It has been almost 15 years since I first started working for localization industry.
During 15 years, I worked for the renown IT companies like EMC, Microsoft, SAP, IBM, Sun, CA, Oracle and others. Marking materials, software UI localization and linguistic testing, online help, manuals, demo subtitle and transcripts have been my special area.
- Marketing materials: I do not just translate them with fluency but I also edit the contents to reflect more local sentiment.
- Software UIs and Web site UIs: With thorough testing using live software, I could fix lots of strings related with internationalization problem. Avoiding word-to-word literal translation, the localized UIs can truly express the real meaning of their own functions.
- Manuals and Online help files: Carefully translated and edited to follow the real steps and processes.
- Proposals and product enhancement files: I have localized them excellently into English from Korean. It is important to provide the best quality of files to report required product functions and problems. Especially the proposal files are fluently and clearly localized to help customers understand the benefits of the products to strike the deals and increase the revenue.
- Demo subtitle and transcripts: I poured extreme care and efforts for fluency and accuracy since these will be used for potential customers and offsite events too. It is important to consider the length and also the purpose of the demo.