Alistair Freeman Email & Phone Number

Ampthill, GB

· Responsible for all engineering and design related activities within the business· Managing Aerotron Composites 5axis machining department including all programming activities· Scheduling and delivering all engineering and design work· Responsible for all capital expenditure in CNC department – developed an accurate matrix for buying £1.5m of CNC.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

· Overall responsibility for all engineering activity within Prodrive Composites · Managing a team of 6 engineers/designers· Overall responsibility for design and engineering of the Aston Martin Vulcan composite interior· Quoting and estimating all composite work packages· Producing engineering proposal documents in support of business development ·.

· Overseeing a team of 4 composite designers · Responsible for all design activity within Prodrive Composites · Lead Design Engineer on Mars Rover project, responsible for all tooling and fixturing procedures· Developed and implemented new innovative fixturing strategies for bonding, assembling and machining composite components · Planned and coordinated.

• Composite component and tooling design – for F1, Lemans prototype, GT car, WRC and high profile road car projects
• Jig and fixture design - assembly and bonding fixtures
• Design of specialist vacuum jigs for 5axis production trimming of carbon components
• Plan and coordinate composite pattern and tooling manufacture
• Responsible for customer support on all engineering design related issues
• Liaise with buyers, engineers, internal production staff and customers

• 2D to 3D conversion
• 2D draughting
• Component design
• Part redesign
• Tool design
• Jig & fixture design

• Model, Pattern and Tool Makers. CAD/CAM, CNC Programming & Machining
• Set up and managed two new 5 axis machining centres and established all programming and operating procedures
• Tool design of injection mould and rim tooling - including tooling to produce parts for Rolls Royce and McLaren road cars
• Composite design – creating patterns and moulds for producing carbon components for motorsport and aerospace industry
• Jig and fixture design
• Project engineering – from initial design brief and quotation through scheduling to delivery

• Production engineering
• Responsible for offline programming of 5 axis machines for machining of all major patterns and carbon fibre components, including final machining of carbon chassis and carbon gearbox
• Design and development of machining jigs and fixtures
• Manipulation of existing models and data to aid production, i.e. adding runoff, creating split lines and splitting components to aid manufactureProject engineering
• Planning 24 hour work schedule for 5 axis CNC machines
• Preparation, development and review of all machining and set-up procedures

• CAD/CAM
• Delcam Powershape - CAD
• NC Graphics, Depocam and Machining Strategist - CAM
• Tool Design - creating prototype and production tooling including injection moulding, vacuum forming and rim tools
• Product design – from customer design brief or using reverse engineering CNC Machining, patternmaking, modelmaking and toolmaking
• Producing scale and full size models and patterns for Formula 1 (Arrows, Renault F1), WRC (Prodrive), Le Mans Series (Bentley, Cadillac) and general automotive (TWR)

Warwick University

• Key member of a team set up to develop and implement the use of rapid prototype tooling within the Rover Group. Developed ‘Best Practice Methods Guide’ for future use in the Rover Group
• Designed prototype blow-mould and injection moulding tools to create components for prototype vehicles
• Extensive knowledge of rapid prototyping techniques including SLA, SLS, sprayed metal, advanced cast resins and silicone moulding

Oxford, United Kingdom

After serving a 4 year apprenticeship in Advanced Patternmaking and Modelmaking, worked as a pattern/model maker within Rover Body and Pressings, building master models and patterns to create press tooling and associated jigs & fixtures