Localization Specialist

Senior Localization Specialist — Vectra Software Corp

San Jose, CA | January 2024 – Present

• Led localization workflows for 5 major product releases into 16 target languages, utilizing Smartling and Jira to ensure 100% on-time delivery across parallel sprints.
• Negotiated new SLAs and rate cards with 3 external translation vendor groups, reducing localization costs by 15% and saving $48,000 in the annual operations budget.
• Integrated Phrase TMS with GitHub CI/CD pipelines, automating resource file translation and reducing manual engineering handoffs by 14 hours per week.
• Established a QA linguistic framework using Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM), increasing translation accuracy scores from 91% to 98% in 6 months.

Associate Localization Specialist — Lumina Web Solutions

San Francisco, CA | August 2020 – December 2023

• Coordinated the cultural adaptation and translation of 350,000+ words of software UI and help content using Crowdin, meeting 97% of scheduled release deadlines.
• Maintained terminology databases and translation memories for 4 product lines, boosting overall translation consistency by 35% and leverage rates by 20%.
• Conducted user interface testing on localized builds across iOS and Android, resolving 140+ layout defects, truncation errors, and font rendering issues.
• Onboarded 8 external freelance editors and translators, establishing workflow standard operating procedures that cut project localization cycle times by 18%.

Translation memory management, Terminology database design, Software internationalization (i18n), Linguistic quality assurance (LQA), Vendor recruitment, Smartling, Phrase, Crowdin, SDL Trados, Jira, Confluence, Figma, GitHub, HTML/XML

Mobile App Global Launch

Role: Localization Lead

Tools: Crowdin, GitHub, Figma, Jira

Managed the localization of a retail mobile app into 12 languages, expanding potential customer reach by 4M users and boosting download rates by 22%.

API Content Continuous Translation Pipeline

Role: Localization Specialist

Tools: Phrase TMS, Python, Webhooks, GitHub

Developed a continuous localization pipeline using webhooks and custom Python scripts, reducing translation deployment time from 10 days to 2 hours.

• Certified Translation Manager (CTM) (2022)
• Localization Project Management Certification (2021)
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) (2023)

• Languages: English (Native), German (Fluent), Japanese (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Volunteer localization reviewer for humanitarian technology non-profits (2021–present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice