Dan exercises a wide range of skills to ensure that Zab maintains a competitive edge on the world stage of business. He provides a strong operational, technical, and global-conscious skill set to the worldwide Zab team. His duties consist of the following:• Lead, enable, and direct the Zab global process across all company teams.• Monitor operating costs and revenue to ensure profitability.• Maximize employee efficiency through advanced processes, tools, and automation.• Demonstrate foresight, drawing on experience and training to achieve revenue and performance goals, as well as meet long-term company objectives.• Develop operational policies and procedures that prove both effective and efficient during all stages of the company's translation and localization process.

As a PMP-certified Senior Project Manager at MultiLing, Dan directed the Project Management and Desktop Publishing teams, providing the operational strategy, vision, process, and oversight for localization and software QA (testing) efforts to enable the worldwide release of hundreds of publications and software suites.• Managed high-volume translation and localization projects for Fortune 500 companies such as Dell, DuPont, AMD, Intel, Honda, VMware, IBM, NetApp, and LSI Corp.• Led as operational primary point of contact and directed localization efforts for 1000+ projects a year into 50+ languages• Managed weekly live meetings and conference calls with stakeholders to monitor project progress and ensure that quality and project scope expectations are met• Direct report to Senior VP of Operations and COO• Direct manager of the U.S. Project Management and U.S. Desktop Publishing teams• Provided high-level operational direction to operations sub-teams (60+ employees), promoting cross-team collaboration to meet deadlines and to stay within project budget• Conducted company-wide ‘all hands’ operations meetings to plan, coordinate project workloads, and address issues• Achieved year to year global company revenue increase of 20% through standardization and automation of company localization processes• Industry thought-leader and contributor in software localization (techrepublic.com)