Caterina Chimenti

Current

Co-founder at UX Camp Italia
Freelance Web Designer and Web Developer at Kikaweb

Past

Web Content Manager and Communication Officer at Il Mondo in Sesto
Intern at Bush Heritage Australia
Web Content Manager at Elettra.biz

Web Content Manager at Mo-net srl
Proofreader, Editor at Thèsis

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Education

Università degli Studi di Siena
ITC Alessandro Volta, Bagno a Ripoli (FI)

Connections

30 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Caterina Chimenti’s Summary

I'm an Italy based web and graphic designer, with 5 years of web, graphic and multimedia design experience.

I'm currently focusing on web design and development, creating accessible web sites using the latest web standards.

Good written and verbal communication skills (Italian), ability to adapt language and style to suit the needs of the audience and situation to achieve the desired message; I'm also fluent in both English and French (written and verbal).

Experience in producing publicity material for a wide range of media and coordinating publicity and promotional activities.

Caterina Chimenti’s Specialties:

HTML/XHTML, CSS, SEO, Project Management, Content Management, Branding and Identity, Photoshop/ Imageready, llustrator, Dreamweaver, Quark, InDesign

Caterina Chimenti’s Experience

Co-founder

UX Camp Italia

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Freelance Web Designer and Web Developer

Kikaweb

(Internet industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Web Design and Web Development, SEO, Graphic Design.
Web Content Manager and Communication Officer

Il Mondo in Sesto

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

December 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Develop and implement strategic communication plans for the cooperative start-up;

Design and produced marketing materials, press releases and corporate web site;

Assist with local fund raising events and advocacy activities;
Intern

Bush Heritage Australia

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

April 2007 — May 2007 (2 months)

Developing and producing a series of templates for BHA in-house publications
Web Content Manager

Elettra.biz

(Internet industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year )

Web Content Management
Web Content Manager

Mo-net srl

(Online Media industry)

September 2001 — May 2003 (1 year 9 months)

Web Content Manager and Editor: managing content in Italian and English for web portals (i.e. www.mymovies.it and www.mattonigranddrink.com), client's websites and e-learning multimedia projects.
Proofreader, Editor

Thèsis

(Publishing industry)

September 2001 — May 2003 (1 year 9 months)

Proofreading and Editing (mainly schoolbooks); Tasks included occasional desktop publishing assignments, image editing and research;

Caterina Chimenti’s Education

Università degli Studi di Siena

BA , Cultural Anthropology , 1995 — 2000

Graduated Magna cum Laude in Cultural Anthropology; Dissertation: "Il posto della letteratura africana in lingua francese all'interno del campo editoriale francese" ("The place of African Francophone Literature in French publishing field");
Overseas Studies Program: Erasmus Scholarship Exchange Program (1 academic year) at Université Paris VII, Paris, France
ITC Alessandro Volta, Bagno a Ripoli (FI)

High School Diploma , Foreign Languages (English, French, Russian) , 1989 — 1995

Additional Information

Caterina Chimenti’s Websites:

Caterina Chimenti’s Interests:

web design and web developement, graphics, content management, photography, travel, reading, african litterature, drawing

Caterina Chimenti’s Groups:

XING.com
Coworking
Google Group
Six (6) Degrees of Separation (The Largest Group)
Girl Geek Dinner Italia
Brand & Communications Management
User Experience
Florence Festival of Creativity - Festival della Creatività, Firenze (Toscana - Tuscany)
Creative Professionals
intoscana.it - Toscana business Club (social-networking in Tuscany)
Web Standards Design + Development
Designers Talk
DreamDesigners
FlorenceIN - ClubIN Firenze & Toscana
Friends of cowo-coworking
CREATIVE DESIGN PROS
Graphic Design
UniSI Alumni
Rinascimento Virtuale - Virtual Renaissance - art exhibition (Firenze - Florence)
Design+
web design italia
LinkedItaly - Anagrafe Italiani
Convegnogt
LIt - Linked Italians
Location Independent
Professione Donna
Editoria italiana
LET US AGREE!®
Social Media Marketing | Italia
italia.it
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