Course presenters

Padraig Bracken

Padraig Bracken is a localisation consultant with more than 15 years experience in the localisation industry. He worked with Microsoft and Lotus, and was one of the founder directors of the localisation service provider VistaTec.

padraigb@pobox.com

Tom Connolly

Tom Connolly has over 20 years experience in localisation, new product introduction, manufacturing engineering and engineering services management. For the past two years he has run his own consultancy, focussing on business development and project management. He is Vice President of the Microsoft Project Users Group Ireland Chapter and has recently launched a project management training programme, which is recognised by TILP (The Institute of Localisation Professionals) as part of the CLP certification process for localisation professionals in Ireland. Tom was born in Ireland and graduated from University College Galway in 1981 having completed a BE (Industrial).  He worked for over 18 years at Apple Computer, mostly in Cork Ireland and including three long-term assignments in California. He has studied Project Management in MCE, Brussels and taken Management Training at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He sat APICS examinations in MRP, Production Activity Control and Inventory Management. He is currently studying an MBA in the National University of Ireland in Cork.

tom@itacenterprises.com

Lisa Daly

Graduated 1999 from University College Cork with a BSc Hons in Computer Studies. Worked for one year in Transware Plc, Dublin, localising and testing computer based training courses which were deployed mainly in html. Has worked in Oracle Corporation, Dublin, since August 2000 in the Worldwide Product Translation Group as a software engineer, with tasks including engineering vendor translation kits and writing engineering processes for the department. The team Lisa was working with has just finished localising the latest release of Oracle internet Application Server (iAS).

lisa.daly@oracle.com

Yves Savourel

Yves Savourel is a Localisation Solutions Architect with the RWS Group LLC, at Boulder, Colorado. He has been involved in internationalization and localisation for more that a decade. Working at developing localisation tools and solutions, he has been dealing with SGML and XML issues for many years. One of the developers of OpenTag, one of the early XML common extract format, Yves is also co-technical chair of the Oscar group at LISA, responsible for TMX. He has recently been involved with the development of XLIFF (XML Localisation Interchange File Format) and other efforts related to XML and localisation. He is the author of  "XML Internationalization and Localisation", the definite guide to XML and localisation.

yves@opentag.com

Ray Loughran

Ray has a strong interest in outsourcing in localisation and also project/process management in localisation - these are areas he has responsibility for in Lotus. He has been involved in moving the company from a point where virtually no outsourcing took place to a point where a very significant part of its work is now outsourced. Ray set up the strategy for the company over three year ago. He has seen it evolve through every stage during that time. More recently he has been driving an area referred to in the IBM world as Business Controls. Its focus has been on how to effectively run projects at a global level in a large multinational company. Tricky areas like matrix management and global budget control are some of the key topics that drive this area. He runs regular workshops in Lotus/IBM and has been a part-time lecturer in the Dublin Institute of Technology, Bolton Street, for over 14 years. He has significant experience in presenting workshops.

Ray_Loughran@ie.ibm.com

John Malone

John Malone is one of the localisation industry’s most experienced business experts. Following many years in vendor management with the world’s largest software publisher, he is now Director of International Sales and Marketing for the localisation service provider Archetypon S.A. John is also a founding member of the Council of The Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP).

JTM@Archetypon.com

Susanne Maier

Susanne Maier is Development Manager of Notes 5.x Windows Releases with IBM Software Group, Lotus Software.

susanne_maier@ie.ibm.com

Pat O’Sullivan

Pat O'Sullivan won the LRC Best Thesis Award in 2000 for his PhD thesis "A Paradigm for Creating Multilingual Interfaces". He previously won this award in 1997 for his M.Sc. thesis "A Software Test Reduction System For Use In Localisation Environments". Originally from Cork, Pat completed his Computer Science degree at Cork's Institute of Technology in 1990. He completed his M.Sc. with University College Dublin's Computer Science department in 1997 and he has recently submitted his PhD to the University of Limerick's Computer Science and Information Systems department. Currently Pat works as a Principal Engineer with Lotus Development Ireland in their Mobile Computing Group.

patosullivan@ie.ibm.com

Tony O’Dowd

Tony was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Corel Corporation Limited from October 1995 to November 2000. This organization was responsible for localizing, supporting and manufacturing all international products for Corel. It was during this period that Corel adopted a release strategy that required all products be released simultaneously. Tony's team successfully met this challenge and simultaneous release of products became the norm rather than the exception. In 1995 Tony established a development team that developed the Trinity technology, that eventually became the Corel CATALYST product. This revolutionized the localisation process for Corel, reducing cost and release lead-times while improving product quality and reliability. Tony spent three years as a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, teaching Microprocessor Design and Assembly Language Programming. Aged 34, Tony has a BSC Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin and is a founder of FIT Ltd., a $20 million government training organization for the long-term unemployed.

Tonyod@alchemysoftware.ie

Florian Sachse

Florian Sachse is MD of PASS Engineering, a company which develops software for the healthcare industry and tools for software localization. Over ten years experience in developing mission critical multilingual software for the healthcare industry lead to the development of PASSOLO, the PASS Software Localiser. Together with his development team, Florian is implementing an efficient approach to tackle the complex problems of software localisation.

fsachse@pass-engineering.com