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Adam YOUNGFIELD

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Entreprises

  • Utah Valley University - Professeur adjoint

    2018 - maintenant * Teach standard and advanced sections of an undergraduate Business French course focused on building persuasive communication skills for professional settings.
  • MultiLing - Chef d'équipe de traduction

    2016 - maintenant * Manage a localization team serving major European and Asian markets.
    * Lead strategic corporate initiatives for linguistic quality management across offices.
    * Develop policies for continuous improvement of translation memories and glossaries.
    * Coordinate a localization internship program with local universities.
    * Translate French content into English and review English translations.
    * Onboard and train new translation vendors.

    Support Specialist, Translation Management Systems at MultiLing
  • MultiLing - Spécialiste en soutien technique pour les systèmes de gestion de projets de traduction

    2015 - 2016
  • MultiLing - Coordinateur de projets de traduction

    2014 - 2015 French at MultiLing
    * Coordinated French translation projects for Dell, Procter & Gamble and other clients.
    * Optimized language services processes for an internal team of French editors and reviewers.
    * Built and maintained positive, productive relationships with localization vendors.
    * Performed quality reviews of outgoing documents.

    While in this role, I also lead a successful task force charged with managing an organization-wide
    technological change; I gathered user stories, clarified bug reports, played a key role in product development
    as a liaison to the internal engineering department, and counseled weekly with corporate executives to
    formulate best practices.
  • SirsiDynix - Traducteur technique

    2012 - 2014 * Localized user interfaces for top-of-the-line integrated library systems and cloud products.
    * Translated contracts, marketing materials and client training documents from English to French.
    * Built, supported and encouraged an international community of volunteer translators.
    * Acted as an agile process improvement agent for the SirsiDynix localization team.

    While in this role, I also undertook a fruitful translation crowdsourcing recruiting campaign; I gave two
    presentations on localization careers at Brigham Young University, used LinkedIn groups to connect with
    candidates, and increased overall participation in the crowdsourcing program by 400%.

Formations

  • Middlebury Institute Of International Studies At Monterey (Monterey)

    Monterey 2015 - 2016 Master

    Récipient de la Bourse Varna and Sunder Ramaswamy
  • Brigham Young University (Provo)

    Provo 2009 - 2013 Bachelor

    Récipient de la Bourse Brigham Young

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