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Friday, May 26, 2006

Are you an RFID professional with an international flair? Then Blue Vector wants you to check out the job opportunities at its new India Center, in Bangalore.

The expanding provider of “easy to deploy” RFID managment appliances will use the new center to boost its engineering and design teams, and advance its overseas sales and marketing efforts.

We can’t tell you what job you’ll be doing, but Blue Vector’s customers include retailers, manufacturers, distributors, logistics, and life sciences firms. Its product line “integrates with existing enterprise systems to address supply chain and asset tracking problems, which require the rapid installation and automated management of RFID, barcode, and other types of sensors,” according to a press release.


Blue Vector Expands Its International Operations 5/26/2006
New India design and sales center added to support growth of RFID product line

Blue Vector, a rapidly growing provider of easy to deploy RFID management appliances, today announced the opening of its India Center in Bangalore. The new center allows Blue Vector to strategically expand its engineering and design teams, as well as to advance its overseas sales and marketing efforts.

“India is a great source of additional engineering talent for us,” said Nancy Anderson, Blue Vector’s chief executive officer. “With our product line and customer base expanding, our need for engineering and design talent has taken off.”

According to Sridhar Ranganathan, managing director of Blue Vector India, “The expansion in India will allow the company to work on the product line literally around the clock, and to be in direct contact with potential international customers without the delay of too many time zones.” Ranganathan was formerly the chief operating officer of Yahoo’s Software Development Center in India.

Blue Vector’s customers include retailers, manufacturers, distributors, logistics, and life sciences firms. Its product line integrates with existing enterprise systems to address supply chain and asset tracking problems, which require the rapid installation and automated management of RFID, barcode, and other types of sensors.

About Blue Vector Systems Blue Vector was founded in 2002 by researchers and software engineers from Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center and Yahoo. They pooled their knowledge of new software architectures, distributed processing, and massively scalable systems to create a truly unique product offering for quickly creating and easily managing large sensor-based networks. Blue Vector’s headquarters is located in Palo Alto, California. In addition to the new engineering and sales office in Bangalore, the company has a sales office in New York. For more information, including exciting new job opportunities at the India Center, visit www.bluevector.com. [end] 

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