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January 5, 2005 After posting three consecutive quarters of profit and on track for a profitable 2004, Cimetrix (OTC: CMXX), a leader in factory connectivity software, today announced it is strengthening its executive team and realigning two key departments to support anticipated growth in 2005. The moves are designed to ensure the company continues to provide "passionate support" to its customer base in the areas of standard product technical support and delivery of custom software services while simultaneously accelerating new product development activities in high growth areas.
Essential to this strategy are two key executive management appointments. First, Kourosh Vahdani, a 20-year semiconductor industry veteran, has been appointed to the new position of vice president of global services, with responsibility for customer support and professional services. Vahdani will head up a new customer services and support center that will focus on providing excellent product support for customers who integrate Cimetrix software products by themselves, and professional services to assist customers with custom software development or integration projects.
Vahdani's expertise lies in the area of factory automation and systems integration. His extensive experience in meeting the evolving information technology needs of semiconductor manufacturing processes, automation, manufacturing execution systems (MES), advanced process control (APC) and quality information systems will be an asset to Cimetrix's service organization. Having been in the semiconductor industry for nearly 20 years, he has held senior management positions at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and TRW. While at TRW, Vahdani was a major contributor in building the Manufacturing Solutions group that became the largest and most successful independent systems integrator serving semiconductor manufacturers worldwide.
In another important move, Cimetrix has promoted Michael Feaster to executive vice president of research and development. In this position he will assume full responsibility for an expanded R&D department that will be charged with accelerating development and rollout of new products. Feaster will initially focus on the company's CIMPortal product line and other complementary products associated with the new Interface A standard.
Feaster joined Cimetrix in April of 1998 as director of customer services. In December of 1998 he was promoted to vice president of software development. Prior to joining Cimetrix he was vice president of software development for Century Software, Inc., a global supplier of PC to UNIX connectivity software.
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