Jonathan Connell Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

We're leading the way in space hospitality, completely transforming the way food and beverages are enjoyed beyond Earth's atmosphere. With our team of seasoned hospitality professionals and innovative food scientists, we're crafting an unparalleled culinary journey tailored for zero and artificial gravity settings. Our goal is to redefine the dining.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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

• 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

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

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