Where my passion and skills meet
Social enterprise
Emerging media
Mobile
Brand advocacy
Out-of-the-box creative marketing
Collaborative team work
Global outreach
2007 - 2009   New Media Business Manager, Microsoft
2004 - 2007   Partner Marketing Manager, Microsoft
2003 - 2004   Technical Program Manager, Microsoft
2001 - 2003   International Data Analyst, Microsoft
Corporate experience
Mid-size business experience
1999 - 2000   Web Marketing Director, click2learn.com
1998 - 1999   Web Marketing Manager, Asymetrix
1996 - 1998   International Product Marketing Manager, Asymetrix
2009 - today   Enterprise Social Video consultant, Tosolini LLC
2004 - today   Co-founder, ItalyFromTheInside.com
2000 - 2001     Co-founder, myItalianVacation.com
Startup experience
1996   Multimedia researcher, Southern Illinois University
1995   Multimedia developer, Intec College, Cape Town, South Africa
1994   Web designer, University of Trieste, Italy
1993   Multimedia intern, NEC Research Labs, Tokyo, Japan
Early R&D experiences
Tag cloud of my 30+ LinkedIn recommendations
A few career highlights
Launched and ran Microsoft's "internal YouTube" (called Academy Mobile) used by employees to exchange confidential knowledge, best practices and communications via online audio/video
Paolo launching the Podcast-in-a-Box program aimed at crowdsourcing video content from employees
Paolo receives the 2008 Digital Marketing Excellence award from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
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 field in just 2.5 years

Led Academy Mobile to 8 industry accolades

The Academy Mobile platform
Academy Mobile video
Developed over 600 new Office 2007 solutions representing 800% higher achievement rate vs. prior launch
2007 - 2009
New Media Business Manager, 
Microsoft
2004 - 2007  Partner Marketing Manager, Microsoft
Invented framework for and managed Office 2007 Partner Technology Adoption Program (TAP) engagement that resulted in early adoption of Office platform by over 4,500 ISVs/SIs worldwide

The launch of Office 2007 at the Microsoft WorldWide Partner Conference featuring solutions created by early adopters in Paolo's program
Paolo managing the creation of partner marketing evidence before the official release of Office
2009 - today
Enterprise Social Video consultant, Tosolini LLC
Paolo has been speaking at numerous events and workshops about leveraging online video in the enterprise
Mobile Learning, social media massage campaign (promotional podcasts while you get a massage) and internal communications with choco-tags (Microsoft Tags printed on chocolate and linked to YouTube videos)
Paolo in his natural evangelist role during various corporate events 
Paolo has been invited twice to be the Digital Media Captain of  Imagine Cup, the world's premier student technology competition hosted by Microsoft and attracting more than 350K registered students
Paolo Tosolini's Prezume
paolo@tosolini.com
(425) 985-7886
Places to connect with me
http://twitter.com/tosolini 
http://linkedin.com/in/tosolini 
http://facebook.com/tosolini 
http://youtube.com/tosolini 
http://gooplus.me/tosolini
How can we start working together?
(425) 985-7886 - paolo@tosolini.com - http://tosolini.com
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