Availant Appoints Michael Michaud as Vice President of Engineering.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2000 Availant, a leading provider of availability management software and services that keep business-critical computer systems up and running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, today announced it has named Michael Michaud as its new vice president of engineering. As Vice President of Engineering, Michaud will contribute to the strategic vision of the company, while managing Availant's product development process. Michaud's responsibilities include overall direction and execution of all of the key functions of Engineering Development, Quality Assurance, Project Management, Release Engineering and Product Documentation. Michaud brings more than 19 years of technology and engineering experience to Availant, including 12 years in software development at Lotus where he designed and delivered applications, including Lotus 123. Prior to joining Availant, Michaud held senior positions at both Platinum technology Platinum Technology Inc. was founded by Andrew Filipowski in 1987 to market and support deployment of Database Management software products and the applications enabled by database management technology and render related services. and Scribe Software. He has managed all aspects of product planning Product Planning is the ongoing process of identifying and articulating market requirements that define a product’s feature set. See also
"Mike is one of those rare engineering leaders that brings both software architecture and organizational architecture The architecture of an organization provides the framework through which an organization aims to realize its core qualities as specified in its vision statement. It provides the infrastructure into which business processes are deployed and ensures that the organization's core together to build a high performance team," said George Linscott, 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. and president of Availant. "As we expand our company to meet the growing need for availability products, Mike will ensure the threads of high quality, teamwork and customer focus remain tightly woven into Availant's culture." About Availant Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. , Availant is a leading provider of availability management software that keeps business-critical computer systems up and running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Founded in 1989, the company's customers include the majority of Fortune 500 companies worldwide in the finance, telecommunications, retail, health care and transportation industries, where availability management and continuous access to enterprise information is essential to business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . The company's products and services are available directly from Availant and through business partners and Value Added Resellers (VARs) in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . Availant is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with an office located in Austin, Texas. For more information, call Availant at (617) 621-2542 or visit the company's Web site at http://www.availant.com/ |
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