Ramon Ortega
From December 2005 till present Based in Spain right across the Portuguese border, I've been working as a Localization Consultant and Engineer supporting corporations and translators on a project or task basis. In November 2007 I started Alor Translations, for a more corporate-orientated profile. Services provided can be found here
Aimed to help translators, localizers and localization engineers alike, I developed the on-line String Lengths tool.
From May 2005 till November 2005 As a Localization Specialist at Epson Engineering Europe based in Paris, France, I carried out the localization process for manuals, on-line help, drivers and software bundled with Epson products, mainly printers, which included the following tasks
- Evaluate the localization process required by a product
- Set a timeline coordinating factory, marketing, vendors and in-house resources constraints
- Vendor support and evaluation
- Reduce costs through managing resources and leveraging from previous localization projects
- Design, implement and follow up processes across multiple departments as well as vendors
From October 2002 till March 2005 As the Operations/Production Manager at Glotas Translation Services in Spain, having six Project Managers (PM's) and 3 in-house translators reporting to me as well as managing over 50 freelancers and vendors. My main duties were
- Evaluate feasibility of client’s project proposals
- Maximize productivity by monitoring current processes and tools while evaluating potential improvements
- Monitor and balance workload among PM's and in-house translators
- Follow up on PM queries and issues with clients and vendors
- Keep all projects on schedule and within budget
- Assess Management on production capability and availability
- Vendor assessment and QA processes
- Recruitment of new hires
From July till September 2002 I worked as a Software Localization Engineer for LionBridge Technologies at Dublin, Ireland. Responsible for the process of localizing Microsoft Messenger into 10 languages, the role involved
- Preparation of deliverables to localizers
- Workload assessment
- Localizers support and management
- Timely deliveries of localized files to the client as per localization kit
- QA tests and implementation
- Bug free files which implied investigation, assessment and fixing of localization bugs
From March 1999 till July 2002 I’ve been working at Microsoft Ireland as a Software Test and Automation Engineer for Access 9, 10 and .Net which involved knowledge of ASP and HTML since Access included ADP files (web-based database applications). The main tasks performed were
- Develop testing scripts and applications in Visual Basic 6
- Update and manage source code using Visual SourceSafe
- Manage the testing process performed by vendors
- Evaluate vendor's Quality Assurance
- Vendor support in bug fixing
- Run automation suites and debug automation tools
- Enter and monitor bugs in RAID, a proprietary SQL Server bug tracking database
- Participate in bug evaluation triage meetings
- Improve and update testing and management tools
- Analyze, design and automate test cases for localized versions
When I started at Microsoft Ireland I worked as a Software Localization Engineer for SMS 2.0 (Opal) from July 1998 until March 1999 which covered the localization project for the Tier 1 languages. My main tasks included, but were not limited to
- Manage the localization project performed by vendors
- Hand off localization material to vendors
- Hand off localized file to engineering
- Support vendors in localization and debugging process
- Monitor and apply localization efforts by the US pilot language (German) team
- Extend Ireland pilot language (French) results to the rest of the localized languages
- Contact between MILS (Microsoft International Language Services), vendors, testing team, management staff and engineering
- Analyze, design and implementation of production tools to streamline tasks and processes
- Debugging
From 1994 until 1998 I worked as a software developer for Tecno-Voice, an ISV (Independent Software Vendor), developing custom made applications both in Access and Visual Basic, mostly database front-end against Jet/SQL databases which in most cases were also designed by me.
Amongst other applications I developed Microsoft Opentool for management and configuration of volume licensing offers (MOLP).
In 1995 I took part in the adaptation and roll-out of Microsoft Manager 3.1, a Products & Services Support Group custom application, my first localization job. More recently, I have migrated, on a volunteering basis, Enable Ireland’s database from their legacy system (Paradox) into SQL Server.
I'm a regular collaborator to Free Localization, a cooperative translation project to help webmasters get free multilingual versions of their websites
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