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Rhodes Hileman
6551 Holly Terrace South
Seattle, Washington, 98118

							 		 

OPERATIONS MANAGER 
OVERVIEW 
•	Distinguished and diverse background with emphasis on startup team development, engineering services, operations and manufacturing management, 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 databases, and operations procedures. 
•	Articulate communicator with demonstrated ability in the facilitation of working meetings, in technical writing, and in training staff. 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SMALL SYSTEMS
Berkeley and Seattle
1997 - present
Designer/Producer/Owner
Providing consultation and management for engineering and manufacturing. Providing design and production services, engineering documentation, and technical writing to an international list of clients. Founder. 
GIGAOPERATIONS
Berkeley, California
1991 - 1997
Director of Manufacturing
Created and managed operations, purchasing, inventory, engineering services, and manufacturing.  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
Director of Operations,  Director of Engineering,  Manufacturing Engineer. 
Provided the 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. Designed a tightly integrated PCB and mechanical product 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. WinME, WinNT4, OS/2, Unix, DOS, Mac.   Languages: Assembly, Perl, Java, Unix shell scripting, Cisco routers, HTML. 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.