ETC Corporation Taps Industry Veteran For Director of Corporate Communications.RICHARDSON, Texas -- Electronic Transaction Consultants ("ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). "), one of the premiere providers of electronic toll collection Electronic Toll Collection (ETC), an adaptation of military "identification friend or foe" technology, aims to eliminate the delay on toll roads. It is a technological implementation of a road pricing concept. solutions, today announced that it has named Carla Kienast as its Director of Corporate Communications. Kienast has extensive experience in the electronic toll collection industry including such projects as the Dallas North Tollway The Dallas North Tollway (DNT or simply the Tollway) is a 22 mile (35 km) controlled-access toll road operated by the North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA), which runs from Interstate 35E near downtown Dallas, (Dallas), the Crescent City Connection The Crescent City Connection, abbreviated as CCC, (formerly the Greater New Orleans Bridge) refers to twin cantilever bridges that carry U.S. Route 90 Business over the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana. and Lake Ponchartrain Causeway (New Orleans), the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (formerly Oklahoma Transportation Authority) is a government agency for the U.S. state of Oklahoma that deals with issues regarding the Oklahoma turnpike system. It was started in 1947 by Governor Roy J. Turner. , the Cross Harbour and Aberdeen Tunnels (Hong Kong), and the E-470 tollway (Denver). For the past eight years, she has headed Carla Kienast Consulting, providing a broad array of communications services for a diverse clientele, including marketing and communications strategies for leading companies in the electronic toll industry.Tim Gallagher, Managing Director, commented, "We expect Carla's technical, operational, and communications expertise to provide significant benefits to ETC as we continue to expand our market presence. In addition to her communications expertise, Carla brings her experience at establishing and managing customer service center operations, as well as marketing and promoting electronic toll collection programs. She was involved in some of the industry's earliest electronic toll projects and she helped create policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental that are still in use today. One of her main responsibilities will be to lead our technical proposal and marketing communications efforts, which will be important factors as we take ETC to the next level." Recognized for its innovation in the toll industry, ETC successfully delivered the system design and integration for the first all-electronic, open road toll facility in the U.S., has designed and implemented technically complex 3+ express AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. lanes, and created advanced solutions for HOT (high-occupancy toll) lanes. ETC's systems provide interoperability between geographically dispersed toll facilities, airports and parking. ETC's team introduced the industry's first Web-based toll solution suite, which includes modules for Customer Service Center operations, Violation Processing Center, Audit and Reconciliation Host, Interoperability, Facility Server and Lane Controller. More information on the company can be found at www.etcc.com. |
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