About Us

Vision | History | Team

 

Our Vision

Software

To develop high quality, cost effective educational administration solutions for teachers with the express purpose of reducing their workloads. Software design driven by teachers' needs, for teachers' benefit.

Teacher and Administrator support

To help ease the work and stress loads of teachers and administrators by providing professional support, advice and outsourcing solutions of the highest standard.

Our History

SEQTA Software is a division of Saron Education Ltd, an unlisted public company founded in 2006.

Early in 2006, CEO and Founding Director, Grant Grosser, while a Deputy Principal at a large K-12 private school noticed that the need for relief teachers was substantially higher at the end of each term as teachers' succumbed to illness due to workloads and stress. After spending a substantial amount of time in research, Grant saw the need for a company dedicated to finding solutions to what he was convinced was a global crisis in teaching and decided to tackle the issue of teacher and administrator workloads head on.

By April 2006 Grant, who had previously developed reporting, attendance and behaviour management software for his school, had come up with a unique concept for software that would substantially reduce teacher and admin workloads by integrating every aspect of the teaching/learning environment in a school into a single, web based software packge.

By August 2006, the concept for Teachers' Assistant was well advanced, patent applications were progressing and developers were employed to begin work on this watershed piece of software.

Teachers' Assistant began trials in January 2008 in a small number of schools. In 2009, this was extended to involve 10 schools. In May 2009 Version 1 of Teachers' Assistant was released and refinement of the software continued. Thanks to the experience and feedback of the approximately 300 teachers using Version 1, a continuous process of refinement and development was possible and resulted in Version 1.5 being released in August 2009.

A second product, SEQTA coneqt, began development in May 2009. SEQTA coneqt is a portal style interface for students and parents that allows them to tap into the wealth of information and resources held within Teachers' Assistant, making the SEQTA Suite the world's first Fully Integrated Learning Management System (FILMS).

Why is FILMS concept unique? Essentially because teachers don't need to do anythign other than their normal programming, planning and assessment to gain all of the benefits of the LMS.

SEQTA Software was formed as the software division of Saron Education Ltd in July 2009 and continues to go from strength to strength, with full scale marketing having begun in August 2009.

Our Team

SEQTA Software has a dedicated team of outstanding staff with an excellent knowledge and understanding of their individual roles. Despite the fact that all SEQTA products are sold 'as a service', the management, maintenance and support requirements for the software are very low, allowing us to keep the team small, and thus the cost to schools low, while providing the highest standards of service.

Left to right: George Hewitt (Implementation Manager), Barry van Oudtshoorn (Programmer/Analyst), Grant Grosser (CEO), Lance Duivenbode (Senior Programmer Analyst), Sharon Grosser (Office Manager), John Vickers (CFO), Julie Houghton (Marketing and Training South Australian Office) Absent: Rynhardt Lombard (Technical Support)

Grant Grosser Chief Executive Officer/Founding Director: Grant has over 20 years of experience in schools at all levels from classroom teacher to Deputy Principal. He also has experience in private enterprise. As well as mangaing Saron Educaiton Ltd/SEQTA Software, Grant oversees the strategic direction of software development, marketing and training.

John Vickers Chief Financial Officer/Director: John is a qualified accountant with many years of experience in the corporate sector and has first-hand experience at starting up highly successful companies. Prior to emigrating from South Africa, John was an Executive Director of Alexander Forbes, one of the world's top 10 insurance companies. John looks after all aspects of financial management, corporate governance and investor relations.

George Hewitt Implementation Manager: George has had significant experience both in school Information Technology departments and also in companies that outsource IT services to schools. George handles all aspects of implementation and also undertakes some of the programming, helpdesk and support tasks.

Lance Duivenbode Senior Programmer Analyst: Lance has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and extensive experience in software development and systems integration. Lance is primarly responsible for out quality control systems, version deployment and systems integration.

Barry van Oudtshoorn Programmer Analyst: Barry has a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Computer Science. He is primarily responsible for interface work and has a oversight of the development of SEQTA coneqt and our mobile solutions (TAMS).

Rynhardt Lombard Technical Support: Rynhardt has years of experience running a successful IT support business in South Africa. His primary responsibility is the maintenance and development of our website and support systems, including the Knowledgebase and Helpdesk.

Sharon Grosser Office Administrator and Training: As an experienced teacher and office manager, Sharon runs the SEQTA office and provides on-the-ground training support for teachers.