Curriculum Vitae
(a compendium of skills I have acquired over the years)
1974-1980: Early childhood
- Birth
- Early development
acquired skills:
- Eating
- Mobility
1980-1984: Late childhood
- Random disassembly of anything in my path
- Bulding rudimentary wooden objects
- Inserting metal objects into outlets
acquired skills:
- Manuality
- Survival
1984-1993: Teen years
- Student
- Mechanic
- Generic construction work assistant
- Delivery boy
- Shop boy
acquired skills:
- Working with 2 strokes engines / tweaking
- Vespa
- Other Piaggio scooters/mopeds
- Aprilia
- Music
- DJ-ing with Technics Turntables
- Samplers
- Amiga
- MIDI
- Trackers
- Cubase
- Commodore 64 Basic
- Driving 2/3/4 wheels vehicles (often with less wheels touching the ground)
- Customer service
1993-1998: Early Twenties
- Università degli Studi di Salerno - Electrical Engineering (drop out)
- Università degli Studi di Salerno - Social Studies (drop out)
- Marina Militare Italiana (Italian Navy) - Telecom expert / Teletypist
- Print Service s.r.l. - Pre-press technician/designer
- IED [ Milano ] - Master in Animation with Softimage 3D
- Study/Work Break - Recovery from road accident (6 months)
acquired skills:
- Photoshop
- Corel Draw
- Aldus Pagemaker
- Hardware RIP
- Printing process
- Printing techniques
- 3D modeling/animation
- Patience
1998: ASCARI (Milano): Interactive Content Designer/Programmer
acquired skills:
- Macromedia Director
- Lingo
- Photoshop
- HTML
- JScript
- Javascript
1999-2001: Quam / Nurun (Milano): Interactive Content Designer/Programmer
acquired skills:
- Lingo programming language (advanced)
- Object Oriented Programming and patterns
- ASP server side scripting
- SQL database design and management
- Flash 4/5
- Actionscript 1.0
- JavaScript
- PHP
- MySql
- Network Management
- Networking principles
- Open Source Tools
notable clients/projects:
- MTV
- Prénatal
- Caractère
- Tokidoki v1.0 (developed personally with Simone Legno)
2001: Freelance - Interactive Content Designer/Programmer
acquired skills:
- Deeper understanding of networks
- Linux (command line) Server
- Network Sockets and communication
- Embedded Linux foundations (Familiar/Debian on hacked iPaq)
2002: ArxMedia (Milano) - Senior Flash Developer/Animator, Tech Lead
acquired skills:
- Actionscript 2.0
- Tween engines
2002: Freelance - Creative Technologist (Milano / Amsterdam)
acquired skills:
- Advanced Actionscript
- Advanced backend technologies (PHP, MySql, bash)
notable clients/projects:
- Wieden+Kennedy
- Heineken [ pitch - won ]
- Siemens [ pitch - won ]
- MTV
- Dainese
- Mandarina Duck
2003-2004: Wieden+Kennedy (Amsterdam) - Lead Creative Technologist
acquired skills:
- Switched to Mac
- Deeper understanding of computer hardware, networking, firewalls
notable clients/projects:
- Electronic Arts
- Nike
- Goretex
- Heineken
- Coca Cola
2005 (H1): Sabbatical break
- Bought a house in Amsterdam
acquired skills:
- kitchen renovation
- plumbing
- electricity
- plastering
- painting
2005: Satama Interactive/LBi (Amsterdam) - Senior Flash Developer
acquired skills:
- deeper understanding of Object Oriented Programming - with Ralph Hauwert (Unity)
2005-2009: TwoDotOne - Creative Technologist
- Technologist
- Creative Director
- Engineer
- Maker
- Teacher
- Interaction Design
- Physical Computing
- Programming for Embedded Devices
- C/C++
- Computer-less programming
- Digital Fabrication
- Fundamentals of Electronics
acquired skills:
- Several programming/scripting languages
- Arduino
- Electronics
- 3d design
- SketchUP
- Several crafts
- Digital fabrication
- Creative direction (tech / design)
- Open Source tools
- RFID
- BlueTooth v2.1
- BlueTooth 4.1 (LE)
- Sensors
- Communication protocols
- Electrical Engineering foundations
- OpenFrameworks
- C/C++
- Java/J2ME
- Processing
- more advanced command line skills
- … way too many interests
notable clients/projects:
- Heineken
- Nokia | Flagship Stores
- Electronic Arts
- Bottega Veneta
- Kering group
- Belastingdienst (Dutch Tax Authority)
- Wieden+Kennedy
- EYE Film Museum
- Nationaal Historisch Museum
- Marcel Wanders for Stedelijk Museum
- Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
- Hasbro
- Reebok
- Nike
- Coca Cola
- Dubfire
2010-2014: Hello, Savants! - Creative Technologist
- Founder / Creative Director / Hybrid Designer
2015-2016: MediaMonks - Director of Secret Space Program
acquired skills:
- CAD design principles
- Fusion 360
- advanced 3d design/printing knowledge
notable clients/projects:
- WaterAid - Hope Locker
- Fight Cancer - Interactive Punching Bag
- ABN-AMRO
- SKYY Vodka
- Chevrolet
2016-2018: Future Tailors - Design/technology consulting
- Founder / Creative Director / Hybrid Designer
acquired skills:
- Broadened electronics/firmware skills
- Proficiency at 2.5D CNC using Fusion 360 and Shapeoko 3 XL
notable clients/projects:
- MediaMonks (after being part of the team I continued as a freelance/consultant)
- Sendrato
- Babau Lab
- CIID
- Arduino
2018-Today: Arduino
-
Hardware design for MKR series shields
-
Sr. Integration Engineer for IoT Cloud
-
User Experience Expert, Marketing Team
- Product demos/games for Maker Faire, BETT
- Bar Arduino Italia show host
- Bar Arduino Worldwide show guest, show host, demos
-
Creative Technology Lead, Tooling Team / IoT Cloud Team
- Arduino CLI (Product Owner)
- Arduino IDE 2 (Product Owner)
- Arduino IoT Cloud
- Product tutorials/demos
-
Creative Technology Lead, cross-team
- internal MicroPython Steering Committee
- MicroPython tools, frameworks and libraries
- Alvik Robot - support on MicroPython
- Industrial Design and Electronic Engineering lead for unreleased products
-
Technical Product Manager, cross-team
acquired skills:
- technical team management and direction
- industrial design and manufacturing
- product management
- advanced circuit design
- advanced IoT technologied
- Python
- MicroPython
- advanced OBS
- streaming setups