Henry Neils
President
Mr. Neils is a founder of the company and has more than 30 years experience in technology, ranging from telecommunications, graphic systems, chemical processing software, computer software, and artificial intelligence.  He was VP Technology at CPT Corp., an early supplier of word processing systems; VP Technology of Moniterm Corp., a leading supplier of hi-res monitors; and is also a founder of ZH Computer Inc., a technology incubator. In his career, Mr. Neils has extensive experience in strategic corporate management a has a broad and successful entrepreneurial history. He is a graduate of The Blake School in Minneapolis and holds numerous post-graduate degrees.

Ward Johnson
VP Business Development
Mr. Johnson is a founder of the company and has more than 30 years experience in technology, ranging from telecommunications, graphic systems, video teleconferencing, FTTH technology, computer software, and artificial intelligence. He was founder and president of Moniterm Corp., a leading supplier of hi-res monitors; founder of Micro Display Systems, a supplier of computer graphic systems; founder of Production Technologies, a systems integrator; founder and president of Image-In Software-US, a supplier of image processing software; founder and president of VideoLabs, a pioneer in video camera systems; founder of World Wide Packets, a supplier of last-mile FTTH systems: and is also a founder of ZH Computer Inc., a technology incubator based in Mnneapolis.  Mr. Johnson has extensive experience in strategic corporate management, and has a broad entrepreneurial history. He is a Chemical Engineering (BSChE) graduate of the University of Minnesota.

Frederic Sweeny
General Operations
Fred has been a Director of ZH Computer since November, 2002, and CEO of ZH Computer since May of 2003.  Mr. Sweeny is President and Chief Executive Officer of Venture Management Group, which works with companies in developing business plans, marketing strategies, raising capital, and general operations.  He has over 30 years of sales and marketing management in the technology industry.  Mr. Sweeny was Vice President of Astrocom Corporation from November 199 to August 2002, and he was President and CEO of Unimax Systems Corporation from 1992 to 1998.  He was President and CEO of Check Technology Corporation from 1987 to 1989; executive Vice President of Printware, Inc. from 1986 to 1987; Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Lee Data Corporation from 1981 to 1986 and held various sales and sales management positions at Univac, Computer Optics, Inc and Four Phase Systems.  He holds a BS degree from the University of Connecticut, and serves on the Board of Directors of a number of smaller companies.

Charlie Strause
Software Engineer
Charlie brings 30 years of programming experience on a wide variety of hardware and operating system platforms. Starting out at Sperry Univac working in the language systems department on the Universal Compiling System Pascal compiler front end, and then later for several years on the System Control Facility, responsible for initialization, boot, fault handling, and diagnostics for mainframe computers, he gained valuable insight about the inner workings of computer hardware, languages, and operating systems. Working as programmer, team leader, supervisor, manager, and staff consultant also provides him with experience in software development by individuals and groups of developers, and creating and maintaining the product vision. As a software engineer at Computer Network Technology, Charlie developed configuration user interfaces and SNMP agent and sub-agent architectures. Since that time, he has worked for several companies as a consultant, and is President of Strause Software, working on a wide variety of business software applications, and systems integration projects for the Windows, Unix, and IBM iSeries platforms. He is currently the developer of iReader, ePrecis search, Syntactica Web Services, and other applications of Syntactica technology. Charlie is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Stout with a BS degree in Applied Mathematics.

Debra Owens
Quality Assurance
Debra has worked in the computer field for over 25 years, in the areas of technical support, quality assurance, software development, user interface design, and database design and development. For the past 13 years, she has specialized in Internet technologies. At Fingerhut Corporation, she was the Creative Lead Developer in the development of an e-commerce site with $100 million in annual gross revenues. Following that, she was the site development manager for a 501(3c) nationwide dialup ISP and paid content Web site. For the past three years, she has worked as a consultant and is president of Silent Prairie, where she specializes in the development of effective e-commerce sites and projects for non-profit organizations. She is responsible for the quality assurance of the iReader application, Syntactica core technology and its dictionaries. Debra is currently working on a communications degree at Bethel University.

Rich Jones
Software Engineer
Rich built a liquid-fueled rocket engine for the 8th grade science fair that blackened the auditorium ceiling before a stunned judging panel.  He began college in pursuit of an Electrical Engineering degree, but soon got bored and left.  While working as a field service technician for CPT Corporation, he cracked their program’s copy protection and sent a letter, along with the duplicated disk, to CPT headquarters requesting a job as a programmer.

Rich worked for CPT for the next 12 years.  There he helped develop a multi-CPU operating system, an early image scanner, a multi-user document server, and a proprietary CAD system for hardware simulation.  He ported DOS, Windows, AutoCAD, MP/M and Gem GUI systems to CPT’s native hardware.  Does anyone remember MP/M or Gem?

After CPT, Rich formed Metasoft, Inc. and became an independent consultant.  Metasoft has provided services to:  XCAT, Moniterm, Image-In, IBM, Sharp, Sungard/Corbel, Schwab, and many others.  He is currently responsible for maintaining, upgrading and enhancing the Syntactica core technology for ZH Computer.

Recently nicknamed, "The Grinch", undoubtedly because he spends long hours alone in a cave (his office) bathed-in the phosphorescent glow of computer monitors.  He however would never think of stealing children’s presents.

Randy Keeler
Senior Graphic Designer
randy@keelerinteractive.com
Mr. Keeler’s record of creating successful web-based solutions includes the development of Gospelcom.net, the largest Christian website in the world and the American Football League’s Kansas City Brigade. After Mr. Keeler’s site redesign, Gospelcom’s traffic attracts nearly 6 million visitors a day. The Kansas City Brigade website that Mr. Keeler designed, regularly generates over a million visitors a month during the AFL season.

The Kansas City Brigade, Gospelcom and the iReader are some of the projects that bear his characteristic signature of excellence. The marketing solutions Mr. Keeler has provided with new media, web, print, and presentation graphics have satisfied clients for over 10 years. Record site traffic and increase in sales are some of the results of his work.


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