SonoSite Announces Vice President Appointments in Product Development.BOTHELL, Wash. -- Jim Gilmore James Stuart "Jim" Gilmore III (born October 6, 1949) is a Republican politician who was Governor of Virginia from 1998 to 2002. He ran a brief campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, but in July 2007 became the first major GOP candidate to leave the race. returns to SonoSite Lee Dunbar promoted SonoSite, Inc. (Nasdaq:SONO), the world leader in hand-carried ultrasound, today announced the appointment of James M. Gilmore as Vice President, Advanced Development and Ultrasound Engineering and the promotion of Lee D. Dunbar to Vice President, Premium Products Engineering. Mr. Gilmore was one of the original engineers at SonoSite when the company was spun off from ATL (Active Template Library) A set of software routines from Microsoft that provide the basic framework for creating ActiveX and COM objects. Stemming from the standard template library (STL) that comes with C++ compilers, ATL includes an object wizard that sets up Ultrasound in 1998. He served as Director, Transducer transducer, device that accepts an input of energy in one form and produces an output of energy in some other form, with a known, fixed relationship between the input and output. Engineering for six years and played a key role in the development of the SonoSite 180(TM), iLook(R) and TITAN(R) systems. In 2004, Mr. Gilmore joined GE Healthcare GE Healthcare is a $18 billion (USD) unit of General Electric (GE). It employs more than 46,000 people worldwide and is headquartered in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. GE Healthcare is the first GE business segment headquartered outside the United States. and served as Global Engineering Manager for Global Ultrasound Probes until his recent decision to rejoin SonoSite. At GE he managed a staff of over 60 engineers located in the US, China, Japan, Austria, France, Norway and India and was responsible for all aspects of product definition, design, development and manufacturing engineering Manufacturing engineering Engineering activities involved in the creation and operation of the technical and economic processes that convert raw materials, energy, and purchased items into components for sale to other manufacturers or into end products for support of diagnostic ultrasound diagnostic ultrasound n. Use of ultrasound to obtain images for medical diagnostic purposes. transducers. Mr. Gilmore's career in the ultrasound industry includes engineering management positions at ATL Ultrasound from 1991 through 1998 and at Diasonics from 1989 to 1991 as an acoustics engineer. He was honored as an ATL Technical Fellow for innovation and technical leadership in advanced phased array and multidimensional array projects and is named as an inventor on three patents for transducer technology. Mr. Gilmore received both his BS in electrical engineering and his MS in biomedical engineering Biomedical engineering An interdisciplinary field in which the principles, laws, and techniques of engineering, physics, chemistry, and other physical sciences are applied to facilitate progress in medicine, biology, and other life sciences. from Drexel University. Mr. Dunbar's career in ultrasound technology spans more than 20 years. He joined SonoSite in 1999 as a member of the company's technical team and helped develop the SonoSite 180, the company's and industry's first hand-carried ultrasound product. He has been a key technical contributor in all of the company's subsequent products and prior to this promotion served as Director, Software Engineering. From 1992 to 1996 Mr. Dunbar held engineering management positions at ATL Ultrasound, now part of Philips Medical Systems, and from 1985 to 1992 worked at Quantum Medical Systems, acquired by Siemens AG in 1990. He is named as an inventor on a patent issued in 1995 for color flow imaging algorithms and was honored as an ATL Technical Fellow for leading the software architecture of ATL's highly successful HDI HDI Human Development Index (UNDP yardstick of human welfare) HDI Help Desk Institute HDI Humpty Dumpty Institute (New York, New York) HDI High Density Interconnect (R) 3000 product line. Mr. Dunbar received both his BS and MS degrees in computer science from Washington State University Washington State University, at Pullman; land-grant and state supported; chartered 1890, opened 1892 as an agriculture college. From 1905 to 1959 it was the State College of Washington. . "I am pleased to welcome Jim Gilmore back to SonoSite and congratulate Lee Dunbar on his well deserved promotion," said Bradley G. Garrett, SonoSite 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. . "Their dedication and strong records of successful innovation in ultrasound technology will make important contributions as we introduce future products that promise to transform medical practice by changing the role of ultrasound in medicine." About SonoSite SonoSite, Inc. (www.sonosite.com) is the innovator and world leader in hand-carried ultrasound, with an installed base of more than 25,000 systems. The company, headquartered near Seattle, is represented by eight subsidiaries and a global distribution network in over 75 countries. SonoSite's small, lightweight systems are expanding the use of ultrasound across the clinical spectrum by cost-effectively bringing high performance ultrasound to the point of patient care. The company employs approximately 500 people worldwide. |
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