Colin Sprague Email & Phone Number

Thousand Oaks, Ca, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

- Managed 5 engineers in the United States, Japan, Costa Rica, and France.- Proven leadership with 0% attrition rate over 7 years while working with entry-level through principle-level talent.- Thought leader in a hybrid role as engineering/people/product manager.- Collaborated with many platform and feature teams to expand the scope and scale of globalization quality.- Harnessed engineering test systems to gather context for improved translation quality.- Evaluated machine translation and AI workflows for localization and applied them appropriately. AI was not always the right answer.- Automated localization operations for 100s of distinct engineering projects with millions of resources, saving ~$37M in translation costs over 6 years.- Educated feature teams on best practices and ensured compliance through linting and governance.

Greater Seattle Area

- Manage engineers on the Globalization team to design and implement pipelines, services, and tools used by the entire DocuSign product development organization- Be a liaison to all engineering teams and promote standard Globalization practices through presentations at various team-level and organization-level events including internal boot camps and conferences- Be a globalization engineering leader by gathering and promoting ideas from the team members and pushing for excellence in all of our implementations- Simplify and streamline localization processes

Seattle, Wa

- Implemented features for Docusign's client-side signing application using JavaScript and C#- Promoted and tested the use of React and Redux for Signing through proof-of-concept work- Promoted standards-based development through Yeoman scaffolding and code-snippets for bootstrapping new implementation patterns

Bellevue, Wa

- Managed 11 engineers in the United States and Costa Rica.- Created the first version of Agilysys Stay, a cloud-based property management solution, while responsibly ramping down a legacy product.- Able to effectively collaborate with near-shore contractors in Costa Rica because of fluency in Spanish.

Bellevue, Wa

- Design and implement AngularJS-based web application.- Lead on-shore and off-shore teams in development of new web applications.- Work closely with product/project management, UX designers, and QA to design a fabulous user experience.- Manage continuous integration of the UI codebase through Grunt tasks, including: unit testing, test coverage, minification, and compression.- Support and responsibly ramp-down legacy Backbone.js-based framework.- Mentor junior-level UI team members and interns.

Santa Barbara, Ca

- Implemented prototype web application for the back-office suite of InfoGenesis POS.- Designed, documented, and implemented new functionality included in the smart-client back-office suite of InfoGenesis POS.- Maintained supported legacy versions of the product.- Implemented hot-fixes and patches as necessary.

Chicago, Il

- Implemented a new user interface for Linguistica--a tool for researching automated language learning from corpus data.- Tested and debugged all of Linguistica in Windows and Unix.- Designed and implemented a utility to assist in manually creating gold standard metrics to be used by Linguistica.

Seattle, Wa

- Designed and implemented speech interfaces with Python and C++ utilizing the Microsoft Speech group's speech recognition engine.- Collaborated with partners in Mexico City on a virtual tourism project, including making presentations to Mexican government officials to procure grant money.

M.A, Linguistics; 2006; Computational Linguistics

Automatic discovery of morphemes and compounds

B.S; B.A, Computer Science; Spanish & Portuguese Studies; 2003

Assoc. Of Sci, Pre-Medicine