ORA Expands Its Software Development Expertise To Address Market Growth

July 2004 - In order to support its continued expansion after record software revenues in 2003 and strong year-to-date growth in 2004, ORA has expanded its software development staff with the hiring of Dr. Ron Gordon as a Senior Systems Engineer.Dr. Gordon received his Ph.D. in Optics from the University of Rochester, and has extensive expertise in the development of optics for the Lithography industry, a key market for ORA.  His work experience includes engineering positions at IBM Microelectronics and Motorola.  Dr. Gordon's initial focus at ORA will be on the development of innovative algorithms for tolerancing direct metrics for the Lithography industry using CODE V^®.

"Ron is the second optical engineer we’ve added to our staff this year, and we are actively recruiting severalmore technical positions at this time," noted ORA's President and CEO, Robert Hilbert. "Our current expansion is being fueled by several factors, including the broad economic recovery underway across virtually all market segments that we serve. Also, continued advances in the power and ease-of-use of our CODE V and LightTools^® optical and illumination design programs are expanding our customer base and enabling the use of these software packages in a wider variety of applications, and in innovative ways."

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