Procket Names Bob Howard-Anderson Vice President of Product Operations.Business Editors/Technology Editors SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000 Procket Networks, Inc., today announced the appointment of Bob Howard-Anderson as Vice President of Product Operations. Bob most recently served as Vice President of Engineering at Sun Microsystems' Network Systems business unit. Bob has spent the last 20+ years in the data and telecommunication equipment industries. Bob's diverse professional experience primarily includes managing large R&D and product development organizations at an executive level. From 1995, at Sun, Bob was responsible for engineering of the highly successful line of carrier-grade Netra servers, from concept through sustaining. Before Sun, Bob was Vice development of Voice-over-HFC/Cable systems. From 1991-1994, Bob held positions of Director and Vice President of Engineering at Network Equipment Technology (NET), where he managed R&D, development, and sustaining engineering (for IDNX IDNX Integrated Digital Network Exchange IDNX Integrated Data Network Exchange and ADNX ADNX Automated Digital Network Exchange ADNX Analog Digital Network Exchange families of voice/data switches, multiplexors, and network access products). From 1988 to 1991, Bob served as director of engineering at Octocom, Inc. in Boston. From 1980 to 1988, he held positions of increasing responsibility at Bolt Beranek and Newman, BBN (BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, www.bbn.com) A consulting firm that participated in the development of some of the most extensive networks in the world, including ARPANET, which evolved into the Internet. It was founded in 1948 as a consulting service in acoustics by Dr. Communications. "Bob was instrumental in the success of many large projects in past appointments. His experience is invaluable and will help Procket immensely in meeting its project execution objectives," said Procket co-founder, President and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , Dr. William Lynch Captain William Lynch (1742 – 1820) of Pittsylvania County, Virginia practiced lynching circa 1780. It is believed that lynching and Lynch law are named after him. He is not the William Lynch who allegedly made the William Lynch Speech in 1712, as the date on this apocryphal . "Procket has assembled a dream team of software and hardware engineers. A seasoned leader like Bob, his complementary management experience and skills, will help them grow to the next level of excellence," stated Richard Lowenthal, a Procket Board member and Councilman, City of Cupertino, Calif. Richard previously served as Vice President of R&D at Stratacom, which was acquired by Cisco in 1996 for approximately $4 billion. About Procket Networks Procket Networks, Inc. is a leading-edge developer of high-performance, scalable Internet infrastructure products. Procket was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in 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. |
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