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 - 2015French 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)