Post on 25-Jul-2014
Saturday, December 13, 2014
@ 5:30pm
Renaissance Hotel At Tampa International Plaza Hotel
Formal Invitations coming soon
Upcoming Social Events
Newsletter 2014
August
First Friday Breakfast
Friday, August 1st
8:30 — 9:30am
HQ Atrium
China Moon Cakes by Awilda Mambos 1990 W MLK Blvd 1951 W MLK Blvd 4423 N Armenia Ave (813)876-0033 (813)416-0702 (813)873-1995
Receive $2 off your lunch, courtesy of Accusoft. Take your business cards to the participating restaurants above and receive $2 off your lunch. They will collect your card and at the end of the month, Accusoft will reimburse the Restaurant.
Have no business cards? Stop by the reception desk and see Ariele. She will give you a few old cards so you can receive the discount.
Past Social Events
NEWSLETTER Page 2
Picnic
Saturday, May 18th
Al Lopez Park
Bob Howard and son
Jason.
Our Corn Hole
Competition Cham-
pions!!!
Forrest Dix and girlfriend Ashley
Adam Cooper and son
Jonathan.
Brandon Mount’s son,
Lawson
AUGUST
Lydia Santiago’s Family: daughters Bianca
and CC and Husband Ed.
Page 3
Jeannie Fiesta, son Kyle
and daughter Jasmine.
John Kennedy with daughter Tyra and wife
Kesha.
Robin Hjelmeir, Christine Fitzgerald, and
Christine Hairelson
Amazing face painting complements of Sheri, Ed
Krajcik’s wife. (Foxy Face and Body Art)
NEWSLETTER Page 4
Dan Bocko
05/19
QA Lead—Native
Manning Skinner
05/27
Support Engineer
Rick Ferullo
05/15
Business Development Mgr
Greg Boyd
05/19
Business Development Mgr
Chris Reed
07/07
Web Developer
New Accusoft Team Members
John Armenia
06/16
Software Development Mgr
Todd Messer
07/07
Sr. Software Engineer
Cory Kinney
06/16/2014
QA Intern
Jason Howard
06/11/2014
QA Intern
Mona Patel
06/10/2014
PCC QA Intern
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Bianca Seufert
06/23/2014
PCC QA Intern
Alex Lubeck
06/23/2014
Marketing Intern
Matthew Bryan
06/11/2014
Native Development
Intern
Zack Retamozo
06/27/2014
Recognition QA Intern
Jamilda Dorisma
05/28/2014
Accounting Intern
From Left to Right: Cory Kinney, Jason Howard, Morgan Huhn, Mona Patel, Bianca
Seufert, Alex Lubeck, Matthew Bryan, Zack Retamozo.
Summer Internship Lunch
Native Development Team Update
Product Updates:
PICTools
PICTools delivers first new Opcode in years
PNG Transcode Opcode, an Opcode
to optimize PNG files
ImagXpress
IX13 is in progress. Expect the following new
features and changes:
Sequential JPEG compression
Incorporate the latest 3rd Party Pix-
Tran library
Incorporate the latest PICTools Op-
codes
Add support for VS2012 and VS2013 samples; Drop support of VS2008 sam-
ples
Add support for Win 8.1, Win Server 2003 R2, and Win Server 2012; Drop
support for Win XP
Ensure we support up to .NET 4.5.1
Drop support for VC++ 6.0
ISIS Component only licensed with a
Node Locked license
PDF Xpress
PDF Compression feature is available via
PDFX6
Prizm ActiveX Viewer
A PV-PCC Gap Analysis is planned
Prizm Image
Website expected to go through an over-
haul
WordPress Plugin
http://wordpress.org/plugins/prizm-
image/
As of Jul 10, we have 4470 downloads,
up from 1085 downloads on Feb 16
Over 6 million images processed
Joomla Plugin releasing soon
Survey results show a demand for
the PI service and a Joomla Plugin
Next up:
Faster PNG Optimization
Drupel Plugin
Boeing OverlayPrint API
Boeing has committed to two NREs by the
close of 2014
64-bit port for the AIX platform (in
progress now)
Increase the number of supported
Internal Overlay Statements
On the horizon for 2015
Migrate from AIX to Red Hat Linux
Team Member Updates:
Matthew Bryan joined as a returning Summer Intern, working on upgrading
PICTools Samples to a newer version of VS
David Hilsabeck celebrated his 25th Service Anniversary this month
Dan Bocko is filling the gap of Native QA Lead given the need for Joe
Dobrzanski in the SaaS Group
Native Developers lending a helping hand
Stephen Bucholtz and Paul Pauquette are on loan to Prizm Share and Prizm
Viewer, respectively
August
Abdiel Arauz
IT Group
Brian Gager
Prizm Group
Marc Walker
IT Group
Tiffany Castellanos
Tech Writer Group
Anders Paulsson
Sales Group
Jim Bean
Executive Group
Robin Hjelmeir
Contractor Group
Anthony Sanchez
Executive Group
Joe Carioti
Recognition Group
Rod McMullen
Native Group
September
Dave Engel
Contractor Group
Joe Argento
Native Group
Luke Opsahl
Sales Group
Ronnie Hout
Support Group
Greg Boyd
Sales Group
Katie Beck
Sales Group
Michael Archambault
Support Group
Sylvia Traxler
QA Group
Janna McMillin
Operations Group
Lisa Saunders
Tech Writer Group
Mike Parisi
Sales Group
Tina Centeno
Sales Group
Jeff Hodges
Recognition Group
Louis Elston
QA Group
Rhee Kgopolo
QA Group
October
Brandon Mount
Sales Group
Howard Means
Support Group
Rick Scanlan
Sales Group
Constance Ponce
Operations Group
Nathan Blenke
Prizm Group
Dan Lee
Sales Group
Ned Averill-Snell
Marketing Group
Dan Maddox
Sales Group
Patrick McElerney
Sales Group
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NEWSLETTER Page 8
August Years
Tiffany Castellanos 12
Tom Setzer 8
Steve Brooks 7
John Reynolds 7
Sara Carter 4
Rob Rimbold 3
Anthony Sanchez 3
Dusty Myers 2
Kiril Vatev 1
Nathan Blenke 1
Mike Parisi 1
Marc Walker 1
September Years
Jack Berlin 23
Els Withers 16
Paul Pauquette 16
Stephen Bucholtz 9
Rachel Samuel 6
Sid Davis 4
Ronnie Hout 3
Dan Maddox 3
Constance Ponce 2
Tina Centeno 2
Ariele Bankston 1
Dave Engel 1
Katie Beck 1
Luke Opsahl 1
October Years
Scot Alexander 20
Jim Bean 18
Abdiel Arauz 14
Jeff Hodges 11
Bret Walley 6
Matt Canney 4
Adam Cooper 4
Prateek Kathpal 3
Preston Rodriguez 2
Robert Nally 2
Michael Pardue 2
Issaac Calhoun 1
May
Dan Martin – Software Engineer lll
June
Aleksey Kondratov — QA Lead – Managed Core
Brian Gager — Product Group Director — Prizm
Kiril Vatev — Software Engineer ll
July
Lydia Santiago — Office / Facilities Manager
Forrest Dix — Software Engineer III
John Elton’s Retirement Celebration
Thursday, June 26th
The Pub - International Mall
Retirement News
In appreciation for you outstanding contributions to our success
1991 — 2014
Championing a
Charity
Anthony Sanchez
Relay for Life
Amount Raised :
$1,660
Each year, more than 4
million people in over 20
countries raise much-
needed funds and aware-
ness to save lives from
cancer through the Relay for Life movement. Anthony's son, James, won two
trophies for being the top individual and team fundraiser at this year's Relay
for Life of Westchase, primarily due to the support of Accusoft and its
employees!
Tim Griffin
Ovacome
Amount Raised : $1,710
This is an important organization focused on helping Ovarian Cancer patients.
All donations were made in Memory of Joan Griffin. 100% of the donations
went directly to fund Ovacome's support and educational programs.