ACOM Announces Senior Management Appointments; Scott and Firmin Run iSeries, Financial Documents Divisions, Respectively; Mikhail Becomes Vice President of Sales, eBusiness Division.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2003 The Board of Directors of ACOM (language) ACOM - An early system on the IBM 705. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. Solutions, Inc. has elected Sam Mikhail, a 10-year sales veteran with the company, to the position of Vice President -- Sales of the eBusiness Division, headquartered in Long Beach, it was announced today by Patrick McMahon, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . In his new post, Mikhail will be responsible for sales of all ACOM products used in the Microsoft software environment, including the EZPayManager for Windows corporate payment suite, the EZeDocs edocument output management suite, and the EZConnect EDI-XML and EZWebForms family of ecommerce translation, connectivity and data management products. "In his tenure with the company, Sam Mikhail has been exposed to virtually every dimension of our sales process, in three of our four product and service areas," McMahon said. "In every instance, he has displayed impressive talent for finding creative solutions to customer problems, and for identifying new avenues of potential for sales of our products. His ability to identify with the customer point of view, along with the fine organizational and management skills he has acquired, qualify him well for this major advance in his ACOM career." Mikhail joined ACOM Solutions immediately upon graduation from Long Beach State University, where he earned a BS degree in Management Information Systems. Beginning as a sales account executive, he progressed to regional manager positions in the ACOM's Payment, iSeries and eCommerce divisions, and subsequently held positions as director of sales at each of the three divisions. Mikhail is married and lives with his family in Orange County, California Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. Its county seat is Santa Ana. According to the 2000 Census, its population was 2,846,289, making it the second most populous county in the state of California, and the fifth most populous in the United States. . Elsewhere within ACOM, Vice Presidents James R. Scott and Mark Firmin have assumed new assignments. Scott has been named General Manager of ACOM's iSeries (AS/400) division; and Firmin has been named General Manager of the company's Financial Documents division. Both divisions are headquartered in Atlanta. Scott is a veteran of some 25 years in the information processing and document processing industries. Prior to joining ACOM, he was national sales manager of the AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) An audio compression technology that is part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards. AAC, especially MPEG-4 AAC, provides greater compression and better sound quality than MP3, which also came out of the MPEG standard. Corporation Account-A-Call division, a telecommunications call processing and costing enterprise. Earlier, he was vice president of Strategic Mortgage Services and of the Western Division of Automatic Data Processing Same as data processing. (ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing. (2) (Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Roseland, NJ, www.adp. ) Corporation. He is a graduate of Northeastern University, Boston. Firmin joined the iSeries Division's predecessor company in its early stages as Vice President of Sales and continued in that position after its acquisition by ACOM, meanwhile positioning the division as an award winning document output management solution provider. Following five successful years with the iSeries Division, he assumed responsibility for sales of the ACOM Financial Documents Division's MICRPro in-house check production solutions to banks and credit unions. Firmin attended Sheffield Halham university in the United Kingdom, and earned a masters degree in computer information systems at Georgia State University History Georgia State University was founded in 1913 as the Georgia School of Technology's "School of Commerce." The school focused on what was called "the new science of business. . About ACOM Solutions ACOM is a leader in the field of back office process management, offering solutions for payment management, document output management, purchasing management and B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business eCommerce management. The company's solutions integrate seamlessly with enterprise applications such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. to enhance back office and B2B processes for electronic, Internet and paper-based commerce. ACOM offers solutions in the Microsoft Windows and the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) iSeries (AS/400) environments, including hardware, software, professional services, supplies, and maintenance contracts, as well as the company's 30-day No Risk Guarantee. ACOM serves more than 5,000 customers in the IBM iSeries (AS/400) and Windows environments, supporting organizations in the Financial, Government, Insurance, Manufacturing & Distribution, Logistics, Telecommunications, Healthcare, Hospitality & Gaming industries -- and many more. The company's Financial Documents Division markets the MICRPro In-House Check Production System to banks and credit unions nationwide. Contact ACOM at 2850 E. 29th Street, Long Beach CA 90806; telephone 562 424 7899; fax 562 424 8662; e-mail gchurch@acom.com; Web: www.acom.com/pr. |
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