I work with some of the world's most sophisticated global content teams, helping them unite content management and language to effectively reach global audiences and enhance customer experience. In my spare time, I'm proud to be part of the RWS Green Agenda team, promoting sustainability within our company and industry, and I also volunteer as lead for a large Firewise community where I use my writing, communications and organizational skills to help keep our members safe from the growing danger of wildfires in our area. -Started in enterprise software: 13 years with EMC/Documentum, leading globalization for 50+ content management products-Expanded to Internet companies to increase their international reach: Yahoo, Glassdoor. -Added globalization supply-side experience with Gengo (crowdsourcing innovator) and SDL (content management and globalization leader, acquired by RWS in 2020)-Throughout my career: globalization technology industry activist, speaker, writer, evangelizer, working toward a world of technology-enabled “translation everywhere”-most recently, I have added "sustainability activist" to my role at RWS, working as part of the RWS Green Agenda committee to strategize and promote environmental sustainability throughout the company.Expertise:During my years in the industry, I have successfully navigated my way through many challenges on the globalization front, including: -working with core product teams to internationalize software-evangelizing and implementing centralized localization structures-prioritizing and expanding language coverage-managing global vendors-implementing translation management systems-starting up machine translation programs-working with technical writers to automate source content optimization-implementing agile and continuous localization -working with crowd localization teams-working with global content management integrations-supporting global SEO -evaluating globalization ROI