PETER HILDEBRANDT
Product Management Executive

Dynamic technical executive with outstanding success creating and launching visionary consumer electronic products for domestic and international markets. Skilled in developing award-winning products with focus on use while reducing product costs, managing cross-functional teams, and administering multi-million dollar budgets. Many patents issued and pending. Willing to relocate. Strong capabilities in: Consumer Product Design Product Management Business Development Patent Management User Interface Design User Research Technology Forecasting Software & Hardware Architecture Advanced Research Conversion Professional Experience 2000 – Present PolyVision Corporation (Steelcase), Atlanta, GA Director of Product Management and Advanced Development Define the corporate product strategy and roadmap Responsible for competitive analysis and product positioning Map products to four channels (audio visual dealers, furniture dealers, construction bid, and fabricators) and three end-user categories (K-12, higher education, corporate) Responsible for all product specifications and advanced development activities Manage four product managers Work with marketing communications group to design literature, advertising, press releases, and web site appropriate for products, channels and customers worldwide Direct internal and external resources for hardware and software development, testing, manuals, translation. Includes software development team split between U.S. and India Manage product localization (electrical certification, power adapters, and translation) for more than 70 countries Manage 82 patents and all technology licensing activities. Conceived of and successfully launched four new interactive product lines (Thunder, CopyCam, Impulse LTX, and Walk-and-Talk) in four years, resulting in additional yearly revenues of $26M Brought PolyVision from zero to 22.7% market share in interactive whiteboards in first two years (Frost & Sullivan, 2002) through acquisition and consolidation Administered a $5M product development budget Sold previous company (Pixid, Inc.) to PolyVision in 2000 to start PolyVision’s interactive products division in Portland 1999 – 2000 Pixid, Inc., Portland, OR President Co-founded the company and brought it from zero to $900,000 in worth in less than one year. Managed business development, marketing, product design, and advertising. Contracted with outside customer service and fulfillment houses to keep company lean. Within 10 months, two companies separately offered buyouts. Sold the company’s assets to PolyVision Corporation (above) in May 2000. Company produced software for whiteboard capture with digital camera. 1992 – 2000 Hildebrandt Consulting Independent User Interface Consultant & Contract Software Designer Hewlett-Packard Company – Led corporate effort to set standards for user interface design of all HP products with embedded web pages. Drove usability testing and user research on printer designs. Intel Corporation – Developed focus study for the design of a new line of consumer peripherals, wrote the Windows control panel for a wireless keyboard and mouse product. Intel Corporation – Led effort to set user interface standards for certificate-based security software. Nike, Inc. – Designed the user interface for Nike’s worldwide shoe and apparel order-taking system. Rain Bird, Inc. – Conducted user research and then developed a 192 page design specification for a Windows-based landscape sprinkler central control system. Rain Bird, Inc. – Designed the front panel and user interface of the IM series sprinkler controller. Roche Pharmaceuticals – Designed and implemented pharmacoeconomic drug models. Harte-Hanks Interactive – Designed and implemented pharmacoeconomic drug models. Learning Tree International – Edited and taught week long Windows software development courses worldwide. Media Architects, Inc. – Wrote a Windows image processing control sold by Borland. Extended-Range Forecasting, Inc. – Developed Windows software for graphical weather forecast delivery on subscribers’ computers. City of Portland, Oregon – Designed and wrote software to control traffic signals through pagers. Microfield Graphics, Inc. – Designed firmware and user interfaces for electronic whiteboards. CAChe Scientific, Inc. – Redesigned the user interface on a 3D molecular modeling CAD package. Also wrote software for SAP employee benefits kiosks and designed user interfaces for an interactive CD-ROM of family statistics, an in-flight entertainment system, a shoe merchandising system, and more. 1990 – 1992 Micro-Forecasts, Inc., Portland, OR Vice President, Engineering Co-founded the company, a weather forecasting firm. Grew the company to 15 people. Managed engineering and meteorology staff. Developed forecasting tools for meteorologists, numerous weather sensors, and a voice response system handling 30,000 calls a month with automated credit-card billing. 1988 – 1990 CAChe Scientific Inc., Beaverton, OR Chief Software Architect Software architect of Macintosh and Windows based 3D molecular modeling system. Did user research, wrote detailed design specifications, and directed the software development effort to create and evolve the application software. Developed a custom stereoscopic graphics card and co-processor board. 1985 – 1988 Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, OR Senior Software Architect Performed basic research in stereoscopic computer graphics (hardware & software). Spun off CAChe Scientific, a molecular modeling company, to use the technology. 1977 – 1985 Numerous other high-tech positions & contracts Computer graphics hardware, software, & firmware design, video game software, terminal firmware, television weather graphics hardware and software, networking hardware, state competency testing research, power company insulation efficiency software, and others. Education North Carolina State University, BSEE, summa cum laude (4.0 in major), 1985 Solid references available upon request