BAQAPP - Key Persons


Andrew Host

Job Titles:
  • CD - ROM Services Pty Ltd in 1998 As an Audio Engineer, Sales Representative and Store Manager
  • Database Programmer
Role: Software Developer Andrew Host joined CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd in 1998 as an audio engineer, sales representative and store manager. Andrew is an expert at transferring and preserving old recordings to digital format. Andrew is a skilled database programmer and website builder. Andrew has a gift for developing extremely intuitive user interfaces which enables even junior to operate the CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd Production Control, CRM, staff time sheets and Accounting Software. This software enables even a junior operator to prepare quotes automatically, control production, prepare invoices, orders, record time sheets and much more. This database contributed to CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd success. Andrew has interfaced the YesVideo production system into this database which controls the computers converting tapes and films to DVD, which then automatically burns the DVD, prints the disc label, and produces the case cover.

Bernhard Kirschner

Job Titles:
  • Accountant
Role: Director Bernhard has a long and successful history of founding successful businesses using the application of new technologies. Bernhard trained as an accountant, then in 1962 as a computer programmer. He then designed, built and patented an envelope inserting machine, using new techniques such as transistor controls and sensors, Teflon bearings and plastic gears. In 1964 Bernhard started Copystat Pty Ltd in Johannesburg, probably the first Instant Print Service in the world, using Xerox copiers, which is still operating successfully in South Africa.

James Brough

Job Titles:
  • CD - ROM Services Pty Ltd in 1994 As a Technician and Sales Representative
Role: Director James joined CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd in 1994 as a technician and sales representative specialising in training and installing Internet Applications in client´s computers. James Brough is an innovator with a passion for solving problems with the perfect blend of software and hardware engineering. James was an early expert in installing and using internet software. James designed and built customised CD duplicating towers for CD-ROM Services, which enabled CD-ROM Services to duplicate discs at lower cost than its competitors. Over the years James developed specialised hardware and software for new technologies for CD-ROM services. James has been investigating and developing backup solutions for the multiple computers used by CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd and YesVideo Pty Ltd for at least 10 years, trying to find the perfect system that ticked all the boxes described at https://www.baqapp.com/index.php.

Martin Raiber

Job Titles:
  • Programmer
  • UrBackup Developer
Martin Raiber is known world wide as the creator of UrBackup, which is used in about 5,000 networks worldwide, and has been translated by enthusiastic users into over a dozen languages. Martin is a programmer who lives in Munich, Germany working for technology partners GmbH, with expertise in bank security systems. Martin has been developing the UrBackup program, written in C++ since 2010 as a Linux and Windows Open Source program, used in about 5,000 servers and 50,000 computers using the software. UrBackup is a NAS (Network Attached Service) application that can back up a theoretically unlimited number of computers to hard drive(s), giving both incremental and full file backups as well as incremental and full image backups.