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London, England, United Kingdom

Business Director with overall responsibility for both sales and production operations across Asian Absolute's global network of offices. Working with teams in different regions to ensure that key business KPIs are met as well as working closely with key customer organisations to ensure that Asian Absolute provides high-quality support and services to customers.

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Engaged by Vistatec to deliver a business-critical localisation centre of excellence and programme management function for one of their key customers - a major Northern European shipping and logistics company. Designed and developed 20+ key localisation workflow processes, with a supporting governance framework and comprehensive guidelines to help embed standardisation and provide transparency for global, multilingual content.I also worked with key customer management, functional and production groups to deliver engaging education sessions to raise awareness of challenges in localisation and to provide guidance on how to plan for localisation more effectively to support multiple markets with the right quality levels for multilingual content to maximise user experience and SEO benefits.

London, United Kingdom

Accountable for internal and external translation delivery within Pole To Win International with focus on re-defining localisation framework and governance as well as driving improvements in quality levels and strengthening translation as a global service line. I worked with key PTW studios to initiate and drive re-design and alignment of translation processes and technology across PTWI’s global translation studio network. Key contributor and Lead on major bids and RFQs with Operations sign-off authority.

Uxbridge, Uk

Accountable for delivery of a USD multi-million translation, terminology and localisation consultancy services contract to a global truck manufacturer. I worked strategically with multiple divisions and product groups to support their focus on core business objectives. I led a global, cross-functional account team to deliver innovative solutions with high levels of integration and automation to drive reductions in costs and time to market while meeting required quality standards.

Slough, United Kingdom

Accountable for delivery of translation services to a major global automotive manufacturer with focus on customer satisfaction levels and processes and delivery of cost savings, improved time to market for key product information and consistent quality levels. A key focus area for me on this account was turning a European-based contract into a USD multi million global one, realising significant translation revenue growth for Xerox.

Slough, United Kingdom

• Client Manager – multiple localisation contracts• Programme Manager – Accelerated, high profile E-learning customer programme• Manager – Xerox Localisation Project Management Group• Project Management Team Leader – automotive localisation contract• Project Manager – localisation projectsAbove roles built a solid skills base in project management, team leadership, people management and support, problem solving, customer relationship building and management and financial management.

Wokingham, Berkshire

Master Of Arts - Ma, Translation Studies

Bahons, Technical Translation