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Remote

Arizona, United States

Coordinating localization and project management for several small sub-organizations. Working with development teams, quality assurance, and indepent translators to create non-english websites and services.

San Mateo, California, United States

• Drove and managed globalization and localization projects involving User Interface, Documentation and Training Materials. Trained Developers, SQA and Doc teams on localization and globalization and onboarded them to.
• Managed translation process ensuring translators had proper understanding of translatables, integrated translations into source control, built and distributed translated products for functional and linguistic test.
• Instrumental in development of a Continuous Translation Tool to automatically analyze updated source, reuse translations, translate new items, and check-in translated files. After the team went from nine members to.
• Managed Content Management Systems/CMS, Translation Memories/TM, Computer Aided/CAT Translation Tools, Glossaries, and Machine Translation/MT to maintain ongoing evaluation and revisions for product lifecycle.
• Project contact for day-to-day localization issues and status, mitigated and resolved translation quality issues, mitigated risk, ensured on-time completion of all deliverables while sharing project status daily and.
• Produced and Created web-based eLearning and training videos on numerous topics.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Produced localized software, online documentation, warning labels, and printed materials for up to 25 languages. Architect and driver of full life cycle globalization-localization process. Developed tools and processes.
• Led expansion of product line from English-only to simultaneous ship of up to 25 languages significantly increasing international revenues on a medical imaging product line using medical terminology and regulated by.
• Created a Centralized Localization Repository and Service for Europe, India, and US based products. Performed all project coordinator and localization engineer tasks, wrote string re-use and database access tool for.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams and all stakeholders to facilitate on-time task execution, simple easy to understand translations, and smooth product launch.
• Tracked and communicated progress and task status, identified and eliminated upcoming roadblocks and managed risks as ScrumMaster.
• Defined and documented localization processes, wrote detailed project and QA plans, managed inter-team communications to ensure quality and timely handoffs for all stakeholders.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Drove International television service projects (program guide and recording) through localization workflows to launch. Full responsibility for localization and translation and launch of existing, new, and updated.
• Created tools to allow simple import and export to content management systems thus increasing reliability and efficiency.
• Developed and maintained project schedules in MS Project and managed stakeholder relationships and communication.
• Defined Localization and translation best practices.
• Refined change and release management processes improving all translation throughout Microsoft.
• Corrected all localization issues, oversaw verification, ran reviews, sent translation kits and merged translations.

Menlo Park, CA

• Developed Java code to globalize and localize areas of corporate web site. Developed routines to automatically display content in users native or selected language guaranteeing comprehension and simplifying usage and.
• Enabled runtime language switching to allow multilingual display of web content and a single point of access to content.
• Rewrote display routines to reload page in proper language automatically and display in proper encoding and language.
• Coordinated with external translation, provided translation packs, and formalized translation workflow, received completed translation packs, integrated translations into source control, deployed new translations to.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Produced foreign language websites for commercial picture sharing and printing site. Created new content, mentored web developers on globalization architecture and best practices, drove bi-di and right-to-left (RTL).
• Provided full Project Management, architectural changes, and all Localization Engineering. Drove site releases from three languages to over ten in a 24/7 real time high availability environment.
• Collaborated with local and offshore teams to ensure 24-hour availability of multilingual sites and services. Worked with European and Asian marketing teams to design, deploy and maintain country specific offerings.
• Developed tools in Perl to import English and translated source into database, perform counts and comparisons, analyze differences, and regenerate translated source based on English content thus reducing localization.
• Created a centralized translation service for Kodak. Developed tools to automate the workflow between translation request, storage tools, and requestor to reduce cost and re-use previous translations.
• Provided leadership to web developers and content producers to internationalize the look and feel of the site and simplify translation. Collaborated with content producers to reduce content and lower translation cost.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Computer Science