Who is Avant ?
Avant Internet Services Ltd, was set up originally by Murray Green and Terry Cooper, both longtime colleagues, following an outsourcing deal of New Zealand Custom's systems to Datacom.
After doing a three-month transitionary contract at Datacom, it was decided to enter the burgeoning market for internet applications, so Avant was established.
Apart from building websites for clients, webmaster roles at Telecom NZ International's division, B.I.Reporting, Database Administration and Operations Support assignments at other client sites followed. Having covered all these roles, many (or all) of which are necessary when managing I.T. systems, we were able to offer the whole range of competencies together as a package. Training and hard-won experience in things like Disaster-Recovery threw right back to our mainframe days, so that we were able to offer a package of well-rounded experience.
After twenty years (1998-2018) we closed the company and retired, however a start has been made on an interesting non-profit venture to get more people involved in watching what their elected councils are doing, and what they can do about it.