Overview
Work History
Education
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Certification
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Connor Freeman

Redondo Beach,CA

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Spacecraft Payload & Platforms Program Management Specialist

Boeing
05.2023 - Current
  • Developed and integrated project plans/metrics for space and satellite deliverable hardware metrics, including budgets, development of quarterly EACs, earned value, and critical path.
  • Managed and oversaw the development of product plans, working in conjunction with Engineering, Operations, and Program Leadership teams, ensuring hardware is delivered that meets program requirements on time and on cost.
  • Validated and resolved schedule alignment issues, and coordinated trend data to provide recommended changes to stakeholders to execute across various feeder factories, while overseeing plan optimization.
  • Led planning efforts across various programs and projects to determine constraints, risks, opportunities, and integration strategies.
  • Headed Production Integration's Skyline team, responsible for facilitating and assessing the capacity analysis of the factory, to determine future business opportunities.

Product Development Manager

Bakon USA
07.2021 - 05.2023
  • Led a team of engineers in developing and launching the first BISSC-certified table-top chocolate tempering machine.
  • Iterated on architecture based on customer feedback and increased profitability across a line of automated bakery equipment products.
  • Led cross-functional talks with overseas manufacturers, program managers, and quality engineers to solve sourcing and scheduling conflicts.
  • Organized manufacturing teams to solve system testing failures impacting thousands of parts through data-driven decisions.

Senior Robotics Engineer

Seagate
06.2018 - 07.2021
  • Provided mechanical design and manufacturing support through all parts of the design phases on two high-volume production tools.
  • Led the effort to install the above high-volume production tools in Singapore and Malaysia factories, and trained technicians on best practices.
  • Designed mechanical upgrades and process solutions to increase throughput and testing accuracy for 300+ disc media testers in Singaporean factories.
  • Designed and performed laboratory experiments to evaluate media design concepts, optimize design, and perform analysis to enhance the overall capability of processes and working models.

Student Machine Shop Manager

UC Berkeley
09.2014 - 05.2018
  • Provided technical assistance and advised students in safety practices, fabrication methods, and design for manufacturability best practices.
  • Trained over 500 students in safety protocol and usage of manual machining, including mills, lathes, band-saws, waterjets, and 3D printers.
  • Operated and maintained seven Dimension 1200es 3D Printers for professor/student research and project purposes.

Advanced Additive Part Design

Autodesk
05.2017 - 08.2017
  • Designed and fabricated sub-systems of a dual-gantry FDM printer to be mass produced by Printrbot.
  • Utilized FEA on kinematically constrained print bed/back plating supports on a dual-gantry FDM printer to minimize deflection.

Education

B.S. Mechanical Engineering -

University of California, Berkeley

Skills

  • Cost Account Management
  • Earned Value
  • Microsoft Project
  • Solidworks/Creo/Fusion/Inventor
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • CNC/Manual Machining

Certification

  • Solidworks CSWP Professional Mechanical Design
  • GD&T Intermediate Principles
  • Sanitary Design For Bakery Equipment
  • NASM Certified Personal Trainer/Sports Nutritionist

Affiliations

  • Fitness
  • Cooking
  • Scuba Diving
  • Volleyball

Timeline

Senior Spacecraft Payload & Platforms Program Management Specialist

Boeing
05.2023 - Current

Product Development Manager

Bakon USA
07.2021 - 05.2023

Senior Robotics Engineer

Seagate
06.2018 - 07.2021

Advanced Additive Part Design

Autodesk
05.2017 - 08.2017

Student Machine Shop Manager

UC Berkeley
09.2014 - 05.2018

B.S. Mechanical Engineering -

University of California, Berkeley
Connor Freeman