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.

Luke Whitson Lead Developer Luke joined the RocketTheme team in 2009. Previously, he was a lead developer for several large companies as well as a freelance developer/designer and is now developing advanced themes for RocketTheme.

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.
Stephanie Schmidt Developer Stephanie joined the RocketTheme team in 2011 and is now developing extensions for the RocketTheme Extensions Club. Previously, she worked for several companies within the Joomla community as an extensions developer.
Arifin Finly Developer 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..


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.
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.

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.

Josh Miller Developer Josh has been building Joomla templates since 2009… and hasn't been able to stop since. He loves anything code, from apps to templates or anything that's new. Josh enjoys basketball, movies, and occasionally recording music.

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.

Katrin Lange QA Lead Kat joined the RocketTheme Team in 2009 after being a member for many years. Her favorite activities at RocketTheme are bug hunting and marking forum posts as solved. She likes watersports, movies, Arabian horses and photography.

RocketTheme Forum Moderators

roeland Roeland Aernoudts Forum Name: Roeland_A! Addicted to IT and a webby by birth, he became interested in Joomla, and where better to improve skills, than at RT. Driven by an unrelentless curiosity, his hobbies are too many to list, but one jumps out, fishing in Crete, Greece.


jeremyreger Jeremy Reger Forum Name: J!eremy Jeremy joined the RocketTheme community 2008. He enjoys spending time with his wife of 10 years and 2 kids, but golf consumes him outside of Joomla and Wordpress


christopher Christopher Davis Forum Name: cdavis411 Christopher is a married father of four living in the Central Florida Area. He loves spending time with his family, helping others and is hopelessly addicted to web development. Christopher joined RocketTheme in 2010.


martin Martin Stepanek Forum Name: Martin Stepanek Sportsman and in mean time Ph. D. student with big passion for IT. He spends most time in front of computer or skiing all around the world.


dangryn Dan Gryn Forum Name: DanG Bored after retiring, Dan has been re-energized by web development and giving his 2cents worth in the forums. Bicycling fanatic and huge HD and movie buff. Addicted to crosswords and Rubicon.


briant Brian Tyndall Forum Name: Brian Tyndall In his spare time Brian is a competitive waterpolo player as well as a search and rescue volunteer. He has a great passion for helping people find solutions to their problems.


cliffpfeifer Cliff Pfeifer Forum Name: Cliff Pfeifer A freelance web developer and graphics designer in Denver, Colorado with a passion for helping others. Cliff is also a classically trained percussionist, a professional dj and music producer. He also enjoys the outdoors, sports and his 2 cats.


timberneman Tim Berneman Forum Name: Tim Berneman A long time programmer & webmaster, Tim is self-taught in several languages. He loves programming and learning new things and is focused on Wordpress and RocketThemes using the Gantry Framework. He also loves Action/Adventure movies and riding motorcycles.


igormihaljko Igor Mihaljko Forum Name: Igor Mihaljko Full time IT consultant working on many IT projects, currently for Ministry of Justice and State Geodetic Administration. Igor has a degree in Computer Science at Faculty of electrical engineering and computing in Zagreb, Croatia. Freelance Joomla web sites developer, Joomla extensions tutorial and documentation writer. Finished more than 100 Joomla based web site development projects.
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.


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.


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.


henning Henning B. Forum Name: Henning Henning joined the RocketTheme community 2008. He runs his own graphic-design business. His interests are arts & design in general, music and football.


davidgoode David Goode Forum Name: David Goode David is a self-employed web designer who has been using Joomla since its inception. Living in Torquay (home of Fawlty Towers) with his wife, David is also a hypnotherapist and enjoys helping people.


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



bensimon Ben Simon Forum Name: Ben Simon A web developer who is specialized in bringing small and medium size businesses on-line. Previously worked in the finance industry as a licensed adviser, trader, and project manager. Loves hiking, climbing, and spending time with his family.


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.


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