Amtelco’s
John Morley Retires
By
Alan Tucker
John Morley, vice president for new product development and
senior product developer for Amtelco, retired on September 30. Morley
came to Amtelco in March 1979 from the Madison, Wisconsin, city school
district, where he taught mathematics and computer science.
His initial assignment was as a documentation writer,
producing user and service manuals for the FLC (First Level
Concentrator) product. He quickly moved into sales support and customer
training, traveling throughout North America for installations, trade
shows, and user group meetings.
John eventually gravitated into programming and product
development, and he was a major contributor to the development of the
Video III system. He served as the principal designer for Amtelco’s
landmark EVE (Electronic Video Exchange) system, one of the industry’s
first paperless messaging systems. There are still thirty-six EVE
systems in operation today, nearly thirty years after its introduction
in 1983. “John hit the ball out of the park by a mile!” said Amtelco
president Tom Curtin of the development of the EVE system.
John went on to be the tip of the spear in the development of
just about every subsequent Amtelco product, from PC-MX, Infinity and
eCreator to the Intelligent Series. Most recently, John was the brains
behind the development of the Soft Agent intelligent console application
and the Intelligent Series Web Scripting platform. His contributions to
Amtelco and its products are so many, so varied, and so crucial that
John’s name is listed on the majority of the U.S. patents Amtelco has
been awarded.
Bernie Torvik, vice chairman of Amtelco’s board of directors,
said, “Amtelco was extremely fortunate to find a person of John’s
intelligence, integrity, and dedication. “For more than thirty years,
John exemplified the ideas and ideals that Bill Curtin had for his
beloved TAS Industry,” Torvik said. “John loved a challenge and never
failed to meet the ones he faced in developing better products to meet
the changing needs of the TAS industry.”
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