Experience

Coffee Stain Publishing

• Sweden
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Localization Lead

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  Taking care of all things localization at Coffee Stain. Dev Teams: reviewing projects early, identifying and fixing any potential issues, making all things related to text creation, management, and translation more streamlined and simple for the dev teams while also making the text easier to work with for translators later on. Community: helping community translators, empowering them with information, guides, professional techniques and tools, providing context, and answering questions. External Vendors: screening, training, and managing external vendors, preparing jobs, picking the best vendors for the project, answering their questions, checking the quality. Growth: hiring, training, and leading localization managers for successful ongoing projects.



Alexander Bukhonov

• Localization Project Manager

  • Nov 2015 - Present

• Freelance Translator

  • Apr 2007 - Present

  EN→RU, RU→EN.Millions of words. Hundreds of hours of in-game LQA.Games, software and website localization. IT and games-related translation. Editing.



INLINGO –– Gamedev Outsourcing Studio

• United Kingdom
• Computer Games
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Localization Team Lead

  • Sep 2019 - Jun 2020

  - Leading a team of seasoned PMs working with key clients, handling the localization of several top-grossing mobile and desktop games with high volumes and frequent updates.- Optimizing processes, building tools and integrations. Helping the team with solutions and guidance.- Managing and developing current key clients.- Helping the whole production team with data/text processing and advanced CAT-tool processes.- Creating training and educational materials. Building a company knowledge base.- Setting up memoQ Server: creating workflow rules, outlining best practices. Onboarding the team.- Implementing Asana as a company-wide project and task management tool.- Creating case studies with PMs, clients and copywriters.

• Sales and Partnership Manager

  • Nov 2017 - Jun 2020

  - Working with tech platforms for partnership.- Nurturing company reputation on public/private marketplaces.- Developing relationships with partners through cross-promotions, cross-sales, case studies, etc.- Managing incoming requests: analyzing projects, quoting, guiding the clients to the best solution.- Managing relationships with existing clients: keeping them in the loop, contacting them at the right time, selling new services.- Working on integrations and setting up processes for new clients across the company.

• Localization Project Manager

  • Feb 2016 - Sep 2019

  Leading several big and dozens of small localization projects every month. One-time projects and endless social games with regular updates alike.With a bit of sales, technical text processing, and freelance translation added into the mix :)