Bio

25 years of Leadership experience in Language Technology, NLP, Machine Learning, Global Content Transformation and AI Data Annotation, passionate about growing business through driving change and innovation. Expert in ''building things from scratch'' - departments, divisions, companies, products, business lines - and bringing them to measurable success. - Experience on both the buyer and the supplier side gives me a unique perspective around establishing strategic buyer/supplier alliances and designing cost-effective Global Content Lifecycle Programs. Have executed on all aspects of Fortune 500 - scale AI-driven programs, from strategy to global execution, capturing the impact and demonstrating measurable ROI; drove technology aspect of multiple successful M&A projects from audit to closing. - Have built and managed global production, development and solutions teams of up to 300 members specializing in global content delivery, language technology and broader AI. While in leadership roles always am hands-on with processes and technology and stay very close to my teams. - On top of ML and AI, have expert-level knowledge of globalization, I18N, translation automation, all generations of machine translation, content curation tools, OCR and other content lifecycle technologies, multimedia localization, experienced in managing systems locally and delivering technology via the cloud model. Recently developed strong interest in RPA as applied to global content transformation processes. - Former President of American Machine Translation Association - Active in industry associations and present regularly at professional conferences - TAUS, GALA, Women in Localization, Localization World, AMTA, EAMT and Slator. Authored TAUS guidelines for Post-Editing Evaluation, was an invited editor of GALAxy magazine MT issue, served on Localization Technology Roundtable Board and GALA organizing committee. Specialties: Strategy and Leadership, AI and AI Enablement services, Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Data Annotation and Validation, NLP output automated evaluation techniques, Global Team Management, Global Content Lifecycle, Localization, Globalization, Internationalization, Enterprise Globalization Management Systems, Digital Marketing, Global Social Media Publishing and Listening, Language and Engineering QA processes, Systems Interoperability, Product Strategy, BI Management, P&L management, Agile Development, Open Source.