Aykut Yatar

Experience

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  5Mid

  Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

  Editor

  • eSports news site startup - started with my university friends together in 2014 and continued as a content creator. Moved on to other ventures as my career grows. Now the site is one of the most popular eSports news blog in Turkey.

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  TTC wetranslate Ltd

  Jun 2015 - Oct 2015

  Intern Translation Project Coordinator

  • While studying at university, I was accepted for a 3-month internship in the UK headquarters of this long-standing Language Service Provider, where I had the chance to experience project management, work directly with different department heads of the company, and get a good insight into the real-life industry, which helped boost my knowledge combined with my ongoing academic training.

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  Ceviriblog.com

  Feb 2016 - Sept 2016

  Content Writer

  • One of the most popular blog and news channels for the Translation & Localisation industry in Turkey. I wrote on different topics such as seminars, language learning, crowdsourcing, interviews with successful people etc. Some examples can be found at: https://www.ceviriblog.com/author/aykutyatar/

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  Nişantaşı University

  Oct 2016 - Jun 2017

  English Instructor / Vocational Department Lead

  • English Language Teaching to University Students in their prep years• Had the opportunity to work with hundreds of people with different educational and occupational backgrounds and career ahead• Preparing lesson plans specific to students in different departments• Holding regular internal and interdepartmental meetings with fellow teachers and reporting to native English directorW: https://www.nisantasi.edu.tr/index?dil=eng

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  TTC wetranslate Ltd

  Jul 2017 - Apr 2024

  • Preparing and presenting quotations to international clients• Managing multilingual translation, software and website localisation, interpreting projects for international clients• Managing a team of project managers, ensuring the processes are followed and smooth deliveries to clients continued• Organising regular cross-departmental team meetings including the Project Managers, Managing Director, Key Accounts Managers and Accountant• Monitoring the complete company project/quote data closely and preparing weekly business reportdashboards to go over with the Managing Director and Co-founder• Helped acquire 3 ISO certifications for the company in the scheme of a year, by creating relevant documentation, training team members on relevant processes to be followed, applying internal audits and then having several sessions with the ISO Auditor.- ISO 17100:2015 Translation Services- ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems- ISO 18587:2017 Post Editing of Machine Translation Output• Implemented integration with Machine Translation to the company, combining the main CAT tool with a trusted engine and enabling certain subject matters and language combinations, while creating guides and processes from scratch and training the staff.• Produced client complaints procedures, personally overseeing some conflicts, and training the senior PMs to follow and resolve conflicts smoothly.• Various office administration tasks for TR branch Show less

  • Operations Manager

    Nov 2019 - Apr 2024

  • Business Manager

    Nov 2018 - Nov 2019

  • Translation Project Manager & Branch Manager

    Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
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  Empower Translate

  Apr 2024 - now

  Client Success Manager

  Empower is a tech-forward translation and localization agency, working exclusively in market research.We are the chosen partner for some of the world’s biggest insight agencies, and have won multiple awards for the excellence of our work.Our mission is to empower accurate and actionable multimarket data through efficient, comprehensive localization processes. That’s why we provide so much more than ‘just translation’:Translation & evaluation (‘TERI’)Scripted file overlayLink checkingCoding & themingAudiovisual translation/transcriptionAdverse Event ReportingConsultationAPI & Integration developments Show less