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Team Members

Alejandro Palmero

 

Ana Maria Arias

Ana Arias graduated in Translation and Interpreting at the University of Granada, in Spain. The key aspects of her profile are a strong academic background in languages, together with the technical knowledge and skills that she is acquiring through the Graduate Diploma in Localisation Technology that she is currently undertaking at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her main interest in localisation focuses on identifying more straightforward and efficient ways of communication between everyone involved in the localisation process, objective that she wishes to achieve thanks to the Localization4all project.text text text

Javier Peleteiro
He has a University degree on Translation and Interpreting by the university of Vigo, Spain, and over the last four years he has been working for different Spanish localisation companies on a variety of roles. He is currently studying a Graduate Diploma on Localisation Technolgy at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

His main interest deals with localisation engineering and the use of CAT tools.

Naoto Nishio

Rita Szymczak

Trinidad Guillen

Vera Schneider

 

Facilitators

Thomas Arendt
Dr. Thomas Arend was born 1969 in Germany. From 1990-1995 he studied Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at the Technical University in Berlin/Germany with an awarded scholarship of Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation.  In 1995 he earned his masters degree in complex analysis. During his studies he started his career as Software Engineer and project lead with IBM. He joined SAP in the year 1995 in the role of Product Manager and lead for international projects and global product design. In 1999 he became Senior Product Manager for SAP's new Development Platform. In 2001 he took over responsibility for SAP's Mobile Technology platform which resulted in the presentation of the world's first business application for Microsoft's Tablet PC platform. Thomas has been speaker at conferences and project lead for strategic customer projects in many different countries. He earned his PhD degree in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction in 2003 in Berlin. As a next step of his professional career, he was invited to work in the office of the CEO to support Henning Kagermann and SAP's executive management team as strategic business consultant from 2004 to 2006.

Thomas joined Google in Feb 2006. He is responsible for enabling the company to localize all products and services effectively and in native quality for a global market.

Daniel Goldschmidt

Daniel Goldschmidt is a software engineer on the Google Internationalization Team. For more than 15 years, Daniel has been engaged in software development. As a professional in the globalization of software and content field, he has extensive experience in the internationalization and localization of large-scale enterprise applications and projects. Prior to joining Google, Daniel worked as a freelance internationalization and localization consultant. He holds a BS in computer sciences and mathematics and a MS in computer sciences, both from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Reinhard Schäler
Reinhard has been involved in the localisation industry in a variety of roles since 1987. He is the founder and editor of Localisation Focus - The International Journal of Localisation.  In 2005, he launched together with Pat Hall the Global Initiative for Local Computing (GILC). He is a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS) at the < xml="true" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" prefix="st1" namespace="">University of Limerick, and the founder and director of the Localisation Research Centre (LRC) at UL, established in 1995 as the information, educational, and research centre for the localisation community.

Karl Kelly