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MCI Systemhouse Bought Out by EDI
As part of a $17 billion deal with Electronic Data
Systems (EDS), MCI Systemhouse at Lenox Drive has a new name: the
International Public Safety Group of EDS. In April EDS bought MCI
Systemhouse for $1.65 billion in cash, and by the end of this month
MCI WorldCom — the parent company — and EDS will trade workers
and business groups.
“MCI had a lot of information technology (IT) professionals, and
EDS had a lot of telecommunication professionals,” says Richard
Dale, who continues to be in charge of the Lenox Drive group after
the sale. “We decided to move the 12,000 IT folks to EDS, and
EDS is sending all the infrastructure and telephone-related things
to MCI WorldCom. We also do joint marketing and are tightly linked
but we changed the paychecks where it made sense.”
The deal calls for MCI WorldCom to outsource much of its information
technology services to EDS and concentrate on end-to-end management
of voice and data communications on a preferred basis for EDS and
its customers. EDS will handle significant applications development
and maintenance services and virtually all of MCI WorldCom’s infrastructure
services.
MCI Systemhouse (now EDS) has 9,000 workers and 120 offices worldwide.
With $1.7 billion in revenue last year, it is one of the industry’s
only single-source providers of convergence products and services
to enable businesses’ total networking, communications, and consulting
and outsourcing needs. Lucent Technologies is a competitor.
As an executive with MCI, Dale managed 20 percent of MCI SystemHouse,
which included the public safety and justice group on Lenox Drive.
That group’s major clients were, and are, the New York police and
fire departments, the City of Newark, the University of Pennsylvania’s
911 service, and the Ontario Integrated Justice project, a $170 million
IT project that integrates the courts and the prisons with the police
departments. The 20,000 foot office has 75 employees, some of whom
are spending time at Heaththrow Airport, since the group is on the
short list for getting a $1.8 billion contract for metropolitan London.
“We are the only group in the world that has done anything as
big as London, i.e. New York, and they want to outsource the entire
call handling ability,” says Dale. “We are the only people
in the world who have done it, i.e., at the University of Pennsylvania
campus. When you dial 911 on campus, that phone is answered by one
of our employees.”
The son of a medical researcher and an entrepreneur, Dale grew up
in Tacoma, and graduated from Western Washington University in 1983.
He worked for a while on 911 and internal systems for police departments
and for a division of Litton Industries before joining MCI. He lives
in Phoenix with his wife and three school-age children and commutes
to Princeton and his other office, in Seattle.
More than 12,000 employees primarily located in the U.S. and Canada
are expected to transition into employment with EDS from MCI WorldCom
and from Systemhouse. Approximately 1,000 EDS network employees from
around the world will be offered employment with MCI WorldCom.
“We have the name brand players on a world wide basis for justice,
fire, emergency medical services, and law enforcement,” says Dale.
“Most of our guys invented the stuff or did the best applications.
Whether for a public or private entity, we are the only company in
the world to offer consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing.”
— Barbara Fox
EDS (EDS), 989 Lenox Drive, Building 1, Suite 124,Lawrenceville 08648. Richard E. Dale, operating executive. 609-406-7600;fax, 609-406-7699. Home page: https://www.eds.com.Top Of PageContracts AwardedPhysiome Sciences, 307 College Road East, Princeton08540. William A. Scott, CEO. 609-987-1199; fax, 609-987-9393. Homepage: https://www.physiome.com.Physiome Sciences just did a $15 million deal with PA Consulting –the London headquarters, not the Enterprise Drive-based branch. Headedby a former Bristol-Myers Squibb research director, Physiome Sciencesis the wunderkind company that is developing computer-based modelsof human organs (“The Virtual Heart,” U.S. 1, May 13, 1998).”They bought an equity stake for $5 million and we got accessto some very novel software that will allow us to interconnect organsin dynamic simulations,” says William A. Scott, the founding CEO.The second $5 million involves Scott’s firm using the software tobuild a model of the immune system, and the third $5 million involvesstock options.Scott knew PA’s chairman, Jon Moynihan, and together they came upwith the idea of using a business applications software for biotechpurposes. PA’s software, developed by the modeling practice PA-Pugh-RobertsAssociates, had previously been used to model decision networks andeconomic cycles. Moynihan is now on Scott’s board of directors.Last year Physiome had 10 employees in Princeton; the firm has expandedto 8,000 square feet and has 18 employees here, including new hiresStuart F. Laermer and Tom Colatsky. Laermer, formerly with FisherScientific, is now vice president of business development. Colatsky,formerly of Wyeth Ayerst, is now vice president of R&D and chief scientificofficer.The heart of Scott’s operation is a supercomputer that holds withinits electronic brain a fully functional, three-dimensional, interactivemodel of a working heart. The result of 30 years of research and madepossible only recently by significant advances in computing power,Physiome’s “virtual heart” breaks down the millions and millionsof biological processes going on inside the heart, describes themas mathematical equations, and then assembles them and all their actionsand interactions to create an electronic heart that “works”just like a real one.Because the known mechanics of the heart’s most basic cellular functionsunderlie this virtual heart, it’s possible to reprogram the heartby changing the equations that describe those cellular functions.Scott’s firm is fairly well along on modeling the lung and has begunwork on reproducing the bladder.Top Of PageName ChangesPretiem, 195 Clarksville Road, Lawrenceville 08648.Ezra Schneier, president. 609-297-3000; fax, 609-716-3062. Homepage: https://www.pretiem.com.This employment reporting firm, formerly known as MIB Applicant ResearchCorporation, is changing its name, telephone, and website address.It was founded in 1937 to provide employment reports to the shippingindustry, it has broadened its coverage to other industries and wanteda new brand identity. “We feel the new name reflects our emphasison having a `partnering’ relationship with our customers, and thatwe are dedicated to helping them work more effectively,” saysEzra Schneier, president and CEO. In Latin, “pretiem” means”worth.”Customers can order and receive reports — including educationand employment verification and criminal and credit checks — fromtheir web browsers. “Internet technology allows our company tofunction as a back office for customers’ HR departments,” saysJohn Mathew, vice president.Sycamore Ventures, 989 Lenox Drive, Building One,Room 208, Lawrenceville 08648. Peter Gerry, partner. 609-219-0100;fax, 609-219-0101.Though it was formerly known by the name of one of its funds, CitiGrowth,this venture capital firm will now use the name of its managementcompany. It funds that focus on high tech, health care, media, andspecialty retailing.Top Of PageNew in TownBostonCoach, 19 Wall Street, Princeton 08540. LouUritz, operating supervisor. 609-924-4090; fax, 609-924-4216. Homepage: https://www.bostoncoach.com.An executive at Fidelity Investments Company had one too many badexperiences with car services, it seems. He decided to start his ownexecutive ground transportation service specifically for Fidelityemployees. Today, that company — BostonCoach — has officesin New York, Boston, Newark, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Chicagoand Minneapolis and a new satellite branch here at 19 Wall Streetwith a fleet of 25 1999 Volvos. Todd Stephens, vice president andregional manager in the Elizabeth office, wouldn’t say who his Princetonarea clients are, but pointed out that it was a good spot for executivetravel between Philadelphia and New York.”Our decision to expand into Princeton was based not only on itsrapid growth,” says Russ Cooke, president of BostonCoach, “butalso on requests from customers whose business brings them to centralNew Jersey.eComServer Inc., 132 Franklin Corner Road, Lawrenceville08648. Lazbart Oseni, financial controller. 609-219-0550; fax, 609-951-2240.Home page: https://www.ecomserver.com.EComServer Inc., a software company dedicated to creating E-commercesolutions with next generation technologies, opened a temporary officeat 132 Franklin Corner Road. The 15-person company will be movinginto an office at 116 Village Boulevard at the end of the month. LazbartOseni, the financial controller for the company, says that the headquartershere is still growing. The company has another office in Hyderabad,India.Top Of PageNew at Exit 8AGraybar Electric Company Inc., 4 Aurora Drive,Cranbury Business Park, Cranbury 08512. Paul Milata, warehouse manager.609-409-8100; fax, 609-409-2987.Don’t look for a sign on this building at Cranbury Business Park becauseit holds a warehouse, not a retail store. Graybar Electric Companydistributes more than 800,000 different electrical and communication/dataproducts made by such manufacturers as General Electric, Square D,and Lucent Technology. This regional distribution center will shipto retail outlets and wholesale customers from upstate New York toBaltimore, says John Schooley, manager of corporate properties. Graybaropened the brand-new facility during the first week in June.The 416,000-foot building is owned by Prologos, which provides distributionand light manufacturing complexes in the United States and internationally.Cranbury Business Park is a 95-acre property 2.2 miles from Exit 8A.With six buildings plus 57 additional acres, it has 821,600 squarefeet, and 94 percent are occupied. Jules Nissim and Stan Danzig ofCushman & Wakefield of New Jersey represented both the owner and thetenant.Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Graybar had 7,000 people workingin 260 branches in the United States and Canada. It is employee-ownedand independent. Another Graybar site, on Nami Lane in Hamilton, sellson a retail basis and also to contractors.Total Logistic Control, 200 Docks Corner Road,Dayton 08810. 732-274-1794; Home page: https://www.totallogistic.com.The emergence of logistics specialists, formerly used only for militaryapplications, has forced CEOs to consider outsourcing their warehousingand transportation. “Fifteen years ago no company would provideboth warehousing and transportation, even though the services wereinterrelated,” says a spokesperson for Total Logistic Control(TLC). “What has emerged is `third party logistics,’ where companieshire an outside firm to manage a supply chain, for either movementof finished product to final consumption, or raw materials cominginto manufacturing plant.”TLC is moving into 89,000 square feet at 200 Docks Corner Road, afacility that sports 32-foot ceilings, 30 dock doors, state-of-the-artsprinklers, and frontage on the New Jersey Turnpike. It is owned andmanaged by a joint venture between Matrix Development and AMB PropertyCorporation, a New York City-based real estate investment trust.Home Depot already occupies 162,478 feet, and Cosmair has 303,843feet. Barnes & Noble will open a new facility that occupies 162,478feet — different from the one at Middlesex Center Boulevard. FrancoApparel, a dress manufacturing firm, has signed for 148,000 feet buthas no local telephone number as yet. Cooper Tire moved from New Brunswickinto a new 270,000 square foot East Coast Distribution Center andwill expand by 60,000 feet more.TLC (Total Logistic Control) was founded in 1904 in Zeeland, the fruitgrowing areas of west Michigan. Gary Sarner is president and CEO.Realizing that its clients wanted more than just warehousing, it beganto offer transportation and inventory management services as well.TLC has major accounts with Wampler Foods (for transportation of chicken)and Rich Products (for distribution of pizza pockets and ice creamnovelties). Now its clients can use the Internet to track where theirinventory is, and the actual storage location is less important.As those Michigan farmers knew, if you can handle ice cream in August,you can handle just about anything.Top Of PageStart-UpsPrinceton Engineering Group LLC, 637 Ridge Road,Monmouth Junction 08852. Ira Guterman PE, principal. 732-355-0977;fax, 732-355-0976.Three engineers who worked with the architects at Ford Farewell Mills& Gatsch (FFMG) left that Mapleton Road office on June 1 to open theirown practice on Ridge Road, but they will continue to provide mechanicaland electrical engineering services to FFMG and its clients, as wellas to other clients. “Thanks to thorough planning and coordination,there will be no break in service to our clients,” says JamesA. Gatsch, FFMG managing partner.Before Ira Guterman came to FFMG five years ago, he supervised a studioof 25 engineers and draftspersons at Joseph R. Loring and Associatesin New York City. A mechanical engineering major at Cooper Union (Classof 1973) with a master’s degree from the University of California,he designed the mechanical systems for such projects as the StateHouse and the New Brunswick Cultural Center.Richard S. Olzewski had also been at Loring; he is an electrical engineerfrom the University of Michigan and Bloomfield College. The thirdprincipal, David T. Brown, is a mechanical engineer from Penn State.”It was an amicable departure,” says Guterman, “but itwas time to move on. We’re still friends.”Top Of PageManagement MovesMediMedia Managed Care LLC, 425 Phillips Boulevard,Suite 100, Trenton 08618. Bradley Kozar, president, COO. 888-724-2302;fax, 609-882-6202.Robert P. Navarro has been appointed senior vice president in chargeof new product and business development at this 23-person agency.With bachelor’s and doctor of pharmacy degrees from the Universityof Minnesota he has been director of pharmacy services at United HealthCareand managing director of the information service bureau of ExpressScripts/Value Rx, one of the largest pharmacy benefit management firmsin the nation. He was co-founder and first president of the Academyof Managed Care Pharmacy and has edited two textbooks.Sarnoff Corporation, CN 5300, Princeton 08543-5300.James E. Carnes, president & CEO. 609-734-2000; fax, 609-734-2040.Home page: https://www.sarnoff.com.For the first time the Sarnoff Corporation has a chief financial officer,James S. Crofton. As CFO and vice president, he will direct financialand purchasing function and will also be responsible for internalcomputer services. An alumnus of Michigan State with an MBA from theUniversity of Michigan, he has been chief financial officer at EAIndustries and spent more than 20 years at Unisys Corporation.Top Of PageExpansions: PrintAlphaGraphics Printshops of the Future, 12 StultsRoad, Suite 100, Dayton 08810. David Kovacs, general manager. 609-860-9444;fax, 609-860-9449. Home page: https://www.alphagraphics.com.AlphaGraphics Printshop on Stults Road completed ISO certificationrequirements on April 16, making it the only printing establishmentto conform to the quality standards set forth by the InternationalOrganization for Standardization for industrial businesses and internationalcommerce. New procedures for taking and tracking orders, production,packaging, and delivery will enable the company to maintain qualityand identify and correct errors. “ISO just gives us the extraseal of approval,” says David Kovacs, general manager of the franchise.Late last year the printshop moved from 4095 Route 1 to a larger spaceat 12 Stults Road in South Brunswick. Printing presses, full colorequipment, bindery machines and several new people have since beenadded to the staff.Mastergraphx, 45 Stouts Lane, Suite 14, Box 567,Monmouth Junction 08852-0567. Robert E. Copeland, president. 732-329-0088;fax, 732-329-0024.Mastergraphx, a commercial printing company, has installed a Miehlefour-color perfecting press. A spokesperson says this should makeprojects faster and more efficient.Top Of PageConstruction MovesNomadic Expeditions, 1095 Cranbury-South RiverRoad, Suite 20 A, Jamesburg 08831. Jalsa Urubshurow, president. 609-860-9008;fax, 609-860-9608.All-Tech Inc., 1095 Cranbury-South River Road,Suite 21, Jamesburg 08831. Jalsa and Leslie Urubshurow, principals.609-860-8791; fax, 609-860-9530.Compass Building Corp., 1095 Cranbury-South RiverRoad, Suite 20 B, Jamesburg 08831. Frank Amato, director of construction.609-409-2600; fax, 609-409-2644.A triumvirate of companies owned by Jalsa and Leslie Urubshurow movedfrom 10,000 feet at Princeton Corporate Park (Deer Park Drive) to1095 Cranbury South River Road. One of the companies is a constructionfirm (All-Tech) said to be the largest residential construction firmin the state. Also moving was a tour operator, Nomadic Expeditions,which sells group and customized trips to Mongolia, Russia, China,Tibet, and Nepal. Nomadic Expeditions recently annexed a wholesaletravel firm known as Mongolia Tourism Corporation of America.A residential development firm managed by Frank Amato, Compass Realty& Development, also moved from Deer Park Drive, to a suite at theJamesburg address.Durell Builders/Construction Managers, 221 WitherspoonStreet, Princeton 08542. Chip Durell, owner. 609-683-0903; fax, 609-683-5488.Chip Durell has moved his 12-person construction firm for the secondtime in nine months, this time from 230 Nassau Street (formerly theGloria Nilson real estate office) to the Witherspoon Street buildingpreviously occupied by Nassau Broadcasting. The move is a temporaryone until Durell locates a permanent headquarters (U.S. 1, December9, 1998).Top Of PageDeathsEdward R. Godfrey, 51, on June 2. He was a stock traderfor TGS Management Corp. at 33 Witherspoon Street.Richard A. VanDyke, 62, on June 2. He owned Dyke’s DutchTreat Luncheonette in Pennington.Martha Teune Vander Welde, 54, on June 2. She was a bookkeeperfor BFI Waste in Cranbury.Jerene V. Myrick, 69, on June 4. She had been a legalsecretary with Mason Griffin & Pierson.Harriet R. Frank Rosenberg, 57, on June 5. She owned TrophyShack and Stinky Pinks in Hightstown.Corrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
