Colorado College

Oregon State University

Galvanize Inc

The Taft School

Continuous Improvement Lead at Square Roots

New York, New York, United States

Square Roots

Continuous Improvement Lead

Fullstack Developer

- Developed a Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tool with first in class visual context, a rich text editor, speech control, and integrated predictive typing that has decreased the number of clicks needed to translate a word by 50%•  Developed a new metrics service to collect event data from the CAT tool to track translator productivity and to power data behind Smartling’s Quality Confidence Score, a model to predict translation quality•  Developed an Elasticsearch powered API that improved the quality of translator search results across hundreds of languages by 700%

Smartling

Software Developer

- Architected an automated SEO sitemap generator leveraging translator profiles to drive inbound traffic, leading to an increase from 445 to over 28,000 weekly impressions in 6 months•  Developed and managed API integrations and custom applications with Crowdin, <a href="http://Desk.com">Desk.com</a>, Transifex and Cielo24, that collectively drove 73% of total revenue•  Created and supported custom content parsers for 15+ file types, including automatic generation of audio and video timestamp files for video captioning and subtitling•  Developed proxy-based translation application that automatically translates HTML and JavaScript content, allowing companies to launch websites in new languages with little to no developer time•  Designed translator workspace resulting in 12.6% increase in translator productivity and strong gains in translation consistency•  Created crowdsourced translator curation system leading to drop in test grading and onboarding time from up to 6 months to under 1 week, while eliminating the need for any manual intervention•  Developed content classification system for automatic matching and assignment of content to translators, leading to an 11% decrease in the median task time-to-pickup•  Production use of technologies such as Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, JavaScript, AngularJS, jQuery, React, PHP, WordPress, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS RDS, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Rackspace Cloud, Elasticsearch, RSpec, Selenium, Jasmine, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap

VerbalizeIt

- Ran day-to-day business operations of translation company• Surpassed previous year's total revenue in 5.5 months• Successfully completed biggest project in company history• Created an organized company database and implemented systems for increased efficiency and consistency

Translation Excellence

Interim Director of Operations

- Coordination of translation and interpretation projects• Preparation of quotes and Request For Proposals (RFPs) for submission to corporations and _____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART149ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____ government agencies• Accounting: accounts payable and receivable, balance sheet and income statement analysis• Used analytics to steer a new social marketing campaign that increased site traffic by over 300% in the first 1.5 months of use• French <> English translation of general and technical texts• Writing: website, social media, marketing, and RFPs• Led the internship program

Project Manager

- Evaluated foreign academic records to determine their equivalency in United States educational standards• Developed the database used for evaluations• Writing website, social media, and marketing content• Search engine optimization• Responsible for the training of new hires• Managed the internship program

Nathanael Burt

Nathanael Burt