Dan Freeman

Current

• Director of Hardware Engineering at Universal Audio

Past

• Mac Audio Hardware Engineering Manager at Apple, Inc.
• Consultant at Muse Research
• HW Systems Engineer at Tau Networks

• HW Systems Engineer at Creative Advanced Technology Center
• Audio Systems Engineer at E-mu Systems, Inc.
• Sr. Hardware Engineer at WangTek DAT Division
• Sr. Hardware Engineer at Mountain Computer
• Hardware Engineer at Stanford Telecommunications

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Education

• Vanderbilt University

Recommendations

1 recommendation

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Hardware

Dan Freeman’s Summary

Twenty plus years of hardware and systems design of products for the consumer electronics, professional audio and communications industries.

Dan Freeman’s Experience

• Director of Hardware Engineering

  Universal Audio

  (Privately Held; Music industry)

  August 2009 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Development of professional audio products

• Mac Audio Hardware Engineering Manager

  Apple, Inc.

  (Public Company; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

  February 2003 — June 2009 (6 years 5 months)

  Development of audio subsystems for Apple Mac computers.

• Consultant

  Muse Research

  (Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

  2003 — 2009 (6 years )

  Development of the audio electronics for the Muse Receptor product

• HW Systems Engineer

  Tau Networks

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  August 2002 — February 2003 (7 months)

  Start-up company specializing in the development of network switch fabric chips. I worked on the development boards.

• HW Systems Engineer

  Creative Advanced Technology Center

  (Consumer Electronics industry)

  June 1999 — August 2002 (3 years 3 months)

  Development of professional and consumer audio products including the Nomad Jukebox MP3 player.

• Audio Systems Engineer

  E-mu Systems, Inc.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; CREAF; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 1992 — June 1999 (7 years 6 months)

  Development of professional and consumer audio products including the E-mu Systems E-IIIx, E-IV and e64 sampling synthesizer products.

• Sr. Hardware Engineer

  WangTek DAT Division

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  August 1990 — January 1992 (1 year 6 months)

  Startup company (spinoff of WangTek Inc.). I developed harware for one of the first 3.5" form-factor Digital Audio Tape drives for computer data backup.

• Sr. Hardware Engineer

  Mountain Computer

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  March 1989 — August 1990 (1 year 6 months)

  Development of computer peripherals for data backup.

• Hardware Engineer

  Stanford Telecommunications

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  November 1986 — March 1989 (2 years 5 months)

  Development of telecommunications hardware for Diversity Antennae Satellite Receivers.

Dan Freeman’s Education

• Vanderbilt University

  BS , Electrical Engineering / Computer Science , 1982 — 1986

Additional Information

Dan Freeman’s Interests:

People, places, things, bike riding, hiking.

Dan Freeman’s Groups:

Audio Engineering Society

•    Audio Engineering Society
•    Dolby Technologies

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