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California, United States

San Jose, California, United States

San Jose, California, United States

Areas of Ownership:Stakeholder Management, Globalization Budget (Product, Documentation, Marketing, eLearning, University, Support, Client Services, Sales, Legal), Globalization Management Programs, KPIs/Dashboard, Reporting and Newsletter. TMS & Integrations, Vendor Management (Contract, QBRs, Services and Rate Negotiation), Machine Translation Strategy, Re-architecture of Product CI/CD Localization Pipeline and Testing, Special Localization Programs, CMS Migration, Video Localization Scalability Program.

San Francisco Bay Area

Globalization Director leading IRVAs International Committee and global growth initiatives.

Portola Valley, Ca

Offering Online Marketing Support to Coastside businesses in Half Moon Bay for over a decade.http://www.halfmoonbayshops.comhttp://www.halfmoonbaydining.comhttp://www.halfmoonbayevents.comhttp://www.halfmoonbaycoffeeshops.comhttp://www.halfmoonbaywinetasting.comhttp://www.halfmoonbayspas.comhttp://www.halfmoonbaynurseries.comhttp://www.halfmoonbayspecials.com

Portola Valley, Ca

San Francisco Bay Area

Globalization Lead building scalable solutions and programs across Product, Marketing and Infrastructure including:- Training, evangelization of L10N and I18N programs to Engineering Directors, Product Designers, L10N Team Members and Linguists.- Continuous adaptation of CMS features to support Marketing SEO and content adaptation to local markets- Pro-active programs for early detection of i18n issues such as i18n linter rules and validation steps- Consolidation of i18n libraries across multiple frameworks- Development of global scalable solutions to support internal clients (LaaS - Localization as a Service)- Global Ready Product Design sign off programProgram Lead for the integration of content from new and recently acquired products (Usabilla and GetFeedback) into the Localization pipeline. Owner of Quarterly Business Review (QBR) with TMS provider.Board Member of Unidos (Employee Resource Group) supporting company initiatives to bring awareness about issues impacting Latinx employees and their communities.

San Francisco Bay Area

Localization Operations Team Lead and owner of Uber's Localization tools roadmap. Owner of Uber's Vendor Management Machine Translation Strategy. Executed Translation Management Software (TMS) RFP, completed migration of Localization assets (TMs, Glossaries, processes, workflows, etc...) to our new TMS tool including on-boarding over 300+ internal Uber resources globally to the TMS tool. Responsible for Localization on-boarding program supporting over 800 linguists from 3rd party vendors worldwide. Owner of the Uber Learning and Development course covering Localization and Internationalization concepts and processes at Uber.

San Mateo, Ca

Support SVD in various degrees with activities related to sales, marketing, operations and technology development.

Mountain View, Ca

Responsible for on-going releases of 13 projects from Shared Locale Data, Philanthropy, Grants, Google About, Finance, and Google Accounts products localized in 40 to 60 languages each. Interface with Google Product teams and manage localization vendors translation, review and testing services. Implement pilot project to support localization in context using Selenium, WebDriver and Python as a viable solution to improve quality of translations.

Emeryville, Ca

Provide gap analysis for current available suite of Lyris Products, define localization roadmap, coordinate with Product Management and communicate effectively with dependent teams across the organization to deliver value added for each localization release. Build Localization Portal, online glossary and support Regional Offices, Sales and Finance departments with capabilities presentations, progress report, quarterly financial reports on international sales and trend analysis. Co-manage the company website localization effort. Review all localization related budget allocations, schedule and project timeline. Provide feedback to improve current localization best practices.

Foster City, Ca

All products - Coremetrics, Mar 2008 to May 2010Co-managed new product feature specification and implementation to address regional on-going RFPs. Managed a team of 5 Quality Assurance team members. Responsible for the certification of all build releases promoted to production environment. Coordinated with Operations, Customer Support and Regional Offices on re-verification and client satisfaction of issues addressed. Hired and dismissed team members in order to elevate automation team skill set and increase scope of coverage of products certified. Built automation scripts to monitor data stored in product databases and or in the product user interface using Selenium and Perl scripts. Negotiated with Product Management certification support of new partners. Provided gap of technology analysis to development team so Japanese and Simplified Chinese can be supported by currently available applications. Taught QA team to look for internationalization issues on mocked builds created to anticipate potential i18n and l10n issues in build. Interacted with regional offices, peer reviewers and vendors to create product glossary. Addressed legacy translation issues. Reviewed resource files (.properties, text, js, xml and html) and make recommendations to address concatenation of strings preventing the natural translation of certain strings. Negotiated with development team resolution of localization issues. Automated localization process using Perl scripts to synchronize code changes to resource files automatically by interacting with SVN (source control software) and generated localized files updated with latest translations available. Built scalable process to support new offerings of locales.

Mountain View, Ca

Participate in weekly meetings to identify internationalization and localization road-blocks at early stages of projects. Assign feature and acceptance test coverage to team members. Maintain test cases up to date with each new release, recommend test cases suitable for automation and coordinate test case automation process with internationalization team and core team resources. Document and validate the implementation of special policy requirements in AdSense in localized versions. Perform linguistic and functional testing of localized products. Communicate localization testing progress with internal cross-functional team.

San Francisco Bay Area

Prepare and manage $2.5 Million localization budget to ship Flash 9 in 10 languages. Create and maintain project schedule with MS Project to deliver more than 13,500 localized pages of documentation per language over a period of 9 months. Travel internationally to evaluate third party companies and select partners to localize, test and maintain project deliverables. Manage localization vendor: budget, schedule, training, project support. Manage glossaries, translation memories. Coordinate in-country reviews with regional office staff and subject matter experts. Own localization weekly team meetings and contribute to managers’ weekly meetings to coordinate project requirements with Product, Program, QE, Marketing, Legal, and Technical Support teams. Identify internationalization and localization road-blocks at early stages of projects. Communicate localization progress with internal cross-functional team. Support international beta program.

San Francisco Bay Area

Implement and maintain Macromedia’s Perl based automated system to synchronize localized files with English source files. File types parsed include HTML, XML, JavaScript and Windows/Mac resource files containing localizable strings in English. Develop a user interface integrating all features of the automated system to facilitate training of contractors in India and other localization third party companies. Assist Adobe satisfying basic Section 508 standards for HTML document code generation. Gather design requirements, implemented new dialogs and preference setting options to enable Dreamweaver users to generate accessible HTML file content. This accessibility feature was implemented using the following technologies: C++, HTML, JavaScript, MFC, Visual Studio 6.0 and CodeWarrior.Prepare localization kits including screen shots, special instructions for appropriate file handling and translation requirements, keyword list and word counts.