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Bill Hoffman's problem solving skills have been refined over 30+ years of experience gained as an electronic design/test engineer, manufacturing manager, purchasing agent, salesman and business owner. Bill has been involved in RFID-related projects for close to 20 years. His experience ranges from helping to develop the first GPS-based RFID tag used by the government to RFID tags for tires. In addition to Bill€™s product- and project management experience, Bill has been very active in standards organizations. He is a long-time member of AIAG and is currently Chair of the reconvened AIAG B-11 RFID Tire and Wheel Identification workgroup that published the world€™s first item-level RFID standard in 2002. Bill is also a current member of the AIAG TREAD Act workgroup which published the seminal TC-5 Resource Kit document. He is a "plank owner" in the INCITS T20 RTLS Committee and sits on various AIM NA and AIMGlobal committees.

About Intermec

Intermec Technologies Corp. is perhaps best known as the inventor of the world's most widely used bar code symbology. Intermec today provides supply chain information products, services and systems to companies in hundreds of industries around the world.

Supply chain information systems allow companies to compile previously unheard of amounts of information from one end of an enterprise to the other. That€™s information companies can use to reduce inventory, cut labor costs, speed manufacturing and improve profitability.

Intermec is a strong combination of three industry leaders: Intermec, Norand Corp. and United Barcode Industries. Today known as Intermec Technologies, Intermec is a company dedicated to helping companies use supply chain information systems to improve efficiency and profitability.

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