Ecuity adds award-winning software experts to technology team
08 Junho 2004 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Ecuity adds award-winning software experts to technology team
BELLEVUE, WA, June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ecuity, Inc.,
(OTC.BB: YTHK), an end-to-end unified communications and
technologies company serving the small to medium business and
residential markets, announced today the addition of two new
members to its technology team-Carlos Justiniano and Zhiling Qiu.
Justiniano and Qui will be reunited with Cedric Griss, who has been
a full time consultant to Ecuity doing contract software
engineering and development. Griss, Justiniano and Qiu were the
primary software development team who designed and developed
Ecuity's ICS secure Collaborative Communication Platform. The ICS
Collaborative Communication Platform is a core technology of Ecuity
that facilitates secure, private, confidential instant messaging,
email and document/data distribution for businesses. It was
designed and developed by Salt Lake City-based Karunga Technologies
Corp. when all three were at Karunga. In February, Ecuity entered
into an agreement to purchase the underlying technology for the ICS
platform from Karunga Technologies. Griss, Justiniano and Qiu will
form the core software development team at Ecuity. Their initial
efforts will be to extend the features and functionality of the ICS
platform and complete development of a new secure data
backup/archive and retrieval software program built around ICS.
They will work closely with current Vice President of Technology
for Ecuity Advanced Communications, Jon Schnelz, to unify the ICS
technology with the VoIP solutions. Mr. Schnelz is the main
architect of Ecuity's Voice over IP (VoIP) switch configuration and
deployment strategies. Technology Team One of the founders of
Karunga Technologies, Mr. Griss has worked for more than thirty
years in software development. He was the developer and architect
of Ecuity's secure, collaborative communications technology. Prior
to founding Karunga Technologies in 1999, Mr. Griss developed and
managed software and network solutions for IBM, Parvus Corp.,
Mercante International and Humanicom. He implemented the
communication technology on one of the first Internet-based
multi-player games, which was sold to a public company. His
software company was sold to Engineering Animation, Inc, who
constructed 2D and 3D interactive design platforms for
enterprise-wide large area networks. Mr. Qiu is also a founder of
Karunga Technologies. With more than 15 years of technology
development and with specialization in server systems for the past
ten years. Mr. Qiu was the primary software architect and developer
of the back-end server technologies for the Ecuity ICS platform.
During his career, Mr. Qiu has led the effort to build the critical
back-end server communication software which are key components of
software programs used by a number of Fortune 500 companies,
including Ericcson, Ford Motor Corp., Lockheed and Volkswagen. More
recently he has developed sophisticated business process programs
for two hospital systems in Canada and one for the court system in
Vancouver, British Columbia. Mr. Qiu is the recipient of a number
of international technology and science awards. Mr. Justiniano
joined Karunga Technologies shortly after its formation. He is the
primary architect and developer of the ICS user interface client
software as well as many other key components of the ICS platform.
For the past twenty years Mr. Justiniano has developed software for
many major companies, including Disney Interactive, IBM and
Symantec. In addition to developing more than a dozen commercial
products, he has co-written a book and contributes to technical
journals. Mr. Justiniano specializes in cross-platform server
development, distributed computing, secure communication, and
Embedded Linux and light weight software code. His ChessBrain
project was recently awarded a Guinness 2005 World Record in
distributed computation for the largest number of machines (2070
computers from 50 different countries) used to play a game against
a single human opponent. ChessBrain is currently the largest
chess-playing computer ever created. About Ecuity, Inc.
(http://www.ecuityinc.com/) Ecuity is a provider of end-to-end
unified communication technologies for the small- to
medium-business market. Ecuity uses secure next-generation voice
services, instant messaging, data transfer, internet, conference
calling and enterprise software to create solutions that meet the
communication needs of today's business world. Through the
integration of web-based telecommunications and cutting edge
software technology, Ecuity economically delivers secure unified
communication solutions that break down distance, time and media
barriers to allow people to communicate anywhere, anytime and
across multiple mediums. Ecuity has offices in Bellevue and
Seattle, Washington. This report includes "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934. The information in this news release includes certain
forward-looking statements that are based upon assumptions that in
the future may prove not to have been accurate and are subject to
significant risks and uncertainties, including statements as to the
future performance of the company. Although the company believes
that the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements
are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations or
any of its forward-looking statements will prove to be correct.
Factors that could cause results to differ include, but are not
limited to, successful performance of internal plans, product
development acceptance, and the impact of competitive services and
pricing and general economic risks and uncertainties. For more
information, please contact: For Ecuity: Jennifer Stephens
Telephone: (206) 210-5033 Investor Relations: Truc Nguyen VP,
Investor Relations Stern & Co. Telephone: (212) 888-0044 Media
Relations: Stan Froelich VP, Media Relations Stern & Co.
Telephone: (212) 888-0044 DATASOURCE: Ecuity, Inc. CONTACT: For
Ecuity: Jennifer Stephens, Telephone: (206) 210-5033, ; Investor
Relations: Truc Nguyen, VP, Investor Relations, Stern & Co.,
Telephone: (212) 888-0044, ; Media Relations: Stan Froelich, VP,
Media Relations, Stern & Co., Telephone: (212) 888-0044,
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