Robert Gutierrez Joins AccuBraille

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Seth Wiles

Robert Gutierrez, Director of Product Development AccuBraille

We are very pleased to announce the addition of Robert Gutierrez as our new Director of Product Development for AccuBraille.

Robert holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Operations Management from California State University, Hayward. With 20 years of experience in the sign industry, Robert brings a tremendous wealth of knowledge, talent, and experience in every aspect of the business.

Throughout his career, Robert has been instrumental in driving the highest standards of customer service, product quality, and process excellence. He is a proven leader having led teams as a Client Services Manager, Production Manager, Project Coordinator, Project Management Director, and General Manager. He enjoys working with teammates at every level to identify constraints, deliver innovative solutions, and inspire them and give them the tools and support they need to achieve success for themselves and for the company. With the latitude and breadth of knowledge that he possesses, Robert will undoubtedly have an immediate impact on our company on many levels.

“I am thrilled to join a talented team with such strong capabilities and great client and industry relationships. What they have developed with their AccuBraille product is an incredible advancement in providing solutions to the common problems with the compliance, durability, and cost issues associated with the traditional methods of manufacturing ADA signage. I am extremely excited about the future of AccuBraille and I look forward to expanding my role and continuing to advance our commitment to providing the highest levels of service, quality, and innovative solutions to our customers and our company.”

“From the first time I met and spoke with Robert I realized that he would be instrumental in helping us achieve the operational goals needed for AccuBraille grow into the industry leader for ADA compliant signage. We have no doubt with his expertise and attention to detail that AccuBraille will achieve the goal of offering our customers world class customer service.” Said Seth Wiles, Director of Business Development for AccuBraille.

Mark Unterbach, President of AccuBraille stated; “We spent over two years of R&D to develop AccuBraille. When we soft launched the product earlier this year, response from the marketplace far exceeded our expectations. World Class Customer Service is at our foundation. We want to position AccuBraille as the solution for designers, architects as well as sign companies who are more focused on design and project management. I have no doubt that Robert joining the team will enable us to achieve this goal of creating a true cloud manufacturing solution.”

Robert is committed to furthering his career and has aspirations of pursuing an MBA. We are delighted to have him on our team and look forward to our mutual growth and success.

AccuBraille Publishes New Product Sheet

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Seth Wiles

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Greetings!

We pride ourselves in listening to you, with a goal of building a long and mutually rewarding relationship. The feedback from those that have received our samples has been great, and we urge those of you who have not held our product to click below and let us show you what makes AccuBraille a great choice for all of your ADA projects. As we create new product and develop new information about AccuBraille we want you to be among the first to receive these updates.

We have just created the AccuBraille product sheet and it’s now available on our website or it can be downloaded by clicking on the link at the bottom of this email.

We are working every day on ways to give our customers and fans more and more information about AccuBraille. We continue to research new ways to use our thermo-forming process to offer more choices to designers, architects and sign companies.

We would love to hear what you think and listen to your ideas. Please let us know what we are doing right as well as what we can do better to improve our product and service. Please join our Linkedin group and share your thoughts on the signs we have made for you or the samples you have received.

If you have not received samples please click on the request a sample link and we will send you samples right away. Click To Download AccuBraille Product Sheet

Sincerely,

Seth Wiles,

Director Business Development

AccuBraille

“ADA Signs For The 21st Century”

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AccuBraille Brings Thermo-Formed Signs to SFO Terminal 2

Posted on April 4, 2012 by AccuBraille

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We want to chronicle AccuBraille’s work on Terminal 2, a domestic terminal located in San Francisco’s International Airport. In 2010 SFO unveiled its newly Gensler-designed Terminal which serves Virgin America and American Airlines. In addition to the design of the terminal, Gensler also designed the wayfinding program which was based in part on the International Terminal sign program.

With over 700K sq. ft. of interior space T2, as Terminal 2 is often referred to, had great need for an intuitive and well thought-out wayfinding system and eventually Fluoresco, a well known sign fabricator with offices in California, Nevada & Arizona was awarded the fabrication of the project. Fluoresco went looking for the right solution for the ADA portion of the project and they found that using AccuBraille’s Infused ® line of thermo-formed signs would offer them what they needed for this project because of it’s ability to with stand high-traffic and heavy cleaning environments such as airport terminals. Because the final product is one integrated piece the tactile characters can’t be picked off and the Braille beads will not “pop out”. In addition all AccuBraille signs come with a 5 year warranty and are rated for exterior use.

Given about two weeks to complete this project AccuBraille was able to fabricate and install over 250 unique room identification and code-related signs on time and on-budget. Like any large scale, high-profile project, Turner Construction knew that every aspect of construction would be scrutinized at a granular level but by choosing AccuBraille signs, the architect and general contractor had one less item to concern themselves with, during implementation.

Look For Us At The ISA Show in Orlando

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Seth Wiles

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As I sit on a flight heading to Orlando, new technologies allow me to send messages to old and new friends that we are looking forward to seeing at the ISA show. We couldn’t be more excited about attending the ISA show in Orlando this year. Mark and I have attended this show many times in the past and we have seen the show grow and become a better venue for innovations in the industry every year.

The ISA does a great job of bringing together so many individuals who are passionate about all facets of the sign industry. The educational opportunities are only getting better and more relevant to today’s markets. What’s great about the show is that it is a great opportunity for those of us in the industry to come together and see and experience all the new technologies, share ideas and learn about new developments.

Mark and I are very excited to tour all of the exhibits and have some fun with our colleagues. We look forward to learning new ways that we can integrate Accubraille into all types of ADA designs. If you are
at the show and would like to chat and see where two years of R&D
have taken us, send me a note and we can meet up for a few minutes
during the day or even at the ISA Happy Hour event.

- Seth Wiles (Director of Business Development at AccuBraille) – Seth@accubraille.com

Taleo Case Study

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Seth Wiles

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Founded in 1996 and based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, Taleo combines leading on-demand talent management solutions with the industry’s largest ecosystem of customers, partners and candidates. More than 5,000 organizations use Taleo for talent acquisition, performance and compensation management, including nearly half of the Fortune 100, across 187 countries and territories.

In 2011 Gensler, one of the world’s largest architecture and design firms, began the tenant improvement and expansion work on the Taleo Dublin offices. As part of this effort, the Taleo team recognized the need to upgrade their existing interior signage program and chose AccuBraille as the attractive, cost effective, and timely solution. When asked about the project’s success, Michael McCaughin, Construction Manager at ProPM, said “The signage at Taleo looks fantastic and (AccuBraille) did a great job.”

The scope of work for this project was a complete redesign and subsequent implementation of a new interior signage program including all identification and destination signage for new floors. Given the extremely tight construction schedule, the success of this project hinged on AccuBraille’s ability to program, design engineer, and fabricate all signs within a two week period – a task that can typically take 6-8 weeks or longer.

2010 Americans With Disabilities Act Takes Effect

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Seth Wiles

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As many already know, the 2010 ADA changes are now in effect as of March 15th. AccuBraille has posted a PDF of section 703 on the ADA Resources section of our website. We have also posted up the entire 2010 ADA Standards For accessible Design for those of you who would like to read the whole document . Both documents can be downloaded and or printed. Click on this link to go to the AccuBraille resources page.

AccuBraille Resources Page

Hello From Sharon Toji “The ADA Sign Lady”

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Seth Wiles

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I’ve known about Garnett for years, before Mark bought it. I discovered Garnett because we both had a web site on a start up Website company called Big Step. I admired the choices Garnett had for their hotel clients, and the way they displayed them. I saw them as a medium to high end architectural company, and although I knew that their hotel room signs had braille, I didn’t really know about AccuBraille.

In the past couple of years, as our sister company H Toji and Company started to do more and more school projects in San Francisco and Oakland, I started talking with Mark about some of the installation concerns we had, and I really enjoyed speaking with him. Then, we decided to explore the thermoforming process, and discovered that he was already far along in his R and D on the process. When we came up with some unique ideas for thermoformed signs, he was the best person to turn to.

We’ve developed a great working relationship, and and are introducing two unique kinds of thermoformed ADA signs as a result of our collaboration, ADA/InvisiTouch™ and ADA/PermaSign™. In conjunction with the InvisiTouch™ product, we are designing a unique font that we think people who are touch readers will love. For the first time, the real promise of tactile signs will be fulfilled!

ADA/InvisiTouch™ will be taking full advantage of the two part signs that the new 2010 ADA Design Standards allow. The concept is the brainchild of famed environmental graphic designer Roger Whitehouse of Whitehouse and Company in New York City. We’ll be sending Roger some examples, as soon as we have final samples.

Stay tuned for more, and an explanation of what the two part signs are all about.

Sharon Toji — the “ADA Sign Lady”
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