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The Inaugural Capture & IDP Classic (2023)

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On Tuesday, September 5th, 2023, I was so honored to help organize a golf outing with 11 former colleagues and friends. We had a fantastic time!

September 5th, 2023 was on a Tuesday, the day before we had an already planned our annual ‘Capture & IDP Conference’ in Itasca, Illinois (a 15 minute drive from Chicago), which was held on the 6th and 7th, so we decided to finally organize a golf excursion on the day before the Conference started.

Our golfers included mostly ex-Law Cypress Company and ex-Fujitsu colleagues who have maintained a good relationship over nearly two decades. A great addition to our group was that we were joined by a few of newbies including Guillermo from Buserdi and Grace from Photon Commerce. Both of their energy, willingness to have fun, as well as participate with the group was incredibly awesome!

Golf was a lot of fun, but most of the on-course smack-talk and activities would earn an R-rating from the internet so I’d rather not share these discussions and rather focus on the more family-oriented highlights for the purpose of this blog update.

For the on-course highlights, Dave Gerber won two of three contests which were the long-drive contest (302 yards on hole #10) and a closest-to-pin on hole #6.  Ralph Gammon won the other closest-to-pin contest on hole #13.  Congratulations to both Dave and Ralph for their winning efforts!

After golf, a huge highlight of the day was an intimate concert where the Revenue Man (https://www.therevenueman.net/) played for two hours a selection of homegrown hits, plus also popular cover songs. Everyone really enjoyed the show and interaction. Please check-out the Revenue Man’s songs, download his music and support his dream.

One of the post-golf activities that I planned for “The Inaugural Capture & IDP Classic” was a 30-minute “award ceremony” with gag-award certificates to all golfers so that we could recognize everyone and have a little fun at their expense.

Although I spent time to create and print the certificates for the fun of the group, I fully expected for them to end-up in the trash can. However, I was surprised that everyone was appreciative of their awards and took them seriously!  The awards themselves were intended to be “gag”-type certificates, but for everyone to respect them was totally cool.

Below is each award for your viewing pleasure!

  1. Bob Fresneda – “Gift of Gab” award

2. Dave Gerber – “El Cigarro Grande (The Big Cigar Guy)” award

3. Steve Baldwin – “Best Judge Elihu Smails” award

4. Cesar Vega – “Best Score for Irish Player” award

5. Ralph Gammon – “Best reporter and most inquisitive” award

6. Doug Cripps – “Biggest Troublemaker” award

7. Guillermo Chavez – “Most Distance Traveled” award

8. Jay Stobie – “Like a Good Neighbor, Jay is there!” award

9. Grace Zarzecki – “Best Score – Hockey Player” award

10. Erin Dempsey – “Best Event Organizer” award

11. …and, finally, myself for the worst golfer, I received the “Pickleball Training Class” award because they think I need to stay off the golf course for the rest of my career!

Overall, I hope everyone had fun at “The Inaugural Capture & IDP Classic”. I’m not a professional organizer, so if anyone has suggestions for next year’s event please send me a message or call me.

I really appreciate everyone that participated because, after all, it’s sincere friendships that matters.

Sincerely,

Kevin

Fujitsu fi-5900C Mid-Volume Production Scanner

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I was the proud, and extremely passionate, product marketing manager for the life cycle of the Fujitsu fi-5900C Mid-Volume Production (MVP) Scanner in the United States, Mexico and Latin America.  In the Mid-Volume Production Scanning segment Fujitsu had historically been #3 market share or often worst behind Kodak and Bell & Howell.

The truth of the matter is that I was lucky with timing, but it was also a lot of hard work, team effort and excellent execution of a plan and we eventually achieved #1 market share in MVP for the first time ever.  I proudly helped establish Fujitsu as a player, in fact, THE #1 player for years and when I left the company in 2011 we were still #1 in spite of Kodak acquiring Bell & Howell.

Below is a collection of image memories of the awesome fi-5900C which revolutionized the industry!

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Fujitsu fi-6010N network scanner Job Menus

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This was a video that I wrote the script and narrated about the Fujitsu fi-6010N network scanner Job Menu functionality.  This was a feature that we incorporated into the device after the initial product launch based directly on customer feedback.  This was a very popular feature because it allowed for an easy level of customization on the touch screen.  The screens could be configured based on user login credentials.  This customization could be on the device itself, or it could be configured on the Central Administration Server and then pushed out to all the scanners on a network.

Fujitsu fi-6670 and fi-6770 Low-Volume Production Document Scanners

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This was a presentation that I put together to introduce the Fujitsu fi-6670 and fi-6770 low-volume production document scanners.  I was very proud to represent these products as Product Manager and had the utmost confidence in the technology because of great engineering and fantastic support.  These are simply the best scanners in their class, bar-none.  With the introduction of these four new models Fujitsu was able to regain the #1 market share position in the LVP segment in North America.  It was a great accomplishment against very tough, and aggressive competition.

As with all my presentations I like to focus on the practical benefits of the technology and less on feeds and speeds.  These scanners can offer an amazing return on investment in terms of time savings to reduce labor costs associated with document imaging solutions.  As always please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Fujitsu fi-6800 Production Scanner – The ultimate in Production scanning efficiency

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This was a video script I wrote and had professional narrated.  I really wanted to focus on the productivity enhancements and how they can be applied in the ‘real-world’ as opposed to feeds and speeds too often promoted as the main features of other scanning devices.  I was very proud to aggressively promote the Fujitsu fi-6800 Production Scanner because I personally witnessed all the hard work and effort the engineers put into making this the best scanner in it’s class.  No question about it!