Former Saipan resident named to key post at Wieck Media Services

Bill Michling has been promoted to code warriors, a new programming position, Wieck Media Services has announced. The company also said that Bobby Warren has been hired to replace Michling as network manager.

As code warrior, Michling is responsible for Wieck’s many proprietary in-house production system, such as image processing, automated image transmission, and all company work flow, Webmaster Alex Sian said. Warren is responsible for the smooth operation of all work stations, including hardware and terminals, Sian said. Warren overseas a network of 70 computers, servers, printers and network switches.

Michling, 54, was a meteorologist in the U.S. Navy. He also was a numerical products supervisor, in charge of the naval computer room in Pearl Harbor. Following his sting in the Navy, he was a senior engineer for NCR. Although born in Texas, Michling has lived most of his life on the island of Saipan, where he opened an Apple Computers service depot in 1986. He taught Macintosh classes at Northern Marianas College. Michling is married with one daughters and lives in Carrollton, Texas.

Michling has been a member of the Rotary since 1980 and currently serves as President of the Dallas North Rotary Club.

“This was a natural progression for Bill, who has serves us wonderfully as network manager,” said Tim Roberts, vice president/general manager of Wieck. “He is talented programmer whose expertise will be of enormous value to our clients and the rest of our team.”

Warren, 34, grew up in Chandler, Okla., attended the University of Tulsa, studying English and computer science, and now lives in north Dallas. He has worked with Apple computer products for 20 years—at one point running a computerized scoring system for golf tournament at the Dallas Athletic Club. He also worked five years at a Macintosh dealership.

Warren represented Wieck at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit and the New York Auto Show, managing Wieck’s customers’ media centers.

“Bobby was a great find for us,” Roberts said. “He is energetic and thorough with an uncommon passion for his work. His MacOS expertise will help us maintain our rapidly growing infrastructure.”

Wieck Media Services specializes in database storage and Web distribution of multi-media materials for corporate media relations departments and news organizations. Within six months of its founding in 1991, the company was processing and distributing digital images through a bulletin board system, and then moved to Web distribution in the mid-1990s.

Wieck, which designs, manages, and maintains corporate media Web sites, processes files to formats that conform to international publishing standards and then loads them into its databases. Members of the media have access to the databases through the various Web sites, including Wieck’s own media site, where they can preview files online and download them without charge.

Wieck’s clients include Agence France-Press, American Honda Motors, Anheuser-Busch Cos., AT&T, the Coca-Coal Co., DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Hearst News Service, The New York Times Newspaper Group, The New York Times Syndicate and News Services, and Toyota North America. For more information about Wieck Media Services, visit www.wieck.com.