The RocketTheme Team



Andy Miller CEO / Founder / Head Kahuna Andy started mambodev.com in 2004 when he was working as a core developer for the Mambo CMS. Soon mambodev.com evolved into a template club based site and was relaunched under the name RocketTheme. During Andy's time as a Joomla core developer, RocketTheme quickly grew into the number one template club for Joomla.

Andy has a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, and experience working for some of the largest corporations in the world. This extensive real world experience combined with a passion for design has enabled Andy to realize his dream of allowing anyone to build a great looking web site.
Kevin DuCommun Lead Developer Kevin joined the RocketTheme community in 2006 and began contributing design and style variations as well as various bonus templates for Joomla, eventually coming on board as a full time developer and designer in 2007.

Dustin Evans Lead Designer Dustin joined the RocketTheme team in 2008 primarily designing templates and style variations for each month's featured template releases. He also works on internal design and marketing graphics projects.
Karol Orzel Developer Karol joined the RocketTheme team in 2007. Previously, he was a lead graphic designer with local multimedia companies and is now building phpBB3 styles as well as creating phpBB3 administrator modules.
Jakub Baran Developer Jakub joined the RocketTheme team in 2009 and is now developing advanced themes and templates for RocketTheme's clubs. Jakub enjoys snowboarding, house / electronic music, and japanese culture.
James Spencer Support James has long been an active contributor to the RocketTheme community, providing support as well as creating guides and tutorials for all manner of subjects. He joined the RocketTheme team in 2007 and is currently studying for his Law Degree.
Marge Burnett Membership Services After many years of specializing in office and business administration, Marge joined RocketTheme in 2007 to monitor billing and membership activity as well as assist members with related issues.

Djamil Legato Lead Developer Djamil is currently a member of the Mootools Development Team and had been collaborating with RocketTheme on various javascript based projects before officially coming on board as a full time developer in 2008.
Luke Whitson Lead Developer Luke joined the RocketTheme team in 2009. Previously, he was a lead developer for several local companies as well as a freelance developer/designer and is looking forward to honing his skills at RocketTheme.
Sam Mahoney Developer Sam joined RocketTheme in 2009 as one of their new template developers. He considers himself a bit of an all-rounder when it comes to the web, and works on music production in his spare time.

Brian Towles Geekus Maximus Brian has been designing and developing web based and enterprise level software for over 15 years. He has worked for commercial CMS software companies and brings those skills and experiences to the RocketTheme team.
Mike VanKirk Support Having been a long time RocketTheme community member, Mike joined the RocketTheme team in 2007 to provide template support on the forums. Mike also creates video and written tutorials to further help our valued users.

RocketTheme Forum Moderators

damo Damian Dugdale Forum Name: Damo Part time swami and full time fan of football, he'll help with Joomla stuff all day but ask about moving template stuff around, he'll call for someone else. Voted best looking moderator four years running, by himself.


yves Yves Gabioud Forum Name: Yves Yves joined the RocketTheme community in 2006 and quickly joined the moderator squad. Apple geek, he runs his own business (graphics) and loves photography, playing the piano and just helping people.


roland Bob Ateah Forum Name: Roland Deschain Bob operates a 'one-stop-shop' IT business and loves to provide help whenever he can. His hobbies include building a race team and car for oval dirt track racing and watching Canadian football.


jem James E Middleton Forum Name: Jem JEM is an American living in Japan to pursue his interests in martial arts. He joined the RocketTheme community in 2007 and became a moderator in 2008. He enjoys helping newbies understand the ins and outs of Joomla.


james Jim Sorbello Forum Name: Jamesso Jim is entering his 9th year as a web design hobbyist. He joined RocketTheme in 2007 and has been using Joomla since 2006. When not working, Jim enjoys spending time with his girlfriend, playing soccer and watching movies at the cinema.


amandeep Amandeep Singh Forum Name: Amandeep Singh An Indian who enjoys helping people out with their issues in RT forum. He along with his brother owns an I.T company in Rudrapur. Hobbies - working out at gym, watching movies, playing games.



roeland Roeland Aernoudts Forum Name: Roeland Aernoudts Addicted to IT and a webby by birth, he became interested in Joomla, and where better to improve skills, then at RT. Driven by an unrelentless curiosity, his hobbies are too many to list, but one jumps out, fishing in Crete, Greece.
joe Joseph Halleck Forum Name: Joseph Halleck Joe joined the Rockettheme community in 2005 while looking for unique templates for sites he was building. He enjoys helping people solve issues on the forums and giving back to the Joomla and PHPBB communities.


arifin Arifin FinLy Forum Name: Arifin FinLy As a student studying robotics at the University of Ibaraki, Arifin enjoys spending his free time programming, cooking, and of course helping members in the RocketTheme forums solve their problems.


ben Ben Lee Forum Name: benblee Something Ben focuses on is finding the right tools for the job...why re-invent the hammer every time you have to drive a nail? This train of thought led him to the open source community and to Rockettheme.


prim Pär Andersson Forum Name: prim A Swedish IT fellow that loves to learn more about languages and cultures. Other areas of interests would be meteorology, forecasting and photography.


peter Peter Osipof Forum Name: Peter Osipof Peter is a member of the VirtueMart team and enjoys all aspects of template development and design. He's a long time RocketTheme member and is now actively in problem solving on the RT forums.



kat Katrin Eldemerdash Forum Name: Kat05 Kat is a German who moved to Egypt 5 years ago to work in SCUBA diving. She joined RocketTheme in 2006 and besides helping out in the forums likes swimming, chess, movies and has a passion for Arabian horses and photography.


nanci Nanci Memory Forum Name: Nanci Nanci joined the RocketTheme community in 2008. Her interest are many and varied. When not running her own design business she enjoys time with family and friends, helping members here at RT and a great cup of coffee.