

• Sales Campaigns
• Cross selling
• Wish list
• Newsletter
• Complex yet easy to use search engine
• Integration with store systems for inventory control and product catalogue
• Painless and timely fulfillment of orders including invoicing and payment processing
• A variety of payment methods including PayPal
• One of the first merchants to implement the Verified By Visa, and MasterCard SecureCode card authentication schemes
• Replication of data from site server to fulfillment server
• There are many more features

In 2005 the HMV Australia online store application was installed and continues to be used by HMV Hong Kong, www.hmv.com.hk.

While at HMV and subsequently Sanity I have also developed a variety of tools including Intranet solutions which are enjoyed by the Sanity store network. Some notable functions, not all, which run under the auspice of the Intranet are:

• Purchase Order System
• Loss Prevention Reporting
• Stock Return Logistic Tracking
• Key Performance Indicator Reporting

Bras 'n' Things now use the same Intranet solution for their stores.

KLAC
Since 2004 I have been helping out the team at Kur-Ring-Gai Little Athletics Centre, KLAC, with their IT requirements. I have developed and continue to maintain their web site at www.klac.org.au. This site is utilized extensively by all stakeholders in the centre, from athletes through to age managers and registrar. Some key features of the site are:

• The site allows the athletes to look up their results, usually on the day of competition. Results include PB's award levels and records. The result data is quickly and easily exported from the centre data management application, LAD, and uploaded to the site on Saturday afternoon.
• Age Managers are able to access a secure area to view and download athlete contact reports, ranking reports and the like.
• Athletes can be registered online with the registrar being able to download the registrations from the site and upload them into the centre data management application, LAD.
• Athletes and interested parties can subscribe to the KLAC newsletter on the site and the publicity officer can quickly and easily distribute those newsletters via the site.
• Athletes can easily look up their results on-line; e.g. viewing their results by date, personal bests or achievement levels.

LAD
During the 2006/07 KLAC season I developed a new data management application for use by the centre for recording registration and result data. Little Athletic Data, LAD, is used by the centre each Saturday with one master PC and 6 client notebooks connected over a wireless network.

The results are entered at each recoding station during the Saturday meeting. They have a notebook at sprints, inner circle, outer circle, hurdles, discus, long jump and shot. Results are recorded in LAD as they are performed. This means that at the end of the meeting there are only a handful of results to be entered in the system for High Jump and other events not previously mentioned.

Results are validated as they are entered so that any anomalies are detected while the athlete is at the recording station. This means that the data capture is much more accurate as well as being timely.

LAD delivers a variety of reports and also facilitates the export of data which is then uploaded to the web site.

Click here for more information about LAD

INFINITI
Infiniti Fitness import and distribute a range of premium home fitness equipment. Infiniti wanted a site for promotion of their product range and to be an information resource for their retailers and end users. They also wanted to facilitate online ordering by their retailers. The site is fully featured and very easy to maintain. Being a dynamic database driven site, they are able to maintain much of the site themselves, from adding and amending products and their meta data through to sending out newsletters and processing online orders. Visit:  www.infiniti.com.au | www.infinitidirect.com.au

BANJOS RETREAT
I have also developed non-data base driven sites such as banjosretreat.com.au.  This web site prides itself on it's user-friendly navigation for existing and would-be clients as well as being easy to update and maintain by the owners of the resort.

I would be happy to discuss your web based requirements and can be contacted by email at: michael@wichit.com.au