Corporate Report: April 4

Stantec appoints Woody Moore as a senior principal for transportation
Woody Moore has joined Stantec's 70-person Tampa office as a senior principal in the firm's transportation practice. Moore will be responsible for the development and growth of Stantec's transit and rail practice in the Southeast. He recently transferred from Stantec's Dallas office, where he was the regional business leader for the U.S. West transportation practice.

With more than 45 years of experience, Moore has been involved with all modes of transportation, from initial phases of feasibility through construction on projects ranging from less than $1 million to more than $10 billion. He has also previously completed 12 major projects for the Florida Department of Transportation.

Life Care Center of Sarasota named a U.S. News & World Report best nursing home
Life Care Center of Sarasota has been recognized as a 2014 U.S. News & World Report best nursing home for the second year in a row.

U.S. News & World Report uses the ratings system developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which judges nursing homes based on health inspections, nurse staffing and quality of care. A facility is assigned one to five stars based on its performance.

Life Care Center of Sarasota is one of 3,867 facilities that received five stars, achieving top nursing home status among nearly 16,000 facilities nationwide. The facility also exceeded federal standards in several areas, including food preparation, adequacy of infection control, medication management, residents' rights, quality of care and proper skin care.

Located at 8104 Tuttle Ave., Sarasota, Life Care Center of Sarasota is one of 220 skilled nursing, post-acute and Alzheimer's centers in 28 states operated or managed by Life Care Centers of America.

Eclipse Corp.'s DocOrigin chosen by New Orleans' largest commercial printer
New Orleans' Mele Printing has selected DocOrigin 3.0 from Cape Coral-based Eclipse Corp. to support Mele Printing's document generation services. The DocOrigin software is used to design electronic documents and forms.

Mele Printing is the largest commercial printer in the greater New Orleans metro area providing digital printing, and traditional and large format printing, as well as complete direct and automated mailing.

According to Kenny Burger, I.T. manager for Mele Printing, it had recently acquired several new companies and needed to streamline workflows and reduce the number of tools and resources required.

“We had a hodge-podge of systems,” Burger says in a press release. “By adopting DocOrigin we were able to eliminate several different custom applications as well as three different mailing solutions. Now we're down to one processing software and one mailing software. Jobs that were taking us over an hour to process have been streamlined down to five or 10 minutes.”

Eclipse Corp. is the North American distributor for Ontario, Canada-based OF Software Ltd., which produces DocOrigin.

Fortune names Tech Data one of 'World's Most Admired Companies'
Fortune Magazine has named Clearwater-based Tech Data Corp. as one of its “World's Most Admired Companies.” The World's Most Admired list is compiled by the Hay Group, a global management consulting firm, which surveys more than 3,800 company executives, directors, and industry analysts. Companies are ranked by nine key attributes, from investment value to social responsibility.

Tech Data ranked fourth overall in the Wholesalers: Electronics and Office Equipment category.

This is the fifth straight year Tech Data has been named to the list.

Spyglass Technologies licenses underwater chemical-sensing tech
St. Petersburg-based Spyglass Technologies Inc. has reached an agreement to license mass spectrometry technology from California's SRI International. The Florida firm plans to combine the technology, which can be used to detect underwater chemicals, in a wide range of commercial, research and government applications. Spyglass will also bundle it with other underwater sensors to present detailed biochemical information through a Web portal software platform.

“SRI's underwater mass spectrometer technology unlocks new chemical information that will help the oil and gas industry accelerate revenue while managing exploration costs, and researchers to be more effective stewards of our water resources,” Chris Melançon, CEO of Spyglass Technologies, says in a press release.