Åsa Ahlgren Email & Phone Number

Superior, Co

As a Senior Business Consultant, I am a member of the Pre-Sales team, working closely with Sales to develop a winning sales strategy for new prospects, respond to RFPs, write proposals, conduct technology demos, and prepare presentations for customer meetings. While based in the US, I support the global Sales team, including APAC and EMEA. Once a customer has signed on with RWS I support the operations team in on-boarding, technology configurations, and requirements gathering. For existing customers, I further support them with developing long-term global strategies through consulting engagements, training on globalization best practices and recommendations for improvement.

• In my most recent role at ENLASO, I reported to the Chief Sales Officer, managing the Sales team and acting as a liaison between Production and Sales, ensuring clients receive the best possible solution for their localization needs. I was deeply involved in each Sales cycle, from providing RFPs and quotations to consulting in technical matters and Localization best practices. • In previous roles at ENLASO, I started as a QA Lead, managing functional and linguistic testing of a Desktop Publishing software package in 10 languages. This included assisting linguists with test cases, bug tracking, installing daily builds on localized OSes, and liaising with the client on technical issues. I was then hired on as the Localization Engineering Supervisor, managing a team of Localization Engineers, overseeing their daily workload, ensuring proper training and tools for the group and customizing parsers and processes to allow efficient localization of new file types. Later, the Project Management team was added under my management. During this time, I also led the migration of our Accounting and Project Management software to a new integrated system.

Filled various roles such as Localization Consultant, Customer Support Specialist and QA Engineer, until January 2007 when offered to start up a Boulder production unit. As Production Manager, I started out as a single person production unit, covering all aspects of production, such as Account Management, Project Management, Localization Engineering, Desktop Publishing, interacting with Sales to attract more business as well as providing existing and prospective clients with quotations. As business grew, so did the team, each month posting new record numbers.

Managed a high visibility localization project for Lowe’s vendors. This included designing and overseeing the implementation of a web portal to allow the more than five hundred vendors to submit and manage projects online; the portal also allowed for internal translation workflow management, invoicing etc. Duties included ongoing project management of the day-to-day activities for this project, customer support for the portal, managing the engineering team, translation and DTP vendors, and interacting with Lowe’s vendors.

Managed the implementation of GlobalSight’s Globalization Management System (GMS) at client sites. This included Engagement management, Project management, training, technical support and installations. Consulted on Localization best practices with International clients. Managed day-to-day activities for major clients.