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• Manage, execute and own localization scope, handoffs and hand backs with Mozilla internal clients.• Work closely with volunteers and collaborators to manage community driven localization projects.• Consult on internationalization best practices and review products for localizability.• Develop scripting in Python and automation in GitHub to support and improve continuous localization workflow.• Drive terminology management and workflow improvements, develop automation to ensure consistency across all l10n areas and multiple translation management systems.

Greater Seattle Area

• Lead overlapping localization projects for yearly Pokémon core RPG releases, sim-shipping in 9 languages and achieving franchise highest 23 million+ sales. (See projects section for list of shipped titles.)• Own TPCi region VG live-operations, collaborating with international partners to produce post-launch content and functionality for millions of players.• Lead creative localization of high business impact Pokémon names, ensuring translations delight fans and adheres to creators' vision. Revised naming process doubling efficiency without any sacrifices in quality, improving velocity to meet ambitious schedules.• Responsible for maintaining business relationships with Japanese stakeholders acting as key point of connection between internal, external, technical and non-technical teams.• Train and mentor junior project managers.

Greater Seattle Area

• Created very first live-ops marketing text and visual asset localization workflow. Later integrating memoQ to improve turnaround and accuracy.• Negotiated integration and implementation of functionality critical to organized play with technical and non-technical teams, both internal and external, enabling transition to online competitive events watched by millions during pandemic.• Managed localization management team knowledge base, establishing practices for documenting internal workflows.And all previous responsibilities.

Greater Seattle Area

• Lead cross-functional teams in America, Japan and UK to deliver localization for Pokémon console and mobile titles.• Manage localization pipeline from pre-production through LQA.• Direct internal and external localization and QA teams, owning production process and schedules for all game text and assets.• Drive production of logos, key-art, label and packaging for North American, European and Oceania releases.• Advocate to developers for Localization and promote internationalization best-practices.• Define and execute content review process to identify cultural, geopolitical and legal risks, ensuring clear and actionable feedback sensitive to creators' vision.• Developed tool in python to automate creation and integration of in-game competition data and text, reducing process time from 2 hours to 20 minutes.• Automated translation of recurring post-launch game event text using Excel and VBA, reducing translation workload and error-rate to near 0.

Support sales teams and other departments through translation of highly sensitive internal and external client deliverables. Work with client HR professionals in English and Japanese to assess their needs and provide appropriate Talent Assessment solutions. Key areas of responsibility:Translation/localization - Translate key deliverables including assessment reports, assist in localization and development of SHL products for the Japanese market.Internal communications liaison - manage communications and relationship with SHL Group and its entities; acting as main point of contact for all functions, translating direct communications and interpreting for internal and external business meetings.International project management - coordinate with international and domestic HR managers to facilitate international projects (assessments, training, etc.)Product management - drive growth of international / multi-lingual assessment tools in Japanese market; act as product expert and provide consulting on best practices to both internal and external clientsHR Consulting - act as assessor and trainer for English language talent assessment and training services (Assessment and Development centers, psychometric tools training, interviewer training)

Iwate Prefectural Government - NPO, Culuture and International Relations Division

Bsb, Marketing, Japanese

Certificate, Localization: Customizing Software For The World