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ProZ.com's 2011 freelance translator virtual conference

Sep 30, 2011



Virtual conference speakers

Konstantin Kisin is a highly successful legal, financial and video games translator. Since joining ProZ.com in 2004, he has made full use of the website to propel his business to new heights and build long-term relationships with clients and colleagues.

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Massimo Ghislandi — Vice President Sales & Marketing, Translation Productivity at SDL Language Technologies
Massimo Ghislandi is Vice President Sales & Marketing, Translation Productivity at SDL Language Technologies. A native of Italy, he is a business administration graduate from Bocconi University, Milano, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (MCIM). With over ten years of business- to-... read more »
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Jeff Allen — Professional translator, engineer, translation tools expert, real user of many MT systems
Jeff Allen has 2 decades of experience in many areas across the entire business life cycle (marketing, pre-sales, sales, account management, project/program management, product management, development, custom development, QA testing, TEP production, release management, deployment, customer support, ... read more »
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Pritam Bhattacharyya is the Founder and Chief Wordsmith of Wordsmith Communication. He had been trained and worked as a Telecom Engineer in various state-woned and private corporations and holds his Masters in Communication Management from Strathclyde Business School as British Chevening Scholar
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Marcus is the Director of Product Management for Translation Workspace at Lionbridge. With over 13 years of experience, and his background as a localization engineer and translator Marcus’ career spans localization consulting, production engineering, solutions development and operational manageme... read more »
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Enrique Cavalitto, PMP — Project manager Professional (PMP) and Engineer
A Telecommunications Engineer from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, and a Project Manager Professional (PMP) certified by the Project Manager Institute, I have also been engaged in technical translations for over a quarter of a century. After four years as site moderator, I joined Pr... read more »
is an English < > Spanish award-winning linguist and regarded as a local pioneer in the area of philanthropy. He is the founder of Well Translated LLC and creator of the first crowdsourcing effort in Colorado. He has more than 12 years of experience and has worked in the USA, Dominican Republic, Isr... read more »
Lori Thicke — CEO of Lexcelera
Lori Thicke is the co-founder and CEO of the translation company Lexcelera as well as the co-founder and president of the non-profit association Translators without Borders. While Lexcelera exists to offer innovative translation services to corporate customers, Translators without Borders provides ... read more »
Alexandra Jaffe — Review and Translation Manager for Kiva
Alexandra is a Review and Translation Manager for Kiva, a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. She has been with Kiva for almost four years, working to develop the online volunteer corps that provides pre-publication translation, editing, and... read more »
Corinne Durand — Corinne Durand is a freelance EN>FR translator and founder of The French Key.
A language graduate, and having worked previously for a large computer manufacturer (Digital Equipment Corporation, then Compaq) in various roles in Customer service, Quality assurance and Project management, she decided to add the business experience she had gained during those years and combine th... read more »
Tess Whitty has nine years of experience as a freelance translator from English into Swedish with her company Swedish Translation Services. She specializes in software localization, marketing and business communications. She has a M.A. in Business Communications and PR from Belgium and a M.Sc. in Ec... read more »
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Balázs Kis — MemoQ chief architect
Balázs Kis has a degree in IT engineering from the Technical University of Budapest and a PhD in applied linguistics from the University of Pécs. Prior to founding Kilgray, he was a Microsoft systems engineer and trainer (MCSE, MCT) and the most prominent Hungarian IT author with over 20 titles pu... read more »
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Jared Tabor — ProZ.com member services manager
Jared oversees member services at ProZ.com. An ex-language teacher, he has lived and worked in Argentina since 1996. He has been with ProZ.com through the La Plata office since 2007.
Ms. Deliscar was called to the Ontario Bar in 2004. As principal of Suzanne E. Deliscar, Lawyer-Linguist, she focuses on matters involving both legal and language issues. Her practice was created through the combination of her language skills in French and Spanish and the practice of law in a variet... read more »
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Mareike Krämer — International Sales Manager - Atril
After a successful completion of a commercial apprenticeship in Germany and England and a double diploma in International Business and Languages in the Netherlands and France, I've now settled down in Paris. As International Sales Manager I am taking over the responsibilities of Sales for Central, E... read more »
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Eric Candle — NY State Representative, International Medical Interpreters Association
Eric Candle holds an MS in Computer Science and Computer Translation, and an advanced certificate “Creating and leading Strategic Growth". His college graduation work was executed and presented in English and Russian languages. Eric is a qualified medical interpreter with 15 years of professional ... read more »
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Claudia Brauer — Licensed translator & interpreter and online trainer & writer
Considered a subject matter expert in translation and interpreting, Claudia's career spans more than 35 years in Latin America and the USA, logging over 15,000 hours of interpreting assignments in a large diversity of venues and fields of knowledge, and translating more than 10 million words.
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Henry Dotterer — ProZ.com founder and president
An MIT-engineer-turned-translator, Henry founded ProZ.com in 2000. He also coaches youth ice hockey. Henry lives in Syracuse, New York, USA.
Marek Buchtel is a freelance translator (English/Czech) with more than 15 years of experience in the industry. He specializes in business, legal and IT translations as well as website/software localizations. In addition to translating, Marek provides workshops and trainings on topics related to incr... read more »
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o As Field Marketing Manager (Corporate) at SDL Language Technologies, David is responsible for managing the corporate facing marketing campaigns for the SDL Trados Studio and SDL Studio GroupShare products in EMEA, NASA and APAC David has a Masters degree in Marketing, from the University of Glamor... read more »
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Victoria has worked with SDL for 12 months and in that time has had responsibility for all communications to the LSP market, as well as running regular webinars for beginners with SDL Trados Studio.
Elia Yuste holds a degree in English & German Philology and a Postgrad Certificate in Modern Language Pedagogy from the Univ of Valencia, as well as an MSc in Machine Translation from UMIST, Manchester UK. During her 15-yr experience in the language industries, Elia has worked as an independent tran... read more »
Johanna Angulo es Licenciada en Lingüística Aplicada y traductora profesional de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile. También cuenta con un diploma de postgrado en Administración de Empresas de la misma casa de estudios. Con casi diez años en la industria de la localización, ha desempeñado t... read more »
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Graduated from the faculty of law of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland). Studied translation at Westminster University in London. Works as a freelance translator since 2004, full time since 2006. Specializes in English-Polish legal translation. Currently works as a full-time freelance... read more »
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Fahd Hassanein is Business Development and QA Manager at Arabic Localizer, an Egyptian company specialized in providing Arabic language services. During his professional career, Fahd came across various stages of the translation process. Before embarking on the freelance translation career, he worke... read more »
Serge Gladkoff graduated from a Russian ivy league nuclear science college and for more than twenty one years has been engaged in the localization industry, first as a deputy director for a software distribution company Dialogue-MEPhI, then as a localization manager of Moscow office of Borland Inter... read more »
Marcela Jenney (MBA) is a globally expert entrepreneurial marketing and business coach and consultant with over 20 years of experience. Through her enthusiastic and high-energy approach, she partners with language service providers around the world as well as professionals from culturally diverse ... read more »
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Ioana Mihailas has a degree in English and Norwegian and she entered the industry as a freelance translator in 2004. She joined Lingo24 in November 2005 as Link Manager, then became head of Online Marketing. She coordinates Lingo24’s online promotional initiatives in multiple languages. Having c... read more »
After a lifetime in other careers (journalism, IT), I became a translator 5 years ago, also doing a postgraduate translation course on the side. I now translate from Swedish or German to English. Because of my background in IT, I have a particular interest in electronic tools for translation, pa... read more »
Gary Smith — Traductor, corrector y asesor lingüístico.
Gary Smith is a British translator based in Spain. He translates scientific and legal texts from ES and CA to EN. He is the president of the Valencia region association of translators and interpreters, XarxaTIV. He has spoken at many Spanish and European translation congresses, as well as writing ar... read more »
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