Trini Hu

Experience

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  McCann

  Jul 2000 - Jun 2002

  In-house Translator

  Translated marketing, media and TV commercial proposals (Chinese-English) to international clients and interpreted in proposal meetings, focus groups.

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  Ulead Systems

  Jul 2002 - Dec 2006

  Localization Manager

  Responsible for managing localization projects for three product lines, up to 12 languages, using waterfall methodology. Led team of 5 engineers, more than 10 vendors worldwide. *Negotiated with engineering and product management teams to re-define localization project management methods and re-built engineering process to increase work throughput by over 60%, reduce cost of rework by 70% and improve product quality.

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  Corel Corporation

  Jan 2007 - Sept 2012

  Sr. Localization & Documentation Manager

  Responsible for managing localization & documentation projects for four product lines, up to 28 languages, using both waterfall and agile methodologies. Led team of 5 engineers, 3 writers and more than 10 vendors worldwide, to plan and execute 3~4 medium to long term software development projects per quarter. *Implemented new automation process to shorten testing and bug fix turn-around time, thereby improving work throughput by more than 30%.*Successfully implemented new localization engineering process for Corel’s first product coded with WPF. *Successfully implemented new localization engineering process for Corel Digital Media’s first mobile application. *Successfully built up simship capability for Digital Media Group, allowing the company to simultaneously launch new products across multiple geographic regions.*Championed new cross-team process to increase stakeholder satisfaction of documentation and localization project deliverables; reducing related bugs reported after product launch by more than 50%.*Consolidated vendors to increase company’s vendor pricing negotiation leverage, successfully reducing documentation & localization budget by 15% across all Corel product divisions. Show less

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  Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  Sept 2013 - Apr 2016

  Documentation Project Lead

  Managing documentation projects for server products.*Successfully helped to bring the new writing and QA resources up to speed which allowed the team to pick up heavy loading quickly and deliver customer facing documents for the server products of new generation on schedule.

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  QNAP Systems

  May 2016 - Mar 2023

  Senior Product Globalization Manager

  Manage documentation and localization projects for NAS (network-attached storage) products and software enriching NAS user experience, ranging from NAS operating system, applications, utilities, mobile apps and cloud services. Lead team of 8 technical writers, 4 localization specialists and 5 vendors.  Rebuilt the team by hring qualified technical writers and localization specialists Introduced component content management system, DITA authoring, Trados and Passolo to increase content reuse and improve work efficiency significantly Redefined user documentation convention Show less