The Pieman

By Dave Wasley, Friday,15 May, 2009 at 9:59 am

Chris Pearman joined the Trade Me Infrastructure team around 12 months ago. Over that time he quickly became an integral part of the team. Chris provides support for our corporate environment as well as the pressure cooker area of our production equipment.

Chris’s defining characteristics include an amazingly positive attitude, majestic customer service, and native smarts. He has ensured that users at Trade Me stay productive, they stay happy and our site stays up. Chris has a great sense of humour, gets along with everyone and makes smart decisions. This is what make this chap a rock star.

Excelling in IT is not just about know geek stuff, its about working with people, understanding the business and working smart. Chris gets this and that is why he excels at what he does. Chris appreciates the importance of people being able to continue to work and that IT is here to help, not hinder. It’s a breath of fresh air when you have staff like Chris that want to make things work, and not look at ways of restricting people because of policy or procedure or just because they are lazy.

This guy works his arse off and never complains – a managers dream employee!!

22 Comments

Gtxboyracer

27 May, 2009 at 4:37 pm

Trade Me is a good company to work for.. so i hear.. i have a friend or two who works there atm.
zara

26 May, 2009 at 1:14 pm

Go Chris!
natalie

25 May, 2009 at 8:48 pm

good luck chris, u totally deserve it!
Ryan M

25 May, 2009 at 12:16 pm

Good luck Critterbug!

We shall have to inform the Pieminister if you make the cut.

Your pal,

RYRY
Trevor

25 May, 2009 at 8:57 am

Such a nice man and so very very good at his job. Rockstar? Too bloody right.
t94xr

24 May, 2009 at 4:07 pm

hes actually in a state of meditation, waiting for the next call for his help.

If you look, hes clearly awake, ready for everything and attentive.
Hes clearly a master of many skills.
Tyler McKnight

24 May, 2009 at 9:44 am

Go the Pie!
Somethings never change, doesn’t matter where he’s working he’s still a rock star!
Marc Krisjanous

22 May, 2009 at 6:32 pm

He looks like a man of passion and commitment. I will now beg him to join us!

What a great idea Trade Me team!

Cheers

marc
Suhel

22 May, 2009 at 6:27 pm

You can do it!
VICKY PEARMAN

22 May, 2009 at 10:24 am

Critterbug,Good luck we are incredibly proud of you and that your hard work and abilities have been acknowledged and recognised.
See –taking apart the video recorder at age 3 was eventually beneficial !!!!! love Ma (no not Nonu but hey
“GO THE CANES”)
Tim Simpson

21 May, 2009 at 12:11 pm

excellent work! meditating on executing an successful implimentation is an art that is so underappreciated in the modern IT environment!
Jacqui

20 May, 2009 at 5:29 pm

Was that photo taken after a big night on the ran tan??
Dennis from Accounts

20 May, 2009 at 4:43 pm

This sort of carry-on would be frowned upon in the Public Service…
Ross

20 May, 2009 at 10:08 am

Compiling!
Delwyn Feehan

19 May, 2009 at 8:24 pm

I love a hard worker!!!
Alan Pearman

18 May, 2009 at 9:41 pm

I will now believe Pieman when he tells me that he been flat out at work. The first six letters of TRADEME is an anagram of DREAMT, maybe Pieman is taking his job too literally.
Jay Man

18 May, 2009 at 4:46 pm

He could go all the way…
VICKY PEARMAN

18 May, 2009 at 3:12 pm

thats my boy
DBDave

18 May, 2009 at 12:56 pm

Get that man a pillow! (and a towel) :-p
wanjun wang

18 May, 2009 at 9:21 am

Go Go Go Chris!

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