Europass Curriculum Vitae s9

Personal information First name / Surname Patrick Del Medico Address Via del Castello 46 33017 Tarcento (Udine) Italy Home phone +39 0432 791124 Mobile +39 348 9361339 E-mail [email protected] Nationality Italian Date of birth 14/12/1982 Gender Male

Work experience Occupation or position held Copywriter at Onyx Enterprises Dates From September 2014 Main activities and  Writing automotive market texts, advertising for cars, accessories, responsibilities performance and repair parts for brands such as Honda, Jeep, Nissan.  Searching for data and technical details to implement the texts and target them to a specific audience  SEO: optimizing ads and texts for search engines (Google, etc.) Name and address of employer Onyx Enterprises 1 Corporate Drive 08512 Cranbury (New Jersey) USA Reasons to leave

Occupation or position held Copywriter and translator at Upstream Dates From October 2011 to February 2012 Main activities and  Writing and translating, from Italian into English, ad campaigns for the Italian responsibilities market, for companies like Vodafone, Telecom, Wind, Virgilio. Usually, I was writing and following multiple campaigns at a time, from the creation to the final check, and some of them were really huge. My duties involved as well: meetings with the management and the clients, in which I had to explain to CEOs, top managers what they should have put in a specific campaign and what they should have not; proofreading, adjusting poorly written material by previous copywriters and checking for misspellings in the legal material sent in by the company lawyer  Finding slogans, concepts, names for the same companies mentioned above  Creating storylines and trivia games for the mobile market  Analyzing data generated by ongoing campaigns, sent in either by users or clients. For example, I was asked to find out, through meticulous analysis, which kind of user was more interested in the product advertised, or for which country that particular campaign had proven to be more appealing, and so on  Analyzing data from previous campaigns to implement ongoing campaigns. Some examples: analyzing ad messages, piece by piece, word by word, to find out new ways to express concepts; analyzing keywords performances in previous campaigns to assess which keywords combination would have made the currently advertised product a best-seller; analyzing competitors' websites and campaigns, pointing out ups and downs of their ads, in order to build up the proper know-how and reach the highest standards  Websites optimization: from small banners to the general web pages layout and appeal. To be noticed: never used HTML tools. I was not the one creating the layout, but still I was asked by the management to give my advice on how a certain website would have been performing and to report on possible changes to improve performances  PPC and subscription campaigns, A/B testing  Translation of different material (marketing related and not) from English / French / Portuguese / Spanish into Italian Name and address of employer Upstream 4 Kastorias & Messinias Street 153 44 Gerakas (Athens) Greece Reasons to leave The contract was on a fixed-term. It lasted five months. The Senior Vice President, chief of the Innovation Department, in which I was working, pleased with my work, offered a three months extension and showed the will to advance me to a managerial position (Marketing Manager or something like that). But, when asking for infos about Greek regulations on quitting period (the quitting period was stated on my contract, but I had no understanding of Greek law), no answer was given. Therefore, we didn't sign the new contract

Occupation or position held Vendor and visual merchandiser for Nokia, EA, HP, Microsoft and Vogel's Dates From October 2009 to July 2011 Main activities and  Testing and selling Nokia mobile phones, and arranging their visual responsibilities presentation inside stores. I was in charge of making the products more appealing to the customers through their visual presentation. I was directly involved in the face-to-face selling process and in face-to-face support, helping customers solve problems with their mobiles. I also had to test the devices Nokia was sending me, and to check that all their features were working fine (this collaboration lasted from October 2009 to July 2011. Collaborations with EA, HP, Microsoft and Vogel’s, lasted only for a few months, while still working with Nokia)  Promoting and selling EA videogames inside stores, and arranging their visual presentation. The main duty was to arrange videogames presentation in the most appealing way, in order to boost sales. I was also involved in the selling process and in promoting EA brand to the customers (this collaboration lasted for seven months)  Selling HP PCs and hardware, and arranging their visual presentation inside stores. The job was quite similar to the one done for EA: selling was the main goal, but I also had to arrange the presentation and help customers solve problems (this collaboration lasted for five months)  Promoting Microsoft products inside stores by arranging their visual presentation. In this case, I was involved only in the visual presentation part. Not selling anything or supporting customers (this collaboration lasted for three months)  Selling of Vogel’s TV mounts. Some face-to-face customer support as well (this collaboration lasted for two months)  Using SAP software Name and address of employer Praesidium (agency hired by Nokia, EA, HP, Microsoft and Vogel's) Via della Giustizia 10 20125 Milano (Milano) Italy Reasons to leave All of them were project-based jobs. After a long collaboration with Nokia, I chose not to sign with them anymore and to take another path, trying to find a job suiting me better

Occupation or position held Copywriter at TreATiVA Dates From September to November 2010 Main activities and  Writing of three websites: the first for a chain of supermarkets (Palmarket), responsibilities the second for an interior design company (Kalamina), the third for a bike shop (Cussigh Bike)  Optimization of the three websites for Google search engine  Creation of slogans for the same clients mentioned above Name and address of employer TreATiVA Via Mercatovecchio 37 33100 Udine (Udine) Italy Reasons to leave Project-based job. The company had few projects and the contract just expired

Occupation or position held Steward for Danieli Dates October 2010 Main activities and  Reception of and support to managers from all over the world, in a congress responsibilities held by Danieli  Helping managers solve problems with their agendas, transportation, and so on  Interpreting Name and address of employer GierrePi (agency hired by Danieli) Via Ippolito Nievo 4 33100 Udine (Udine) Italy Reasons to leave Project-based job. Contract expired

Occupation or position held Vendor for Navigon Dates June 2010 Main activities and  GPS selling responsibilities  Support to customers Name and address of employer Ad Hoc Soluzioni (agency hired by Navigon) Corso Stati Uniti 18/b 35100 Padova (Padova) Italy Reasons to leave Project-based job, but I quit because the management was not taking the collaboration seriously

Occupation or position held Contributor for "Interpretare", an Italian journal about translation Dates July 2009 Main activities and  Writing of an article, which title is "Tradurre Delibes", where I analyse responsibilities problems behind the translation of Miguel Delibes' works (mainly behind his lexicon) Name and address of employer Campanotto Editore Via Marano 46 33037 Pasian di Prato (Udine) Italy Reasons to leave There was no real contract in place, and I was not so much interested in collaborating with them

Occupation or position held Vendor for Seagate Dates From November to December 2008 Main activities and  HDD selling responsibilities  Support to customers, helping them solve problems with PCs, hardware and softwares  Using SAP software Name and address of employer FBAI Promotion (agency hired by Seagate) Viale Marche 37 20125 Milano (Milano) Italy Reasons to leave Project-based job. Contract expired

Occupation or position held Warehouse-keeper and shop assistant at Decathlon Dates From February to August 2008 Main activities and  Selling of sports articles. I worked in the following departments: tennis, golf responsibilities and running  Support to customers  Warehouse duties, like stocking articles, checking the stock, etc.  Using SAP software Name and address of employer Decathlon Italia Viale Tricesimo 139 33100 Udine (Udine) Italy Reasons to leave Fixed-term contract. Expired

Education and training Title of qualification awarded University degree in Languages Dates From October 2005 to November 2008 Principal subjects/occupational  English, Spanish and French, with a focus on literary and technical skills covered translation  Graduation thesis: a translation of Miguel Delibes’ “La mortaja”. Final mark: 103/110 Name and type of organisation Università degli Studi di Udine providing education and training Udine (Udine) Italy

Title of qualification awarded High school diploma in Classics Dates From September 1996 to July 2002 Principal subjects/occupational  Italian, Latin, Greek and translation from these two last languages skills covered  Thesis on the theory of war, from Tacitus to von Clausewitz (military strategy and diplomacy) Name and type of organisation Liceo Classico Statale Jacopo Stellini providing education and training Udine (Udine) Italy

Personal skills and competences Mother tongue Italian Other languages  English: excellent understanding of both written and spoken language; fluent at writing and speaking; I can translate all types of documents, technical and not  Spanish: excellent understanding of both written and spoken language; good at speaking and writing; I can translate all kinds of documents, technical and not  French: good understanding of both written and spoken language; basic speaking and writing abilities; I can translate from this language  Portuguese: good understanding of written texts; I can translate from this language

Computer skills and  Mac OS: quite good at it competences  Windows: good at it, but I prefer Mac OS  Some Linux, since I own a MacBook  Browsers: Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome  Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and OpenOffice  Lotus suite  From time to time I used, at home, text editors like QuarkXPress. Also used other text editors and word processing software  Skype, MSN, etc.  iOS  Android  Windows Mobile

Artistic skills and I'm a writer since I was eight years old. I wrote several things, in Italian, English and competences Latin: novels, poems, tales. Never published my works in Italy, because I wasn't interested at the time; however, when I was 16, some of my poems were published in UK and US. My knowledge of Italian language is excellent, and I can write about everything: from literature to technical documents to advertising

Hobbies  Literature. I love to read, especially writers as Dante, Shakespeare, Virgilio, etc.  Movies: I’m a DVD collector. I like a lot of different films: not a big fan of Hollywood blockbusters. I'm more into Andrej Tarkovskij's or von Trier's works. Lately, I’m into Asian movies  PC  Videogames. I think I owned every possible console, from Commodore 64 (not a console, though) to Xbox 360. I’m a huge fan of RPGs and strategy games, as well as first-person shooters  Pool  Formula 1: Go Ferrari!  Basketball: really into it. Watching live every single game of my favourite NBA team (Washington Wizards)  As for sports: tennis, swimming, basketball, football

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Patrick Del Medico