Achievements and Milestones

Spark::red Clients Enjoy 100% Uptime During 2013 Black Friday/Cyber Monday Online Shopping Season

Read more
Spark::red Celebrates 6 Year Anniversary Without Having a Single Client Ever Switching to Another Oracle ATG Commerce Hosting Provider

Read more
Spark::red Holds Its First Clients and Partners Meetup

Read more

Clients

  • Increased number of clients by 54%

Clients now include multiple online retailers from the IR Top 500, Second 500, Europe 500, Hot 100 and Fortune 1000 lists.

Meet some of these great brands.

Quiksilver #944 on the Fortune 1000 List
Quiksilver is a globally diversified company that designs, produces and distributes branded apparel, footwear, accessories and related products. With more than 40 years in the market, Quiksilver products are currently sold throughout the world primarily in surf shops, skate shops and other specialty stores that provide authentic retail experiences for its customers.
 
 Roxy In the 2013 IR Top 100 Hot eRetailers List
Quiksilver Inc.’s Roxy is a swimwear line that debuted in late summer 1990 to immediate success. By the next year, a Roxy sportswear line was introduced, and that too prospered, with sales of over $1 million. 1992 saw continued expansion of the brand with a new denim line and key snow-wear pieces. The fact that Roxy was a women’s line offered by an authentic surf brand made it intriguing for both retailers and girls alike. It was the first of its kind on the market, and soon after, the other surf brands followed.
Chain Reaction Cycles In the Top 100 on the IR Top 500 Europe eRetailers List
#20 on the Top 100 Hot Businesses by Real Business
Chain Reaction Cycles is the largest online biking store in the world. Its journey began in 1984 as a small family business in Northern Ireland, serving and supporting local cyclists. It’s been an incredible ride so far, with the company growing to a collective of over 700 cyclists, swimmers, runners and passionate professionals supporting a global community of cycle and multi-sport athletes. 
TOMS Shoes #6 On the FastCompany List on the Top Ten Most Innovative Retail Companies in 2010
TOMS is a unique shoes and eyewear retailer that operates the non-profit subsidiary, Friends of Toms. When TOMS sells a pair of shoes a pair of shoes is given to an impoverished child, and when TOMS sells a pair of eyewear, part of the profit is used to save or restore the eyesight for people in developing countries. With about 30% of its revenues coming from direct-to-consumer sales via Toms.comn their 2013 revenue reached about $300 million.

Learn more about our clients and what they say about Spark::red on ‘Our Clients’ page.

Partners

  • 2 new partnerships
Yotta

The rise of mobile computing has raised the bar for online businesses. Browsing increasingly occurs on the go, which requires websites to immediately engage users and focus their attention with an experience that responds to their visitor flow, including their device, browsing context and on-page interactions. The Yottaa Engagement Cloud ensures a personalized, responsive solution that adapts to visitor context and user actions to improve engagement and increase mobile and web conversions.
iGlass

iGLASS provides a new level of systems monitoring for Spark::red’s clients. In addition to the monitoring provided by Spark::red’s Support Team, their experienced NOC engineers provide 24×7 monitoring of network equipment, applications and databases and perform tier-1 remediation of common problems. As a result of the increased number of people keeping an eye on customer systems, possible performance issues can be identified and fixed earlier, thus eliminating/minimizing the potential impact of such issues on websites, infrastructure or application performance.

Visit ‘Our Partners’ page to see who else Spark::red partners with.

Our Team

  • New Executive Team member

Benjamin Sherry

Senior Director of Operations

Ben brings over a decade of ATG experience to the Spark::red Support Team. During the last 6 years, he was in charge of the Systems Engineering, Application Support and Performance Testing Team at AT&T. 

His day to day responsibilities included a provision of the initial platform architecture, handling purchasing and fulfillment as well as coordinating data center rollout for networking and power. 

Ben worked on projects for some of the largest online retailers including Cisco, Dell, HP and Net Gear.

Want to know who else is in our executive team? Check it out!

  • 3 new members added to the Application Support Team

Jon Pardue

Application Specialist

Jon has been in the software industry for over 25 years, most of it in the online space.  In 1994 he architected, deployed and began supporting the corporate web site for Reynolds Metals Company, one of the first sites of its kind in the world.  During his ten years at AT&T Wireless/Cingular/AT&T Mobility, Jon was a lead developer on e-commerce projects ranging from web services vending catalog data to complex ATG applications.  He was hand-selected to serve on a ten-member strike team charged with rebuilding AT&T’s consumer web presence from scratch, which eventually grew into its own division.  In addition to his extensive ATG experience, Jon has been certified in information security (SANS GIAC Certified Incident Handler) and also holds the CIPP/US certification in information privacy.

Rich Elliott

Application Specialist

With over 5 years of experience in software encryption as well as extensive ATG expertise, Rich is one of our most recent additions to the Spark::red team. 

For almost a decade, he worked as a Systems Engineer and was involved in projects with some of the largest ATG implementations. Among the ATG projects that Rich has worked on are Nintendo, dymo.com, Nutrisystems and Tesco UK.

His main areas of expertise are ATG environment development, application support and software encryption.
 

Anthony Monaco 

Application Specialist

For the past 3 years, Anthony worked at AT&T in Environment and Application Support, performing a wide range of activities from project management and requirement analysis to the daily support of multiple ATG-based environments. 

With the previous 13 years previously spent in Retail Operations Management and Customer Service, his experience with e-commerce as well as brick and mortar gives him a unique perspective as well as understanding of the challenges that must be overcome for retail businesses to be successful.
  • 2 new members added to the Infrastructure Support Team

Kris Griebe

Linux Systems Administrator

Kris comes from a diverse technology background, ranging from HPC and cluster computing to DevOps and Systems Administration.  Having worked within the startup environment, as well as for larger companies, Kris understands the unique challenges faced by all sizes of business, and continually strives to make sure the customer receives the right solutions for their needs.  Kris brings 10+ years of experience with various technology platforms to Spark::red, and a passion for continued improvement, efficiency, and automation.

 

Jason LaBranch

Systems Engineer

Jason has about 2 decades of experience in Systems Engineering as well as more than 5 years working specifically with Oracle systems. 

With a strong background in eCommerce/Web Application development, System Administration, and relational databases, Jason helps Spark::red to improve and stabilize applications, improve infrastructure, monitoring, deployment and support processes.