Industrial Design
Prototyping
Electronics
Programming
Making

Design and Cognitive Science student with four years of experience teaching and creating industrial, product, and graphic design, as well as rapid prototyping and mechanical and electrical engineering.

Email
vittenino@gmail.com

Phone
(520) 221-6389

Work Experience

Student Supervisor, EnVision Maker Studio (2021 - present)

  • Designed, executed, and promoted a new creative lab for fiber arts.

  • Mentored a wide variety of student prototyping projects in mechanical and electrical engineering.

  • Taught microcontrollers, Raspberry Pi and a variety of prototyping manufacturing techniques.

  • Led a team of six to redesign, upgrade, and maintain the front-end and back-end of a networked server system used daily by hundreds of students.

Product Design Contractor, GolTech Nanobiotechnology (2023)

  • Led multidisciplinary research and development leading to several new technologies for testing biological samples.

  • Guided the prototyping and validation of multiple iterations of a novel test apparatus.

  • Developed models, renders, mechanical simulations, and functional prototypes.

Technician and Data Analyst, Office of Innovation and Commercialization @ UCSD (2022 - 2023)

  • Provided technical manufacturing and prototyping advising to a variety of student startups across many engineering disciplines.

  • Designed, budgeted for, and executed a new prototyping lab space used daily by tens of startups. 

  • Analyzed and processed statistical data relevant to usage, demographics, and UX for UCSD.

Marketing Assistant, KE Hospitality Group (2018 - 2023)

  • Worked with ownership to produce architectural elevations for new construction projects.

  • Created graphic design work for menus, signage, logos, T-shirts, furniture design.

Skills

CAD Design: KiCAD EDA, Altium Designer, Fusion 360, Onshape, Inventor, and Solidworks.

Fabrication:  Costuming, laser cutting, 3d printing, PCB manufacturing, CNC machining.

Graphic Design: Inkscape, Illustrator, Krita, Canva, Figma

Programming: Java (Android), Python, Micropython, C++, Arduino, Git

Microcontrollers/SBC: Raspberry Pi, RP2040, ESP32

System Administration: Networking, Linux (Debian Server, Raspberry Pi OS), Windows, Mac, dd-wrt