Manufacturing Information Systems, a manufacturing software vendor, has named Nelson Rooker as director of software development. Rooker worked for Alcara Software for 13 years. MiSys, based in Woodstock, Vt., develops applications that work with Intuit’s QuickBooks and Sage 50 U.S. and Canadian Editions (formerly Peachtree and Simply Accounting), and Sage 300 (formerly Accpac).