Grenoble, France

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Grenoble, France · Portfolio · 2026

Building connections, telling stories and bringing people together.

Portrait of Nolan Di Francesco

(I) My approach

While my technical skills and projects have their own space on this portfolio, this is where I tell you about my approach. Fresh out of my BUT MMI degree in Grenoble, I'm interested in brands, in what they have to say and in the way they build connections with their audience. What drives me day to day is finding the right message, the most fitting format or the ideal event to engage a community and bring a project's values to life.

Naturally curious and a real team player, I love the synergy that comes out of a collective brainstorm and the satisfaction of seeing an abstract idea come to life on the ground or on social media. To me, communicating isn't about piling up content: it's about giving meaning and impact to every action.

To me, communicating isn't about piling up content: it's about giving meaning and impact to every action.

And what's next? Since September 2026, I've been continuing my studies with a Master's in Information & Communication (CEP track), which I'm completing on a work-study contract at Pyxalis. I approach this collaboration in a genuine spirit of exchange: learning from the teams' expertise while bringing a fresh perspective, my own ideas and real initiative. With a good level of English and a passion for meaningful projects, I fully commit myself, including to projects with an international dimension, with one simple conviction: communicating well means turning every action into concrete impact.

(II) Background

My experience.

  1. September 2026 → 2028

    Work-study2 years

    External Communication Assistant

    Pyxalis · Moirans, 38430

  2. September 2025 → August 2026

    Work-study1 year

    Communication & Content Creator

    YouStudio · Grenoble, 38000

  3. 27 January to 25 April 2025

    Internship13 weeks

    Content Creator

    YouStudio · Grenoble, 38000

  4. 19 and 20 April 2025

    2 days

    Volunteer

    Trail du Lac de Paladru · 38850

  5. August 2024 and July 2025

    2 months

    Head Cashier

    La Rochette Swimming Pool · Town Hall, 73110

  6. 2022 and 2024

    2 × 3 days

    Logistics Assistant

    Presidential and European elections · Isère Department, 38000

(III) Education

My education.

Illustration of education and training

  1. 2026 → 2028

    ICM Échirolles

    Master's in Information & Communication, Corporate Communication for Professionals (CEP) track, work-study

    Université Grenoble Alpes

  2. 2023 → 2026

    IUT 1 · Grenoble

    BUT MMI, Communication Strategy specialization

    School of digital communication (communication strategy, audiovisual, design and web development)

  3. 2020 → 2023

    LPO Monge · Chambéry

    STI2D Baccalaureate, ITEC specialization

    Technological Innovation & Eco-Design

(IV) What feeds me

My passions.

Three territories that go beyond hobbies. They feed my creative sensibility, my work discipline and my cultural openness.

YouStudio studio
Studio · YouStudio

01 · Music

Living music from the inside.

Music accompanies me daily and feeds my creative sensibility. This passion has found a particular echo at YouStudio, where I worked as a communication officer and content creator.

Working in a company specialised in training musicians means being around artists daily, living the studio environment, understanding how a musical universe is told through digital communication. An immersion that enriches my creative vision and strengthens my link to the cultural sector, one of the fields I'm targeting for the future.

  • 1 yrapprenticeship · 3 months internship
  • ∞artists met
  • 1studio as office
Mountain landscape
Alps · Grenoble

02 · Sport

Discipline as a driver.

Sport taught me what no school ever could: regularity, endurance, the taste for going further. Medallist in judo and karate as a child, I built on this foundation a regular sports practice that supports me today in all my projects.

This discipline translates directly into the way I work: meeting deadlines, delivering cleanly, starting over if needed. Beyond performance, it's also a field that interests me professionally, communication in the sport sector being one of my Master's objectives.

  • Running & gymRegular
  • SwimmingStrong level
  • Skiing & hikingAlps
  • Judo & karateMedals
View over a Nosy Be archipelago
Nosy Be · Madagascar

03 · Travel

Understanding other codes.

Twelve countries visited across three continents. Each destination taught me to read different cultural codes, an essential skill for anyone working in communication today, in a sector where local culture makes the difference between a message that lands and one that misses.

My trilingualism in French, English and Italian extends this openness daily. The destination that marked me the most: India for its sensory intensity. Japan and the United States are the next goals.

JapanUnited StatesFranceItalySpainPortugalBelgiumEnglandGermanyMoroccoTunisiaIndiaThailandMadagascar
  • FranceN·DF · 01
  • ItalyN·DF · 02
  • SpainN·DF · 03
  • PortugalN·DF · 04
  • BelgiumN·DF · 05
  • EnglandN·DF · 06
  • GermanyN·DF · 07
  • MoroccoN·DF · 08
  • TunisiaN·DF · 09
  • IndiaN·DF · 10
  • ThailandN·DF · 11
  • MadagascarN·DF · 12

Next stops

  • Japan?
  • United States?

12 countries · 3 continents

“If you want to build a ship… teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · after Citadelle

(V) Documents

Going further.

Republic of the curious

Passport

This site hides twelve secrets. Each discovery earns a stamp, kept in this browser.

0/12 stamps

  1. ComebackSecret no.01

    Leave for a moment… then come back.

  2. PolyglotSecret no.02

    Three languages, one portfolio. Visit all three.

  3. Night owlSecret no.03

    Grenoble's clock hides a switch.

  4. Music loverSecret no.04

    Music is with me every day. Turn the sound on.

  5. Green thumbSecret no.05

    Type the name of this site's colour.

  6. IpponSecret no.06

    Judo medallist. Bring my name down, at the very bottom.

  7. PatienceSecret no.07

    Don't touch anything for a long while.

  8. Konami codeSecret no.08

    ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A

  9. Under the hoodSecret no.09

    Developers know where to look. The console, for instance.

  10. DeckhandSecret no.10

    Type what you would have to build to set sail.

  11. AutographSecret no.11

    On the home page, insist on my initials, top left.

  12. BookwormSecret no.12

    This portfolio also exists on paper.

Work-study · Ongoing

External Communication Assistant

Pyxalis · Moirans · September 2026 → 2028

My current work-study placement, as part of my Master's in communication. Pyxalis is a 45-person company from the Grenoble area, specialising in the development and sale of innovative image sensors for the health, security and environment markets. A BtoB environment with a strong technological dimension, where I report to the Strategic Marketing Manager to roll out the company's communication plan.

Scope of the role · Events

  • Organising trade shows and conferences: selecting events with the Business Development and Marketing teams
  • Booking stands and managing the related logistics
  • Designing visual materials for these events

Product communication

  • Producing materials: product presentations, white papers
  • Print and video creation: flyers, brochures, product showcase videos
  • Organising webinars

Corporate & digital communication

  • Managing the website: updates, content development, SEO and online reputation
  • Running the LinkedIn page and building an editorial calendar
  • Performance tracking via KPIs and presence in online directories
  • Strengthening the brand image and upholding the brand guidelines

A role that brings together what I'm looking for: events, social media and content strategy, in a demanding technological sector.

What I see in it

  • A complete scope combining events, digital and communication strategy
  • A BtoB technological setting that broadens my experience beyond the cultural sector
  • A gradual step up in skills towards more autonomy and steering

Work-study · Completed

Communication & Content Creation

YouStudio · Grenoble · September 2025 → August 2026

My work-study placement at YouStudio, a direct continuation of my end-of-BUT-MMI internship. YouStudio is a professional training centre for performing-arts freelancers (intermittents du spectacle), paired with a music studio, based in Grenoble. My internship turned into a work-study contract and I came back with a broader scope: less pure execution, more strategy and steering.

Responsibilities

  • Complete overhaul of YouStudio's WordPress site (structure, usability, content)
  • Regular content production: video editing for YouTube, photography, visuals
  • SEO and GEO strategy (optimisation for search engines and generative engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity)
  • Automating repetitive tasks using Claude and AI (saving time on production, writing, formatting)
  • Strategic thinking on course materials for musicians in training: structure, format, learning experience
  • Managing mailing campaigns and marketing automation

Tools used

  • Final Cut Pro
  • Pixelmator Pro
  • Canva
  • WordPress
  • SEOPress
  • Claude
  • Groundhogg
  • LearnDash
  • Vimeo

What really makes me happy in this role: meeting musicians every week, some well-known, some less so, who come through the studio for their training.

What I take from it day to day

  • A complete view of a digital ecosystem: site, content, mailing, SEO, automation
  • Real autonomy on cross-functional projects (redesign, strategy, production)
  • Rich, inspiring human contact with the musicians in training

Internship · Completed

Content Creator

YouStudio · Grenoble · 27 January → 25 April 2025

My end-of-second-year BUT MMI internship at YouStudio, a professional training centre for performing-arts freelancers (intermittents du spectacle) and a music studio. 13 weeks touching everything in a creative environment: web, video, photo, SEO, community. This is what turned my interest in digital communication into hands-on practice.

Main tasks

  • Creating and updating over 350 glossaries on the WordPress site, with full SEO optimisation
  • Video production and editing for the Youtips YouTube channel (1,300+ videos in the catalogue)
  • Photography with a Leica to illustrate courses, glossaries and thumbnails
  • Photo retouching and graphic design for the web (visuals, thumbnails, banners)
  • Building online courses with LearnDash: structuring, chaptering, integration
  • Redesigning part of the site and improving the homepage usability
  • Creating marketing pop-ups with HollerBox and Groundhogg automation
  • Interacting with the community on YouTube and the site's dedicated space
  • Strategic research and topic proposals for the channel

Tools used

  • Final Cut Pro
  • Pixelmator Pro
  • Canva
  • WordPress
  • SEOPress
  • LearnDash
  • Leica
  • Vimeo
  • HollerBox
  • Groundhogg

The internship that turned into a work-study contract the very next term.

To go further

Volunteering · Sport

Volunteer · Trail du Lac de Paladru

Sporting event · 19-20 April 2025

Sport is one of my passions, and one of the directions I'm considering for the rest of my career. These two days volunteering at the Trail du Lac de Paladru let me see a sporting event from the inside, and understand the logistics hidden behind a race that looks seamless from the outside.

Photo of the Trail du Lac de Paladru 2025

Tasks at the event

  • Setting up and packing down race equipment (course markings, aid stations, marshalling points)
  • Timing with the professional machines used by the organisers: a role of trust that demands rigour and focus
  • Course-marshal role along the route to guide and keep runners safe
  • Helping the event run smoothly overall: welcoming, briefing, final pack-down

Understanding how an event holds together is the start of understanding how to tell its story.

What I take from it

  • A concrete view of event logistics in sport
  • Hands-on use of professional timing tools
  • A first real contact with sports events, the sector I'm aiming for in my Master's work-study

Summer job · Public service

Head cashier

La Rochette municipal swimming pool · Summer 2024 + Summer 2025

Two consecutive summers at the till of a municipal swimming pool, fully on my own. An experience that has nothing to do with communication but taught me things useful everywhere: rigour, handling money and the related accounting, and managing the public under pressure.

Responsibilities

  • Running a till single-handedly all day (opening, taking payments, closing)
  • Daily accounting: end-of-day counts, reporting takings to the town hall, balancing the cash
  • Managing entry flows in high season, sometimes with several hundred visitors a day
  • Welcoming and informing the public about prices, opening hours and site rules

Two summers in the same place also means finding the regulars, the team, the routines again, and working together in a good rhythm.

Transferable skills

  • Rigour in handling money and keeping accounts
  • Daily teamwork with the lifeguards and municipal staff
  • A relationship with a recurring public: recognising the regulars, building a bond season after season
  • Composure with a demanding public during peak times

Assignment · Institutional

Logistics Assistant

Elections · Isère Department · 2022 & 2024

Two logistics assignments at the Isère Department, two years apart, for the 2022 presidential elections and then the 2024 European elections. Short but high-stakes operations, where precision and rigour aren't up for negotiation: the equipment has to arrive on time, in the right place, and complete.

Tasks

  • Preparing electoral material for the department's polling stations: enveloping, counting, checking
  • Official posting of campaign posters on the electoral boards according to the applicable protocol
  • Distribution logistics of the material across the whole department
  • Coordinated teamwork under a tight schedule, where every delay has a direct impact on the vote

An election is a massive logistical machine where every link counts. I was one of them.

What I take from it

  • Real experience of teamwork under strong time pressure
  • A concrete understanding of French institutional organisation
  • Rigour and discretion required by a sensitive administrative setting

Degree · Master's level (Bac +5) · In progress

Master's in Information & Communication · Corporate Communication

ICM Échirolles · 2026 → 2028 · Université Grenoble Alpes

My next step: the Master's in Information & Communication, Corporate Communication for Professionals (CEP) track, at the Institute of Communication and Media (ICM) in Échirolles, part of the UFR LLASIC at Université Grenoble Alpes. A two-year work-study programme, one week of classes a month and three weeks in the company, that trains the future managers of the communication function.

Areas covered

  • Corporate communication: brand image, institutional communication, press relations
  • Internal communication: company culture, engagement, change management
  • Marketing and digital communication: content strategy, social media, community management
  • Crisis communication: anticipating, managing and steering sensitive situations
  • Strategy and consulting: communication audits, strategic plans, 360° expertise

What the programme builds

  • Strategic vision
  • 360° communication
  • Project management
  • Leadership mindset
  • Sector expertise
  • Analytical perspective

Moving from producing content to shaping the strategy behind it, that's what this Master's is all about.

Why I chose it

  • A recognised Master's that trains communication managers, grounded in both research and the field
  • A work-study placement at Pyxalis alongside it, to anchor every lesson in real practice
  • The shift from a versatile, hands-on profile (BUT MMI) to a more strategic posture

Degree · Bachelor's level (Bac +3) · Completed

BUT MMI · Communication Strategy

IUT 1 Grenoble · 2023 → 2026 · Université Grenoble Alpes

Three years in the Multimedia & Internet Studies department at IUT 1 Grenoble, with a third-year specialization in Communication Strategy. A demanding, hybrid programme that blends the creative, strategic and technical sides of digital communication.

Areas studied

  • Communication strategy: brand positioning, communication plans, audits, creative briefs, campaign analysis
  • Audiovisual: photo and video shooting, editing, sound recording, motion design, writing for the screen
  • Design: visual identity, brand guidelines, UX/UI, editorial design, typography
  • Web development: HTML/CSS/JavaScript, integration, WordPress CMS, PHP basics, accessibility
  • Digital marketing: SEO, SEA, social media, online reputation, content marketing, analytics
  • General culture and expression: professional writing, English, interpersonal communication

Transferable skills developed

  • Project management
  • Teamwork
  • Organisation
  • Public speaking
  • Critical thinking
  • Sector monitoring
  • AI tools proficiency

Choosing a programme that never separates substance from beauty, or strategy from execution.

What this programme gives me

  • A 360° view of digital communication, from strategy through to production
  • Real technical autonomy to produce content without relying solely on outside providers
  • A project-based way of working (SAÉ, Learning & Assessment Situations) that stays close to the real world

Next step considered

  • A work-study Master's in communication, events or community management, ideally in sport, fashion or music, but open to other meaningful fields

Degree · High school diploma · Passed with honours

STI2D Baccalaureate · ITEC

Lycée Polyvalent Monge · Chambéry · 2020 → 2023

A Baccalaureate in Science and Technology of Industry and Sustainable Development, ITEC specialization (Technological Innovation & Eco-Design), obtained at LPO Monge in Chambéry. A track that taught me to design, model and prototype while accounting for technical constraints as well as environmental impact.

Areas studied

  • Technological innovation: analysing existing products, finding technical solutions, prototyping
  • Eco-design: material selection, life-cycle analysis, energy optimisation
  • 3D modelling and CAD: computer-aided design, technical drawing, simulation
  • Scientific subjects: mathematics, physics-chemistry, engineering sciences
  • End-of-year project: designing and building an innovative product as a team

A training that taught me every idea has to be buildable, and every build has to make sense.

What I took from it

  • A structured design logic: from the specifications to the final prototype
  • The habit of thinking a project through in every dimension, including environmental ones
  • A taste for hands-on, concrete work that complements digital nicely

Why this shift towards communication

  • Going from an STI2D Baccalaureate to a BUT MMI is anything but obvious, but it was a conscious choice: keeping the methodical rigour of a technical training and applying it to a more creative field. That's exactly what makes my approach different today.