World-readiness & internationalization consulting

• Manage diverse cross-functional consulting team on time-critical, high-intensity projects. Mentor team members on expanding their professional, organizational, and communication skills.

• Ensure full internationalization of enterprise Web applications, including presentation layer, middle tier and data storage backend systems.

• Deliver thorough world-readiness analysis of n-tier technology stacks including: HTML/JSP/ASP/PHP front-end systems; Visual Basic, Java, C++/ISAPI application tier components; divergent application server systems including BEA WebLogic and BroadVision; as well as SQL/Oracle/Siebel data storage solutions.

Training and coaching

• Deliver customized internationalization training to enterprise customers, systems integrator partners, and Convey-internal resources.

• Design and deliver seminars covering internationalization, localization, and translation best practices, including interface string handling, international date / time / number / currency formatting, source copy authoring for worldwide audiences, and world-ready database design fundamentals.

Conference presentations

• Represent Convey Software at high-profile industry conferences and partner events.

• Deliver presentations on globalization and internationalization challenges and present customized solutions to domestic and international audiences.

Tool development

• Develop applications including total lifecycle solution for graphics localization, high-volume file analysis and reporting tools, and macro tool suite for markup language processing, parsing, and localization.

Globalization seminars and consulting

• Owned and operated independent globalization consulting business in Monterey, CA.

• Key clients included LOGOS Corporation, eTranslate (now Convey Software), Macromedia, and ASET International Services Corporation.

• Delivered localization/internationalization consulting services, seminars, and custom tool development.

Localization and internationalization engineering

• Provided engineering leadership and tool development to support large-scale language production projects with a focus on multimedia and Web site localization.

Web site management, authoring, and design

• Managed large-scale, multilingual Web site www.berlitz.com from 2/97 to 1/99.

• Provided comprehensive Web authoring and management services, including HTML coding, original graphics design in Adobe Photoshop, FrontPage 97/98/2000 engineering, JavaScript and Java implementation, traffic-flow analysis, and server reporting.

Technical translation and software localization

• Prepared high-quality technical translations in diverse areas of specialization, including medical sciences, marketing, and information technologies.

Machine Translation Specialist

• Designed innovative approach for integrating divergent software packages (LOGOS, Word for Windows, XL8) into comprehensive machine translation processing path. Responsibilities included software design and testing, programming and development of utility macros, process control and creation of Standard Operating Procedures.

Graduate-level seminars on localization and translation

• Developed and delivered highly successful seminars on Advanced Technical Translation and Localization at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, a private postgraduate school in Monterey, CA.

Intensives on software and Web localization

• Independently authored, promoted, and taught hands-on localization seminar from 1997 to 2000. The Intensive introduces project managers, coordinators, and translators to the technical and organizational aspects of localization.

• Consistently achieved 90%+ seminar customer satisfaction.

Seminars on brain-compatible teaching and learning

• Developed seminar on advanced learning methodologies, including techniques from Neurolinguistic Programming, brain-based learning, and general mnemonic techniques.

Monterey Institute of International Studies, 1994