Experience

Knowledge Accelerators

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Localization Lead and Product Owner

  • Jan 2001 - Present

  • Manage a multi-lingual, multi-tasking Localization team of internal and external resources. • Allocate translation assignments and guidelines and monitor the productivity of in-house and remote team members. • Assign projects to team members and ensure a complete understanding of requirements is gained prior to beginning the task. • Perform linguistic QA and ensure the quality and accuracy of all tasks performed. • Interview prospective candidates for employment and train team members. • Track and analyze production and quality metrics. • Assisted in the testing and implementation of a proprietary Post-editing Machine Translation platform with integrated MT system. • Perform Italian translation of Web applications, how to tutorials, eLearning courses, and other multimedia materials via Trados and MTPE tools. • Analyze, research, and maintain continuous updates to knowledge solutions for software, cloud- based and training applications. • Manage tutorials, courses, knowledge solutions, and lessons on cloud-based sites. • Advise and collaborate with production team on standards, rules, and guidelines for authoring knowledge solutions. • Author knowledge solutions for machine translation and post-editing translation environment. Show less



KView

• Advertising Services

• Italian Translator and Leader of the Italian Localization Team

  • Sep 2000 - Dec 2002

  Italian Translator and Leader of the Italian Localization Team.  Localized from English into Italian multimedia self-training computer solutions and Website applications.  Performed voice-over in Italian and capturing videos of how to modules.  Supervised a team of six members, assigned projects and set project standards and guidelines.  Monitored the progress of all translation projects and the productivity of team members.  Performed linguistic QA. Italian Translator and Leader of the Italian Localization Team.  Localized from English into Italian multimedia self-training computer solutions and Website applications.  Performed voice-over in Italian and capturing videos of how to modules.  Supervised a team of six members, assigned projects and set project standards and guidelines.  Monitored the progress of all translation projects and the productivity of team members.  Performed linguistic QA.



Agriexport SPA - Italy

• Export Coordinator

  • May 1989 - Sep 1999

   Planned and coordinated export shipments and prepared export documentation, while complying with multi-country export requirements.  Used multilingual ability to liaise with French and English speaking counterparts and clients.  Translated marketing, advertising and promotional material including brochures and catalogs into English and French.  Organized and participated in international shows and trade fairs in Italy, France, and in the United Kingdom.  Arranged corporate travels, meetings and corporate special events. Show less