About Us

Founded in 1994, the ABC Scanning family of companies has built our reputation on accuracy, timely processing, excellent customer service and technical expertise.

Every job is important to us and each member of our staff from account management to production takes the utmost care to ensure your job is done correctly and on schedule.

We foster strong relationships with our employees with the belief that an engaged and dedicated staff is the key to delivering consistent quality and excellent service to our customers. Our team is made up of copying and scanning professionals most of whom have 10 years or more in the business. Our stable environment means our clients can count on a smooth worry-free relationship focused on your needs.

Your success is our success and we want you to consider ABC Scanning part of your team!

Management Team

Walt Townes
Co-Founder, President

Walt Townes has owned and operated successful service based businesses for over 25 years. In 1994, he co-founded Retail Lockbox - a payment processing and digital imaging company that currently handles over $15 billion per year in deposits and millions of images a month for its customers. Mr. Townes has a strong background in operations management with a focus on building teams who deliver consistent quality and responsive customer service. A graduate of the University of Washington School of Business, Mr. Townes lives in Los Angeles.

Craig Dawson
Co-Founder

Craig Dawson is President and CEO of Retail Lockbox - the largest payment processing and digital image capture company in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to co-founding Retail Lockbox, Mr. Dawson was a senior sales executive with Unisys Corporation where he sold mainframe computers and designed software solutions for major accounts in the software, transportation, publishing, and high technology arenas.

Mr. Dawson is on the Board of Directors of the Washington Roundtable, Evergreen Bank, the BOLD Initiative, the University of Washington Business and Economic Development Committee, Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences, Rainier Scholars Resource Council, Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Rotary of Downtown Seattle. Born in Seattle, Washington, Mr. Dawson graduated from the University of Washington School of Business with a degree in Finance and Marketing. He is married and has two children.

Masood Ektefaie
General Manager

Masood Ektefaie has over 15 years of successful operations experience. Prior to joining ABC Scanning, he managed the reprographics division of Symplex Digital Solutions at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. For 12 years, Mr. Ektefaie was Senior Area Manager for McDonalds Corporation managing 13 stores in the greater Los Angeles area where he earned numerous awards as a top performing manager. Mr. Ektefaie is a graduate of GCC with a degree in accounting. Born in Iran, Mr. Ektefaie is married and lives in Los Angeles.

Sheldon Barnett
CIO

Sheldon Barnett’s background includes 30 years in programming, system analysis, system design, installation, technical support, project management, and consulting. He has held positions at Mentor Consultants, Burroughs, Shared Medical Systems, DDI, and Interax.

Mr. Barnett is an expert in the field of document imaging and payment processing and has experience in developing systems in multiple languages. He has successfully completed extensive system designs in the banking, financial services, healthcare, judiciary, manufacturing, government, retail point of sale, and energy management industries. Mr. Barnett has designed and implemented imaging and check processing solutions for Wachovia Bank, Chase Bank, Bank of New York, and the Bank of Montreal. Prior to ABC Scanning, he owned and operated his own software consulting company for 25 years.

Born in Pennsylvania, Mr. Barnett has a B.S. in Mathematics from the Florida Institute of Technology and a M.S. in Operations Research from Florida Institute of Technology.

Arthur Cerda
Principal

Arthur Cerda has over 18 years of experience in the reprographics business in Century City. In 1998, Mr. Cerda founded Doculogic - a reprographics company he owned and operated until merging with ABC Scanning 2009. Mr. Cerda also worked on the law firm side of the business for five years at the firm of Irell & Manella. Mr. Cerda first started in the reprographics business in 1990 working for Century Reprographics. Mr. Cerda was born and raised in East Los Angles.

Reggie Carter
Senior Sales Consultant

Reggie Carter has over 30 years of client sales and customer service experience. For the past 12 years Mr. Carter has worked in Century City servicing the legal community with reprographic and scanning services. Prior to his work in the litigation support industry, Mr. Carter was a Facilities Manager for IBM. Mr. Carter was a member of the US Armed Forces; he currently lives in Los Angeles and is active in the music and art communities.