Clear Technologies Promotes Jim Ballard to Vice President of Professional Services; Rapid Company Growth -- Expanding to Improve Customer Service and Support.DALLAS Dallas, city (1990 pop. 1,006,877), seat of Dallas co., N Tex., on the Trinity River near the junction of its three forks; inc. 1871. The second largest Texas city, after Houston, and the eighth largest U.S. -- Clear Technologies, Inc. announced today that Jim Ballard James "Jim" Ballard (born April 16, 1972) is a former Arena Football League quarterback for the Buffalo Destroyers in 2001 and the Indiana Firebirds in 2002 and 2003. Ballard also played in the Canadian Football League with the Toronto Argonauts in 2002 and 1999 and the , previously a Senior Systems Consultant, was promoted to Vice President of Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . Mr. Ballard joined Clear Technologies, Inc. in June 2000 after a 15-year career at IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . During his tenure at IBM, Mr. Ballard held a variety of positions including Software Developer, Senior pSeries Sales Specialist and Server Solutions Manager. He also received numerous awards including the IBM Vice President's Award The President's Award may mean:
"This change will better-support our continued growth and positions our technical support and services teams to more-effectively support our expanding customer install base. Jim has shown excellent leadership in working with the systems experts from our various technology groups to develop service offerings and bundled solutions which meet customer requirements in a cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. manner," said Van Symons, President of Clear Technologies, Inc. "Jim has provided excellent leadership to our Unix consultants, and we are now expanding his role to cover all of our major platform groups including iSeries, xSeries and Storage solutions." In his new role as Vice President of Professional Service, Mr. Ballard will coordinate our consulting resources as well as work with each technology team to further-develop services and support offerings which benefit our customers. "I look forward to leading our professional consulting team. This is a team of world-class experts committed to providing our customers the best possible service and support," said Mr. Ballard. About Clear Technologies Clear Technologies, Inc. is a Premier IBM Business Partner focused on delivering customer driven technology solutions for IBM Customers in the Texas and surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. state areas. For additional information on Clear Technologies, Inc. visit www.cleartechnologies.net or call 972-906-7510. |
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