Donald L. Reppert Joins MicroEdge, Inc. as President and COO.Business Editors/High Tech Writers APEX, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2001 MicroEdge, Inc., developers of the award-winning Visual SlickEdit(R), announces Donald L. Reppert has joined the company as president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . Reppert brings more than 20 years of experience in application development tools and techniques to MicroEdge. He was previously executive vice president and chief operating officer of Passage Software in Richmond, Va. As president of MicroEdge, Reppert will set the company's strategic direction, oversee operations, and implement business and marketing plans. "I am delighted that Don has joined the MicroEdge team," said Jill Maurer, 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. . "With the introduction of Visual SlickEdit for OS/390(R) to our cross-platform product offering we are uniquely poised to offer a complete set of enterprise capabilities. Don's leadership skills and extensive experience in the mainframe arena will help enormously in enabling us to reach the next level of growth." At Passage Software, Reppert spearheaded the release and delivery of the UML (Unified Modeling Language) An object-oriented analysis and design language from the Object Management Group (OMG). Many design methodologies for describing object-oriented systems were developed in the late 1980s. Factory(TM), a model-driven development tool for building complete, deployable Java applications. Prior to Passage Software, he held sales, marketing and management positions with Giga Information Group, 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) , KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen Peat Marwick, Control Data, SEER Technologies and Bachman Information Systems (company) Bachman Information Systems - The company which merged with CADRE to form Cayenne Software in July 1996. . "I am excited to be at MicroEdge," said Reppert. "As the acknowledged 'best of breed' cross-platform editor, Visual SlickEdit is ideally positioned to emerge as the next corporate software development standard." Reppert holds a bachelor's of science in systems analysis from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He was a lieutenant with the U.S. Navy, where he served as a naval aviator for six years before receiving an honorable discharge in 1978. About MicroEdge, Inc. Headquartered just outside of North Carolina's Research Triangle in Apex, N.C., MicroEdge, Inc. has been providing superior software editing technology to the developer community for over 10 years. Major corporations worldwide are adopting Visual SlickEdit as a means to reduce application development time and costs across the enterprise. MicroEdge's award-winning Visual SlickEdit provides unparalleled support across a multitude of programming languages and platforms including Windows, 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). and OS/390. For more information on Visual SlickEdit or MicroEdge visit www.slickedit.com. Visual SlickEdit and SlickEdit are registered trademarks of MicroEdge, Inc. UML Factory is a registered trademark of the OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group Foundation. OS/390 is a registered trademark of IBM Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective organizations. |
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