Colberg Technologies and bluedoorway.com Announce New Board Member

Jan. 26, 2011 - PRLog -- Colberg Technologies and bluedoorway.com are proud to announce the addition of Mr. C. Richard  Deininger to its Board of Directors.  Mr. Deininger brings a wealth of experience to the Board of Directors.  Mr. Deininger has had a long successful career in the software, computer and semiconductor development & manufacturing industry with IBM, ASM America, AMD, General Partner in Taylor Deininger Partners Inc., and now Deininger & Associates Consulting, LLC. In his board experience, he has served on two stock-exchange listed public company boards, two non-profit boards, and a number of technical advisory boards, all as an independent director. After his retirement from AMD in 2003, he was immediately elected to two public company boards and formed a successful consulting company, Taylor Deininger Partners Inc. Mr. Deininger was also elected to the board of directors for Triant Corporation, a public (TSX) Canadian software company and was a member of the audit committee until the company was sold in 2008.

Mr. Deininger also served on the board of directors for Semitool Corporation, a public (NASDAQ) semiconductor equipment manufacturing company and also was a member of the compensation committee from 2004 to 2008 when the company was sold the following year to Applied Materials. While on the BOD of both Triant and Semitool, separate board meetings were held to review the company's long range, and strategic plans, up to 5 years.

Mr. Deininger's earlier board experiences includes: Sematech Technical Advisory BOD representing AMD. Mr. Deininger was Chairman for three years from 1988 to 1991, and he helped set the agenda for 14 semiconductor manufacturing companies in the late 80’s and early 90’s and insure that an American supplier infrastructure (30 equipment and software companies) was in place to support the industry.

Over his career, Mr. Deininger had the good fortune to have developed and applied software and hardware to business and manufacturing problems. While at IBM,. He successfully managed annual budgets of up to $500m in the manufacturing organization. He was trained through IBM’s executive training programs. He has a good understanding of the IT and manufacturing industries and what it takes to be successful.

During his tenure as Director of Engineering & Programming Planning for IBM Corporate, He was responsible for helping develop long range strategy and then review annual division operating plans with the appropriate executives to insure that those plans mapped into the overall corporate strategy.  For those plan where there was a shortfall, the gaps were filled to maximize the probability of achieving the long range objectives.

During his tenure with AMD as Director of Manufacturing Technologies, he was responsible for the development and implementation of the long range manufacturing strategy and plans. Those implementations resulted in making AMD’s precision manufacturing platform one of the best in the world today.

Mr. Deininger graduated with Honors with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Newark College of Engineering (now New Jersey Institute of Technology). He was a Distinguished Military Graduate in USAF ROTC and served two and one half years in the USAF during the Korean War. He is a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors. He has authored numerous articles in national periodicals.

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About Colberg Technologies
We are a leading privately held service and solutions company based in Austin, Texas. Our immediate business focus is centered on web based solutions that will provide meaningful impact to small businesses and their customers. We focus on consulting in the areas of automation and factory systems.

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Our consulting group has numerous years of experience in developing and designing Enterprise Systems and Architectures, optimizing and improving Manufacturing Operations, implementing Manufacturing Factory and Automation Handling Systems, as well as facilitating and integrating manufacturing equipment. We provide consulting within the semiconductor, flat panel, solar and IT industries.



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