Heading UX and Product Design practice in Italia Online (www.italiaonline.it), Italian Internet market leader, second only to Google and Facebook. Ensuring seamless User Experience from concept to delivery through entire product portfolio (email, news, mobile, community, video, social media and cloud services) for two major Italian portals: Virgilio (www.virgilio.it) and Libero (www.libero.it). Italia Online in numbers: 20 million monthly unique users, 60% market reach and 14 million active mailboxes.

Concept and design of crowdsourcing platforms and vertical video communities with strong social networking integration, product management and UX practice mentoring and growth.
Clients/projects: Nokia Play and UserFarm.

Management and development of Selfcast - RawFlow's live video streaming platform which allows anyone anywhere to create their own live broadcast - with particular attention to User Experience evolution across social web and other channels.

E-commerce BU management and product development; price comparison search engine Kuanto, hi-tech news outlet Tecnozoom and massive AdWords campaign management. Among other responsibilities; R&D and Nanopress blog network launch.

Various freelancing engagements with agencies and consultancies (Yoda, Allaxia, Y-Tech, ICE and Frog Design) on a series of complex multidisciplinary projects ranging from user research, online advertising, IPTV, news outlets and search engines.
Clients/projects: ENAV, Fineco Life, Renault, Same Deutz-Fahr, Vodafone, Wind, Libero, Mobango and Gruppo Espresso

Building and managing the User Experience team of 25+ practitioners, business development and delivering large multi-disciplinary projects among main responsibilities in Sapient's Milan office. One of the best professional experiences in my career hands down.
Clients/projects: ABI, Ariston, Banca della Rete, Banca Primavera, Bankyou, Bticino, Dalmine Energie (Tenaris), Ferrari, H3G (Tre), Indesit, Maserati, Merloni, Scholtes, Vodafone and Wind