Meet the team!

  • Bruce Allan (BJ)
    Bruce is highly experienced in pyrotechnics and our Head Pyrotechnician. He has been in th industry for over 45 years. He started manufacturing fireworks at the age of eight! By the age of twelve he was being supplied all the right chemicals and composition powders from the NZ Dairy Association. This was before regulatory processes restricted purchase. One of the most experienced pyrotechnicians in NZ, he trained with technicians from the Department of Labour and with New Zealand Firework Displays.
  • Barry Wah Lee
    The name Wah Lee has been associated with fireworks in Auckland since 1890. Barry's parents, the late Linda and George Wah Lee, first started importing fireworks to NZ from China and selling them from their shop in Greys Ave, then known as Chinatown. From there, George and Linda moved up to Hobson St, Barry and his brother Robert still run the Wah Lee store at 220 Hobson St, Auckland.
  • Mary Allan
    Mary has a background in event and theatre work and has worked in Pyrotechnics for over 15 years.Her passion for large event work led her to touring NZ and Australia for 10 years with Circus Quirkus and the World Festival of Magic working as their lighting designer.
  • David Lewer
    David is a pyrotechnician and our electrical technician. David and BJ work together to figure out the 'electrickery', he works full time during the day as a qualified engineer.

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