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California, United States

San Francisco, CA, US

Globalization Engineering Leader, responsible for localization technical infrastructure, neural machine translation, and internationalization solutions for Square, Inc. This is a multi-disciplinary role with impacts across Square's payment ecosystem.

Co-founded the Globalization Management Strategies Group to provide a forum for management interaction and growth in the area of managing and developing the technology, process, and resources needed for business globalization. Conducted engineering and executive level assessments, seminars and consulting for many corporations, including Xerox, Indus, HP.

San Jose, CA, US

Leading a team of engineers and architects responsible for developing and deploying internationalization technology and infrastructure across all of PayPal. Our team's applications, APIs, services, and internal professional services are used by C++, Java, Node, and JS clients to help increase the quality and reach of connected commerce worldwide. As part.

San Francisco, California, US

Lead a team of internationalization and localization engineers in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment. Leading team developing core i18n infrastructure to support all products for translation flow and i18n functionality.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Software Internationalization and Globalization Architect. Led a team acting as internal consultants to the many Yahoo! products, providing I18n and G11n expertise, assessment, design, architecture and infrastructure with respect to technology for international markets. Also led I18n Engineering development team; conducted 100s of hours of training.

Provide leadership in building and managing a suite of services establishing the primary technical infrastructure for digital content repositories and metasearch technologies for the Advanced Technology Group at the California Digital Library, managed by the University of California, Office of the President.Systems architect for metasearch strategies and.

One of three founding partners of a non-profit organization. Formed to foster the development of a cross-industry network of leaders responsible for managing various aspects of corporate globalization, such as global product development; developing and implementing globalization standards; and managing multi-functional, multi-cultural and multi-national.

Convey Software, formerly know as eTranslate.com. As Director of Product Management, led requirements, specification, and market research efforts for an advanced customer-focused process automation system. Worked closely with development teams as well as sales to determine key requirements. Led customer focus groups and gathered feedback for new product.

US

Directed globalization strategy for all products worldwide, in a multidisciplinary, regional approach across marketing, sales, professional services, and engineering. Developed a strategy for the Globalization Engineering Group, defining roles, responsibilities, and structure, with an International ROI-based model to fund it. Reduced international release.

CZ

Directed product management and architecture of globalization aspects of all products within the Sybase Enterprise Portal bundled solutions, plus consulting and public relations. Pursued funding and founded the Global Products Group to gather internationalization (I18N) expertise from around the company into a centralized team to lend product management.