Paolo Tosolini Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Wa, Us

• Founded and served as a hands-on Creative Technologist of a successful creative studio and innovation lab specializing in B2B storytelling with emerging and immersive media.• Led the development of interactive digital signage, e-learning, videos, 3D digital twins, and spatial computing (VR, AR, XR, immersive experiences) for enterprise clients such as Microsoft, Deloitte, Accenture, Boingo, Compass, FICO, Meta, UBS Bank• Personally developed over 40 interactive touch display installations for global events and executive briefing centers.• Grew talent team from 1 to 8, including UI/UX designers, video producers, 3D animators, and Unity developers.• Directed numerous projects and prototypes using emerging technologies such as 3D Virtual Tours, VR, AR, XR, Chatbots, NFC, Projection Mapping, Generative AI, 3D renders/animations, and interactive 360-degree media.• Achieved Platinum Expert status with multi-touch software manufacturer Intuiface.• Won awards in 2017 and 2018 by 3D scanner manufacturer Matterport Inc.

Co-authored e-book, blog and podcast educating new travelers on Italian culture and language.

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Invented, incubated and marketed new interactive media services that aligned with agency core businesses such as motion graphics, live action video, and 3D animations.• Led activities related to product development and launch, including R&D of new technologies, prototyping, legal, pricing, sales, and marketing.• Spearheaded projects including cloud-based mobile video workflows for cost-effective content marketing, video walls controlled by Kinect sensors, and interactive display experiences presented at major tradeshows and public events.• Leveraged entrepreneurial skills throughout the new product incubation process, including:• Brand evangelism through presentations at US/international conferences, articles, webinars, videos, and social media.• Business development, resulting in $600K of new client referrals.• UX design and app development using the Intuiface no-code authoring platform.

• Led global outreach and marketing initiatives while serving on cross-functional business development team.• Defined opportunities to influence corporate staff in social media and Enterprise 2.0 best practices for internal readiness and communication for clients such as Microsoft, Google, and Ragan Communications.• Pitched and achieved executive buy-in of the Academy Mobile Platform (Microsoft's enterprise YouTube) and guided the successful creation of 7 new executive video channels and 11 subsidiary channels in FY10.• Leveraged Academy Mobile innovation and transferred legacy resulting in 300% year-over-year growth in uploaded content.• Co-created an online workshop and mobile video storytelling that was delivered in multiple European and USA locations and attended by numerous Fortune 1000 companies.• Acted as a public speaker, delivering presentations about Enterprise Social Video.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Regarded as a subject matter expert and led new media initiatives with the responsibility of managing 14 vendors, including Media Specialists, Producers, Operations Managers, and Web Designers.• Launched and ran the Academy Mobile, a SharePoint-based social media enterprise platform, utilized by employees to exchange confidential knowledge, best practices, and communications via online audio/video podcasts.• Led Academy Mobile to 8 industry accolades, including the 2008 Digital Marketing Excellence Award presented by Microsoft CEO.• Drove Academy Mobile to 27K unique internal users (1/3 of company staff), 2,100 content creators, 11K video uploads, and 272K annual downloads with 50% of videos originating from the field in just 2.5 years, which significantly increased voluntary training.• Implemented full cost recovery model for internal video production services and created innovative crowd sourcing programs that effectively responded to global subsidiary requests while transforming the studio into a profitable, self-sustaining entity.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Managed day-to-day account communications and coordinated staff efforts in support of tiered technical escalations, reporting progress via scorecard metrics on business rhythm, challenges, and successes.• Acted as liaison between Microsoft and Marketing Group partners on more than 600 new Office 2007 solutions, achieving an 800% higher achievement rate compared to the prior launch.• Invented new framework and managed the Office 2007 Partner Technology Adoption Program (TAP) engagement, resulting in early adoption of the Office platform by more than 4,500 ISVs/SIs worldwide.• Collaborated with regional offices to spin-off local Rapid Deployment Programs (RDP), resulting in more than 400 global system integrators and committed customers of Office 2007 solutions and marketing evidence.• Successfully rolled-out worldwide readiness initiatives with instructor-led trainings to more than 900 partners and a Train-the-Trainer hands-on lab and Webcast series, subsequently conducted primary research on gaps and improvement areas between HQ and field.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Planned, designed and wrote technical specifications of Office 2007 features running on Windows Vista.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Coordinated efforts of analyst and developer on all traffic metrics for MSN U.S. homepage and high-volume network entry points while managing database of internet searching trends that anticipated revenue opportunities from sales and advertising.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed effective distribution of development funds to Content Delivery Networks based on partner value and quality.

Co-established vacation Villa Rentals Company that achieved $40K in 1st year profits (gainfully sold company in 2nd year).

Gainesville, Fl, Us

Progressed to senior role to lead day-to-day online ad campaign strategy and media buying initiatives while maintaining oversight of design team and corporate website/intranet continuity.

Gainesville, Fl, Us

Increased visitor traffic by 60% and retention 30% by leading major website redesigns and implementing SEO and SEM strategies.

Gainesville, Fl, Us

Crowd-sourced marketing demos for company’s flagship multimedia product ToolBook and spearheaded development and successful release of four trial CD-ROMs that earned worldwide distribution to more than 60K customer prospects.

Woking, Surrey, Us

Developed multimedia eBook concept to demonstrate the potential of distance learning over the Web.

Carbondale, Il, Us

Pioneered the development of multimedia APIs between the Mosaic / Netscape browsers and the authoring tool Asymetrix ToolBook

Trieste, It

- Launched first official University Web site- Pioneered the development of SDK for distributing multimedia applications over the Web using Asymetrix ToolBook authoring system.

Tokyo, Jp

Designed and authored a virtual demo tour of downtown Tokyo using a time-based proprietary multimedia authoring system.