Rhodes Hileman

voice: 206-328-8364 . email: rhodes@smsys.com . web: www.smsys.com

I take responsibility for a coherent range of operations, manufacturing, and engineering services, working directly on design, technical documentation, hands-on production, and enterprise-wide engineering database development tasks, as well as team leadership. I have been recognised by my co-workers as broadly skilled, thorough, hard-working, organized, and collaborative. My usual roles have included:

• operations management
• engineering project management
• engineering documentation and transfer to turn-key manufacturing
• components purchasing and inventory control (MRP)
• schematic entry
• printed circuit board (PCB) design and coordinated mechanical design
• PCB fabrication and assembly supervision
• technical writing and editing
• systems administration for computers and networks
• product release and support

Professional Experience

SMALL SYSTEMS Co. - Berkeley - 1997-present
Designer/Producer/Owner

Providing PCB design, kitting, fab, assembly, and engineering documentation services to an international list of clients.

ULTRACAD DESIGN Inc. - Bellevue - 1998
PCB Designer

UltraCAD Design is a PCB design house offering fast turn, high density designs with attention to high performance signal integrity. Designed PCBs and documented their post-production process.

GIGAOPERATIONS Corp. - Berkeley - 1991-1997
Director of Operations, Director of Manufacturing

This company produces advanced high speed parallel processing hardware and software using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) as reconfigurable computing engines. Recognized as the pioneering development platform for reconfigurable computing.

• Built the infrastructure for this company from scratch. Managed operations, inventory, engineering documentation, and manufacturing. Brought two generations of design from concept to completion, manufacture, and market.
• Designed printed circuit boards for both product lines.
• Co-editor for software documentation of the first product line, the "G200".
• Member of the founding team.

ARRAY TECHNOLOGIES Inc. - Oakland - 1986-91
Dir. of Operations, Dir. of Engineering, Mfg. Engineer.

This team developed a high fidelity color image scanner for both IBM and Mac platforms. The camera uses piezoelectric transducers to microposition an inexpensive 2D color image sensor. I built this company's infrastructure from scratch, and helped develop the design team.

• I was responsible for building this company in its first year, on a budget of $650K, growing the staff from 6 to 14, and providing an engineering development environment for the camera. Brought two generations of design from concept to market.
• I directed the engineering effort, while, as manufacturing engineer, I did all the PCB design for the first camera.
• For the second version of the camera, I did a tightly integrated PCB and mechanical design, including design of a piezo-driven microstage.
• Member of the founding team.

GENIGRAPHICS GP Inc. - Berkeley - 1984-1986
Engineering Operations Manager, Project Manager

Using no exotic components, this group created an advanced (for the time) hierarchical object-based graphic arts system featuring 3 pipelined 68020 CPU cards, a family of 26 PCBs, and "paint" software providing resolution independent output to all media.

• Managed engineering operations for the Berkeley development group from start-up (a staff of 5) through alpha-testing (a staff of 35 employees and a half dozen engineering consultants). I was responsible for a $2.2MM budget. I produced and maintained all development and target computer systems, as well as administrative computers, while managing operations at this division.
• Initially, supplied all engineering services: project planning, purchasing, technical support, documentation, and liaison for contractors. Subsequently hired/supervised engineering services staff of 12.

With two partners, produced a multi-tasking Z80-based computer which provided A/D conversion, data storage, and device control for a novel gas chromatograph, used for cardio-pulmonary diagnosis and anaesthesia monitoring.

• I built the company, and managed the design project. Completed on time (11 weeks) and within budget.
• I built the software development computer, purchased components for the target computer, built the prototype, and documented the system.

Technical Summary:

CAD tools for electronic, PCB, mechanical, and architectural design. Enterprise database design, MRP systems design, and components purchasing. 'Timeline' project management software. Computer systems integration, network installation, and systems administration. WinNT4, OS/2warp4, Linux, Interactive Unix, DOS. Internet site design. Assembly language programming. Electronic fabrication, assembly, and testing. Experience in heavy industry. See list for software knowledge.

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