Rock Team unveils office in Lewes
A high tech company that serves businesses across the globe has relocated to Southern Delaware.
Rock Team teaches businesses to use social media, offers instructor-led training for Lotus and IBM software, and packages software and hardware deals for businesses, but they do not operate out of a skyscraper, or even a warehouse. Instead, the company set up shop in a small suite on Nassau Commons Boulevard in Lewes. The Rock Team teaches businesses how to operate and prosper online, while employees work remotely from various locations, just like Rock Team does.
The company helps corporations develop online training programs, said Patience Rockey, who founded Rock Team in 1980 in Malvern, Pa. Rockey sold the business to CEO Carlos Casas June 2008. “I still run the online learning business,” Rockey said.
Casas, a graduate of University of Delaware, moved the business to its Lewes location about one year ago. “I’m a surfer,” Casas said. He said he now lives in Rehoboth Beach with his wife and two young children. “We love it,” he said. “We’ve intertwined into the community really well.”
Senior Instructor Dorothy Burke, who lives in Delaware County, Pa., has worked for Rock Team since 1988. She said the move to Lewes didn’t affect her much. “We’re a virtual business,” she said.
Burke is an online instructor of classes that teach businesses how to perform daily operations online. Rock Team performs also all of its daily operations online; even staff meetings, Burke said. “That’s what we’re trying to do for our clients; so they can do the same thing.”
Senior Consultant Rob Kirkland, who lives in Chester County, Pa., said Rock Team generally assists businesses in the tri-state area. Rock Team’s consultants also work remotely, but they occasionally visit clients in the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West to offer on-site training.
Kirkland said Rock Team’s clients include M.E.I. of West Chester, Pa., which manufactures unattended payment systems, and Bayhealth, a healthcare system of Central and Southern Delaware.
In a speech at Rock Team’s Oct. 19 grand opening, IBM Mid Market Sales Leader and Life Coach Wyman Winbush said online education and social media have become societal norms. “In 20 years, look how much is on the scene that wasn’t there before,” he said.
Wyman said businesses that embrace technology, especially social media outlets like Facebook and LinkedIn, are stretching marketing dollars. “The question is not whether you’re going to be part of it; the question is how to exploit it to your advantage,” he said. “This is no longer the information age, but the innovation age.”
For more information, go to RockTeam.com.
