Welcome to our team Alice!
 
We’re excited to have welcomed a new face to the Quasar team. Alice Cole is our new Office Administrator and is responsible for keeping our office running smoothly. Alice is our first point of contact for customers, manages inwards and outwards goods as well as purchasing and order processing. She also takes care of a variety of finance, marketing and contract administration tasks.
 
Alice has held various administrator roles in the UK and New Zealand over the past ten years and is a highly experienced administrator.
 
Outside of work, Alice enjoys spending time with her family and dogs and her favourite place in New Zealand is Lake Pukaki due to its amazing views and serenity, as well as being a great place for a refreshing swim.

It’s been a busy month for us as our team continues to grow! We’re pleased to have also welcomed Stuart Sanderson to our team as our new Engineering Manager. Stuart is responsible for planning, monitoring, and closing our projects as well as leading the engineering team.
 
Stuart joins Quasar from his role as Network Investment Manager at Enable Fibre Broadband where he was responsible for ensuring network assets were capable of achieving business objectives now and in the future. He also has extensive experience in project and service delivery management roles in the telecommunications and IT industries across New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, the UK and Iraq.
 
Outside of work, Stuart runs a small farm with his family and when he has spare time, he enjoys maintaining his organic fruit and veg garden, going for a 5k run or bike ride, or relaxing on the patio with his wife.

We are excited to have also welcomed Craig Spencer to the Quasar team in the last few weeks. Craig is our new Senior Project Engineer and is responsible for the development, design and commissioning of SCADA and energy/power management systems.
 
Craig has a vast range of skills, knowledge, and experience in telecommunications, IT and control systems engineering disciplines, which includes over 17 years in the energy industry and 22 years in the military.
 
Before joining Quasar, Craig’s most recent roles include SCADA/GMS (Gas Management System) delivery lead at a NSW gas transmission and distribution company and control systems manager at Orion NZ, where he was responsible for all aspects of their SCADA/NMS OMS and mobile systems support, maintenance and development.
 
Outside of work, Craig enjoys spending time with family, especially his grandson, and salmon and trout fishing.  He also ties his own fishing flies. Craig also enjoys hand making bread and spends considerable time doing home renovations.
 
Welcome again Craig!

We’re delighted to have welcomed Sam Voschezang to the Quasar team, as our new Project Engineer. Sam has recently moved to Christchurch and was previously working as an automation/security technician before deciding to move to be closer to family. Sam also has a variety of experience in project manager, development engineer and project engineer roles as well as a Bachelor of Engineering specialising in mechatronics.
 
As a Project Engineer, Sam will be responsible for developing, designing, and commissioning energy and power management systems using a range of Schneider Electric products.
 
In his spare time, Sam enjoys working on projects like 3D printing and custom PC builds and when he gets the chance, he also enjoys downhill mountain biking, hiking, and hunting/camping.
 
Welcome again Sam!

2021 has been a wonderful year for our team. We’ve been fortunate to stay busy throughout the year with several exciting projects for new and existing clients being started as well as major updates of two of our own products – Quasar Control Utility and Rapid Capture & Control.
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We are also excited to have added new products to our range as we continue to build upon our goal of supporting our clients in analyzing and mitigating their power quality issues.

This year, our office officially closes for the Christmas break at midday on Wednesday 22nd December and we reopen on Monday 10th January. 
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Emails to sales@quasar.co.nz will continue to be monitored during this time and we will respond when possible. Our support contract clients can continue to contact us on (03) 343 9159 or support@quasar.co.nz.

Thank you for your support this year.

We hope you have a safe and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Regards, 
The Quasar team

Earlier in the year, our team went to Paint N Sip and spent an amazing afternoon creating a beautiful mural that is now hanging in our board room. We had a lot of fun doing this and would highly recommend it to anyone – artistic abilities are not required!  
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We’ve also had a number of fun team challenges, birthday lunches and training days this year – find us on LinkedIn and Facebook for more photos of these. 

Thank you for your support this year.

Our team will be taking a break over the Christmas period and so will be finishing for the year at midday on Wednesday 22 December. We'll return to the office on Monday 10 January.

​EV chargers are the latest addition to our range of solutions, as we add new products to help businesses get a complete and accurate picture of their energy usage. 

We have two EVlink chargers available – Smart Wallbox and Parking.

These are suitable for a variety of locations, from smaller corporate fleets through to commercial fleets and other places where a large number of electric vehicles need charging.

Both EVlink Smart Wallbox and Parking allow you to:

• Authorise and manage users
• Perform remote maintenance
• Allocate costs to users
• Generate reports and billing

 
Both models have a number of energy management features including delayed charging, current limitation and adjustable charging power.
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In addition, the Parking model offers automatic load balancing between sockets on a dual charging station and load shedding.

Dear all,
 
As we're all back in COVID-19 Level 4, our team are working from home. We're all able to undertake our usual work while at home and so we are very fortunate that there is very little disruption for us.