My name is Erik Stripparo. I am a native Milanese (from Milan) and am currently a free-lancer creating Pods, for N3TV, working as an Italian speaker for voiceovers and synchronisations and also as an IT expert.
This is how I got there:
At the age of seven I was  given my very first computer, a ZX Spectrum, from my older brother who also passed on his successive computers to me, the Commodore Vic 20, then C-64 and the successful Amiga series. By the age of nine I was writing in Basic for my own enjoyment once the video games lost their allure.
At fourteen I started studying IT at school and two second languages, English and German. At the same time I was playing guitar and singing my own songs in my band. My desire to be the centre of attention lead me first to place my band on the school stage and then to TV where I was interviewed and performed my own music.
After college, where I continued my study of IT and accounting, I started working for a multi-national company, Kennametal, where I soon became Department Manager, due to my computer programming and English skills. However I was twenty-one and ready for adventure so in 1997 I left Milan headed for Australia via Berlin where I paused, taken in by the unique culture and its strong creative atmosphere and opportunities. I live here still.
I improved my German and started playing with a range of different musicians including Raz O’Hara, who I co-wrote and played with on his record “The Last Legend” and which was distributed internationally.
During this time of the late 90’s, I continued to discover and explore the new communication format of the Internet, and co-grounded a project with Humboldt University in Berlin, doing online live music performances with the “primitive” and not ready software and my current band at the time.
At the university we had access to the latest computers and music hardware and I became familiar with software such as “Cubase” for music production among others.
I then begun producing my own music and co-grounded a Berlin based Indie music label called “Sleepwalk Discs” on which I released my own 2 EPs plus many others for local bands and musical acts.
During this period I started creating flyers with Photoshop for Berliner clubs and events that I gained a reputation for and assisted my familiarity with digital imagery and commercial presentation.
In 2003 I started free-lancing as a translator and speaker, producing the voiceovers in my own studio, which I currently still do as activity. I am proud to be a radio jingle creator and speaker for clients such as New Yorker, Dunlop and the European Community and a movie speaker for movies such as “Sid and Nancy” (re-dubbed in 2007 for the Italian market).
Around 2005 I tried my hand at making videos and created a very popular Internet show (about 20 pods) that gained popularity in Italy, the language of the show is currently Italian, and has also been well viewed in  Australia, America, England and Germany, due to the English subtitles.
This show called “Cibi Alterati” won the people’s award as Best Italian VideoBlog in 2007.
In 2006 I finally flew to Australia to ask my wife’s hand, (yes, she is Australian), and we both returned to Europe to live in 2007.
My never-ending creativity and production has gained me increasing attention and led me to meet Italian Net television pioneer Tommaso Tessarolo, who I started working with producing live streaming shows on his channel N3TV up to current date.
With my venture to date I have been noticed by people such as Chris Brogan and Jeff Pulver from Pulver Media who have maintained contact during my growth in Net TV and recently invited me to his web show to talk about the Italian Net TV situation.

Earlier this year I started producing Pods for Tommaso Tessarolo such as Music Fix.

EXPERIENCE

VIDEO CONTENT PRODUCER N3TV — 2007-2008
Produced weekly live-stream music show, showcasing International and Local Musicians including Vinicio Capossela (I), Tim McMillan (AU), Greenissimo (US).
SPEAKER 2004-2008-
Recorded and edited jobs for different international clients such as Dunlop, New Yorker, various documentaries, both at my home studio and in different Berlin based studios.
IT EXPERT 2007-2008
Working for Wirecard AG, Internet support Technology
Centro Didattico Coppola, Italian Educational Distribution.
IMPORT MANAGER 2004-2007
Centro Didattico Coppola Managing Italian Import and as translator with International Companies.
MUSICIAN/PRODUCER 1994-2008
Sleepwalk Discs Indie music production
Peppermint Jam Pre-Production in my studio
Countless live events
CO-FOUNDER INDIE MUSIC LABEL IN BERLIN 2003
Managing, producing and distributing local Berlin Bands
CO-FOUNDER OF AN INTERNET MULTIMEDIA/MUSIC RELATED PROJECT AT BERLINER
HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY 2001-2003
Live internet stream of various local bands, experimenting with the Internet
SECURITY MANAGER FOR THEATER SHOW “THE LORD OF THE RINGS” 1998-1999

DEPARTMENT MANAGER AND ENGLISH TEACHER AT KENNAMETAL ITALY 1995-1997

EDUCATION
Account/IT programmer at Istituto Tecnico Commerciale Pietro Verri in Milan

SPOKEN LANGUAGES
•Italian (mother-tongue)
•English (excellent)
•German (excellent)
•Spanish (well spoken and read)

OPERATING SISTEMS
•Mac os X
•Windows

PROGRAMS
•Final Cut Suite
•Adobe Suite
•Logic
•Cubase
•Reason
•Ableton Live
•Office suite

REFERRALS

N3tv.it      Tommaso Tessarolo tommaso.tessarolo@googlemail.com
tbtv.it     Saverio Cannito saveriocannito@theblogtv.it
Peppermint Jam Records  Florian Burger burger@future-pop.de
Centro Didattico Coppola Concetta Stripparo - concetta.stripparo@centrodidatticocoppola.it
Humboldt University  Bernd Schiefert, Gunar Bayer - gunarman@gmx.de
Stimmgerecht (voiceover agency) +4930339369412
Krane und Rabe (voiceover agency) rabe@kraneundrabe.de
Vision Control Medienagentur & TV Production - Thomas Thoennes Thomas@vc-video.com
Kitty-yo music label www.kitty-yo.de