Marco Pontone

Experience

• 2020 - Present 4y : 7m

  Founder & Manager @ KHOR.store

  IT - Bologna

  Summary:

  • It all started as a hobby, designing and developing mechanical keyboard parts and electronics for myself and it became my current full-time job. As a one-man-business i manage all aspects of a small business, from product development, website design to the logistics & inventory management.

  Responsibilities:

  • Product development & design, finding the best materials and achieveing perfection in every detail.
  • Managing and constantly updating a Shopify e-Commerce based online shop down to Liquid programming and customization.
  • Inventory and logistics management, finding the right manufacturers, suppliers and shipping contractors.
  • Customer Service, it's always important to help a customer finding the right item or solving any kind of problems with an order or shipping.
  • Community Manager, this hobby is nothing without it and having a strong and well mantained community creates a better place to share knowledge and help newcomers.

  Achievements:

  • Learnt how to design a product from the ground up, finding manufacturers and perfect more every iteration.
  • Setup and maintain a Shopify e-Commerce shop, adapting partial Liquid code to business needs.
  • Inventory management, deal with shipping contractors and achieve 24h lead time from order to shipping.
  • Built a community of just under 1000 constantly active users on Discord, and over 3000 customers from all around the world.

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  • Shopify
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript
  • KiCad
  • Fusion360
  • C Language
• 2019 - 2020 1y : 1m

  Unreal Engine Dev @ Roborace

  IT - Pisa

  Summary:

  • Collaborated as Internship with the team of Squadra Corse of the University of Pisa enrolled for the Season Alpha of RoboRace championship. Developed part of the 3D Virtual environment in Unreal Engine 4, used to simulate and train the main AI that would then drive a real RoboRace competitive driver-less vehicle.

  Responsibilities:

  • Tweaked NVidia PhysX's library to enhance physics and behaviors of the vehicle in a simulated environment.
  • Simulated a virtual console joypad while receiveing analog input/output from a SpeedGoat controller.
  • Created all the necessary UI to display the data during simulated runs.
  • Created lap-time and time-attack simulation modes.
  • Created a random spline track generator in order to have always a new training set track for the training task of the AI.

  Achievements:

  • Learnt about digital-analog controllers for electric vehcles.
  • Learnt about strategic competitive racing.
  • Developed skills on Unreal Engine 4 beyond just Game-Dev, going deep into CUDA and PhysX libraries.
  • Competitive team-working.

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  • UE4
  • C++
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Jira
  • Docker
  • PhysX
  • CUDA
• 2010 - 2015 4y : 8m

  IT Manager @ NON SOLO PC

  IT - Cassino

  Summary:

  • I worked as the main IT technician for the hardware repair department. I managed the whole repair department from the customer acceptance to components inventory and logistics. Since the time the first iPhone was release, my goal was to give assistance and repair solution on complex and high-end devices.

  Responsibilities:

  • Customer acceptance, repaired item delivery and workflow management.
  • Hardware and software repairs on smartphones, tablet and any other complex device.
  • SMD and BGA chip services.
  • Warehouse inventory and components logistics management.
  • Updates and renew when new repair methods and process are released on the market.

  Achievements:

  • Learnt since from young age to solder small components and service SMD and BGA chip swaps and repairs.
  • Developed an independant capability to manage the inventory, order what's needed and manage new parts and fulfillment.
  • Built skills on customer services and social interaction for a professional environment.
  • Developed extraordinary problem solving skills even under high pressure and time sensitive situations.

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  • SAP
  • WIN
  • Mac-OS
  • Linux

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