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Rhodes Hileman
6551 Holly Terrace South 
Seattle, Washington, 98118 

MANUFACTURING MANAGER
OVERVIEW  
•	Distinguished and diverse background with emphasis on manufacturing  management, engineering services, startup team development, and design team support. 
•	Team-oriented, insightful management professional with broad technical knowledge, highly developed organizational talents, and collaborative leadership style. 
•	Inventive designer with proven skills in the design of printed circuit assemblies, mechanical devices, databases, and operations procedures. 
•	Articulate communicator with demonstrated ability in technical writing, editing, and tutoring, as well as facilitation of working meetings for engineers. 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SMALL SYSTEMS
Berkeley and Seattle
1997 - present
Designer/Producer/Owner
Providing design and production services, engineering services, technical writing, and management consulting, to an international list of clients. Founder. 
GIGAOPERATIONS
Berkeley, California
1991 - 1997
Director of Manufacturing
Created procedures for, and managed, manufacturing, purchasing and inventory control,  engineering services, and operations.  Brought two generations of product from concept to market.  This team produced advanced high speed parallel processing hardware using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) as reconfigurable computing engines.  Their compiler turns C code into hardware state machines.
ARRAY TECHNOLOGIES
Oakland, California
1986-1991
Manufacturing Engineer, Director of Engineering, Director of Operations 
Provided the manufacturing and engineering development environment for a high fidelity color digital camera. Responsible for building this company on a first year budget of $650K, from a staff of 6 to 14.  Sited the company, purchased all equipment and components, and hired engineering staff. Directed the engineering effort for both the hardware and software side of the product. Expanded engineering team and moved to new site.  Designed a tightly integrated PCB and mechanical product, including a piezo-microstage, for the second version of the camera.  Designed and supervised manufacturing processes. Brought two product lines from concept to market. 

GENIGRAPHICS GP
Berkeley, California
1984-1986
Engineering Operations Manager,  Project Manager
Created a development team of 35 staff and a half-dozen consultants.  Responsible for all engineering services, including development program planning, purchasing, technical support,  documentation, and liaison for design contractors.  Created and administered a development budget of 2.2 million dollars.  Produced a hierarchical object-based graphic arts "paint" system featuring three pipelined 68020 CPU cards providing resolution independent output to all media. 

TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Enterprise database design, MRP systems design, and components purchasing. Timeline project management. CAD tools for electronic, PCB, mechanical, and architectural design. Electronic PCB fabrication, assembly, and testing.  Experience in heavy industry.  
Computer systems integration, network installation, and systems administration. 
See www.smsys.com/resumes/software.html for complete software list.

EDUCATION
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
B.A. Degree,  Bioregional Design

North Seattle Community College, Seattle, Washington
Network Administration: Unix, Bash, Perl, Java, Cisco

PUBLISHED MATERIAL
Choosing a Display Card for OS/2 and Linux, Extended Attributes, the magazine of the OS/2 community. Published in the February 1999 issue. Available online at www.smsys.com/resumes/vidchips.txt 

Forests are a Community, Forest Trust Quarterly Report, October 1999, Santa Fe, NM. See www.smsys.com/pcbdg/forests.html 

INTERESTS
Sailing, flying, wilderness, architecture, design methods.