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Cheri Roach Joins ONI Systems as CIO.


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SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States
San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850.
, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2001

ONI ONI
abbr.
Office of Naval Intelligence

Noun 1. ONI - the military intelligence agency that provides for the intelligence and counterintelligence and investigative and security requirements of the United States Navy
 Systems(TM) Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
: ONIS), a leading provider of all-optical telecommunications equipment for metro and regional networks, today announced that Cheri Roach has been appointed as the company's new chief information officer (CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.


(Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization.
). Ms. Roach brings over twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights.
     2.
 of experience in Information Technology to ONI, and will be responsible for the success of the company's information technology services worldwide. Nick Bonfiglio, formerly CIO of ONI, now leads one of the company's initiatives to expand its product lines.

"We are very pleased to have Cheri join ONI," said Chris Davis Chris Davis is the name of a couple of people:
  • Chris Davis (musician), a musician
  • Chris Davis (football player), a football player for the Tennessee Titans.
, executive vice president, chief financial and administrative officer at ONI Systems. "As ONI continues to grow and expand its business globally, Cheri brings proven leadership experience and management breadth to our team."

Prior to joining ONI Systems, Ms. Roach served as vice president of information technologies at Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is a producer of several models of private jet aircraft. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation has been a unit of General Dynamics since 2001.

Gulfstream's main facility is located in Savannah, Georgia, United States.
 Corporation for seven years and successfully led the IT organization as the company designed, developed and launched a new aircraft into production, increased revenues nearly fourfold, expanded from three operating sites to seven, and integrated a major acquisition. Prior to Gulfstream, Ms. Roach held positions of increasing managerial responsibility at The Faxon Company, AT&T and INSCO Systems Inc.

At ONI, Ms. Roach will be responsible for all information technology activities including infrastructure, applications, Web development, and telecommunications. She will play a key leadership role in the continued implementation of a new state-of-the-art enterprise resource planning See ERP.

(application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses.
 (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) system powered by Oracle. The new ERP system, which went into production earlier this month, provides a scalable, robust foundation to support the company's rapid business expansion both domestically and internationally. This system currently supports operations, finance, human resources and customer service, and, in the future, will also support an integrated solution for sales, customers and suppliers.

About ONI Systems

ONI Systems(TM) (NASDAQ: ONIS) develops, markets and sells all-optical networking equipment specifically designed to address bandwidth and service limitations of regional and metropolitan networks. Our products allow communications service providers to rapidly build high-capacity metro networks that are flexible, scalable and able to support multiple services on a single platform. Our products include the ONLINE11000(TM), the ONLINE9000(TM), and the ONLINE7000(TM) optical transport platforms, and the SONET/SDH Multiplexer(TM) and Data Multiplexer(TM), and OC-192/STM-64 (10 gigabits per second) interface. The ONLINE(TM) optical transport platforms incorporate the OPTX(TM) operating system for wavelength and service management in optical networks and the OLMP OLMP Optical Link Management Protocol (Optical Networks)
OLMP Office of Labor Management Partnership
(TM) optical link management protocol suite for internetworking between the optical transport and data or voice switching layers of the network. For more information about ONI Systems and its products, visit ONI Systems' Web site at www.oni.com.

This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is subject to the safe harbor Safe Harbor

1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated.

2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive.
 created by this section. Except for historical information, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, our limited operating history which makes forecasting our future revenue and operating results difficult, our ability to develop and to achieve market acceptance of new products, our dependence on a small number of customers, our ability to add additional customers and our dependence on sole or limited source suppliers for several key components. These and other risks and uncertainties are described from time-to-time in ONI Systems' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including ONI Systems' report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q

See 10-Q.
 for the quarter ended September 30, 2000, ONI Systems' final Prospectuses dated October 23, 2000 for its public offerings and other documents on file with the SEC.

Note to Editors: ONI Systems, ONLINE, ONLINE11000, ONLINE9000, ONLINE7000, OPTX, OLMP, SONET/SDH Multiplexer and Data Multiplexer are trademarks or registered trademarks of ONI Systems Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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