CYBEX STRENGTHENS DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING TEAM.HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 1996--CYBEX Computer Products Corporation (Nasdaq/NM:CBXC) today announced that it has expanded its engineering team responsible for product design and manufacturing. Robert R. Asprey has been named to the new post of Chief Scientist and Christopher L. Thomas has been promoted to Vice President - Engineering. In addition, the company announced that Lowell E. Blankenship has joined Cybex in the newly created position of Manager, Design Packaging and Manufacturability. "We are expanding our engineering team to address the increased demand for our products," stated Stephen F. Thornton, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cybex Computer Products Corporation. "We remain focused on the existing technologies in our marketplace and on the changing needs of our customers as the technologies continue to evolve. We believe our company's focus on product design and manufacturing will continue to be an important strategic factor in sustaining and improving overall manufacturing margins as we ramp up Ramp Up To increase a company's operations in anticipation of increased demand. Notes: A company might 'ramp up' operations if they just signed a contract creating substantially more demand for their product. See also: Demand, Economies of Scale our marketing activities and expand our channels of distribution, including the planned launch of our first manufacturing and distribution facility in the European Common Market in the near future." Mr. Asprey served as Senior Vice President - Engineering and Director of Engineering prior to his appointment to the newly created position of Chief Scientist. Mr. Asprey will direct new technology analysis and the Company's strategic product planning. Prior to joining Cybex, Mr. Asprey was Manager of Business Data Base Systems at Teledyne Brown Engineering Teledyne Brown Engineering, or TBE, formerly Brown Engineering, is a Huntsville, AL–based subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY). TBE was acquired by Teledyne Technologies in 1966. , Inc. Mr. Thomas served as an Engineering Product Manager at Cybex prior to his appointment to Vice President of Engineering. His career includes serving as a systems engineer working on Intergraph's first graphics terminal, Executive Technical Manager of Advanced Display Design on a joint venture with Matsushita Electronics and Sony of Japan, and Vice President, Technology for MaxVision Corporation. Mr. Thomas holds a BSEE BSEE abbr. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University, a MSEE MSEE Master of Science in Electrical Engineering MSEE Mean Square Estimation Error MSEE Major Source Enforcement Effort MSEE Materials Science and Electrical Engineering (Purdue University building) from the University of Alabama The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as 'Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship campus of the University of Alabama System. in Huntsville and has been awarded several patents. Prior to joining Cybex, Mr. Blankenship was responsible for design/drafting and configuration control for high-volume products as Group Manager at Universal Data Systems, a division of Motorola, Inc. He joined UDS UDS Ustedes (Spanish: Formal Plural You) UDS Uniform Data System UDS Unscheduled DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) Synthesis UDS Unix Domain Socket UDS Urodynamics after 23 years at SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) An IEEE standard for a high-speed bus that uses wire or fiber-optic cable. It can transfer data up to 1GBytes/sec. (hardware) SCI - 1. Scalable Coherent Interface. 2. UART. as Manager, Design and Drafting. Cybex provides connectivity solutions for network data center management in support of PC, SUN and Macintosh computing platforms. The Company's principal products include KVM (K Virtual Machine) A version of the Java Virtual Machine for small devices with limited memory. See J2ME. See also KVM switch. KVM - Keyboard Video Mouse (keyboard/video monitor/mouse) switching systems, peripheral extension and expansion products and phone activated power control systems. CONTACT: CYBEX Computer Products Corporation, Huntsville Stephen F. Thornton, 205/430-4000 |
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