My Name is Nicola Mazzei, I’m Italian but from 2007 till 2025 I lived and worked in Beijing (China). Recently I relocated to Italy and I’m working between china and Italy. Education and work background: In 2007 I graduated from University of Bologna with a bachelor degree in English and Chinese Language and Literature, after that I went to Beijing (China) and I studied Chinese language at Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) for one year. From 2010 till 2021 I worked in IT industry, in software testing projects, first as software tester and after as Team Lead and later on as Project Manager. In my last position I worked as Project Manager from 2015 till 2021 at Pactera Edge (now the company rebranded as Centific Link ). We were a vendor team for Microsoft, and my team focused on functional testing for Office 365 IP . This project started with three headcount based in Beijing (China) and gradually expanded to 11 headcount delivering from two location Beijing (China) and also Hyderabad (India). All the work was done in English, and I worked in close touch with my two teams, Microsoft Project owner based in Redmond (Seattle) and also the sales team from my company for quarterly and annual reviews. In 2021 I decided to refresh my skillset, and I did a master’s degree in Sound Design for Films from Beijing Film Academy (BFA), I graduated in 2024. While attending the master I was working part-time as sound designer and music producer. Music and Sound Design Portfolio: _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ I keep up to date with new technologies, for example I just completed a Professional Certificate on Generative AI Leader from Google Cloud training. I do sound design and music in traditional way, recording music instruments and sounds, using MIDI and also ai technologies. In 2025 started a growing request from clients for ai music (in order to comply with the very short release cycle and also different styles and languages of singers, not always available on short-notice) . For this reason I learned how to work also with ai technologies. Below some links of ai music: Music for AI MV Slow decay: _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ AI music album with songs in English, Italian, Swahili, Finnish: _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_…

Nicola Mazzei

My Name is Nicola Mazzei, I’m Italian but from 2007 till 2025 I lived and worked in Beijing (China). Recently I relocated to Italy and I’m working between china and Italy. Education and work background: In 2007 I graduated from University of Bologna with a bachelor degree in English and Chinese Language and Literature, after that I went to Beijing (China) and I studied Chinese language at Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) for one year. From 2010 till 2021 I worked in IT industry, in software testing projects, first as software tester and after as Team Lead and later on as Project Manager. In my last position I worked as Project Manager from 2015 till 2021 at Pactera Edge (now the company rebranded as Centific Link ). We were a vendor team for Microsoft, and my team focused on functional testing for Office 365 IP . This project started with three headcount based in Beijing (China) and gradually expanded to 11 headcount delivering from two location Beijing (China) and also Hyderabad (India). All the work was done in English, and I worked in close touch with my two teams, Microsoft Project owner based in Redmond (Seattle) and also the sales team from my company for quarterly and annual reviews. In 2021 I decided to refresh my skillset, and I did a master’s degree in Sound Design for Films from Beijing Film Academy (BFA), I graduated in 2024. While attending the master I was working part-time as sound designer and music producer. Music and Sound Design Portfolio: _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ I keep up to date with new technologies, for example I just completed a Professional Certificate on Generative AI Leader from Google Cloud training. I do sound design and music in traditional way, recording music instruments and sounds, using MIDI and also ai technologies. In 2025 started a growing request from clients for ai music (in order to comply with the very short release cycle and also different styles and languages of singers, not always available on short-notice) . For this reason I learned how to work also with ai technologies. Below some links of ai music: Music for AI MV Slow decay: _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ AI music album with songs in English, Italian, Swahili, Finnish: _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_…

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March 2, 2026

My Name is Nicola Mazzei, I’m Italian but from 2007 till 2025 I lived and worked in Beijing (China). Recently I relocated to Italy and I’m working between china and Italy.

Education and work background:
In 2007 I graduated from University of Bologna with a bachelor degree in English and Chinese Language and Literature, after that I went to Beijing (China) and I studied Chinese language at Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) for one year. From 2010 till 2021 I worked in IT industry, in software testing projects, first as software tester and after as Team Lead and later on as Project Manager.
In my last position I worked as Project Manager from 2015 till 2021 at Pactera Edge (now the company rebranded as Centific Link ). We were a vendor team for Microsoft, and my team focused on functional testing for Office 365 IP . This project started with three headcount based in Beijing (China) and gradually expanded to 11 headcount delivering from two location Beijing (China) and also Hyderabad (India).
All the work was done in English, and I worked in close touch with my two teams, Microsoft Project owner based in Redmond (Seattle) and also the sales team from my company for quarterly and annual reviews.

In 2021 I decided to refresh my skillset, and I did a master’s degree in Sound Design for Films from Beijing Film Academy (BFA), I graduated in 2024.
While attending the master I was working part-time as sound designer and music producer.

Music and Sound Design Portfolio: Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup
I keep up to date with new technologies, for example I just completed a Professional Certificate on Generative AI Leader from Google Cloud training.

I do sound design and music in traditional way, recording music instruments and sounds, using MIDI and also ai technologies.
In 2025 started a growing request from clients for ai music (in order to comply with the very short release cycle and also different styles and languages of singers, not always available on short-notice) .
For this reason I learned how to work also with ai technologies.
Below some links of ai music:

Music for AI MV Slow decay:
Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup

AI music album with songs in English, Italian, Swahili, Finnish:
Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup

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Language

Italian
Fluent
English
Fluent
Chinese
Advanced

Work Experience

Sound designer and music composer at Freelance
June 1, 2021 - Present
Sound designer and music composer for advertisement, film, documentary, art exhibition, artist. Portfolio at: https://www.youtube.com/@nicolamazzei9516/playlists
PROJECT MANAGER- SOFTWARE TESTING at Pactera Edge
October 1, 2015 - May 31, 2021
Project Manager for software functional testing and accessibility development for Microsoft Office 365 Security and Compliance Center (SCC) as a vendor team. My team was composed of 11 members based in two locations, Beijing (China) and Hyderabad (India), while we worked for US based customer (Microsoft -Redmond). My responsibilities included: • Managing stakeholders • Managing the team, from yearly to daily planning, including interviews of new candidates, planning the trainings, quarterly performance evaluations; • Project was executed using Agile Scrum methodology • Coordination with Overseas Project Owner and Stakeholders in US via email and online calls. • Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives (including SLA and KPI), involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility; • Ensure that the project is delivered on-time, within scope and within budget; • Elaboration of Delivery Plans; Test Plans and reports • Coordinate internal resources, ensure resources availability and efficient allocation; • Bug Triage and reporting. • Identify and resolve blockers. • Work with the sales team for quarterly and annual reviews
TEAM LEAD - SOFTWARE TESTING at Pactera Edge
January 7, 2013 - September 30, 2015
Team Lead for testing Microsoft Office apps, on Android and iOS, including manual UI Testing and international testing in Microsoft offsite lab in Beijing (China). My responsibilities included: Discuss Test Scope with PM and Project Owner Managing a team with 7 members, Cordinating with PM, joining weekly meetings with Microsoft Project owner in Redmond (Microsoft Headquarter) Project was managed using Agile Scrum methodology Create Test Plan Reporting project status Bug Triage (Visual Studio) Team members quarterly performance evaluation Create training program and documentation for new comers.
SOFTWARE TESTER at VANCEINFO TECHNOLOGIES INC
July 5, 2010 - December 28, 2012
Manual Tester for compatibility testing during Windows OS Development. I was responsible for testing apps on Italian OS on new builds according to dev schedule. Tests were executed on 4 machines, out of which two machines with latest builds and two with UPG from previously released OS (x86; x64). Write Test Cases for new apps and new scenarios Report Bugs (Product Studio, Visual Studio) Verify Bugs on new OS builds Responsible for WTT tool for deploying OS.

Education

MFA MASTER DEGREE IN SOUND DESIGN FOR FILMS at Beijing Film Academy
September 7, 2021 - June 18, 2024
Field of study: Sound Design, Video editing, Mixing in stereo and surround , sound recording, sound editing, location recording
BACHELOR DEGREE IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE (ENGLISH AND CHINESE) at University of Bologna (Italy)
February 7, 2026 - February 7, 2026
CHINESE LANGUAGE TRAINING PROGRAM at Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU)
September 17, 2007 - June 20, 2008
Chinese language, intensive course (6 hours a day). Chinese language and culture
GENERATIVE AI LEADER at Google Cloud Training
September 29, 2025 - October 22, 2025
Generative ai, RAG, prompt engineering. https://coursera.org/verify/professional-cert/H3LKQA0JWYJN

Qualifications

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    paper Sound design and music composition reel

    Below the reel for some of the projects I worked on as sound designer and music composer:

    Please Notice: on my Youtube channel can find other projects I worked on, including sound desiggner and composer for art exhibitions, music producer for artists and bands. Mixing and mastering engineer.
    https://www.youtube.com/@nicolamazzei9516/playlists

    I compose music in traditional way, with real instruments but also with MIDI.
    In the last six months I’ve been merging ai technologies in the workflow and created a few ai albums:

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