CenterStone Technologies, Inc., a Denver-based developer of Web software and services for managing sales orders, announces the addition of Terry Gates to its staff. Gates is the senior vice president of technology and is in charge of all engineering and technology groups associated with the companys development and technology operations.
“With more than 15 years of technology and managerial experience, Gates has the skills necessary to successfully grow the company domestically and abroad,” said Tom Detmer, president and CEO of CenterStone Technologies. “Were happy to have him on board and excited about the competitive advantage hell provide our company. CenterStone continues to add clients at a rapid pace, and these clients have more demanding requirements of our software applications. Terrys proven IT leadership will help us continue to meet our clients high expectations.”
At CenterStone, Gates will provide strong product management expertise, and he will assist in the architectures of software applications so that the applications will scale and adapt to new features that are required to grow the company. Gates will also be directing the companys international applications to enable the software to accept European features so multi-national brands can use a common sales order-management platform worldwide. “The application can handle preseason, reorders and employee orders in five languages including English, French, German, Spanish and Italian,” Gates said. “We plan to expand the software to accept Scandinavian and other languages beginning in 2005.”
Prior to joining CenterStone, Gates was the senior vice president of architecture, technology and client support for McKesson. There, Gates managed the development of low cost Linux-based clinical applications. He also managed the client support organizations responsible for the support of approximately 250 clients, quality assurance and systems engineering teams. Prior to McKesson, Gates was the vice president of technology for Experian and 24/7 Media and also worked for companies such as: Access Health Inc., Informed Access Systems, HBO & Company, CliniCom and the Department of Commerce's Institute for Telecommunication Sciences.
Gates received his bachelors degree from the University of Wyoming.
About CenterStone Technologies, Inc.
CenterStone Technologies, Inc. provides Web-based sales order management applications that give retail dealers and sales reps the ability to create proposals, view online catalogs and product availability and to place preseason, reorders, and retail employee orders more effectively and efficiently with their vendors. CenterStone Technologies makes vendors more competitive by providing increased inventory turns at retail, reduced customer service costs, and greater speed to market, improving relationships with their customers the retail dealer.
Among the brands currently making CenterStone Technologies solutions available to their retail customers and sales reps are: The North Face, Pearl Izumi, Marmot Mountain, Ltd. Mountain Hardwear, Marker Apparel, ArcTeryx, Sport Obermeyer, Marcolin, Fenwick, Garcia and Berkley Fishing, Remington Arms, JIBS Footwear and Malone Auto Racks. Product availability and orders for these brands are exchanged between retail dealers, sales reps and vendors back office (ERP) systems using EDI or XML. The Buyers Page, a retail dealer to vendor order management solution, RIDEPro, a POS to Vendor order management solution and REstore, a retail employee/Pro to Vendor order management solution are three of CenterStones ASP software products. Additional information about CenterStone Technologies, Inc. can be found on the companys Web site at www.centerstonetech.com.
