Mariano Lozano Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

I lead groundbreaking projects in Benchmarking, LLM A/B Testing, Multilingual Text Normalization and Annotation, Linguistic Managed Services, MT Translation and Evaluation, and Sentiment Analysis. My efforts have been instrumental in assisting unaccountable data scientists in publishing their R&D papers, showcasing the tangible impact of our collaborative work. Supported by a team of world-class AI specialists, I am deeply involved in advocating for and contributing to the development of AI… Show more I lead groundbreaking projects in Benchmarking, LLM A/B Testing, Multilingual Text Normalization and Annotation, Linguistic Managed Services, MT Translation and Evaluation, and Sentiment Analysis. My efforts have been instrumental in assisting unaccountable data scientists in publishing their R&D papers, showcasing the tangible impact of our collaborative work. Supported by a team of world-class AI specialists, I am deeply involved in advocating for and contributing to the development of AI that is ethically aligned and trained with unbiased content. This commitment ensures that AI's potential is harnessed for the greater good. I welcome connections and collaborations with those with a vision for responsible and innovative AI development.Appen is the global leader in data for the AI Lifecycle. With over 25 years of experience in data sourcing, data annotation, and model evaluation by humans, we enable organizations to launch the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence systems. Our expertise includes a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors who speak over 235 languages in over 70,000 locations and 170 countries, and the industry’s most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform. Show less

Greater Seattle Area

Seattle, Washington, United States

Data analysis to improve machine translation engine. Via Pactera Edge.

Bellevue, Washington

I founded this start-up to provide content services onsite in the Seattle area and remotely across the US.

Seattle

Time off to rethink new businesses and projects.

Greater Seattle Area

Managed localization/MT projects in 15 languages for Amazon Devices mainly. Aprox. volume of the BU, $5M/year. Direct manager of a team of 6 in-house Sr. Language Leads.

Greater Seattle Area

- Full ownership of the linguistic quality of translation-localization work produced by Moravia for the Spanish market – Strategic Customer Accounts

Redmond, Wa

Working for adaQuest and then for Keywords Int. to release Microsoft products localized into European Spanish.- Checked that Spanish translations were accurate and consistent with the source, free of typographical errors, were culturally appropriate, didn’t use politically sensitive content, and didn’t show any truncations, overlaps, or other UI problems.- Received the award as the Best Localization Tester over a team of 50 people. It was fun :)- Resolved linguistic bugs in… Show more Working for adaQuest and then for Keywords Int. to release Microsoft products localized into European Spanish.- Checked that Spanish translations were accurate and consistent with the source, free of typographical errors, were culturally appropriate, didn’t use politically sensitive content, and didn’t show any truncations, overlaps, or other UI problems.- Received the award as the Best Localization Tester over a team of 50 people. It was fun :)- Resolved linguistic bugs in concordance with a Term List and the Microsoft Style Guidelines.- Trained other team members on QA & Translation best practices.Products: Gears of Wars 4, Xbox One, Cortana Show less

Bellevue, Wa

Localization and Testing management of a Speech Recognition System for the US and Latin American market (S Voice - Bixby) in a highly culturally mixed and corporate environment.

Redmond, Wa

- Translation and editing of in-game text, voice scripts, manuals, and supplementary development, promotional, and testing-related documents. Main projects: Pikmin 3, Zelda - Ocarina of Time, and Animal Crossing among others.

Ms Campus - Redmond, Wa (Usa)

- Localization and QA management of software, online documentation, printed documentation, and bug fixing. Main projects: Xbox 360 dashboard, Xbox for Android, Xbox for iOS, Xbox for Windows Phone, and SmartGlass - X8, among others.

Redmond, Wa

This is probably, the best job I ever had in my life so far. Fun, creative, challenging, and rewarding. I had a key role before the launch of the Spanish website www.smilebox.es in October 2011. I was responsible for the localization and editing of all the Smilebox services (SaaS) into International Spanish including art assets localization, website management, creation and maintenance of a knowledge base plus customer support, and also the support of the digital marketing efforts including the… Show more This is probably, the best job I ever had in my life so far. Fun, creative, challenging, and rewarding. I had a key role before the launch of the Spanish website www.smilebox.es in October 2011. I was responsible for the localization and editing of all the Smilebox services (SaaS) into International Spanish including art assets localization, website management, creation and maintenance of a knowledge base plus customer support, and also the support of the digital marketing efforts including the creation and management of several channels of social media. As the CEO described me: "the one-man show". Show less

Ms Campus - Redmond, Wa (Usa)

Localization & testing, review of online & printed documentation and also bug fixing using TFS, Product Studio and BLT. Projects: Windows CE and XBox console. Via Jonckers.

Remotely

Evaluation of web pages based on the guidelines that Google provides.

Bellevue, Wa (Usa)

- Localization & testing management of Speech Recognition software, including generating commands & response lists, NLP, Syntax and Grammar Analysis, Corpus Linguistics and Language Modeling, managing Spanish language & Spanish culture-specific issues, and working directly with XML and HTML documents.

Bellevue, Wa (Usa)

Volunteer first, then BSD's employee, assist staff about Spanish immersion in tasks as reading, communication, Hispanic culture.Member of the VIBES program (Volunteers in Bellevue's Education System).

Madrid (Spain)

Responsible for client relationships, dealing with homeowners to put their properties on the market.I left this career path after moving to the US.

Madrid (Spain)

Shift manager of DTP services and digital processing (pre-press).

Valencia (Spain)

This was my first job when I was still in college!Main roles and projects:- Manager of the official University weekly magazine.- Developer and designer of “University Information System” sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Social Affairs (Act of Parliament: BOE 21-5-91)- Associate teacher of the Master "Infographics Applied to Communication Techniques Nowadays" at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.

Professional Certificate - Internationalization And Localization

Certified Project Manager

Education record

Engineer'S Degree