Anthony DiTano

Timeline

Reverse chronological, from this month back through Villanova, test engineering, high school, and the years that taught me how to keep systems running.

  1. Now

  2. Present

    Senior year at Villanova

    B.S. Electrical Engineering · expected May 2027 · Villanova, PA

    • Looking for full-time roles in test engineering, embedded systems, hardware-software integration, and applied AI on real devices. Pittsburgh and remote-friendly teams first.
    • Fall 2026 coursework in progress: Design Project, Microcontrollers and Applications, Medical Device Technology, Introduction to Sociology, and a Thomas Merton seminar.
    • Still active in IEEE, Access and Disability Services in SGA, the ACS Student Advisory Council, Delta Alpha Pi, LEVEL, and as an eLearning student operator.

  3. 2026

  4. Project

    AI-Powered Assistive Device for the Visually Impaired

    Project Captain and Hardware Lead · Villanova ECE 4970 · Villanova, PA

    • Building a live assistive navigation stack on a Jetson Orin Nano Super (JetPack 6.2.1) with an IMX219 CSI camera, YOLO-World open-vocab detection for doors and stairs, metric depth HUD, spoken TTS cues, and on-device TensorRT at about 13 FPS at 720p.
    • Shipped V0.1 (capture, detect, overlay) and V0.2 (cue policy, non-blocking TTS, depth HUD, battery and power UI, FULL/LOW modes, boot autostart, INA219 telemetry).
    • Owned hardware bring-up and edge software as captain and Jetson lead, including vest integration for wearable use.

  5. Experience

    Test Engineering Intern

    Intervala, LLC · Mount Pleasant, PA

    • Operated, programmed, and repaired flying-probe and in-circuit test machines on PCBAs for a contract manufacturer serving defense and medical customers.
    • Tuned flying-probe programs to eliminate false failures by isolating probe access, fiducials, and tolerances from real board faults.
    • Worked ICT and bed-of-nails fixtures at the fixture and measurement-path level, and wrote production test procedures used on the floor.
    • Developed test programs for a multi-type cable test fixture used to verify a range of cable assemblies.
    • Built test cables, improved hand soldering, and configured rack-mounted test equipment and Windows test stations from legacy through current OS.
    • Applied ITAR/EAR awareness in a controlled manufacturing environment, covered coworker customers during PTO, and maintained test throughput on a short-staffed floor.

  6. Projects

    Public software and research tools

    github.com/aditano

    • August: Super Mario 64 title screen recreation, Folio, Lineage, RoadOST, Pittsburgh 3D Recreation, and Ringfall.
    • May: Curxline, an adversarial AI model stress benchmark for OpenRouter, and HavenGrid, an interactive U.S. preparedness simulator.
    • March: OsteoVigil, an open-source CT-to-FEA pipeline for research use, Qurest, a browser symptom checker prototype, and Internship Tracker.

  7. Education

    Junior spring at Villanova

    Electrical Engineering · Villanova University

    Engineering Systems Models and Control, Engineering Electromagnetics, Electrical Communications, and Design Seminar in EE.

  8. 2025

  9. Leadership

    ADS Senator

    Office for Access and Disability Services · Student Government Association · Villanova, PA

    • Voted on the SGA constitution overhaul and advocated for campus accessibility improvements, including expanded dining accommodations.

  10. Leadership

    ACS Student Advisory Council

    Villanova University · Villanova, PA

  11. Education

    Junior fall at Villanova

    Electrical Engineering · Villanova University

    Digital Systems, Introduction to Electric Energy Systems, Fundamentals of Signal Processing, Analog Electronics II, and Introduction to Criminology.

  12. 2024

  13. Experience

    eLearning Student Operator

    College of Engineering · Villanova University · Villanova, PA

    • Recorded 200+ hours of graduate engineering classes with consistent audio and video for live and async delivery.
    • Troubleshot classroom AV hardware and software so faculty could keep instruction running.

  14. Activities

    Delta Alpha Pi Honor Society and LEVEL

    Villanova University · Villanova, PA

    Honor society for students with disabilities. Informal logistics support for students who need it on campus.

  15. Education

    Sophomore year at Villanova

    Electrical Engineering · Villanova University

    Electric Circuits, Analog Electronics I, Fundamentals of Computer Engineering, Engineering Probability and Statistics, Differential Equations with Linear Algebra, Physics II, and Engineering Physics Lab.

  16. 2023

  17. Education

    Started Villanova

    B.S. Electrical Engineering · Villanova, PA

    • First-year engineering: interdisciplinary design, calculus, chemistry, and the Augustine and Culture Seminar.
    • Entered with AP credit in General Biology I and II and Algorithms and Data Structures I.

  18. Project

    Reusable Water Bottle Cleaning Station

    Engineering Interdisciplinary Project · Villanova University

    • Team of five designed a compact dorm bottle-cleaning system meant to sit with existing dispensers and drafted it in AutoCAD.
    • Surveyed 25 students, evaluated six concepts with a decision matrix, and ran an eight-week Gantt timeline.

  19. Experience

    Computer Technology Support Intern

    Sewickley Academy · Sewickley, PA

    • Deployed and configured 30+ handsets and a dozen-plus touch displays for faculty and admin.
    • Ran new fiber backbone across buildings to the esports facilities and helped relocate IT offices.
    • Imaged and inventoried campus devices, configured elementary touch TVs, and advised on esports PC purchases.

  20. Education

    Graduated Sewickley Academy

    High school · Sewickley, PA · September 2019 to June 2023

    • Co-president of the Italian half of the Italian/French Club in 2022 to 2023, with cooking, music, games, and cultural events.
    • Tech Theater. Highest Honor Roll in 2020 to 2021, Honor Roll in 2022, and the American Legion Award.
    • Italian through grades 9 to 12. Choir from 2015 through graduation.

  21. 2021

  22. Experience

    E-commerce Operations and IT Specialist

    Barno Electronics · Boston, PA

    • Ran the company website and eBay storefront, including listings, inventory, and campaigns.
    • Deployed cameras, printers, workstations, and a Wi-Fi upgrade.
    • Packaged electronic components for government-contracted and private orders and organized on-site stock.

  23. 2019

  24. Service

    Technical Theater volunteer

    Sewickley Academy · Sewickley, PA

    Helped tech middle school and lower school performances, primarily running the light board.

  25. Service

    Vacation Bible School

    Church summer camp

    Helped run a religious summer camp program at my church.

  26. Education

    Entered Sewickley Academy

    Sewickley, PA

  27. Earlier

  28. Origin

    Pittsburgh, family shop, and figuring things out

    Edgeworth and McKeesport, PA

    • Born and raised near Pittsburgh. A rare orthopedic condition, congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia, kept me out of contact sports. Computers, games, and personal projects became how I stayed independent.
    • At home I was the person who fixed networks, set up devices, and kept family systems running.
    • Long before the titled job at Barno Electronics, I helped at my grandmother's family business in McKeesport with warehouse work, labeling, parts sourcing, cameras, and network setup.
    • Choir from 2015 onward. Spanish in grades 1 to 5 and Latin in grades 6 to 8.

  29. Skills

    What I work with now

    Test / Hardware
    Flying probe, ICT fixtures, test procedures, board-level debug, soldering, cable assembly, oscilloscopes
    Embedded / Edge
    Jetson Orin, TensorRT, YOLO-World, CUDA edge deployment
    CAD / EDA
    LT-SPICE, AutoCAD, Intel Quartus Prime, VHDL, MATLAB
    Languages / OS
    C, Java, Windows, macOS, Linux. ITAR/EAR awareness.

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