Anthony Roldan / Portfolio
pdf resume (65kb)Anthony Roldan
Campus: 1000 Olin Way, MB422, Needham, MA 02492
Permanent: 25 Dimick St, Somerville, MA 02143
Mobile (617) 818-1750 | Email anthony.roldan@students.olin.edu
Education
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering / Needham, MA
Candidate, Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Relevant Coursework: Relevant Coursework: Software Design, Principles of Engineering, Software Systems, Digital Imaging, Virtual Form, User Oriented Collaborative Design, Signals and Systems, Human Factors and Interaction Design, Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems Design, Analog and Digital Communications
GPA 3.7/4.0
Phillips Academy Andover / Andover, MA
- Graduated cum laude
- Recipient of the Morse Award in Art for “a student who best combines native creative ability with craftsmanship, as evidenced in a developed personal style”
Project and Work Experience
Quickware Engineering / Waltham, MA
FPGA Development Intern
- Designed, implemented, and verified custom logic in VHDL for Virtex-5 FPGAs for deployment in a nuclear power facility. Designs included interfaces to existing hardware, implementations of obsolete discrete chips, and custom logic to emulate PDP-11 functionality
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering / Needham, MA
Course Projects: Senior Consulting Program for Engineering (SCOPE)
- Investigated and prototyped opportunities in electronic communications for the elderly in a team project for Nortel
Course Projects: Embedded Systems Design
- Prototyped a MP3 player device with a wireless remote built around a PIC microcontroller
Course Projects: Human Factors and Interface Design
- Redesigned the interface for an HP Poster Printer with an emphasis on ease of use for new users. Created mockup of system in Macromedia Flash
Undergraduate Nanofluids Research
- Designed data acquisition component of test apparatus, including custom electronics and off-the-shelf DAQ hardware
- Wrote software to interface with apparatus in LabView and Python
Course Projects: Principles of Engineering
- Developed an ultrasonic positioning system with a team of two other students for short-range 3D positioning. Interfaced PIC microcontroller with ultrasonic transceivers, a host computer over USB, and digital servos.
- Responsible for microcontroller programming in C, circuit design, Python host program, and documentation
Advent Consulting / Cambridge, MA
Web Developer
- Designed and developed an advertising server in PHP, including information from the Alexa XML web service
GTI Designs / New York, NY
Web Design and IT Assistant
- Wrote a PHP/MySQL based project management system and deployed it on an OS X platform.
- Provided phone-based technical support to GTI staff
Leadership Experience
Vice President of Campus Life, Council of Olin Representatives
- Organized budgeting and communication for 58 campus clubs
Design Build Coordinator
- Managed a team of 22 people to conceptualize, prototype, and execute a design activity for 180 Olin candidates