Jeff Allen

Desktop Publishing, Edição, Interpretação - Conferência, Interpretação – Tribunal/Legal, Interpretação – Por Telefone, Localização, Gestão de Projectos, Proofreading, Legendagem, Escrita Técnica, Pesquisa de Terminologia, Transcrição, Tradução, Voice-Over

telecom, automotive, heavy-machinery, engines, computer science, information technology, business intelligence, datawarehousing, theology, machine translation, dictionary building, MT postediting / post-editing, controlled language, controlled English, technical communication, authoring guidelines, global branding, global brand management, translation tools, translation memory, GMS Globalization Management System, TMS Translation Management System, terminology management, glossaries, creole

Bíblia e Estudos Bíblicos, Ciências da Tecnologia e Informação, Comunicação de Dados, Engenharia Automotiva, Engenharia de Software, Engenharia Informática, Estudos Étnicos e Culturais, Linguística, Música, Religião, Sistemas e Ciências da Informação, Sociologia, Telecomunicações, Teologia e Estudos Teológicos

Translation tools articles: my articles on translation/authoring tools

See my new website Allen Keys 2 Languages:   http://www.allenkeys2languages.org

 Corporate and industrial institutions January 1995 - present

• since 2008: Engineering Tools/Processes Expert (since 2010); Quality Engineering & Engineering Cross-Functions Validation Project Lead (2008-2009) & ISO9001 coach and Quality Management Representative at SAP Labs France (since 2009) - SAP Business Objects
• Mar 2007-Oct 2008: Director of Business Development at Translations.com / TransPerfect Translations
• June 2006-Mar 2007: EMEA Director of Customer Support Professional Services at SYSTRAN (Translation software/system developer) (http://www.systransoft.com/)
   
• June 2001 - June 2006: Senior Program (Project) Manager at Mycom France (Business Intelligence Telecom Solutions / Product Division of Mycom International) (http://www.mycom-int.com/)
  
  
  • 3.5 years: Senior Program Manager of Channel Accounts & Quality Management Systems
     
  • 1.5 years: Multi-department Manager: Technical Documentation / Translation Manager / Product Training Manager  
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• 2000 - 2001: Project Manager at Softissimo (Translation software/system publisher and integrator)
• 1998 - 2000: Technical Manager at the Evaluation and Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA)
• 1995 - 1998: Language Technologies Institute/Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University
  
  • 2 years: Lead Researcher and Translation Lab Supervisor onsite at the Center for Machine Translation/Language Technologies Institute, Computer Science Dept, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 2 years: Trainer of Controlled Language Authoring tools and Translation tools onsite at Caterpillar, Inc. Technical Information Division

 

Translation and language training positions Sept 1988 - Dec 1994

• Course Coordinator, Business Language Professor, and Translator Executive Language Services
   
• Dept Head & Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Summer Institute of Linguistics European Training Programme (ETP)
   
• Professor of French Language at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lyon (Graduate Business School of Lyon)
   
• Assistant to Director and Translator at the Centre Oregon d'Etudes Françaises Student Exchange Program run by the Oregon University System
   
• Lecturer in Language and Communication at the Université Lyon 2
   
• Graduate Teaching Assistant in French and Applied Linguistics at Portland State University (PSU) , Dept of Foreign Languages & Dept of Applied Linguistics
   
  
  
   

Professional Certifications

• December 2004: obtained official certification as trainer of all of the following courses for the Mycom NIMS-PrOptima Telecom Business Intelligence solution suite for the following software versions: 1.9, 1.10, 1.20, 1.30, 1.40:
  
  • Standard User course (user course, Call Trace, Geographic Information System, NE Profiling)
     
  • System Administration
     
  • Importation Control Manager and Importation Engine
     
• June 2005. obtained official certification as a PROMT Dictionary Developer (covers versions for PROMT XT v6, v6.5, v7, and PROMT/Reverso 4 & 5)
   
• September 2005:  obtained official certification as a Quality Internal Auditor on the ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Standard by AFAQ/AFNOR Standards organization in France
  

 

Education

• 1989: Bachelors of Arts in French Linguistics
   
• 1992: Maîtrise des Sciences du Langage (MA in Linguistics)
   
• 1994: Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA) de Sciences du Language (MPhil in Linguistics)
   
• 1998: Master of Science in Information Systems
   
• 2001: PhD in Linguistics
   
• 2004: Master of Science in Telecommunications

 

SYSTRAN Professional Premium (v4/v5/v6); ; Reverso Pro v4 & v5; Reverso v5 Expert; PROMT XT Professional and Expert (v6/v6.5/v7); LEC Translate 2005; also see http://jeffallen.chez.aliceadsl.fr/compskills.html

Certified Expert PROMT Dictionary Developer (15 June 2005); Certified Internal Auditor (23 Sept 2005) of ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Standard

Advisory Board of MultiLingual Computing & Technology, Advisory Board of the LINGUIST-List, European Association for Machine Translation, Association for MT in the Americas, Controlled Language Workshop committees