Telmar Noyes Avenue
After an early start at Sky Park Circle, we consolidated our offices at a 14,000 sq ft building at Noyes Avenue, in Irvine, CA. We later added the adjoining similar-size building behind us on Richter Avenue, and later part of the warehouse next to that. We also had the Apics building over the road. This was a busy and exciting time for Telmar.
Telmar Noyes Avenue exterior. |
Lois Weyler in the office. Granville and Mark behind the screens! |
Sue Lowenthal. |
Mark Manganella.
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Eric Masters, in the Pennsylvania office. |
Chuck Hoyt, and Becky when she worked in the PA office. |
Becky Manganella, note the Topics screen. |
Chris Kirkup and Mark Manganella outside the Apics building. |
Gary McMullin signing a Bell Atlantic contract. |
Craig Brechner and Becky Manganella. |
Dierdre, Mark, Becky and Robert Arias. |
Telmar Sacramento offce. Mel Santi, Granville Kirkup, Vi Barrett, Jerry Constance. |
Dierdre, Lois, Becky, Sue and Tiffanie. |
Kristy Perry, Rich's assistant. |
Mel Santi, Tiffanie Lu & Lois Weyler. |
Becky. Fax machines kept running all day! |
Loleta Witherspoon, our second employee at Noyes Avenue. |
Rich, Dierdre, Becky and Mark. |
A Topics search screen. We had windows before Windows! |
Sue, Becky, Granville and Lois. What's with all the black shirts? |
We took this to send to a competitor - their prices high, Telmar prices low! |
Dierdre and Becky helping Ken to build more offices! |
Ken Mockett's kids, Ashley, Tianna and Kendyn. |
General view of the Noyes Avenue warehouse. |
Craig Maris in the clean room, packing a shipment. Rich using Topics warehouse. |
We would often have big loads of telecom equipment to inventory. |
The warehouse from the Richter building. We had adjoining buildings. |
Our Fedex driver posed while we took several brochure photos. |
Orders ready to be shipped - labels out! |
A warehouse aisle. Our quality rules specified a maximum box height. |
Some of the warehouse crew! |
Mike Cassai loading a truck. |
Bill Boyer in a test lab. |
A test lab in the Richter building. |
Our Nortel DMS-100 switch. |
Test frames in one of the Richter test labs. |
Linda Schroeder, test lab supervisor. |
Linda Farr, test lab technician. |
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With Harrison Wilson of Stonebridge Partners, and my attorney Doug Higham.
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With Mike Bruno, the Chairman of venture capital company Stonebridge Partners. |
Telmar was sold to the venture capital firm, Stonebridge Partners, in 1999. It is now owned by Warburg Pincus, who also own the telecom information company, Telcordia (formerly Bellcore). |