Hydrogen Engine Center Board includes Datacraft Solutions` CEO Stephen Parker
Released on: July 1, 2008, 5:27 am
Press Release Author: Thomas R. Cutler
Industry: Software
Press Release Summary: Hydrogen Engine Center Board includes Datacraft Solutions' CEO Stephen Parker
Press Release Body: Stephen Parker is Chairman and CEO of Datacraft Solutions where he is responsible for strategic planning, financing, and business operations. Parker's career spans over twenty-five years, with experience in international commerce, executive management, corporate growth strategies, sales, technology development, and corporate financing. Datacraft Solutions (www.datacraftsolutions.com) delivers a revolutionary digital kanban process of automation solutions to lean manufacturers through a secure Internet gateway, eliminating the need to install and maintain a complex IT infrastructure. The company has experienced significant growth in the past two years by eliminating complicated, expensive, time-intensive software implementations as well as extensive training regimens and the need for internal support. Datacraft Solutions' replenishment supply chain digital kanban system allows customers to access and utilize powerful lean benefits immediately for a low, predictable monthly fee. Services are scalable so manufacturers can design an appropriate digital kanban solution. Recently, Algona, Iowa-based Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc., (OTC BB: HYEG), a developer of systems and processes used in the design, manufacture and distribution of alternative fuel internal combustion engines, engine controls and generator systems, announced that Parker has agreed to be a member of its board of directors.
Mr. Parker will be filling a vacancy on the board created with the resignation of Edward T. Berg. Prior to Datacraft Solutions, Parker was an executive at IBM, Eftia, Verizon (GTE/Contel), and Satellite Business Systems. In his last assignment he was CEO of a technology company with two separate enterprises headquartered in Canada and India. He holds patents in lean enabling technologies and is one of the principal patent authors for the first wireless data system G2.5. He is a member of the advisory board for Silicon Valley based Blacksmith Capital. Stephen is an expert in capital efficient operations and corporate restructuring. At IBM he restructured their OSS/BSS business. During the 2001 tech market down turn as the CEO of a Canadian and Indian company he successfully transformed the company from a fully burdened cost structure of $200K/HC to $65/HC which resulted in an 800% increase in productivity, and a 72% reduction in operating costs, while achieving the highest customer SAT, highest cash receipts, and sales in the company\'s history.
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