I help small businesses make technology work.
Experienced IT support, hosting, and development for small businesses, nonprofits, and community organisations. Based on the Kāpiti Coast, working across NZ and Australia.
No sales pitch. If I can help in 30 minutes, I will.
WordPress, PHP, and Node.js hosting — reliable, NZ-based, and personally managed.
Your site, looked after by a human who answers when you call.
Professional email for your business or organisation. Setup, migration, and ongoing support.
Except Windows — sorry!
Helping small businesses figure out how to use technology effectively. Less-is-more philosophy — make the most of what you already have.
Coaching and workshops for new and experienced managers since 2013. Grounded in nonviolent communication and real-world leadership experience.
I've been working professionally on the internet since the mid-90s, back when I helped build one of New Zealand's first dial-up ISPs. I spent the late 90s and early 2000s in US dot-com startups, then moved back to Wellington in 2003 to work with Weta Digital's infrastructure team — and later managed it. Along the way I picked up some IMDB credits on The Lord of the Rings and Avatar.
My experience spans ISP, VFX, and semiconductor industries. I've been teaching management and team leadership skills since 2013. I'm a Linux and macOS specialist with broad general knowledge across most internet and computer things — the kind of person who's genuinely curious about how all of it fits together.
These days I freelance from twelve acres on the Kāpiti Coast, shared with my wife Tink, my parents, and assorted wild and domestic fuzzles. When I'm not solving tech problems, you'll find me tinkering with permaculture, making espresso, meditating, or contributing to open source software.
When you call Haume, you get me. That's the good news and the bad news.
I really want to support people doing meaningful work. If that's you, let's talk.
Based on the Kāpiti Coast, primarily serving Kāpiti and Wellington, with clients across NZ and Australia. Most work can be done remotely.
Adam has been an incredibly valuable resource for us over a collection of film projects and business strategies. His ability to see, decipher and clearly explain complex problems that straddle the intellectual, emotional, technological and social is in my view unparalleled. He consults with honesty and integrity, delivering his point of view clearly without pushing an agenda.
His perspective covers a massive spectrum from the intensity of CTO at Weta Digital during Avatar to permaculture farming — Adam's spectrum is broad and totally unique. He can help you understand complicated business, brand and creative questions and provide insightful solutions on the cutting edge of the now.
— Mike Wallis, Director at Mi Films
Over the years I have found myself instinctively reaching for the phone to Adam when needing help with perspective, implementing a new system or making a considered decision. Oh and also when breaking my website!
He is incredibly patient and always answers my elementary questions re tech stuff with grace and care. He genuinely cares about making things better and easier on all platforms in life. Be it from the garden to the web.
His tech brain can sort through all the data and present you with an accessible and human choice. I can't recommend him more highly.
— Inge Rademeyer, Manager at Wētā FX
Adam provided incredible cross-team leadership at Weta, and was adept at taking user/group/facility requests and prioritizing them on a daily basis to keep things running smoothly, prepare for future upgrades and develop preventative measures. Not only that, but he actively pushed other engineers to contribute ideas so everyone felt they had given input and constantly accredited his team before himself. Adam is a real team player, a level headed decision maker, and more importantly, just a great guy to work with!
— Derek Gerstmann, R&D Software Engineer at Weta Digital
Adam has an uncanny ability to identify problems, design solutions, and implement them efficiently and effectively. When I worked with Adam at Internet Alaska, he redesigned the entire email infrastructure to support multiple virtual ISPs, and did so with almost no budget. Existing customers were ported to the new infrastructure with no noticeable outages, and Internet Alaska was able to expand its customer base from ~12K to 33,000+ in less than 18 months.
Adam's system administration work speaks for itself; the greatest value Adam brings to the table is his ability to work with people.
— Mike Messick, Owner at Deep Forest Security Consulting
As a team member / lead of the Sysadmin department at Internet Alaska, Adam displayed exceptional skill working with both computer/network systems and his peers. He possesses good communication, management, documentation and technical skills and takes genuine pride in his work. Aside from his skill and expertise with technology, Adam is a pleasure to work with.
— Jon Wojtacha, Sr. Systems Consultant at Internet Alaska
Adam is a leader, his ability to relate with people of all capabilities and position is remarkable. He encourages those less experienced to push forward beyond their past achievements, engages with those more knowledgable in an open & collaborative manner to bring their talents and energies to the task at hand. From entrepreneur, Unix Guru, CTO, Zen Yoga practitioner — Adam is the complete package.
— Shannon Murray, Murrays Coaches Buses & Limousines
One of the most brilliant, energetic, creative and talented people I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Adam approaches projects with a zeal and confidence that's rarely matched. I would work with Adam again at anytime.
— Lucas Sheehan, Founder at Personal Telco Project
Amy and Adam's depth of experience, coupled with the other managers I met throughout the sessions, created an amazing platform and safe environment to learn new ideas, initiatives and processes. Bringing these experiences back into my work life has made me a better leader.
— Ian White, General Manager at ZX Security
It feels like the ground covered during an hour at Managers Anonymous would have taken me two weeks to get to by myself.
— George Langlands, Lead Advisor at ACC
Managers Anonymous is a great way to connect, learn and expand on the art and science of being a manager. Amy and Adam are skilled facilitators who create the space to learn and share across a group of participants with wide ranging experiences and industry backgrounds.
— Carin Sundstedt, Manager Culture and Customer at MPI
Leading a team can be a pretty lonely experience. Managers Anonymous gave me the peers and space I needed to develop my leadership skills. It's had an enormous impact on the way I work.
— Clarion Coughlan, Project Director at NZ On Screen
Managers Anonymous and the Non-Violent Communication (NVC) framework provides a practical and effective toolbox of ideas and techniques to help decode tricky management & personnel issues. Listening to, and participating in, the group helped me level up as a manager.
— Eoin Kelly, Lead Architect at Ackama NZ
Managers Anonymous helped me understand the difficulties that managers face, and how to effectively use non-violent communication in my professional life.
— Mohamed Hassan, Consultant at ZX Security
I was afraid that this was going to be some kind of hippy-dippy share-your-feelings and get vague affirmations gathering. There are definitely feelings sharing but it's with a goal of working out what the feelings are and what the root need is that has created those feelings. This was useful for me to learn for myself, and is useful for working with other people.
— Norman Cates, Weta Digital
As a passionate person who wears my emotions on my sleeves, I found Managers Anonymous really helpful.
— Amber Craig, Senior Architect at ANZ
Notable things: IMDB credits (Lord of the Rings, Avatar), built one of NZ's first ISPs, featured on RNZ, created the viral "Realistic Wellington Calendar", published in Capital magazine and Animation World Network, NetApp speaking tour (USA, 2010), Startup Weekend mentor.
No sales pitch. If I can help you in 30 minutes, I will.
Or email me at adam@haume.nz.