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Localization Project Manager for Pageflex, managing translation work of user interfaces and documentation to ten languages -- Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish.Managed workflows between translation company (Net Translators) and Pageflex Engineering. Implemented builds for translator training and in-country reviewers. Established network of in-country reviewers to review translated UIs and documentation. Wrote training and test scripts, bug reports, status reports.

Manage a team of Quality Assurance engineers in testing digital publishing, database publishing, web-to-print, and document composition products.Pageflex develops software suites and products for document personalization in the print and web-to-print industries.Our products include: - Pageflex Storefront, a web site setup and administration product that gives deployers the ability to create web sites for their customers with browsers to view, edit, and order print and HTML documents. Documents can be individually personalized online by the customer or can be linked to a database to generate variable output.- Pageflex Server, a load-balancing document processing server for Windows that generates and administers variable document output in a wide variety of output formats (PostScript, PDF, PPML, Bitmap, HTML).- Pageflex Campaign Manager, a Web administration product that lets deployers design and administer personalized marketing and informational campaigns via email, microsites, and print materials. An administrator site is coupled with a tracking site that gives deployers detailed information on recipient responses and acitivities.- Pageflex Studio ID, a plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS4 and CS5, Windows and Macintosh, that assigns variable data tags to text, image, and shape elements in InDesign documents, and generates personalized output in a wide variety of formats.Initial position when hired in 1998 was Technical Product Manager. Promoted to QA Manager in 2005.

Wrote and debugged code in C++, MFC, for Cable Eye product, a cable-testing apparatus.

Wrote and edited technical manuals, reference guides, marketing materials, magazine articles, for a variety of computer software companies.Corporate projects included: • Agfa-Gevaert. User reference for high resolution color scanner software.• Scitex Corporation. Documentation manager. Print and hypertext manuals for CataLogic 1.0, 1.5, a database publishing system. Also managed design, layout and print production.• Scitex Corporation. Print manuals for SciNet Span Pro 2.0, an image format translation and management program that translated images in the TIFF, JPEG, and Scitex Contone image formats. • Aldus CoSA, Inc. Print manual for CoSA After Effects 2.0, a QuickTime video editing and special effects program for the Macintosh geared to professional movie and video producers.• Avid Corporation. Print manual for VideoShop 1.0, a QuickTime video and sound track editing application for the Macintosh geared to video enthusiasts.Articles published in this period:• Graphic Arts Monthly, July 1993, October 1993, “What to Look For in a Color Scanner” (two parts).• Pre Magazine, March 1993, “Multimedia Success Stories in Printing.”• Graphic Arts Monthly, February 1993, “Separator Perfects PostScript Production.”• Pre Magazine, November 1991, “Desktop Prepress: 80% There.”

Certificate, Computer Technology

Two year program in programming and computer technologies.

Ma, Creative Writing

Ba, English