RFID Systems Recruits Industry Veterans for New Management Team.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1997--RFID Systems Corp. (OTC/BB:RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. ) Tuesday announced the appointments of John Carlisle John Carlisle may refer to:
In making the announcement, Patrick O'Hearn Patrick O'Hearn (b. September 6, 1954) multi-instrumentalist Musician, Composer and recording artist. History Formative Years Born in Los Angeles and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Patrick O'Hearn began his professional music career at age 15 when he joined , chief executive officer, said: ``Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Pittman have over 40 years' combined experience in developing and marketing new technologies. Their appointment to these key executive positions is a major step towards our goal of assembling a strong management team with the experience and expertise needed as the company prepares to launch major new technology products for a worldwide market.'' Carlisle has served 25 years in various sales, marketing and executive management positions with leading international technology companies. Carlisle was a founder of an Internet start-up company start-up company A new business. , and for the past eight years served as director of strategic sales and vice president, corporate strategic marketing, for Cirrus Logic Inc., where he was the key architect of the company's strategic sales plan that contributed to a $700 million global revenue growth. Carlisle has also served in sales and executive management roles with three start-up companies: Renaissance GRX GRX Getright Download List (file extension) GRX Granada, Spain - Granada (Airport Code) GRX Grunts (FAO fish species code) GRX GPRS Roaming Exchange Node GRX Graphics Inc., where he was director of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and sales; Video 7, as OEM sales manager responsible for worldwide OEM account base; and Support Systems International, as vice president and general manager. As area sales manager for Lucas Control Systems in the United States, he built from the ground up the largest sales territory for his division. Pittman has more than 20 years' experience in various engineering, software-design and management positions with leading technology companies. Most recently, he served as vice president, engineering, for Seattle Software Labs Inc., where he was recruited to build an engineering team and lead the development of a family of Internet security products. Prior to this appointment, he established and managed the Bellevue Design Center for Cirrus Logic, where he built a staff of 30 engineers to develop Cirrus' first high-performance graphics accelerator IC and led the successful development of the Laguna IC, the highest-performing accelerator in the PC industry. As senior vice president for Appian Technology Inc. and general manager of its Bellevue, Wash., operation, Pittman was responsible for the design, development and manufacture of Appian Graphics products. As a co-founder of Renaissance GRX (subsequently acquired by Appian), a worldwide supplier of high-performance graphics add-in boards, he helped build Renaissance into the No. 2 supplier of PC graphics cards. He assembled engineering and software-development teams that were recognized as technology leaders in their fields, and was the architect of the Renaissance Graphics Device Interface See GDI. , which was later sold to Texas Instruments. He also developed a display list driver for AutoCAD, which offered unprecedented display performance and resulted in major OEM contracts with Compaq, Dell, Digital Equipment Corp. and Unisys. Pittman was the Boeing Co.'s chief design engineer for ADAMS, an airborne computer system used to test and certify the 757 and 767 airplanes. He developed a real-time computer graphics Real-time computer graphics is the subfield of computer graphics focused on producing and analyzing images in real time. The term is most often used in reference to interactive 3D computer graphics, typically using a GPU, with video games the most noticeable users. subsystem for ADAMS and was project engineer for PADDS PADDS Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts PADDS Procurement Automated Data & Document Systems PADDS Pediatric Attention Deficit Disorders Screener PADDS Processing and Data Delivery System , a portable computer system used to monitor and trouble-shoot the digital avionics systems on board 757 and 767 airplanes. RFID Systems, based in Mountain View, develops software and systems that provide secure identification of personnel and assets to meet the security challenges faced by governments and industry worldwide. CONTACT: RFID Systems Corp. 604/684-8002 604/689-2669 (fax) 888/447-3344 (investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. ) mwatson@rfidsystems.com (e-mail) http://www.rfidsystems.com (Web site) |
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