Growing up in Montgomery County, MD, Member Splash founder Jamie Currie was a lifelong pool kid. Summer days started with swim practice and ended with the guards insisting the pool was closing and he had to go home. Soon enough he was a lifeguard himself, and eventually he was managing a dozen clubs in MD and DC during summers home from college.
His brother, John Currie, followed the same path but went a step further—buying out the pool company he worked for. As owner of Pool Personnel, he now provides complete pool management and staffing to clubs throughout the county.
💡 In 2010, John approached Jamie, by then a web developer running his own shop in southern California, about helping one of his clubs shift some of their registration and dues payments online. Although neither one realized it at the time, Member Splash was born.
Throughout the first season, the simple registration system was enhanced to handle front desk check-in and email communication with the membership. Seeing the system in use during a swim meet, a board member from another pool got in touch to see if it was something they could use. A one-off project looked like it might have potential to be something bigger.
By 2013, Member Splash featured support for webcams at the front desk to take member pictures, full reporting on attendance and payments with the ability to export to Excel and CSV, the capability to handle a dizzying array of pricing plans, and much more. It was in use at 10 clubs and had become a year-round project, with new features and functionality being rolled out steadily.
What sets Member Splash apart is our commitment to listening. Each season concludes with a comprehensive survey where our partner clubs share their experiences, challenges, and ideas. This direct feedback loop drives our development roadmap—every new feature, every streamlined workflow, every automated task exists because a volunteer board member told us it would make their life easier. We don't build in a vacuum; we build alongside the people using our platform every day.
Our platform runs on state-of-the-art private, virtual servers with daily backups both on and offsite. We feature tight integration with MailChimp for handling the sending of bulk emails. In fact, our MailChimp component was selected for MailChimp's integration program and is now available as a standalone WordPress plugin.
