Alpharel expands organization, names Kennedy VP of operations.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 1995--Alpharel (NASDAQ/NMS:AREL AREL Acute Reference Exposure Level (EPA) ), a principal supplier of enterprise-wide imaging application software, Tuesday announced that Richard J. Kennedy has joined the company as vice president of operations. In this new position, Kennedy will manage Alpharel's customer service, program management, technical publication, document control and quality functions. "It was critical to Alpharel to add a very strong, experienced member to our management team so that we can intensify our focus on these key customer-oriented areas," said Stephen P. Gardner, Alpharel president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Our product and application engineering efforts have expanded to the point that Engineering Directors Terry Theobald and Hal Lonas are devoting all of their time and energy to this critical technological area. "Therefore, we needed full-time management attention on program management. At the same time, additional management attention on the key disciplines surrounding customer support and quality will ensure Alpharel's continued commitment to delivering outstanding customer satisfaction." Kennedy, 55, comes to Alpharel from Integris, a business unit of Groupe Bull Groupe Bull (also known as Bull Computer or simply Bull) is a French computer company based in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, outside Paris. The company has also been known at various times as Bull General Electric, Honeywell Bull, CII Honeywell Bull , where he was also vice president of operations. In that position, he started Integris' Program Management organization, responsible for large, $20 million-plus programs. Prior to that, Kennedy oversaw the worldwide Product Line Management organization for Honeywell/Bull DPS Minicomputer series from Bull HN. 1. (language, text) DPS - Display PostScript. 2. (language) DPS - A real-time language with direct expression of timing requests. ["Language Constructs for Distributed Real-Time PRogramming", I. 6000 minicomputer (1) An earlier medium-scale, centralized computer that functioned as a multiuser system for up to several hundred users. The minicomputer industry was launched in 1959 after Digital Equipment Corporation introduced its PDP-1 for $120,000, an unheard-of low price for a computer in business. Additional Honeywell positions included director of engineering, director of customer support and director of quality. Kennedy and his wife, Clara, are relocating from Westford, Mass., to San Diego, the location of Alpharel's corporate headquarters. Alpharel is the primary supplier of open imaging software for enterprise-wide solutions. The company excels in meeting the challenges of complex environments -- managing access to high volumes of engineering and office documents by many users spread across diverse locations. Alpharel's client/server software components are available on a variety of platforms including UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (Sun, HP, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , DG and 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) ), Macintosh and PC, and operate efficiently across both local and wide area networks. Client operating environments include X Window OSF/Motif, Microsoft Windows and Apple System 7. Alpharel's software products easily integrate with customers' existing applications, providing departmental or corporate-wide document management. CONTACT: Alpharel Inc., San Diego Stephen P. Gardner, John W. Low, 619/625-3000 |
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