Sonja Olson Email & Phone Number

I'm a localization professional with vendor- and buyer-side experience and a track record of effective management of complex localization projects/programs: • Nurturing relationships with clients to promote long-term partnerships • Preparing and responding to Requests For Proposals • Defining project objectives to create scope, cost and schedule quotes • Sourcing/contracting freelance suppliers of translations, desktop publishing, and other services as needed • Controlling project costs and maintaining account budgets • Creating, revising and maintaining internal and client-facing collateral, including project briefs, risk and stakeholder registers, process documentation, status reports and QBR presentations • Curating linguistic assets (translation memories, style guides, glossaries) • Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders on end-to-end localization of a wide range of content types: e-learning, multimedia (dubbing, subtitling and video post-production), marketing, internal communications, technical documentation, software localization and testing, legal (intellectual property) I'm familiar with a variety of TMS/CAT Applications, including:RWS/SDL Products: Translation Management System/Managed Translations, Trados Studio 2009-2019, MultiTerm, MultiTerm Convert and MultiTerm Extract Others: Across, Multilizer, Smartling, Transit XV, Wordbee and client-specific proprietary tools

Listed skills include Technical Translation, Translation, Trados, Language Services, and 11 others.

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  Bard College

  Foreign Languages