Diane KENNEDY

En résumé

Entreprises

• VistaTec - Program Manager

  2014 - maintenant Developing, deploying and maintaining high quality programs
  Key skills:
  Planning / Budgeting / Resourcing / Capacity planning / Key Performance Indicator development, deployment and monitoring / Implement training plans for process and technology

• Self-Employed/Freelance - Language Quality Management Consultant

  2014 - 2014 Subject matter expert (English/French)

• Welocalize - Language Quality Manager

  Frederick 2013 - 2014 - Create business analytic to define, measure and deploy all quality parameters
  - Directly manage internal and external resources (vendors, quality teams)
  - Deliver and manage quality across strategic accounts
  - Analyse processes and trends to build program within cost constraints
  - Identify training needs of teams and create and maintain training program and materials including on-boarding programs for all new teams

• The Rosetta Foundation - Operations and Production Manager

  2012 - 2012 - Directly manage internal and external resources through multiple simultaneous projects' life cycles
  - Develop and implement production strategies and requirements to deliver a professional production environment for The Rosetta Foundation's global communities
  - Liaise with partners (clients) and volunteers (translators, project managers, and engineers) to ensure timely and high quality deliverables

• Microsoft Global Packaging - Content Project Manager

  2010 - 2012 - Define, document and communicate Content management processes across internal and external teams
  - Ensure that all language quality processes stay aligned with client language quality standards and agreed expectations
  - Manage all linguistic assets (glossaries, style guides, translation memories) and processes for all products

• Freelance Consultant - Editorial Project Manager & Freelance Editor

  2007 - 2010 - Assisting Project Editors on Multi-lingual Project Development for various Publishers
  - Proofreading and Language Reviews for books (English/French)
  

• Lionbridge - Global Project Manager

  VALBONNE 2004 - 2006 - Carry out all project financials (forecasting, payments, and invoicing)
  - Direct management of translation vendors and vendor database updates
  - Managed multiple simultaneous projects through all stages of project lifecycle

• Freelance Consultant - Freelance Editor & Subject Matter Expert

  2002 - 2004 - Scope projects and advise the project manager of all resource requirements
  - Conduct pre-production reviews on products with vendors and client
  - Create product support documentation

• Union of Journalists - Editor and Writer

  1995 - 1997

• Authentik Language Resource Ltd - Editor & Project manager

  1994 - 2001 Create, implement, review French language learning material e.g. books, audio tapes, and newspapers -
  Manage internal and external resources to successful project completion - Liaise with production managers,
  vendors, and sales representatives to ensure end products meet market requirements

Formations

• University Of Limerick (Limerick)

  Limerick 2011 - 2012 Master of Science in Multilingual Computing and Localisation
  
  This programme (http://www.csis.ul.ie/course/LM632/) puts a particular emphasis on:
  Internationalisation requirements and their implementation.
  The critical analysis and research of translation technologies.
  The automation of the localisation process in what has been called the Localisation Factory.
  Business organisation and international business practices.

• University Of Limerick (Limerick)

  Limerick 2011 - 2012

• DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Dublin)

  Dublin 2001 - 2002 Bachelors Degree

• Université Paris

  Saint Denis 1988 - 1991 DEUG LEA- LANGUES ETRANGERES APPLIQUEES
  
  Diploma, Business/Commerce, and Applied Languages (English and German),
  

• Université Paris Sud (Paris XI)

  Chatenay Malabry 1986 - 1988 P.A.C.E.S
  
  attempted the exam twice

• Lycée Gerard De Nerval

  Noisiel 1984 - 1986 Baccalaureat