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Entech Creative Master Carpenter, Billy Rae

September 15th, 2009

Entech Carpenter Billy Rae

Billy Rae, someone relatively new to Entech Creative, has undoubtedly made a significant impact on how things work around here in the past year. Having worked in interior boating for 20+ years and assisting over 450+ companies, Billy is certainly a one-man carpentry force to be reckoned with.


Organization, organization, organization. The mantra Billy lives by. It’s common to see other employees referring to Billy for advice in just this matter. From working on the Ford Tower to Morocco, it’s not hard to see that his ideologies have worked for him nicely. It’s a bit entertaining to watch Billy always return tools to the exact place it belonged before moving along, but you have to admire that kind of meticulousness. “Everything has its place,” chants Billy.


His favorite job just happened to be involving the Ford Tower construction. Now, at first glance, Billy may not emanate the artsy type, but surprisingly enough, Billy thoroughly enjoyed working on the tower for just that reason. According to Billy, “the tower was not just another dull cookie cutter project, it involved a level of artistry that I rarely get a chance to work on; because of that, the project had more meaning to me.”


“Stay busy, and make sure you feel like you’ve accomplished something before you leave.” It’s hard not to admire someone that brings in this attitude day in and day out. If you’re working with Entech, you’re lucky enough to be working with Billy as well. Bravo, Billy.

 

Anne supports Linda Stewart

September 3rd, 2009

anne-linda-ribbon cuttingThis week, Entech President Anne Herzog went off site to support Orange County Commissioner Linda Stewart, who is currently running for Orange County Mayor.  This special event was the opening of Commissioner Stewart’s official campaign office in the Gatlin Shopping Center.



Anne and Linda spent a little time talking before the event this past Monday, about Commissioner Stewart’s strong support base and the upcoming elections.  Both are excited at the prospects for change and growth, and have become fast friends because of the tenacity and the strides each has made improving business and the community in Orange County.


Recently recognized by Orange county as an MBE, Entech is proud of our committment to diversity, and happy to wave our flag supporting Linda’s onward march towards Mayor.

 

Entech Creative Experiential Disruption for Sprite

August 21st, 2009

entech creative sprite cube pictureSometimes being square is a good thing. When CommonGround marketing needed to develop and execute two large scale disruptive experiential environments for a series of new product brand activations in New York and Chicago, they turned to Entech Creative.


entech creative sprite experiential mood boardFor this process, Entech first developed a series of mood boards for the event, playing off the demographic and target research for the new product launch. These mood boards led to further research of the concepting of the interior and exterior of the disruptive environment. Some initial structural designs included roofs pitched at odd angles and vibrant colors. Discussions and further development, however, led to the simple “CUBE” structure as the most striking and disruptive.


entech creative experiential sprite green spaceWhile our engineering team set to work figuring wind loads, assembly time, and packing requirements, our in house team of designers set about constructing a space that would incorporate all the elements that the customer wanted to include: Plasma TV’s, dj booth, sampling station, lounge chairs, and more. With a fully tricked out interior designed, sourced, and priced to budget, the big blow to the project came on the news that the budget had been cut significantly.


entech creative experiential sprite interior renderingFortunately, Entech engineers and designers are knoweledgable in scalability and value engineering. Within a few days, the entire campaign was redesigned to fit with the new budget, retaining the most important key elements; namley the striking shape and size as well and clean interior elements.


entech creative experiential spriteEach cube is a 24’ x 24’ x 15’ high custom made structure that can be easily assembled, stored, or shipped for eye catching duty at the next promotional event.


We’re proud of all of our projects, and pleased to present the Sprite Brand Activation cubes as an example of creative thinking, time sensitivity, value engineering, and ultimately delivering an experience mechanism to help achieve our customer’s goals.

 

ENTECH OPEN HOUSE SUCCESS!

August 10th, 2009

Last week at Entech, we saw our first ever technology partner open house. More than 160 people as well as 13 technology partner companies participated in the event.

Nayte Carrick


Several of our partner companies gave presentations on their technologies and most had representatives onsite to mingle and answer questions. Almost a mini-trade show, we had production companies, media specialty, muscle cars, event planners, museum exhibit, and even a specialty cake baker.

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ENTECH – AWARDED COUNTY MBE STATUS

August 6th, 2009

This week, Entech Creative is proud to announce that in addition to National WBE status (Women’s Business Enterprise), we have just received MBE certification (Minority Business Enterprise) from Orange County, Florida.


While we continue to strive for excellence across the board, we are ecstatic at the recognition this award brings to Entech.


“Having run Entech for 16 years in Central Florida, I’m excited to have been awarded this status from the County. Orange County MBE status will allow me more opportunities to bring new jobs and money to our area,” says Entech Owner and President Anne Herzog.

 

ENTECH – TECHNOLOGY PARTNER OPEN HOUSE

July 23rd, 2009

invite3Entech Creative will be hosting an on site Technology Open house August 06 from 4-7PM at our facility here in Orlando.  Everyone is welcome to attend.

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ENTECH AND KOKORO – FRIENDS AND PARTNERS

July 16th, 2009

This is a late breaking story on the blossoming exclusive partnership between Entech Creative Industries and Kokoro of Japan.  While the details of the partnership are still under wraps (you’d better believe that this marketing guy will post them as soon as they’re available), we do know that the deal is structured towards Entech Creative taking on North American marketing, sales, and distribution of the Kokoro line of advanced robotics, also known as “Actroids.”



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NEWEST ADDITION – Logan Glen

July 7th, 2009

The new addition

On June 16th, Entech welcomed the newest little member to our engineering team, Steven’s new son, Logan Glen Lansrud.  Today, Steven and his wife Debbie stopped by to give us all a peek at little Logan.  We’ll give him a few weeks to get acclamated before we teach him how to draw cool things in AutoCAD.

Congratulations Steve and Debbie!

 

EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT – Henry McKinley

July 3rd, 2009

Henry McKinley, Entech Creative' Systems Shop Manager

Henry McKinley, Entech Creative' Systems Shop Manager

Henry McKinley has been with Entech Creative for more than two years and in that time has proven to be an invaluable member of our technical and systems team. Henry brings experience in electrical and systems troubleshooting, CAD Drafting, and PLC & Touch screen programming, and having served four years in the US Navy troubleshooting and repairing missile launch and fire control interfaces, Henry’s tactical approach to efficient problem solving means that Entech’s Systems shop runs like a well oiled machine.

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Entech’s SkyCycle Installed at Arizona Science Center

June 30th, 2009

090615_Arizona_HWB_Webimage_TH Earlier this month Entech completed the latest SkyCycle installation. Soaring above visotors’ heads at the Arizona Science Center, the bright yellow SkyCycle was installed without a hitch.


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The Arizona Science Center’s 140,000 square foot facility was opened in 1997 and includes 40,000 square feet of gallery space with more than 300 hands on exhibits, a 300 person IMAX theater, and a 200 person planetarium with world leading projection and audio technology.

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