Aimetis Names Vice President of Engineering -- Security Today

Aimetis Names Vice President of Engineering

Jan 14, 2011

Aimetis Corp., a provider of IP video management software, recently announced that it has named David Thompson to serve as vice president of engineering.

Thompson has more than 25 years of experience in software development working at a variety of high-tech firms. Most recently, he was senior director of engineering excellence at Blue Coat Systems, where he led the continuous quality improvement initiatives across the 400-plus member engineering organization.

Prior to Blue Coat, Thompson served as director of process improvement and special projects at Invensys Process Systems, and director of R&D for i2 Technologies, now part of JDA Software Group. He also served in a variety of engineering leadership roles at Sybase (an SAP Company), Deft Software and Disus. He earned a bachelor's degree in applied science in industrial engineering at the University of Toronto.

"David has an extraordinary amount of experience as a software development leader," said Marc Holtenhoff, CEO of Aimetis Corp. "He has a successful track record of delivering award-winning products via the application of proven processes to ensure high-quality enterprise and application software for a breadth of industries. We welcome David's experience and skills to our management team and look forward to his work on Aimetis Symphony."

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