Stefano Solinas's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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NOT LOOKING AT THE MOMENT, I WILL UPDATE HERE WHEN THE SITUATION WILL CHANGE Coming from a small town in Sardinia where you can either stare at trees or chase cats, and considering the latter made him fall on a wood pole and almost die when he was 8 and made to survive to 18, Stefano Solinas moved to Pisa to check that the leaning tower was still up. This is where he met an Indian shaman that gave him the name obsidian (transformed to obsidianart for SEO). After 10 years in Pisa working as developer, designer, video editor and trainer, Stefano felt the call of a bigger city and took a plane to London. He's currently a JavaScript developer, spare time designer, and forum fairy when in a good mood. In the last years: JavaScript (Angular.js, Backbone.js, Underscore, jQuery, i18next, Node), HTML 5, CSS 3, Grunt, Cucumber, Mocha, Karma, omegaT, Photoshop, Illustrator. You can also check my GitHub, some things are there. Many are contribution to big libraries, I usually prefer to improve the wheel instead of reinventing it.Senior Frontend Engineer @ From May 2015 to Present (8 months) London, United KingdomSenior Angular Developer @ Developing an Angular application in CoffeeScript. I worked in TDD with cucumber, protractror and Karma. Every line of code is tested and reviewed. The team follow Agile SCRUM methodologies, 2 weeks sprint and Jira. From July 2014 to April 2015 (10 months) London, United KingdomHead of User Interface @ Local World is a local media business that brings together Northcliffe Media and Iliffe News and Media. Local World have a portfolio of market leading print and digital brands.The local portal websites have a monthly audience of more than 14 million unique users. I joined local world as Head of UI in January. My key responsibilities were to hire a new team and organize the workflow for the London office while developing a new internal publishing platform based on Angular.js. I was also responsible for implementing TDD and an Agile workflow. From January 2014 to July 2014 (7 months) BackboneJS developer / Frontend developer @ HotShotTrader is an ambitious trading stock game made by a "small" strong team. I've worked on almost every part of it but, e.g. the landing page WordPress theme, the translation of the whole application (research about the library to use in JS, the program for the translators,explain and put everything together), sprite and CSS optimization, Loader optimize with promise patterns, a step by step tutorial and other small and big things. From September 2012 to January 2014 (1 year 5 months) Web Designer - Interface Developer @ Flash AS3 Developer, Frontend Developer, Graphic designer From July 2008 to January 2013 (4 years 7 months) Senior Frontend developer @ In Timeout I work on component for the London website (now replaced and part of the international), the international website, the facebook app, the offer website and the upcoming new website. I worked moving through different teams and having multiple agile meeting every day. From June 2012 to September 2012 (4 months) London, United KingdomSenior frontend developer & designer @ During my months at FullSignal I had the possibility to see many projects from the beginning to the end. I had the possibility to work on a mobile webapp for Motorola, a flash Banner for Angry Birds, a ringtone composer for Lebara and various WordPress theme for Allianz, Mercedes and other. I'm still in contact with everyone had the company and we have a scheduled dinner every other day. From November 2011 to June 2012 (8 months) London, United KingdomTrainer @ While at Formatica I had the opportunity to form many students in the Adobe Suite, mainly focusing on Photoshop and Flash. For HTML, CSS and JavaScript I preferred Notepad++ or Netbeans over Dreamweaver. Many of my students keep going with this new career and keep asking for advice once in a while even after years, I'm very proud of them. From January 2010 to April 2012 (2 years 4 months) training @ From 2008 to 2008 (less than a year) Computer science engineer @ Università di Pisa From 2002 to 2008 2001, classico @ Liceo classico D.A. Azuni From 1998 to 2001 Stefano Solinas is skilled in: CSS, JavaScript, Photoshop, Test Driven Development, HTML 5, Web Design, PHP, Web Development, SQL, Usability, Coaching, Adobe Creative Suite, Backbone.js, I18n, Facebook API