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| ETC Announces the Appointment of Marco van Wijngaarden as President of its Simulation Division |
| Southampton, Pa, April 2, 2007: - Environmental Tectonics Corporation (AMEX:ETC) ("ETC" or the "Company") today announced that Mr. Marco van Wijngaarden has joined ETC as President of the Simulation Division, which produces the Advanced Disaster Management Simulator (ADMS). Mr. van Wijngaarden comes to ETC from the Netherlands' National Institute for Safety (NIFV), where he served as the Simulation Project Leader for the last six years, and as Director of Training for the last three years. Mr. van Wijngaarden was instrumental in acquiring ADMS at NIFV back in 2002 and has been responsible for the successful implementation of ADMS into NIFV's training curriculum. More than 14,000 national and international students have been trained using ADMS in the last five years.
Prior to his employment at NIFV, Mr. van Wijngaarden served in the Royal Netherlands Air Force for 13 years. He held a variety of positions during his Air Force career including Chief of the Fire and Rescue School and Commandant of the 133rd Electronical and Technical Training Squadron. Mr. van Wijngaarden also served as a firefighter and fire officer for 16 years on a part-time basis with various fire brigades in the Netherlands and Germany. Mr. van Wijngaarden holds a Masters Degree in Educational Management from the University of Amsterdam. As a long-time customer of ETC and user of ADMS, Mr. van Wijngaarden comes to ETC with extensive knowledge of both the organization and the product. William F. Mitchell, President and Chairman of ETC, stated, "The appointment of Marco as President of ADMS provides us with a wealth of valuable knowledge and experience that will assist us in penetrating new market segments for our ADMS product. Marco's unique perspective as an ADMS customer will bring a whole new dimension to the organization." ADMS is a high fidelity, interactive training system that offers a proven methodology to provide operationally cost-effective synthetic incident and disaster management experience, and has been used to train emergency responders around the world since the early 1990's to better prepare for responding to and mitigating large-scale incidents. ADMS simultaneously trains entire response teams in the four C's of disaster management: Command, Control, Coordination and Communication, and is NIMS/ICS compliant. ADMS simulates emergency incidents and disasters such as terrorist acts, Weapons of Mass Destruction, hazardous material spills, multi-vehicle road accidents, fires and natural disasters. ADMS authentically simulates the dynamic elements of the environment (people, vehicles, threats) that are significant in a disaster situation - and the outcomes of actions taken provide authentic feedback, resulting in real skill building. ADMS leverages technology proven through over a decade, realistically simulating both "trigger" events and the evolving situation. The results of actions (or inaction) and the cascading consequences of sound or unsound actions, very effectively create the stress levels approximating those in the real world. ADMS is also used to test and validate emergency response plans and disaster management plans. | |
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