Executive Management Profiles:

John L. Heck
President

Mr. Heck has over 33 years of experience in IT manufacturing solutions.  Mr. Heck began his career as a systems engineer for the Accuray Corporation (now a division of ABB Corporation), a global leader in power and automation technologies focused on the utility industry. He then became a Sales Engineer at the Data General Corporation before becoming the Sales and Marketing Manager at Consolidated Electronics in Bellevue, Washington.

After several years, Mr. Heck left Consolidated Electronics to start his own company, Resource Control Corporation in Redmond, Washington.  Resource Control was a manufacturer of computer-based production and inventory control systems for the pulp and paper industry.  In 1980, after successfully growing Resource Control into a million dollar business, Mr. Heck sold Resource Control and became VP of Sales for the Seling Corporation, a manufacturer of oil field test instrumentation in Port Orchard, Washington.

In 1985, Mr. Heck, looking to once again to satisfy his "entrepreneurial" desires, bought a 50% interest in a small mini-computer based MRP manufacturing consulting and software firm focused on aerospace manufacturing.  The firm was called SCS (Small Computer Systems; in reference to mini-computer solutions instead of mainframe solutions).  SCS had developed its own proprietary database, database language and MRP application running on the Data General O/S and Data General hardware.  After becoming President, and looking to expand the business beyond the Puget Sound area, Mr. Heck realized that micro-computers would become viable IT enterprise platforms and networks for small manufacturing firms, which would provide a new market opportunity.  As a result of his foresight, Mr. Heck had SCS port their MRP application and Database onto the DOS/Intel platform.

Mr. Heck's long-term working relationships with small manufacturers brought him to the conclusion that they too could benefit from ERP systems.  Subsequently SCS developed a supply chain module and a finance module to enhance their MRP system, MCS.  Recognizing that SCS's MRP system had evolved into an ERP system and the system's ramifications were corporate-wide, Mr. Heck changed the company name to Enterprise Systems, Incorporated (ESI), and they expanded their ERP software offering to include ES/2000.

Mr. Heck has a MS in Chemical Engineering and a BS in Engineering Physics from the University of Maine and holds a certificate in Pulp and Paper technologies.