Simone Silvestroni

Professional experience for Simone Silvestroni

• Current 4 years and 5 months, since May 2019

  Web designer and developer

  Minutes to Midnight

  Freelancing for small-size and personal projects, while keeping up with what's happening with the web development world.

• Current 6 years and 1 month, since Sep 2017

  Sound designer and music producer

  Minutes to Midnight

  I love telling stories through sound. Coming from both creative and technical roles, I can establish an empathetic connection with artists, sound designers, and programmers.

• 5 years and 5 months, May 2012 - Sep 2017

  Web Designer and developer, Co-founder

  UI Farm Ltd

  Co-founder, web designer and UI developer, I worked for many clients, such as Reevoo, Not On The High Street, UniCredit, Elite, APM, Women Management. At UI Farm, we pioneered responsive web design, and I contributed to building a bespoke responsive framework on top of WordPress (theme, child theme and custom plug-ins), featuring a performance-first approach. Silvia Maggi

• 8 months, Sep 2011 - Apr 2012

  Web designer and developer

  Bodog

  Within an Agile environment, I developed gaming and e-sport applications with the accompanying websites — including the then flagship slots.com — using SASS, Drupal (PHP), Javascript, LAMP, SVN. Silvia Maggi

• 6 years and 9 months, Jan 2005 - Sep 2011

  Sound designer and web developer

  New Energy Mind, now part of Accenture

  Initially working for a subsidiary company, I fully joined New Energy as a UI developer, ending up leading a multi-disciplinary UX team. Within the role, I contributed to UniCredit’s corporate websites, their online banking system, the online acquisition landing pages and forms. I also produced mockups and working prototypes for the in-house usability tests; helped setting up the internal usability lab and led the A/B testing workflow, including R&D for eye-tracking.

• 12 years and 1 month, Jan 1997 - Jan 2009

  Desktop Publishing Specialist

  FrancoAngeli

  Responsible for the desktop publishing of bi-monthly magazines for Ciriec (European non-profit organisation), using Quark Xpress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, LaTex.

• 3 years and 1 month, Jan 2002 - Jan 2005

  Game Audio Designer

  Playstos Entertainment

  Sound designer for the PlayStation 2 title Ruff Trigger: The Vanocore Conspiracy, published in 2007. Adaptive soundtrack, SFX, Foley recording, audio implementation using the in-house engine. For a year, I worked with XACT for Xbox, before the platform was dropped in favour of PS2. Versioning and backup with Alienbrain. I built the internal sound studio from scratch, run three computers in sync, a Mac Pro and two Dell PCs for soundtrack and sound effects. Attended the GDC in 2002 (San Jose, CA).

• 6 years and 9 months, May 1993 - Jan 2000

  Desktop Publishing Specialist

  Rizzoli RCS

  I worked as a proofreader, co-editor and desktop publisher for novels, short stories, essays, graphic manuals, magazines. I was taught all the base skillset following the ISO specification, by one of the high-level specialist working for the company.

• 5 years and 10 months, Mar 1991 - Dec 1996

  Bass player

  Simone Silvestroni

  Assistant and in-house bass player in a professional studio. Learned the signal flow with both analog and digital gear, including the first editions of Logic on Atari. Recorded bass tracks for many independent artists.