Profile
Tiziana Perinotti is the founder of TGP Consulting and creator of the award-winning Silicon Valley Localization Forum site and services. She has extensive successful Software Development and Product Marketing experience, and a track record for consistently completing projects on time and within budget for companies such as Olivetti, Microsoft, PowerUp! (acquired by The Learning Company), Radius, Verity to name a few.
She has successfully implemented global product development and marketing strategies as well as training programs for several early-stage startups and larger companies, including: Apple, GeoGraphix, a subsidiary of Landmark Graphics Corporation, HP, I/PRO, Macromedia, Netscape, Oracle, Palm Inc., (now palmOne and PalmSource), Remedy Inc., Texas Instruments, Winnov.
Her techniques have enabled small and medium-size companies that did not have an international presence to increase international revenues from 0% to 11% within the first year.
Tiziana Perinotti is the creator and promoter of the Silicon Valley Localization Forum, the first online forum for the internationalization and localization professional community. This site has received a "3-star" award for depth of content, ease of exploration, and Net appeal, according to Magellan's rigorous review process.
A History of Success: from Windows to the Web and the Palm Pilot
Tiziana Perinotti was the representative of Olivetti at Microsoft in Redmond (WA) during a joint venture OEM project between Olivetti and Microsoft, working on the development of the Int’l Windows versions for Olivetti’s computer systems in Europe.
Then, she worked with Philippe Courtot, former CEO of Verity, a leading company in Search Engine and Information Retrieval Technology, where she contributed to the success of the 1st WEB-based full-text search applications that Verity licensed to Marc Andreesen, Netscape's CTO.
As founder of TGP Consulting, she has been providing engineering and marketing consulting services to the original founders of Palm Inc. (also founders of Handspring), and help develop what it is now the very successful Palm handheld.
Recently Tiziana Perinotti has been selected as the Publications Chair of the Organizing Committee of the Hot Chips Symposium, the leading conference on high-performance microprocessors and related integrated circuits held annually at Stanford University (http://www.hotchips.org/).
Author
Tiziana Perinotti co-authored the 1st book on the topic of "Software Internationalization & Localization" published by Van Nostrand Reinhold, in N.Y. (now ITP) that has been promoted by Microsoft in their Int'l SDK. The book was requested to be placed for browsing at the LISA (Localisation Industry Standards Association) Conference in Salt Lake City, and Lisa Conference in Tokyo, Japan. An evaluation copy of the book and Courseware was requested by Dr. Alan K. Melby, director of the BYU (Brigham Young University) Translation Research Group based in Provo, Utah and a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at BYU Provo, Utah. Tiziana has been publishing articles such as Technology of Searches and the Web for Microsoft Interactive Developer magazine, now called MSDN Magazine.
Speaker
Speaker at various Int’l computer industry organizations: Int'l SW Forum, Int'l IMUG, Int'l Business Forum, STC, and the SW Development Conference in San Jose, California. She has done presentations at the Int’l HCI (Human Computer Interaction) conference in Munich, Germany.
Tiziana Perinotti has been a guest speaker on the topic of "Globalization of your E-Business" at the SDForum (SW Development Forum) E-Business Special Interest Group in San Francisco. More info at: http://www.sdforum.org/p/calEvent.asp?CID=481&mo=8&yr=2001
Entrepreneur
As the founder of TGP Consulting, Tiziana Perinotti has been helping companies including startups to cost effectively break into international markets, and streamline product development processes for concurrent multi-country software releases cost-effectively. TGP customers include Adobe, Apple, GeoGraphix (a subsidiary of Landmark Graphics Corp.), Intel, HP-San Diego, I/PRO, Macromedia, Netscape (now part of AOL), Palm, Remedy Inc., Texas Instruments, Winnov, etc. Tiziana is also the creator and developer of award-winning Silicon Valley Localization Forum Website that has received a "3-star" award from Magellan, McKinley's Internet directory, for excellence in depth of content, ease of exploration, and Net appeal, according to Magellan's rigorous review process.
Instructor
Tiziana Perinotti has developed and implemented several training programs, and courseware material for companies such as Adobe, Apple, HP, Intel, Netscape, Oracle, Texas Instruments, as well as freelance translators and translation companies such as LionBridge, Bowne, Alpnet just to name a few. She was the creator and instructor of the very first course in the Internationalization and Localization process for the University of California Extension Santa Cruz, California USA. She has developed the first online courseware and most recently the first complete Localization Certification Program.
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TGP CONSULTING, Silicon Valley California
Founder
Founded TGP Consulting, a consulting group that provides a wide range of product development and marketing services, including strategic consulting such as International Strategy Formulation, Organization and Department Diagnosis, Organization Redesign and Restructuring for hi-tech executives to effectively reshape "domestic revenue driven organizations" into "worldwide companies".
TGP customers include early-stage startups such as Zendatta Corp. (acquired by USWeb), Playback Media Corp. (acquired by MindLeaders Inc.), Spotlight Technology Corp., as well as larger companies such as Adobe, Apple, GeoGraphix (a subsidiary of Landmark Graphics Corp.), Intel, Handspring (now part of palmOne), HP, I/PRO, Macromedia, Netscape, Oracle, palmOne and PalmSource, Remedy, Texas Instruments, Winnov, and more. TGP helps companies streamline their SW development processes so that they can simultaneously ship domestic and multi-lingual products efficiently and cost-effectively. TGP Consulting services are specifically customized for each product/service team: SW engineering teams, quality assurance personnel, localization, marketing, documentation, and technical support groups.
Developed award-winning Silicon Valley Localization Forum. The Silicon Valley Localization Forum is the only 3-star award winning Web site that promotes Int'l business, localization services, translation tools, language products developers, professional translators, linguists, international organizations, consultants, publications and more. The site is committed to help companies understand how to increase their Int'l revenue, and improve their business with partners, vendors and other organizations.
NOTE: The following list describes some of the main projects I have personally managed and successfully completed within budget and strict deadlines.
Main Projects
Zendatta Corp. (USWeb), Playback Media, Spotlight Technology
Tiziana Perinotti has been instrumental in the creation and growth of several Silicon Valley startup companies, including:
- Zendatta Corp., a San Mateo, Calif.-based Internet consulting company acquired by USWeb.
- Playback Media Corp., a Redwood Shores, Calif.-based maker of online training videos recently acquired by MindLeaders Inc., a Columbus-based provider of online training courses.
- Spotlight Technology Corp., a Redwood Shores, Calif.-based online-video technology/service company that converts corporate literature into engaging video briefings that accelerate corporate sales cycles.
Spotlight Technology Corp., Redwood Shores, California
Provided the following services to Spotlight Technology Corp., a new Silicon Valley startup offering video-communication platform and service:
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UI-HCI design and review of Spotlight online video application and website
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Online video technology and online video search and retrieval architecture review and testing
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I18N and multilingual support engineering review
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Search Engine and Information Retrieval (IR) engineering evaluation and review
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QA engineering and collateral review and proofreading
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Sales account manager services including:
Market and technology research
Competitive analysis
Lead generation and qualification
Product and company presentations, telemarketing and other sales activities
Generated over 100 qualified prospects
Successfully generated interests in Spotlight platform/service from companies such as eBay, eBay, Cisco, Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), PalmSource, IBM, to name a few.
For an online demo see http://www.spotlighttechnology.com/demos.html
TGP Consulting uses its extensive corporate training and educational programs experience in conjunction with Spotlight Technology to deliver customized multimedia productions that can reduce training costs and improve business operations and competitiveness. TGP Consulting can deliver a digital video production on CD-ROM within days of the actual live training events.
ePIT Systems, San Francisco, California
Debugged and resolved technical issues on the time-critical Japanese version of ePIT System, a provider of technology for Internet trading platforms. Fixed display and rendering problems of some Japanese characters, such as “証” and YEN sign. The Engineering team was therefore able to complete a demo for ePIT's customer in Japan. Reviewed ePit's code for ISO-2022-jp Japanese encoding, provided samples and guidelines for JIS development.
Playback Media Corporation, Redwood Shores, California
Delivered Engineering Guidelines for Internationalizing Playback Media's Architecture into Japanese and European languages. Playback is an innovative ASP/Internet-Video company for corporate education. Delivered online courseware on easy-to-localize coding practices for double-byte languages on Windows/NT platform. Completed testing suite on the 1st release of its video-based content and database infrastructure that can interoperate seamlessly with corporate intranets. The company has been acquired by MindLeaders.
Palm Inc., Santa Clara, California
Int'l Manager: developed, shipped, marketed and distributed the very first Japanese Version of the Palm Professional edition. Successfully shipped the product on a very tight schedule and launched the product in Japan.
Designed and implemented Locale-Specific Feature
Definition Study for Palm.
The purpose of this study was to determine if and what
changes were needed to be made to specific features of
the Palm handheld device and the Desktop Software to
make it more user-friendly for specific locales.
Phase I of the project focused on Palm's largest markets: Japan, France and
Germany and later included all locales where Palm had a presence or wanted to
establish sales offices.
The features considered for this study
were initially the following applications, but expanded later on:
- Address book
- Date book (calendar)
Deliverables included:
- Understandings of the impact different cultures, languages and locale-specific behaviors had on the functionality of the OS
- Understanding what each core application meant in different locales around the world
- Report for each country to include above points
- Recommendations on changes to be made to the UI to make it better suited for specific locales.
Most recently, helped Palm develop and distribute the first version of the Palm OS for the web for easy downloads and upgrades for Japan and Europe, including mirror sites. Reviewed Palm's user interface for next generation's handhelds and conducted customers survey on User Interface and Human-Computer Interaction Design.
Program manager for the first Italian version of Palm V, which won best design award in Italy. The Palm handheld is now permanently exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Managed Palm teams as well as Palm external developers and vendors and developed a successful multilingual release of the latest Palm V and Palm III x products. As a result, Palm was able to ship multiple versions ahead of schedule and at the same time the US version. This was the very first time that Palm attempted and succeeded to concurrently develop a product for multiple locales.
Successfully completed the Kanji, German, French and Spanish releases of PALM PILOT 2.0 Professional edition and the main European versions of Palm 1MB Upgrade products on schedule. Developed Int'l features and product specifications for the localized versions of PILOT 2.0 Professional. Implemented the localization of PALM PILOT 1.0 product for the German market. Successfully managed the entire project and managed internal and external Palm's staff, as well as the translation agency, freelancers, and other vendors and contractors used by the company. Provided documentation localized into German and French, using TGP translators, to meet Palm Inc. aggressive schedule. Developed two self-running French and German demos in Macromedia Director 4.0 for the German and French PILOT 1.0 products. The demos were shipped to Palm European retail channel to promote the localized versions of PILOT products in that marketplace.
Remedy Corporation, Mountain View, California
Assisted Remedy in developing its International Business Plan. The consulting project covered the following products, platforms, databases and nine languages:
Products:
- AR System (User Tools, Admin Tools, Servers)
- Applications: Asset/Change Management + Help Desk
- Flashboards
- ARWeb
Platforms: Unix Solaris, Windows NT, HP-UX, IBM AIX
Databases: Oracle, MS SQL
Languages:
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Arabic
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French
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German
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Hebrew
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Italian
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Japanese
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Korean
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Spanish
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Simplified/Traditional Chinese
Authored specifications of Localization (L10N) Kits for Remedy's products for all of the above languages/markets.
Created Japanese Product Roadmap, based on market analysis, L10N costs, maintenance costs, tech support costs, resources required for Int'l Engineering, Int'l Marketing, Customer Support and Sales.
Milestones achieved:
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Determined how to better meet local market demands
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Ensured that the I18n code base was integrated appropriately during 1998 Product Development.
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Conducted Int'l Audits for Apps, Flashboards and ARWeb products
Apple, Cupertino California and Apple, Cork Ireland
Successfully completed a project for the International Software Support (Apple ISS) groups. The project included a study of existing processes, and their evolution, which required an employee survey at the headquarters in Cupertino California and Apple Cork, Ireland, and an analysis of the interdependencies of the various groups involved in Localization. TGP completed a detailed description of issues in existing International Software cycles, designed an action plan to solve existing problems and a strategy to implement a cost-effective Localization process for all languages Apple supports.
Macromedia, San Francisco, San Mateo California and Dallas Texas Division
Managed several Macromedia projects, including an analysis of Macromedia internal product development cycles to identify areas to be improved. The goal was to reduce the gap between ship dates of US products and ship dates of localized products (European and Asian languages). The study covered several product groups and departments (marketing, engineering, documentation, worldwide sales, technical support, manufacturing, subsidiaries, and localization groups both in San Francisco, San Mateo and Texas). TGP has outlined a plan to predictably guarantee the availability of localized products within 30 days from the US product release, thus increasing Macromedia international revenue. TGP has also provided Macromedia with international product revenue analysis models, guidelines for developing and testing world-ready Software, guidelines to write Software documentation that can be easily translated, and localization cost models for future projects.
I/PRO, San Francisco, California
Developed the first multilingual website for the founders of I/PRO. Provided localization services for I/PRO cutting-edge WEB site in Japanese, French, and German languages concurrently and met I/PRO stringent deadline.
Handspring, Mountain View, California
Advised management on Localization plans, budget and resources for Japanese and European markets. The same founders of Palm that brought you the popular Palm handheld have founded Handspring and developed the new Visor handheld. Helped with the recruiting of technical staff to augment the Visor's team at Handspring's headquarters.
Netscape, Mountain View, California
Designed and completed a seminar for Netscape Courseware groups to internationalize the process of developing training materials. Attendees have acquired the fundamental skills of how to develop courseware SW, including multimedia content, and documentation that can be easily localized in a variety of languages, including Japanese and other Oriental languages. The seminar is also designed to teach how to qualify localization vendors that meet the groups needs, and establish a long-term business relationship with 3rd party localizers.
Oracle, Redwood Shores, California
TGP has developed a seminar tailored to Oracle Worldwide Education and Courseware. TGP has provided on-site training and guidelines to identify criteria to select translation agencies, and improve business relationships with its existing translation vendors. TGP Workshop focused on how to find translation vendors that met Oracle’s needs, how to measure vendors performance, how to set up a successful working environment with localization agencies and how to reduce localization time and cost for simple and complex writing systems.
Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas
Developed a training program on Internationalization and Localization for Japanese and Pan-European languages and markets for software developers, testers, technical writers, marketing and operations managers at Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas.
HP - San Diego, California, USA Division
Developed an intensive training program specific for the software development and quality assurance teams at HP San Diego, California. The program’s goal was to educate the engineering teams on Internationalization on the Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT platforms. The program was designed for quickly coming up to speed on the Win32 National Language Support (NLS) API. The attendees acquired a deep understanding of the extensive support Win32 provides for all languages and learnt where to find additional information to meet particular requirements. Coding examples for Japanese and other complex writing systems, exercises, demos and the new TGP Courseware material for the SW Industry were provided along with extensive notes, slides and additional references.
Winnov, Sunnyvale, California
The first two phases of a 3-phase project have already been implemented. TGP has analyzed Winnov’s existing applications and evaluated the level of built-in international support for Japanese. TGP has developed an Int’l Software Checklist to identify problems and recommend solutions. TGP has customized on-site technical training for Winnov engineering and testing groups, that have learnt how to architect internationalization in the base products. Thus localization of future Winnov applications can be done more efficiently. No time and money is wasted to retrofit US products, since Winnov SW is now developed to meet international requirements from the very start.
GeoGraphix, a subsidiary of Landmark Graphics Corporation
Taught a seminar for the Engineering and Testing organization at GeoGraphix, a subsidiary of Landmark Graphics Corporation. The seminar’s goal was to present Internationalization issues when developing Software for an Int’l audience, and techniques on how to avoid common Software development mistakes, especially when developing software for double-byte languages. The Organization has learnt how to utilize the International support built into Windows/NT environment, and build world-ready Software from the very start, thus reducing the risk of building product features that cannot be localized for other markets. The focus was on European and Japanese languages.
Verity Inc., Sunnyvale, California
Internationalization Product Marketing Manager
Successfully developed first localized Verity product (including SW, Documentation and Packaging) TOPIC v.3 in less than 3 months from date of hire. Shipped on schedule. Prior to this, the company had never shipped any localized product. TOPIC v.3 was very critical to Verity French and Canadian offices: Verity was losing sales because they didn't have a localized product.
Developed benchmarks and analysis criteria for evaluating Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology to augment Verity full-text retrieval engine with linguistic capability such as automatic noun phrase detection. Helped Engineering team develop a prototype that implemented NLP features for Verity search engine pre- and post processors for European languages, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
Developed German localization of TOPIC v.3 (including SW, Documentation, Packaging and Purchase and Maintenance agreements) to penetrate Germany, a new market for Verity and the largest. Shipped on schedule. Without a high-quality localized product Verity could not have established a presence in Germany and made any sell.
Localized TOPIC v.3 (including SW, Documentation and Packaging) into Dutch to increase Verity's Dutch office's sales. Shipped on schedule.
Localized TOPIC v.4 into French, German and Dutch all at the same time. Shipped on schedule.
Developed and shipped on schedule a tutorial of TOPIC v.4 customized for the German market. It was critical to teach TOPIC classes in Germany.
Developed and shipped on schedule a demo version of TOPIC v.4 for the sales force in Europe to quickly obtain sales in Germany.
Helped create strategic business relationships with Int'l partners in Western, Central and Eastern Europe.
Help distributors, and partners understand Verity's mission and goals. Brought in market knowledge from those territories and translated it into specific product's features for new Verity's product line.
Developed Int'l guidelines on how to write code for an Int'l audience. Helped engineering teams understand Int'l requirements at the product's creation phase for all platforms Verity's products are developed for.
Helped engineering teams understand the importance to Internationalize a product to facilitate the localization process, thus reducing time to market and maintenance costs of localized versions.
Established long term relationship with R.R.Donnelley (now Stream International Inc.), one of the major translation houses also used by SW companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, etc. R.R.Donnelley long experience in the SW localization business, and its presence in all the major Int'l markets in the worlds where also Verity has a presence were key to the strategic growth of Verity outside the US territory. Tailored localization process to meet Verity's growth.
Partnered with INSO Corporation to develop a customized solution for Int'l stemmers and Thesaurus needed in Verity's products. Int'l stemmers and Int'l that are expanding to new markets outside the US.
Helped establish a presence in the Asian and Pacific Rim territory. Translated Asian partners and customers market needs into Internationalization features (double byte) to be included in Verity's kernel.
Established history of consistent localized products delivery on schedule and credibility outside the US market.
Developed French and German versions of Topic Agent v.120 for Windows. Tested US version for Int'l bugs, had the bugs fixed and created plan to ship the localized versions with the US version on the same CD.
Successfully localized Verity WEB pages into 9 languages.
Radius Inc., San Jose, California
International Engineering Manager
Successfully developed and shipped first international Radius products that support five foreign languages (Japanese, French, German, Spanish and Italian) and allow the end user to switch on the fly from one language to another within the same application.
See development details at: http://www.tgpconsulting.com/articles/develop.html
Implemented an Internationalization and Localization process for existing and future Radius products, and develop general guidelines to ease the Localization of software, documentation, collateral and packaging.
Recommended prioritized list of products strategic to the Int'l channel, with input from Radius Int'l sales offices, distributors, sales and marketing. Defined yearly budget to design, develop and test localized products that meet Radius Europe and PAL (Pacific Asia and Latin America) needs.
Power Up Software Corporation, San Mateo, California
International Software Development Manager
Power Up Software Corporation was acquired by SoftKey, then it became The Learning Company. Successfully developed and shipped first international Power Up products and worked with the VP of International to set up Power Up international distribution channel.
Achieved an 11% international revenue and expanded the international business in all the major countries in Europe and the Pacific Rim.
Effectively set up a localization process to release localized versions at the same time the US based product is shipped.
Responsible for the design, development and testing of all Dos, Mac, and Windows applications.
Recommended and defined new products and product releases to support company's strategic product lines, with input from international sales and marketing, and third party vendors and distributors outside the US.
Company-wide reputation and track record for consistently completing projects on time and within budget.
Lasselle-Ramsay Inc./Lanquest Group, San Jose, California
International Product Development Specialist
Conducted an analysis of the competition and market potential in the software and documentation translation industry by senior management for decision making purposes.
Successfully qualified new customers through effective surveys and needs assessments.
Entrusted with certifying the international version of Tops, a software networking product, through quality assurance testing.
OATC, Olivetti Advanced Technology Center, Cupertino, California
International Team Leader
Implemented product localization strategy through subcontractors, both in the US and Europe (Denmark, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden). Responsible for the localization process of MS-DOS v.3.3, 4.0, and OS/2. Coordinated the translation and production of software and hardware documentation, packaging, and selection of collateral materials for international markets.
Provided engineering support and software quality assurance support by scheduling and coordinating strategic projects.
Effectively coordinated all activities of the software documentation group: production of the technical manuals and promotional brochures, documentation planning, management of costs and contracts associated with external parties.
Microsoft, Redmond, WA
International Product Development Specialist
Primary liaison concerning localization between international distributors, translation agencies, international sales, R&D, user documentation, legal and marketing communications departments.
Successfully localized MS-Windows for European subsidiaries.
Olivetti, Ivrea, Italy
International Documentation Specialist
Production editing and technical writing of technical manuals and marketing documentation.
Assignment at Digital Research, Newbury, England: provided software quality assurance support, customized and coordinated the production of Dr.Logo programming language documentation.
Conducted an analysis of the user interface of Olivetti strategic products and analyzed human factors in computer and user interactions.
Education
M.A. in Linguistics, University of Torino, Italy.
B.S. Diploma in Computer Science. Technical Course organized by the European Economic Community.
Diploma in English as a second language - Westfield College, University of London, England.
Multilingual: Italian, English, French and German.
Successfully completed academic and industry-oriented course work in the following areas: contemporary business and marketing, technical writing and communication (Italy and US), real estate (qualified for RE agent licensing system).
Related Experience: Book and Articles' Author
APD quarterly magazine by GDS Publishing Ltd. based in the U.K. has published "Ready steady launch", an article/interview with Tiziana Perinotti, founder of TGP Consulting and the Silicon Valley Localization Forum, about globalization, internationalization and localization.
MultiLingual magazine has interviewed Tiziana Perinotti, TGP founder and creator
of this forum, for its "Quotes
from Industry Leaders" section. She talks about the most impressive statistics regarding the globalization of the
web.
The Multilingual Computing & Technology (Volume 12 Issue 4, page 48) lists TGP Consulting
Courseware in the
information section on training at the University and professional level.
Written the article "Under the Covers- How Search Engines Work" for Microsoft Interactive Developer Magazine, now called MSDN magazine published by the same editorial staff of Microsoft System's Journal. Microsoft has posted the entire article on their website.
Co-authored a book on the Internationalization and Localization process, published by Van Nostrand Reinhold (VNR, N.Y., now ITP Publishing).
Co-authored the article entitled "Quality Issues in Internationalization and Localization" in the LISA Forum Newsletter, and the article entitled "Technology of Multilingual Searches" in the Multilingual Computing magazine.
Interviewed for the article Local Color and quoted several times on CIO magazine.
Interviewed and quoted several times in the article entitled "Successful On-Demand Multilingual Web Publishing" published by LISA Newsletter. LISA is the de-facto Localization Industry Standards Organization to which all major hi-tech companies belong.
Related Experience: Lecturer and Speaker at Local and Int'l Hi-Tech Conferences
Guest speaker on the topic of "Globalization of your E-Business" at the SDForum E-Business Special Interest Group in San Francisco California.
Guest speaker on the topic of "New Trends In HCI Practice" at the 8th Int'l Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Munich, Germany.
Guest speaker for the BayCHI (Computer Human Interface) Organization at Xerox's Auditorium in Palo Alto, California. A summary of her presentation "What's So Special About Translating Software" is available online.
Guest speaker at SDForum in Palo Alto International Special Interest Group (SIG). Minutes from her presentation on “Concurrent Multilingual Software Releases” were prepared by Charlie Pfefferkorn.
Lectured on "Innovations in multi-lingual software releases" at STC - Society for Technical Communication.
Presented the topic "Writing software for an Int'l audience" at the IMUG at Apple R&D Center. Lecture on basic guidelines for SW Mac and Windows developers.
Guest speaker for IMUG
(Int'l Macintosh Users Group) at Apple R&D Center in Cupertino,
California, and at Apple Marketing Center in San Jose,
California, to present Internationalization support in Windows and MAC
platforms.
Held seminar in two sessions at
Sun Microsystems in Mountain View,
California.
Featured Guest at Software Entrepreneurs' Forum,
International Software Group (SIG): special presentation on "What's So Special
About Translating Software".
Featured speaker at the Conference on "Int'l Software Business Development And Globalizing Software Products" at the "Technical Implementation Issues in Software Globalization" session at the Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California.
Featured speaker at the SW Development Conference in San Jose, California.
Taught a course in the Internationalization and Localization process for the University of California Extension Santa Cruz, California.
Presented the Localization process theory to the STEM Group (Documentation Association) by special invitation at NEC - San Jose, California.
Developed and presented a project to solve problems such as lack of consistency between software/hardware products, and corresponding documentation, weakness in the testing process of software interfaces. The project was successfully implemented within the SW Development and Quality Assurance Departments of Olivetti, Cupertino, California.
Developed and implemented a project within the International Product Group at Microsoft, Redmond, WA, to change part of the organization from a product structure to a matrix structure to improve the speed and quality of the Localization process.
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