Rohan A. Freeman, PE, LS
Founder & President
Rohan A. Freeman, PE, LS is Founder and President of Freeman Companies, LLC, an award-winning, multi-disciplinary site development, engineering design, and construction services enterprise. Mr. Freeman, an accomplished mountaineer, founded the company in 2009 shortly after summiting Mount Everest with a promise to clients to “Elevate Your Expectations”. This promise and Mr. Freeman’s career-long inquiry of economic development and urban design have led to the firm’s involvement in several large-scale, transformative public projects. Mr. Freeman, who grew up in Jamaica, is the first African American to climb the Seven Summits. Mr. Freeman is a popular motivational speaker, and member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, U.S. Green Building Council, Construction Institute, Greater New England Minority Supplier Diversity Council and board member of several regional children’s charities including Camp Courant and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford. In 2014 he established the University of Connecticut School of Engineering “Freeman Companies BRIDGE Endowed Engineering Scholarship” to support minority students with an interest in civil engineering who have overcome obstacles such as socioeconomic or educational disadvantage. He is included among a select group of alumni to be nominated to the UCONN School of Engineering’s Academy of Distinguished Engineers.
Paul A. Rodrigues, PE
Director of Operations
Paul Rodrigues is a highly skilled and popular Project Manager with civil engineering experience in jurisdictions throughout New England. Mr. Rodrigues’ experience includes hydraulic analyses for site development studies, roadway and parking lot storm drainage networks, the analysis and design of retention basins for stormwater management, and compliance to ADA codes for accessibility. Throughout his career, Paul has gained a worthy reputation as a reliable and responsible problem-solver for owners and peer collaborators alike. Paul’s work as a Project Manager at Freeman Companies focuses largely on public projects, including several public school and university buildings, campuses and athletic fields/facilities. Early in Paul’s professional career, he was employed as an engineer with the Highway Division of the Connecticut Department of Transportation. Prior to joining Freeman Companies, LLC he was a Project Engineer at Purcell Associates (currently Alfred Benesch & Company). In January of 2014, he was named Freeman Companies’ Manager of Civil Engineering. He was promoted to Director of Operations for Freeman Companies in 2019.
Yuyang Lin, PE, PTOE
Manager of Transportation and Traffic/Safety Engineering
Mr. Lin offers more than 20 years of engineering and inspection experience in municipal and Department of Transportation projects. He has a thorough understanding of the design guidelines and expertise in design procedures, and is proficient in state-of-the-art traffic application and computer aided design software. His work includes traffic signal design, traffic impact studies, highway/roadway design, signing and pavement marking plans, construction inspection, hydraulic, hydrologic and stage construction plans to maintain traffic during construction under jurisdictional requirements. Mr. Lin is a UCONN graduate having earned a Master’s of Science in Civil Engineering and he has also earned the designation PTOE (Professional Traffic Operations Engineer) from the Transportation Professional Certification Board Inc. He is a member of the Institute of Traffic Engineers (ITE).
Dennis Goderre, PLA, AICP, CUPD
Project Manager, Planning & Landscape Architecture Studio
Mr. Goderre offers nearly three decades of experience in the fields of planning, landscape architecture, and engineering, with expertise in the areas of municipal government, management and budgeting, long range planning, public policy, site development, sustainability, permitting, urban design, and project management. Mr. Goderre has served as planning and economic development director for various Connecticut Municipalities in such a capacity that required his close collaboration with local leadership. This includes CEOs, city councils and subcommittees, boards and commissions and volunteer organizations. His responsibilities also included the review of site plans for consistency with Plans of Conservation and Development, municipal and state codes, regulations.
As a Project Manager, Mr. Goderre leads teams in the development of plans and designs that respond to clients’ specific programmatic goals while being actively involved in the planning and design process. He enjoys working closely with clients and staff to ensure a successful project is achieved and understands the need for thorough assessments to assist towns and cities in creating capital plans and annual budgets.
Daniel White, LEP
Licensed Environmental Professional
Mr. White is a Licensed Environmental Professional (LEP) in Connecticut with over 32 years of experience in environmental program management of large, complex sites and has extensive experience in remedial investigation/feasibility study programs, and hazardous waste site investigations. He has been project manager on multi-site due diligence investigations. His technical expertise is in program management, geological/geophysical studies, and site characterization. While an Environmental Analyst at the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), Mr. White oversaw the investigation, remediation, and verification of numerous complex projects in the Property Transfer and Voluntary Remediation Programs.
Chris Tonzi, PE
Senior Geotechnical Engineer; Manager of Instrumentation and Contractor Support Services
Mr. Tonzi is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer and Freeman Companies’ Manager of Instrumentation and Contractor Support Services. Mr. Tonzi offers a depth of experience working on both geotechnical and environmental projects. Instrumentation has been the core of Mr. Tonzi’s work focus over the past five years in support of several contractors working on the MDC’s Clean Water Project. Geotechnical experience includes designing and directing subsurface investigations, determining allowable bearing capacities for shallow foundations and pile capacities of deep foundations, estimating settlements, designing MSE retaining walls and preparing design-phase reports, as well as overseeing construction monitoring.
