Tomasz Wierzbicki

Tomasz Wierzbicki

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Localization Freelancer at Tradio

  • Education

    • Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie

      2005 - 2010
      Master’s Degree Agriculture, General Master of Science

      Activities and Societies: student’s government, Krakow Student’s Festival, scientific club of economy, AEGEE-Krakow European Student’s Forum, Culture Working Group, projects: Model European Union Krakow 2008, "YouropeNeedsYou 2009", European Meetings of Youth Taizé, Vice editor-in-chief of Tryby - a student’s magazine. Agri- and wine tourism specialization. Master thesis about wine tourism development in Poland.

  • Experience

    • SeeCracow Tour Operator

      Mar 2009 - Aug 2009
      Tour coordinator

      • English customer service• preparing offers, • providing correspondence,• managing reservations,• quoting,• guides recruitment.

    • Localization Care

      Jan 2013 - Jul 2015
      Localization Project Manager

      Duties included:• planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling various translation projects including: marketing, e-commerce, IT, life science, medical, chemical, law, finance, e-learning, gaming, technical documentation, • direct cooperation with clients and subcontractors,• providing negotiations and setting up a workflow for whole team,• budget and timing control,• project preparation and CAT file engineering,• selecting suppliers including translators, proof-readers, QA, SME, DTP operators, voice over talents, LSPs,• QA testing and bug fixing,• managing e-learning materials including transcripts, proofreading scripts against audio, voice over recordings,• terminology management and glossary creation,• quality assurance and proofreading. Show less

    • VivaLang

      Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
      Project Manager

      • all translation services from clients contact to final delivery,• LSP strategy assessment,• quoting,• project preparation (DTP/OCR process in Adobe Acrobat, file engineering) and layout adjustment,• legalisation of documents,• quality assurance, LQA and defining automated QA criteria,• administration,• updating databases,• issuing POs,• invoicing.

    • Contrad Polish Translation Service Agency

      Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
      Project Manager

      • managing projects from beginning to end,• working with specialists, engineers, terminologists, clients,• solving technical issues,• project risk analysis,• identifying and engaging new linguists and language providers.

    • Pitney Bowes

      Jul 2016 - Apr 2018
      Associate Globalization Program Manager

      • preparing and coordinating various IT projects (waterfall, continuous delivery and agile methodology: desktop apps, SaaS, UI, UA, technical documentation),• direct cooperation with internal stakeholders: product management, development teams, ICRs, QA testers, technical writers,• collaboration with LSPs on a daily basis,• defining and improving processes and workflows,• project preparation in SDL Passolo,• quality and time control,• Q&A management,• localization and funtional bug fixing,• internationalization and regionalization,• project management in SDL Translation Management System. Show less

    • Vistatec

      May 2018 - Mar 2019
      Linguistic Review Services PM

      • monitoring for urgent and non-standard client requests,• query delegation, troubleshooting for linguists and clients,• documenting processes,• implementing improvements to workflows and targeting operational excellence,• analyze project risks,• maintaining training materials,• mentoring new team members,• Machine Translation and Post Editing Subject Matter Expertise.

    • Tradio

      Jun 2018 - now
      Localization Freelancer

      translation, editing, proofreading, TEP, in context review, ICR, LQA, voice-over, transcription, trans-creation and branding, SEO and Google Ads campaigns, localization (software: web, desktop, SaaS) and internationalization, copy-writing, professional typesetting and desktop publishing (DTP), glossary and style guide creation, MT+PE, file engineering, game testing, software testing

    • Venga Global

      Jun 2019 - Sept 2019
      Quality Coordinator

      • quality supervision,• LQA coordination,• performing regular inspections and reviews to ensure linguists adhere to quality levels,• ensuring compliance with requirements, style guides, reference materials,• determining data-driven solutions and implementing quality improvement plans.

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Tomasz Wierzbicki
      Pitney Bowes Globalization Table Tennis Tournament 3rd place - Feb 2018 Boulder, CO, USA
    • Awarded to Tomasz Wierzbicki
      Pac-Man world championship of KLM airlines, 9th place - Sep 2014
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Volunteer

      Issued by Comboni Lay Missionaries on Sept 2012
      Comboni Lay MissionariesAssociated with Tomasz Wierzbicki
    • Volunteer

      Issued by proUkraina Foundation NGO on Jul 2007
      proUkraina Foundation NGOAssociated with Tomasz Wierzbicki