Compudigital started as a Research and Development company in 1985, producing electronic equipment for the Genetics Industry. In 1997, our corporate direction began to change as major manufacturers required assistance in selling excess materials and products. Today, our company expertise lies in the areas of WEB programming and the sales of excess materials via the Internet.
We maintain numerous sites for Fortune 100 manufacturers, all used to either sell excess materials or to track the sales of new and B-Stock products. The mainstay of our service offeing is a program we call ExcessManager, a tool specifically designed for controlled sales of excess materials and inventory. Our additional software package called MeetComp tracks price drop approvals to bring this process into compliance with Sarbanes Oxley requirements.
About Compudigital Industries
Jeffrey L. Hilliard, CEO and President of Compudigital Industries
Summary of Qualifications
Areas of Expertise
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Creativity
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Programming
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Process Development
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Product Returns Management
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Hardware in software integration
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Internet Sales
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Warehouse Operations
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Quick turnaround processes
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Inventor of 3 patented products (U.S. Patent #s 5,272,474, 4,695,547, and 4,882,281)
1985 - Developed one of the worlds largest residential security systems for American District Telegraph, San Jose, CA. This system monitored a 36,000 square foot home belonging to an Iranian Oil Minister.
1990 - 1998 - Invented and developed the Progenetor, a genetic Fusion Device used in cancer research and plant development. This system was sold through Hoefer Scientific Instruments in San Francisco and was instrumental in the development of herbicide proof tobacco. This allowed entire crops to be sprayed by a crop dusting aircraft. The tobacco plants were not affected by the spray but the surrounding weeds were destroyed, saving millions of dollars in labor. Using this device, scientists also developed a tomato with less water for Campbell's Soup, and the seedless watermelon. Our company eventually became the contract manufacturers to produce these devices for Hoefer Scientific.
1990 - 1999 - Developed and manufactured a high accuracy LED Digital panel meter for Hoefer Scientific Instruments in San Francisco, CA. This meter was used in many of the power supplies marketed and sold by Hoefer. Compudigital eventually became the manufacturer of this product and manufactured over 80,000 meters during a 9 year period.
1985 - Electrofusion Electrodes – Invented and manufactured an electrofusion electrode used to fuse (electroporate) genetic cells from two dissimilar plant varieties. This electrofusion is how scientists came up with the seedless watermelon and other new varieties of plants. I received a U.S. Patent (Patent #4,695,547) on September 22, 1987. I also invented a 3 ring electrode for the same purpose and received a US Patent (Patent # 4,882,281) on November 21, 1989. I have attached a copy of both patents to this communication for your review. Compudigital eventually became the manufacturer of these electrodes for Hoefer Scientific Instruments
1990 - Designed Battery Charging Systems for Interspace Battery Company - Developed smart battery chargers for Fighter Jets where the charge level was adjusted based on battery post temperature. I discovered that as batteries charged, the temperature remains constant until a point where the charge is nearly complete. At that point, the battery temperature begins to increase where we scaled back the charge rate to a trickle level.
1990 - IntelliHost Restaurant Seating Management System - In 1990, Invented, designed, and manufactured the Intelli-Host system, a system that controls seating in a restaurant. Many restaurants within the United States use Seating Management Computers in their everyday business and these systems are designed around my patented invention. I was awarded a U.S. Patent as the inventor (Patent # 5,272,474) on December 21, 1993.
1992 - 1994 - Worked with Disneyland in Anaheim, California and Euro Disneyland in Marne La Valle, France to install the first IntelliHost Restaurant Seating Management systems at the new theme park.
1994 - 1997 - Engineered and managed a customer product return center for Hewlett Packard where customer returns are processed. Through this process, our company provided evaluation and refurbishment services for many imaging products produced by Hewlett Packard for North America, South America, and parts of Europe. At the height of this process, Compudigital was able to evaluate, test, refurbish, and repackage from 20,000 to 25,000 imaging products per month at a cost of less than 50% of their cost to process this material internally. Eventually, this process was moved to Asia, home of the manufacturing facilities. All internet reporting systems for this process were developed by Compudigital programmers so process information could be sent directly to the customers in real-time. At this time, if Sony Felica has a need for a returns processing center, we can certainly handle the challenge.
1997 - Compudigital set up a process to modify and rework over 20,000 document scanners in 1 month, using 30 of our own employees. Working with engineers from Rutishauser (The manufacturer from Germany), Compudigital successfully processed these 20,000 scanners long before the expected completion date in record time saving thousands of dollars in the process.
1996 - 2009 - Compudigital began working with a major manufacturer of consumer products in the marketing of their excess products, setting up one of the first Internet based auction sites. During this time, our company successfully took them from the point where they were offering excess materials through FAX Auctions to the point where they were using the internet exclusively to sell their excess.
2002 - 2009 - Began working with a major manufacturer to develop a full on-line sales system to allow them to market products to their primary market partners with full Sarbanes Oxley trackability. HP continues to utilize this software today to sell products to their primary market partners.
2003 - 2007 - Developed a system for General Electric, NBC Television in New York and Universal Studios in Hollywood that displays vendor catalogs to purchasing agents, allowing them to purchase products via the Internet from vendors that do not have the expertise or funding to develop systems on their own. This system called a "punch-out" system has been in use since 2003 and continues to operate today. The NBC-Universal system is designed to integrate directly with NBC's E-Buy system and their new "SRM" systems using XML file transfer technology.
2004 - 2009 - Development on Online MeetComp system. Working in conjunction with Hewlett Packard, Compudigital developed a system called Meetcomp. This system tracks all pricing changes and change approvals using a WEB interface. The system is designed to assist major manufacturers in becoming Sarbanes Oxley compliant by carefully tracking price change requests and approvals, making all information available to auditors in a real time basis. This system is in full operation today and is used by over 100 people.About our company...
For the past 22 years, we have responded to the needs and requests of our customers to find the most efficient and profitable method to sell their products. We specialize in the sales of excess, end of life products, and manufacturing components and most importantly, software to sell these products on-line. Since the beginning, one of our primary objectives has been to make sure we don’t compete with our customer’s primary channels. Keeping that in mind, we have established a network of channels worldwide that are typically not considered the “A” channel to our customers.
Over the years, we have continued to work with our customers on developing new channels, new methods for creating offerings in which buyers compete for the purchase and more efficient distribution methods. We believe you will find our products interesting and intriguing - most importantly – they work. We also enjoy what we do and enjoy the people we work with. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons our customers have been with us as long as they have!
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Company Information:
Location: 4480 Yankee Hill Road, Suite #150 - Rocklin, California 95677
Established: January 3, 1978
Incorporated: California - May 12, 1985
Primary Business: Software Development for Internet Sales, Customized Application Development, Hardware and Software Integration.
D & B Number: 131624819
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