MICHAEL DATTOLO Product Designer | Innovator | Robotics Specialist mike.dattolo@yahoo.com | linkedin.com/in/michaeldattolo | Hackettstown, NJ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Award-winning product designer and innovator specializing in robotics, medical devices, and advanced manufacturing. B.S. in Integrated Product Design (GPA 3.9, Dean's List). Proven track record designing and prototyping complex systems from concept through validation. Deep expertise in CAD, topology optimization, design-for-manufacturing, and autonomous systems. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXPERIENCE Special Operations Specialist Techflex | Sparta, NJ | Jun 2025 – Present • Setup, operation, and optimization of precision equipment for spooling, printing, and cutting operations • Read and interpret work orders; execute specifications with strict quality and timing requirements • Contribute to manufacturing process improvement and continuous optimization Retail Sales Manager Staples | Hackettstown, NJ | Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 • Led team sales performance, inventory management, and customer feedback integration with executive leadership • Implemented loss prevention strategies that reduced shrinkage and improved profitability • Coached and developed staff; established individual and team sales goals Innovation Lab Technician Johnson & Wales University | Providence, RI | Aug 2021 – May 2024 • Supported student projects using laser cutters, vinyl cutters, 3D printers, and CNC equipment • Prepared and optimized files for precision machining; programmed CNC operations • Trained new employees on equipment safety and operation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EDUCATION B.S. Integrated Product Design Johnson & Wales University | Providence, RI | May 2024 GPA: 3.9 | Dean's List (2020–2024) Relevant Coursework: • Product Design Strategy & Development • Rapid Prototyping & Advanced Fabrication • User Research & Usability Testing • Design for Manufacturing • Autonomous Systems & Robotics • Computational Design & Simulation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CORE COMPETENCIES Design & Strategy • Product design strategy and concept development • Problem framing and requirements decomposition • Trade-off analysis and decision documentation • Design system development and atomic design patterns • User experience (UX) strategy and information architecture Prototyping & Fabrication • CAD modeling (SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Rhino 3D, AutoCAD) • Topology optimization for strength-to-weight ratio • 3-axis and 5-axis additive manufacturing (FDM, SLA) • Design-for-fabrication and material selection • Functional proof-of-concept builds (scale and full-size) Research & Testing • User research and comparative usability testing • Quantitative data collection and analysis • Iterative testing with clear pass/fail criteria • Dashboard UX and data visualization Systems & Simulation • ROS 2 and Gazebo simulation for autonomous systems • URDF/xacro parametric robot description • Parametric design with Grasshopper and Rhino • Basic Python scripting and web development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) • Sensor integration (DHT22, LIDAR, depth cameras, optical sensors) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SELECTED PROJECTS & CASE STUDIES M.A.R.T.I.A.N Bot: Autonomous Mars Construction Robot • 8-legged autonomous robot designed to excavate and build underground habitats on Mars using locally sourced regolith • Topology-optimized structural components for maximum strength-to-weight ratio • 5-step autonomous DIG workflow (Terrain Assessment → Excavation → Framework → Habitat Deployment → Burial & Shielding) • Full ROS 2 + Gazebo simulation validation with accurate physics and sensor noise modeling • Recognized at JWU Symposium for Technology & Innovation (2024) EcoPrint: 5-Axis 3D Printing Waste Reduction • Investigated multi-axis toolpath strategies to reduce support-material waste in additive manufacturing • Compared 3-axis vs. 5-axis printing across geometry complexity, material usage, and cost metrics • Validated that 5-axis approaches reduce waste by 40–60% on complex geometries BloominBeds Monitoring System • Designed and built a Raspberry Pi sensor network for raised garden bed temperature and humidity monitoring • Implemented DHT22 sensors with real-time web dashboard • Kept garden beds within safe growing conditions year-round • Recognized at JWU Symposium for Creativity & Design (2024) Total Ergonomics™ Micropipette • User-centered ergonomic add-on designed for a lab technician with rheumatoid arthritis • Conducted comparative user testing across three prototypes • Selected foot-pedal design maximized comfort and reduced repetitive strain • Demonstrates deep commitment to accessible, human-centered design EDISON AI Assistant • Designed and built a fully offline, multi-modal AI platform with multi-GPU LLM inference • Integrated RAG memory, voice processing, and image generation on local hardware • Exposed OpenAI-compatible API for seamless third-party integration • Advanced prototyping of emerging AI/ML applications Additional Case Studies: Artificial Magnetic Fields (Mars radiation shielding simulation), Willie's Café Space Study (data-driven seating analysis with ADA compliance), Growth Algorithm Simulation (parametric organic structure generation), Storage Concepts (modular + wearable personal storage), JRM Enterprises Feasibility Study ($2M business plan) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RECOGNITION & ACTIVITIES • JWU Student Research, Design & Innovation Symposium Recognition (2024): - M.A.R.T.I.A.N. Construction Robot (Technology & Innovation category) - BloominBeds (team project, Creativity & Design category) • 2nd Place, JWU Sharkfest Competition (2022) • FIRST Robotics (2016–2024) • Dean's List (2020–2024) Research & Presentations: • BMES Conference (2022): Smart Textile Array Devices for Assistive Communication (platform presentation) • BMES Conference (2022): Game-based Touch-Sensing Devices for Motor Assessment (poster presentation) • JWU Symposium (2023, 2024): Reducing Plastic Waste with 5D Printing; M.A.R.T.I.A.N.; BloominBeds ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TECHNICAL SKILLS CAD & Modeling: SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, Grasshopper Simulation & Control: ROS 2, Gazebo, URDF/xacro, MoveIt, basic PID control Fabrication: FDM 3D printing, SLA 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC machining Programming: Python, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, CMake, basic web development Data & Analytics: Excel/Google Sheets, Chart.js, quantitative user research Robotics & Sensors: Raspberry Pi, DHT22, LIDAR, depth cameras, optical sensors ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING Autodesk Inventor Certification (2019) FIRST Robotics Leadership Training CNC Machining Safety & Operation Certification 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing Fundamentals ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the full interactive portfolio, visit: mike-dattolo.com