Damien O'Donovan Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

Redmond, WA

• Led a team of four international project engineers (IPE) to handle the daily engineering tasks
• Worked as a Localization Producer on Age of Empires: Castle Siege
• Undertook a complete engineering process review to streamline localization processes across Xbox products. This allowed Xbox Localization to move to a managed service model and decreased the handoff and handback time.
• Coordinated with the feature teams to scope new features for localization. By taking part in design and spec reviews potential internationalization issues were caught early and addressed before they resulted in bugs.
• Created and maintained the localization budget for all of Xbox console
• Worked with my localization team to make sure all localization work was done on time, on budget and with the highest possible quality

United States

• I developed and implemented a scale release process for rapidly releasing projects across Windows Services. Release times run anywhere from 1 week to 6 weeks and the process had to be flexible enough to accommodate the.
• I efficiently ran daily ship room for the last major milestone for Windows Services Localization. This enabled Windows Services to release over 10 products on time and with the quality customers have grown to expect.
• I worked with the feature teams for SkyDrive Cloud Services and Safety Platform to plan the localization for the next series of releases
• I coordinated with the feature teams to make sure we stayed on schedule and to communicate any schedule changes both upstream and downstream
• I worked with the localization production team to make sure they understand the needs of the international customer and the feature team

• Represented the international team as international release manager in the feature team WAR room
• Ensured that international releases ran smoothly – ran the daily stand up and triage meetings
• Worked with the feature team on developing a process to speed up international releases to align with the feature team two week release schedule
• Work closely with development and testing to uncover localizability and localization bugs
• Create or modify tools necessary for the software localization process; recommending improvements to the process where needed
• Become a power user on Exchanges cloud localization system, Resource Studio

Redmond, WA

• International Project Engineer (Office International)
• Ensure upstream the localizability quality and clean resources for all languages
• Engage in core team triage and ensure a high bar for Visual freeze and international quality
• Deliver effective and timely support to the PM, developers, and testers to fix build breaks or unblocked pseudo related issues (code or BVTs).
• Engage with the core test teams to ensure the appropriate test coverage
• Ensure the excellent and timely support to the production teams in Redmond and Ireland to enable high quality localized builds

• Managing translation projects with customers and contractors.
• Tracking projects using our CRM solution
• Performing desktop publishing using Word, Illustrator, PageMaker, Freehand etc on both on MAC and PC.
• Performing quality checks on all projects.
• Coordinating interpretation jobs between interpreter and client.
• Creating estimates for new jobs.

• Analysis of new product or component to determine localization needs
• Worked a lot with SQL/SQL Server. Set up new SQL Servers and used SQL statements to extract text from tables, add new tables, insert text into tables, modify existing tables, etc
• Familiar with ASP- extracted text from.ASP files
• Implementation of new process to standardize localization
• Building localized products using InstallShield
• Localizing reports using Crystal Reports 6.0 and 8.0

• Informix software was a database server company based in California. It has since been taken over by IBM.
• My duties included:
• Evaluated new products for localization and generating translation kits
• Supporting translation vendors with any queries or problems they had
• Building the localized product on NT and Solaris
• Generating test scripts and testing the products