Personal data:

Address: CH 6951 COLLA - Nucleo n° 27
Citizenship:    Swiss
Contacts: Mobile Num. +41 (0)76 577 99 38
E-mail: pt@paolotoscani.com



Education:
 

• High school graduation (Maturità scientifica) at R. Oppenheimer institute in Milan. (1992)
• I attended 4 years the Faculty of Economics and Business at the L.I.U.C.  University. (Castellanza – Varese - Italy), I left before getting my degree in 1996.
• Rescuer certificate (BLS Ambulance service) in 2002.

Working experiences:

I began as studio/cameraman assistant and image archivist in a small production and post/production company in 1996.

That same year I began to deal with digital graphics for television and advertising. (3D animations).

Since 1998, for the next four years, I’ve collaborated with an Italian software house as customer support for 3D graphics applications (Softimage|3D plugins) developed and distributed by the company.

Further to technical support, over the years, my duties have been extended to:
 

• software demonstrations (in Italy and abroad- USA, Japan, Denmark).
• drafting of user manuals and tutorials (HTML).
• support to software developers from the “user side” (Alpha and Beta testing).

Since 2002 I have returned to television production, working for television broadcasters and advertising agencies to create graphics and special effects for TV shows head titles and commercials.

Occasionally I have realized graphical studies of pre-visualization and buildings environmental impact commissioned from architectural firms, besides websites contents management (AC Bellinzona).





Technical skills:
 

• MAXON CINEMA 4D - r. 20
• SOFTIMAGE 3D v.3.9.2 / 4.0 – XSI 3.0
• ADOBE-PHOTOSHOP CC
• ADOBE-PREMIERE CC
• ADOBE-AFTER EFFECT CC
• ADOBE-INDESIGN CC
• HTML elements – (DreamWever – FrontPage)
• TCP/IP network – management basic knowledge
• Operating system WINDOWS 2000 - XP - 7 – 8 - 10
• Operating system OSx
• Operating system UNIX - Linux (Ubuntu v. 20.04)

Manual skills:

Cameraman, LAN network posing.

Outside work interests:
 

• Photography, reading, travels, volunteering.
• From 2001 to 2009 I worked as a volunteer 118 at the non-profit association "Croce Bianca" in Milan
• In 2004 I visited some health and agricultural cooperation projects in Kenya thanks NGO "Amref" association.
• Archery (traditional english Longbow)