Jonathan Connell Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

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Advisory board for Gravitics - manufacturing human occupied spacecraft.

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Managed the manufacturing program of this aerospace startup. The 6 th hire, I utilized non-aerospace methodologies to reduce prototype costs and expedite a safe and successful prototype of the largest human occupied spacecraft ever constructed – earning a $20M funding round.• Led and mentored cross-discipline remote and on-site aerospace engineering and manufacturing teams and selected and managed contract manufacturers and vendors and owned the $2M purchasing budget.• Owned, setup and configured new manufacturing facility from the ground-up. Found and leased the47,000 square foot facility, interviewed and hired the entire manufacturing engineering team. Selected and set up Ion First Resonance Manufacturing Execution System software, detailed and enabled a flourishing business.• Kept tight multi-task, cross-discipline engineering deadlines. Owned all budgeting and cost-down strategy for manufacturing and production line design and specified all heavy and light manufacturing equipment resulting in a successful prototype creation in record time and at record low cost.

• Led a product design organization creating new product designs leveraging technology-driven business workflows. Developed market-driven product metrics to create cost-down engineering and manufacturing prescriptions for growth and profit optimization for multiple clients.• Led and mentored multiple simultaneous remote cross-discipline engineering, electronics, mechanical and aesthetic design teams. Managed multiple time-critical projects simultaneouslyand used my broad engineering experience to deliver multiple designs to product teams across a range of industries - Aerospace, Lighting, Commercial and Consumer.• Created and managed new vendor relationships with off and on-shore suppliers. Simultaneously managed critical part deliverables from multiple vendors and ensured successful, timely arrival of complex assemblies for trade shows, product launch events, regulatory inspections and key client meetings. Multiple product manufacturing lines created off and on-shore.• Experienced in component level through system level opto-electronic, embedded system, sensor,control and power conversion design. Created products and systems and subsystems and board-level designs. Designed and engineered a novel remote Lidar-based metrology system for Underwriter’s Laboratories that mixed mapping, measurement and artificial intelligence recognition of scanned parameters to generate previously unavailable life safety, code-compliance,planned maintenance and product warranty management data.• Created a unique fused deposition modelling illumination product line. Leverage recent changes in electrical safety and materials code to create a near zero-inventory product line whereby all parts were printed to order and the inventory always showed ‘in-stock’ and the inventory cost was zero. Similar techniques were utilized to create a closed loop automated plant growing environment for use in outer-space – or on Mars - that calibrates and corrects itself to the soil found on arrival.

• Co-founder and held a pivotal role as a board member in a pioneering startup specializing in solid state lighting power conversion deign and manufacture. The company was successfully sold.• Creative electronic and system design. Engineered and product managed new electronic products designed to exploit niche markets. Conducted extensive product and market research, gathered market requirements and re-thought existing engineering paradigms to create approximately 40 cutting-edge board-level electronics power and control products tailored for the lighting industry.• Patent and intellectual property creation and management. A unique 3d footprint engineering design utilizing printed-circuit integrated transformer design resulted in the granting of two US utility patent sand the company was sold.• Orchestrated and managed all vendor relationships and budgets for electronics components and printed circuit boards, ensuring seamless operations and cost-down planning.• Project management and product management. Led and mentored multiple simultaneous remote cross-discipline engineering, electronics, mechanical and electro-optical and aesthetic design teams through to factory hand-off.

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

• Leader, thoughtfully managing and mentoring teams. I owned all aspects of product, engineering design and manufacturing, including product release materials, marketing and supply chain management while managing a team of 30 including marketing, graphics, manufacturing and 10 engineers plus a large warehouse, and technical and field service team• Change management. Introduced hundreds of novel and automated systems into the product release process. Created a unique expedited engineering design workflow that integrated offshore contract manufacturers and original design manufacturers.Expedited development of products and prototypes and introduced cost-down planning. Developed and launched an industry record-breaking 500 new products in a single year to become one of the fastest growing Canadian businesses in 2017. Responsiblefor all engineering, manufacturing and vendor relationships, packaging and product insert creation, plus regulatory testing and test metric creation, catalog data and product launch packages made ready for the marketing team, cataloguing and launch events.• Project management. Introduced Wrike project management software to monitor progress. Managed all aspects of the engineering, production schedule, inventory, product release materials, marketing and quality teams and vendor relationships creating hundreds of new products annually and breaking industry records for number or products to have achieved regulatory approval in one year.

New York, Us

• Group Engineering Manager – the engineer leading the Humanscale lighting products group - a $40M / year group within an $800M business.• Thoughtfully led and mentored cross-discipline distributed engineering and design teams. Led and project managed teams of nine engineers and designers developing new product engineering and aesthetics designs and manufacturing plans.• Developed complex integrated mechanical, electronic electro-optical, and aesthetic product Id new product designs and carried out all engineering through release to the offshore manufacturer.• Vendor Management and budget creation and management / profit and loss management for consumer product manufacture. Board-level electronics through mechanical design and cost-down final-product manufacturing engineering – both offshore and local.• Design for manufacture and design for sustainability. Oversaw the set-up of new offshore production lines. Traveled to vendor locations to assess quality, manufacturing methods

•Sole proprietor of a fast-paced engineering consultancy, servicing multiple clients simultaneously•Offered quick-turnaround answers to engineering and design problems•Embedded electronics, electro-mechanical and electro-optical product development leveraging emerging technology onto market intel to create profit•Design for manufacture, design-to-cost, design for profit, and design for sustainability cost-down design and change management•Local and offshore production planning and vendor management•Led multiple remote international multi-discipline engineering and teams simultaneously•Developed the lighting and electronics package for Biolite and environmentally friendly thermos-electric generation startup•Analyzed markets, developed engineering designs linked to market strategy, designed for code compliance and regulatory approval, power conversion, battery charging, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth control development, and regulatory code compliance for the US and EU

•Owned all engineering at this successful startup manufacturer•Successfully led distributed design teams creating multiple simultaneous electro-optical, electro-mechanical, optical and aesthetic designs•Developed new products that grew group sales from $400K to $10M over 5 years via market intel and aggressive new product development tailored to exploit niches•Led the product team on an emerging technology product creating a record number of product and product launch materials on-time and on-budget•Handled all product regulatory requirements and initiated new workflows and systems to expedite multiple products to market simultaneously•Created novel web-based customer-facing electronic engineering design workflow to expedite sales•Successfully created communication and training packages introducing a complicated and challenging new technology to distribution and sales channels•Delivered technical presentations to clients and channels throughout the USA – 600 sales representatives•Designed the simplified sales and specification language used to explain and train a new technology to an established market•Successfully simplified and explained a challenging technical subject to a mass-market of predominantly non-degreed sales channels•Owned all solid state lighting product engineering and manufacturing at a time when the art was new; many cornerstones of today’s market were developed by my teams during my tenure•Defined the now classic US LED flexible tape light market with the now famous Jesco DL-FLEX•Handled all manufacturing vendor relations, offshore and onshore•Designed and innovated quality assurance and test systems, remote and at the point of shipping•Designed and successfully managed regulatory compliant electro-mechanical manufacturing lines at the NYC facility•Developed business nationwide via client training and design specification meetings nationwide. Represented the company at tradeshows.

Dornbirn, At

•Engineer in charge of training and implementing new technology•$5Bn company at the time with a $200M US footprint•Apply emerging technology to new products and new projects•Introducing, training, and managing technological change to a $200M client base and multiple internal engineering, customer support and manufacturing teams•Leveraged and interpreted emerging technology in pursuit of creating new business with the company’s various sales groups•Technology-driven business development•Recruited USA clients and successfully created significant new business with new-technology product applications•Innovated digital control systems and 3d data capture and optical simulation techniques as customer-facing tools•Set up an internal rapid prototyping resource and small-scale production line in the NY production facility to support rapid prototype creation for client meetings in unprecedented timescales•We simulated then rapidly fabricated client’s concepts (overnight) and turned those ideas into desktop prototypes in a timescale that changed the entire industry•Many new products fist developed by my team at that time found their way into today’s market as fundamental tools in the industry today

Mechanical, optical and electrical engineering design and product management consulting services for the lighting industry. VP of corporation - managed all aspects of the business, strategy, marketing and engineering design, PnL.

Managed engineering team responsible for all aspects of new product development and existing product maintenance. Managed development and product release through to tradeshow launches.

Designed the lighting control system for the Fremont street Experience in Las vegas.Worked on the Chicago Opera house lighting control system renovation - the largest DMX installation in the world at the time.

Designer of the Cyberlight, DMX controlled automated moving mirror theatrical Luminaire.Dmx controlled high power theatrical strobe fixture.Numerous club and stage lighting effects.

Electronic And Electrical Engineering

Electronic And Electrical Engineering