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- Build and implement continuous localization system- Onboarded as Software Engineer, learning TypeScript and Java over 3 months- Now operating in DevOps role, integrating tool with localization processes at Salesforce

Taking time from a very rewarding 5 years at Salesforce to travel, pursue my interests, and gain some new perspective to bring back to the working world. Here's a taste of what I've done:-Traveled to 10 countries-Project managed yurt construction in India-Built out a vacation rental in the Idaho backcountry-Learned how to build classical guitars in Spain-Skied in the beautiful mountains of Japan-Contributed designs to Open Source Ecology (an open source hardware… Show more Taking time from a very rewarding 5 years at Salesforce to travel, pursue my interests, and gain some new perspective to bring back to the working world. Here's a taste of what I've done:-Traveled to 10 countries-Project managed yurt construction in India-Built out a vacation rental in the Idaho backcountry-Learned how to build classical guitars in Spain-Skied in the beautiful mountains of Japan-Contributed designs to Open Source Ecology (an open source hardware non-profit)-Beautified my hometown by contributing to multiple building projects Show less

• Evangelization• Scalable testing• RFPs on localization tools• Scripting and web app development to automate internal processes• Onboarding acquisitions and new teams to the localization process• Training new team members• Contributed to a pseudolocalization plugin for Sketch to spot localizability issues before development

• Own all stages of mobile app localization (Android, iOS) into 10 languages• Collaborating and negotiating with multiple stakeholders (product managers, developers and doc writers) to complete tightly-scheduled localization projects on time, and up to quality standards• Adapting message to convey the importance and scale of localization to all stakeholders• Implementing git as a version control system for all mobile and web app localization--increasing productivity and doing away… Show more • Own all stages of mobile app localization (Android, iOS) into 10 languages• Collaborating and negotiating with multiple stakeholders (product managers, developers and doc writers) to complete tightly-scheduled localization projects on time, and up to quality standards• Adapting message to convey the importance and scale of localization to all stakeholders• Implementing git as a version control system for all mobile and web app localization--increasing productivity and doing away with content regression• Researching and implementing tools for mobile linguistic QA• Built and implemented project management system on the Salesforce platform• Working with external teams to improve the linguistic quality of the Salesforce web application in Spanish and Portuguese• Training translators to optimize translation strategies for Salesforce-specific needs • Using Salesforce app to track bugs, customer cases and to extensively collaborate on projects via Chatter Show less

Developed hands-on, project-based curriculum and taught Website Localization to class of 45. Topics included:• Basics of web development—HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails• Internationalization—string externalization, right to left page layout, time/date format, encoding• Testing with pseudolocalization• Version control with git and Github• Basics of shell scripting

• Localizing a WordPress-powered immigration law website into Spanish • Localizing and publishing a children’s eBook in English, Spanish and German using DTP applicationsand integrating automated text extraction and local creation tools• Internationalized and localized an iPhone app• Contacted two off-campus clients, proposed, quoted and oversaw localization projects from start to finish

• Collaborated with project managers to deliver complex projects using WorldServer• Performed MQA on advertising, legal, product documentation and corporate educational documents• Researched and developed best practices for machine translation post-editing• Maintained translation memories and managed terminology for both human translation and post-editing• Trained machine translation systems to improve output quality to optimize post-editing efficiency• Contributed to… Show more • Collaborated with project managers to deliver complex projects using WorldServer• Performed MQA on advertising, legal, product documentation and corporate educational documents• Researched and developed best practices for machine translation post-editing• Maintained translation memories and managed terminology for both human translation and post-editing• Trained machine translation systems to improve output quality to optimize post-editing efficiency• Contributed to projects for Fortune 100 companies and exhibited high degree of project ownership Show less