BiTMICRO NETWORKS Promotes Roland Portman to Vice President of Operations.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2000 Former 3COM Senior Design Engineer to Lead Industry's High-Performance Solid State Flash Disk Storage Operations BiTMICRO NETWORKS, Inc., the world's premier supplier of high performance solid state flash disk storage solutions, today announced the promotion of one of its most accomplished engineers, Roland Portman, to the position of Vice President, Operations. Portman will manage the company's strategy for delivering easy-to-install solid state storage products in volume. As VP of Operations at BiTMICRO, Portman will be responsible for all the manufacturing requirements including test development and process engineering, production control, quality and reliability. He will be the critical leader in defining the direction and implementing the necessary actions that will make BiTMICRO the most flexible, agile and efficient operations in the industry. Roland Portman has a strong record of achievement and experience. Prior to joining the firm, he was a senior design engineer responsible for improving the existing CEC (Central Electronic Complex) The set of hardware that defines a mainframe, which includes the CPU(s), memory, channels, controllers and power supplies included in the box. Some CECs, such as IBM's Multiprise 2000 and 3000, include data storage devices as well. router processor board at 3COM. Most notably, he was a member of a Tiger Team that successfully designed and developed the Lightning High Performance Router Processor Board. Before 3COM, he worked at Amdahl Corporation as senior systems design engineer responsible for the specification, design, and development of boundary scan system on a high performance SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill based 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). mainframe. He managed the scan design rules conformance for all ASICs under development for the Amdahl Miranda project. Prior to Amdahl, he was at Key Computer as an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. design engineer for an ECL Super Computer, and previously at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: see Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (body) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - (LLNL) A research organaisatin operated by the University of California under a contract with the US Department of Energy. . Commenting on his appointment, Portman said, "BiTMICRO is uniquely positioned to provide complete solid state storage solutions for collaborating with strategic customers and responding with shorter lead times to deliver new products. We have reached the point in our product development where greater boost in production is just around the corner." "The ability to manufacture and test extremely high-quality product in volume quickly and efficiently is obviously vital for us to maintain leadership in delivering high performance electronic disk solutions. I am privileged to join the management team who is committed to help the IT industry take the leap forward and to advance intelligent data storage technology," Portman added. "Roland has been one of our most versatile and talented directors. He made numerous contributions, including 3 pending patents and several in process, to the growth and success of BiTMICRO," said Rudy Bruce, 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. of BiTMICRO. "Throughout the years, he successfully guided our company through critically important period of innovation, new product introductions and aggressive expansion of our manufacturing and engineering capacity." Portman earned a Masters Degree in Computer Science from University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. and a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Santa Clara. About BiTMICRO NETWORKS BiTMICRO NETWORKS, Inc., a privately held California corporation, is the world's premier supplier of high performance solid state flash disk storage solutions. BiTMICRO's storage solutions offer unmatched performance, data availability, and manageability across spectrum of computing platforms from entry systems to super computers. BiTMICRO storage product lines address wide range of applications and operating systems needs including storage area networking (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ). The company is a member of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA FCIA See: Foreign Credit Insurance Association ) and Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA). E-Disk(TM), FlashBus(TM), PowerGuard(TM) and DataSentinel(TM), E-NAS(TM), SANgria(TM), quickSAN(TM), EdiskMultiChip(TM), and BiTMICRO(TM) are trademarks of BiTMICRO NETWORKS, Inc. Additional information about BiTMICRO can be found at http://www.bitmicro.com. |
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