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Wintara hires Tom Arnsmeyer as a Senior Vice President &Chief Operating Officer

 November 10, 2008 – Wintara, Inc. announced today the hire of their new Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Tom Arnsmeyer. Arnsmeyer’s role stated Wintara CEO, Isaac “Ike” Gibson, will be to manage Wintara’s day-to-day operating activities, including revenue and sales growth; expense, cost and margin control; and monthly, quarterly and annual financial goal management. 

 Arnsmeyer brings his over 20 years experience in the global engineering sector.  He has Extensive senior level experience in running large operating units and management of major programs, in the public and private sector.  He joins Wintara after his most recent role as Vice President of the Homeland Security Solutions Business Unit at   Raytheon Technical Services Company. 

 According to Wintara CEO Gibson, “Tom has an outstanding record of building services and revenues in programs and business units.  This expertise is an ideal match for a mid-sized company such as Wintara, which is now poised for explosive growth, even beyond the significant expansion that the last five years have witnessed.  I’m very pleased to have Tom joining us.”

Arnsmeyer lives with his family in Chantilly, Virginia.  He will work out of Wintara’s Oxon Hill Corporate Office. 

Wintara Awarded New Construction Contracts By U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Iraq 

August 5, 2008: Replacement Facilities Victory Base Camp, Iraq:  contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Program Center. Wintara’s work consists of the construction of pre-engineered steel framed buildings facilities as follows: One large Gymnasium, Three Morale Welfare and Recreation Facilities; Three Tactical Operations Facilities (TOCs); Two Life Support Areas (LSA’s) using Containerized Housing Units (CHUs) and Anti-Terrorist Force Protection (ATFP) requirements.

August 5, 2008: Combat Surgical Hospital (CSH) Speicher, Iraq: contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Program Center.  Wintara will be responsible for the construction of the Combat Surgical Hospital (CSH) with supporting site utilities and site improvements at Speicher Contingency Operation Base, Iraq.  The CSH is a pre-engineered steel-frame full-operation hospital facility of about 39,200 square feet, designed to care for any incoming injured military personnel.

July 2, 2008:  Al Asad Replacement Facilities, Iraq: contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Programs Center. Wintara’s work package include surveys, design, material, labor, and equipment to construct the scheduled improvements and other related support infrastructure in accordance with current U.S. design, safety, security, ecological standards and other applicable local standards. This project entails the construction of the Life Support Areas (LSA) Workhorse, LSA Midway, A/DAG Facility, Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) South, AAFES Facility, MWR North, MWR Tarwa, Dining Facilities Administration Center (DFAC) Air Field, and LSA Ripper projects with supporting site utilities and site improvements at Al Asad, Air Base, Iraq.

May 27, 2008:  Replacement Facilities Speicher, Iraq: contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Programs Center. Wintara is to provide all qualified personnel, equipment, materials, supervision and management for replacement facilities for Forward Operating Base (FOB), Speicher, Iraq.

Wintara's headquarters' relocation

Wintara relocated the headquarters' offices from Fort Washington, Maryland to 6710 Oxon Hill Road, National Harbor, Maryland on March 2008.  The new headquarters office is in close proximity to the Nation’s Capital and the Pentagon, as well as the World Class National Harbor Complex.  Wintara offices, 25,000 square feet of floor space, are security controlled and certified at the TOP SECRET level for classified processing, storage and meetings. The new facility maintains state-of-the-art communications, reproduction and computer equipment, and the latest in productivity software.

Other Contract Awards

September 30, 2007: Siemens V94.2A Foreign Object Damage (FOD) Repair and Assessment: contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division. Wintara is tasked to conduct Foreign Object Damage (FOD) Repair and Assessment and Repair of Mechanical area that has suffered the incident of a fire in the unit enclosure Re-commissioning and start-up of one (1) Siemens V94.2 Combustion Turbine Unit including the associated auxiliary systems and equipment was conducted at the Baiji Power Plant, located North of Baghdad in Iraq.

June 8, 2007: Operation and Management, Mussayib Power Plant, Iraq: contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division.  Wintara is tasked to provide all resources, personnel, equipment, and management necessary to assure subsistence life support and security support is ascertained at the main camp located at the Mussayib LM 6000 Power Plant.

May 10, 2007: GE TM 2500 Refurbishment one unit for Baiji Power Plant, Iraq: contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division.  Wintara is to provide all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, other items and services necessary to refurbish one TM2500 Core Engine unit, demonstrate operation,pack, ship and deliver to Bayji Power Plant the newly re-furbished TM2500 Core Engine.

March 9, 2007: GE TM 2500 Change-out/Refurbishment at Baiji Power Plant, Iraq: Contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division.  Wintara is to perform GE TM 2500 Combustion Turbine Change-Out/Refurbishment for a total of six (6) core engines at Baiji Power Plant in Iraq. Wintara will provide full engineering, life support, equipment, parts, repairs, security, transportation and logistics items support for this effort. Additionally, performance is to be conducted on inspection and repair of turbine auxiliaries, generators and excitation systems. After each installation, an execution of a re-start and commissioning of the units is to be performed

March 7, 2007: Siemens V64.3A & V94.3A Combustion Inspection at Taza Power Plant:contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division for Wintara to execute the requirement for the Combustion Inspection (CI), re-commissioning and start-up of two (2) Siemens Gas Turbine Units (V64 and V94) including the associated Auxiliary systems and equipment, at the Kirkuk/Taza Power Plant, located in Kirkuk, Iraq.

January 3, 2007: GE Frame 9E Combustion Inspection at Khor Al-Zubair (KAZ) Power Plant, Iraq: contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division.  Wintara is to provide qualified personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, life support and security efforts necessary to perform a combustion Inspection on a Frame 9E Combustion Turbine engine. In addition, Wintara will perform annual maintenance on the turbine auxiliary parts.

January 3, 2007: GE LM6000 Replacement; Al Qudas and Burzurgan Power Plants, Iraq: contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division.  Wintara is to supply, load test and demonstrate operation of a re-furbished dual fuel, GE LM 6000 replacement core engine in the area of Al-Qudas, Iraq. Wintara was also required to provide inspection/refurbishment of the removed LM 6000 core engine, utilizing, basic hand tools, and special tools, for the job.  Security and life support procedures and measures are required.

September 18, 2006: Remote Monitoring System, Iraq: contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division. The task is to provide real-time, continuous remote monitoring from a central location for up to 52 gas turbine generators located throughout Iraq. The Remote Monitoring System (RMS) is the first of its kind that integrated multiple and various original equipment manufacturers' (OEM) gas turbine units, enabling the Iraqi Minister of Electricity (MOE) to provide direct real-time monitoring of all turbine systems and provided advance trending analysis. The RMS will give the MOE a capability to implement a strategy to increase power availability to affected areas and to reduce the projected increasing maintenance-cost(s) for the aging fleet of gas turbine generator.

June 11, 2006: Siemens V64.3A Combustion Inspection at Taza Power Plant, Iraq: contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division. The task is to perform Combustion Inspection (CI) of a Siemens V64.3A gas turbine, including the generator, auxiliaries, and BOP. Provided engineering, equipment, parts, repairs, labor, life support, security, start-up and commissioning.