Michael D. Miles, PE

  6135 SW Arrowwood Lane
  Portland 97223-7261
  Oregon, USA

      Tel: (503) 292-1234
Fax: (503) 292-1105

Client & Employment Background:

CLIENT LISTING

The following is a listing of clients past and present.  Indented listing represent the primary contact person or company with the ultimate client shown indented underneath.  A product name or brief description follows each line item.

  • American Enterprises Inc - mechanical architecture of a low cost food dryer

  • Anthro Technology Furniture - Jeff McCaffery, Steve Linder - various fittings, mechanisms, and accessories for the Anthro furniture line

  • AT&E Systems -

  • ATV Technologies – retrofit Track design for ATVs

  • Bike Control, Inc – rear suspension retrofit for mountain bikes (Design News article)

  • CaChe Scientific - Trackball housing redesign, heat sink design

  • CerikaCorp - Vehicle mounted display for route tracking and driver input

  • Chemetek - Device for analyzing the plugging factor of water in treatment plants

  • Corey International - water sports toy

  • dB Consulting - Conceptual layout of LCD projectors

  • Dresselhaus Design Group - Bill Dresselhaus

    • Althin-Drake Willock (CD Medical) - accessories to a dialysis machine

    • Apple Computer - confidential

    • Jourdan Caldwell Systems - rf based communication device

    • nCube - RAID-like disk management system concepts

    • Telechips Inc - thermal analysis, design review, mechanical brainstorming

  • E.Com Inc

    • Discovery  – rf datalink product

    • PDXpress – redesign of a docking enclosure for rf linking HP palm computers

  • Eclipse Technologies Incorporated - laser entertainment systems

  • Fiber Sensys - fiber optic based sensing and alarm systems

  • Flomatic Manufacturing - soft drink dispensing head electronics packaging

  • InFocus Systems - Bob Greenburg, Bruno Ternon - projection display system

  • Instromedix - finite element analysis of part stresses

  • Integrated Measurement Systems (IMS) - custom test head adapter and clamp

  • Intel

    • Supercomputer Group (iwarp) - card cage redesign for cooling, memory chip heatsink design

  • International Tools and Technology, Inc – automotive tester with display, keypad, and battery

  • Lightshot – optical targeting recreation system

  • Lightware - low cost, light weight LCD projection products

    • VP800 Lightweight Portable Projector (800 x 600)

    • L-1020 Portable Projector (1024 x 768)

    • Scout Ultralight Portable Projector (800 x 600)

  • Mackie Designs, Inc – amplifier/mixer enclosure design

  • Metra BioSystems – bone density measurement system

  • Micromonitors – thermal study of enclosure

  • Midcoast Innovations, Inc – security mailbox product

  • Molectron Detector Inc – laser diagnostic product

  • Myoga Design - Maki Myoga

    • Chemetek - mechanical architecture development of a water turbidity analyzer

    • Zeelan Technology - Hiro Moriyasu, Robert Chew - Black box electronic simulation system

    • Sentrol - plastic enclosures for keypad entry security systems

    • Sentrol 2 – smoke detector enclosure

    • Other 1 - microwave oven concept modeling

    • Other 2 – CAD modeling of telephone concepts

    • Other 3 – CAD modeling of keyboard/PC concept shapes

  • Parks Medical Electronics - mechanical architecture of a blood circulation analyzer

  • Pat Donahue Research – confidential (medical)

  • Planar Systems - LCD backlight enhancement

  • Sarif - high resolution LCD projection product

  • Scifor Incorporated - mechanical architecture of a plasma display system

  • SOMA - Steve Wittenbrock

    • ASI - workstation accelerator

    • Epitope - confidential

    • Instromedix - confidential

    • Leap - fitness manager product

    • Warn Industries - confidential

    • Confidential - commercial laser packaging architecture

  • SPM/Dynacast - Data conversion of 2D to 3D solids for tooling

  • Tektronix:

    • Measurement Group - Larry Larson

    • Communications Analyzers - Craftek CT 100 and F/O TDR

    • Printer Group - Rich Chambers - Infeed and outfeed printer door details

    • Semi-Conductor Test Systems - down-sized test head calibration fixtures

  • Transaction Recording Systems - phone/fax line monitor

  • TriSys - static discharge test systems

  • TVT Die Casting modeling of customer product from 2D drawings

  • ZIBA – printer enclosure design


EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

11/88 to Present   Consulting Design Engineer in Private Practice
   See prior pages for a listing of projects and clients.

6/84 to 10/88   AT&E SYSTEMS, INC.
   Supervisor: Bill Hood/Mike C. Park, Engineering Manager
   Position: Mechanical/Electromechanical Project Engineer
Responsible for the design and  development of mechanical packaging for the RSVP Voice Mail System and several accessory  products as well as Receptor program rack mounted station equipment.  The development from concept to production involved generating the master layout and detailed part drawings, inspecting prototype parts, monitoring mechanical testing, and approving tooling for plastic and metal parts. Additional tasks included: graphic design; office space and furniture layout; maintenance of the model shop; obtaining outside services for Industrial Design, camera work, and artwork generation; on-site inspection of vendor capabilities; the set up and monitoring of reliability tests; and fabrication of mechanical prototypes.

 4/80 to 6/84    TEKTRONIX, INC. - LOGIC ANALYZERS DIVISION
   Supervisor: Larry Larson, Mech. Engrg Manager
   Position: Mechanical/Electromechanical Project Engineer
Responsible for the mechanical design of the 1240 Logic Analyzer and some of its accessories from the  advanced product concept through to production.  Performed initial design and implementation of the Liquid Crystal Color Shutter into the 1240 Logic Analyzer and participated in early planning of future products.

Michael D. Miles, PE
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