Franklin Telecommunications named Gary Rogers to the...

Franklin Telecommunications named Gary Rogers to the newly created position of vice president for operations. Rogers, 33, will continue to serve as general manager for the Westlake Village-based firm.

Rogers joined the company in February, 1985. He previously was a plant manager at Pure Air, a Canoga Park maker of equipment for “clean rooms,” sterile environments where semiconductors and other sensitive products are manufactured.

Franklin Telecommunications makes data-storage and retrieval equipment, known as mass-storage subsystems, which are hard-disk drives and tape drives operating with the company’s software.

Earlier this year, the company introduced a personal computer that it says is compatible with IBM’s powerful PC AT.