Experience

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  Coop. "il cinabro"

  Oct 1997 - Oct 2000

  Sales / apprentice typesetter

  The company was either a university bookshop and a small publishing house.There I learned the basis of book typesetting and design and layed out my first two books, both adopted on some courses of University of Catania:GIUSSO L. - Note su Economia Metodo Morale;ALÌ G. (a cura di) - Funzione docente e processo educativo: problemi e proposte operative. Sinossi di letteratura pedagogica per l’azione educativa nell’adolescenza;During this experience I also gained my experience about the commerce of books. Show less

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  Impronte digitali snc

  Dec 2000 - May 2005

  Graphic designer / typesetter

  This experience allowed me to go deeper in visual communication and typesetting techniques, and to keep up to date with the many relevant innovations which affected the Dtp software along those years.I've also gained a solid proficiency with both raster and vectorial graphic, and realized a lot of works for:• newspapers:about 800 pages for La Sicilia, the main regional newpaper; university related and institutional communication:o for University of Catania, above all: for them I typeset the Guide to the enrollment and the Guide to services for the years 2002-03 and 2003-04, and developed the interactive pdf version of the sames, layed out many posters, leaflets and brochures for events such as workshops and career days, and didactic initiatives and also the Universty annual calendar 2003;o for ANCE (italian main association of house-builders): a booklet about The costs of labour in the building sector;o for CSEI Catania (board for studies on economy applied to engineery): full devlopement of a special issue of their journal, comprising its customized folder;o for the association "Economisti", Catania: constant graphic support to their events.• merchandising:for CIPI – SEAT (an industrial producer of customized merchandising): reproduction in vectorial graphics of tons of logos of all kinds. A great training on massive production. Show less

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  Gc servizi grafici e tipografici

  Jun 2005 - Dec 2011

  Owner

  On May 2005 I started my own business. I focused mainly on typesetting and laying out of books. I've worked out several kinds of books, mostly on the technical/academic segment, but also worked on themed agendas like "L'agenda del Verde" ("The Green Agenda"), by Green House Italia. For also made calendars and lots of advertising for local newspapers.My main clients have been the following:Alinea Editrice, Florence [architecture]ITD-CNR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Palermo [education sciences]Green House Italia, Brebbia [gardening]Istituto Superiore Scienze Cognitive (ISSCO), Enna [psychology | medicine]Karnac Books, London [psychology]Monverde Garden Center [gardening]Morellini Editore, Milan [books for girls]Seid Editori, Florence [anthropology | psychology | medicine]Two relevant spin-offs started from this experience:1. IlionBooks (my own small publishing brand, oriented to academic publications) [geology | translation studies | psychology];2. Agency and promotion in Italy for Repro India Ltd, a huge indian printery listed on the Mumbai stock exchange. Show less

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  Ilion ltd

  Jan 2012 - now

  Owner

  Development of an innovative project for improve accessibility and participation in academic publishing: ilionproject.ilionltd.comImplementing of an ecommerce website for an italian publishing house in the academic sector http://www.seideditori.itDevelopment of a system for semi-automated typesetting, called TypePlus (http://typeplus.ilionltd.com).It is based on Xml transformations and turns .docx files into layed out .indd, .pdf, .epub.The aim of this system is to provide quick turnaround in the typesetting process also of illustrated (pictures, tables, formulas...) books. Show less

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  Argus media

  Jan 2014 - now

  • Editorial Systems Manager

    Oct 2019 - now

  • Editorial System Analyst

    Oct 2014 - now

  • Editorial Systems Analyst

    Jan 2014 - Jan 2016
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  Censhare ag

  Apr 2014 - Oct 2014

  Cross-media developer
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  Argus media ltd

  Oct 2014 - now

  Editorial system analyst