American Megatrends, Inc. appoints Carl Snedaker as Director of BIOS Engineering.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 1996--American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI) today announced the appointment of Carl Snedaker, 41, as the Director of BIOS Engineering. Snedaker's addition to AMI will facilitate enhanced customer service and he will coordinate engineering efforts in expanding AMI's product lines and markets. Prior to joining AMI, Snedaker spent 20 years in the PC industry designing and developing operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , utilities, and BIOS products. Carl's robust engineering and business experience in firmware and diagnostics will be a valuable asset to AMI," President S. Shankar stated. "We have some of the best engineering minds in the world at AMI and Carol is a proud addition." As Director of BIOS Engineering, Snedaker will continue AMI's pledge of providing premium quality BIOS products with fast turnaround porting and integration services for PC and chip set manufacturers. Also, he will be responsible for ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9000 compliance in AMI's software development procedures. Over the past 14 years, Snedaker has held several significant management positions in the PC software industry. As Vice President of Research and Development for SoftLogic Solutions, Inc., he was responsible for DoubleDOS, Disk Optimizer A utility program that defragments a hard disk. See defragment. , and Software Carousel. Snedaker also served as Microcom's Director for its Carbon Copy Division with the responsibility of Carbon Copy Asynch and LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. remote control products. Additionally, Snedaker has served as Phoenix Technologies' Senior Director of Engineering, and DiagSoft's Vice President of Engineering. In over half the computers in the world with AMIBIOS AMIBIOS American Megatrends, Incorporated, Basic Input/Output System , Megatrends, Inc. produces a variety of software and hardware solutions including keyboard controllers, PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. software, diagnostics software, motherboards, RAID controllers, and computer telephony peripheral cards. American Megatrends, Inc., headquartered in Norcross, Ga., is an Equal Opportunity Employer equal opportunity employer An employer or enterprise that does not discriminate against a job candidate, or subject him/her to adverse exclusionary criteria, based on race, sex, religion, or national origin. See Equal employment opportunity. . AMI can be reached at (800) 828-9264 or (770) 246-8600; and on the world wide web at http://www.megatrends.com. CONTACT: AMERICAN MEGATRENDS, INC. Joe P. Leader, 770/246-8600 or 800/828-9264 fax: 770/246-8790 email: JoeLeader@American.Megatrends.Com |
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