Presentation of Jeff Allen

Introduction: This page presents Jeff Allen and his background in various business and industrial sectors.

About Jeff ALLEN

Jeff ALLEN is a recognized industry expert in Technical and Business writing, Controlled language writing, Translation, Translation technologies, Localization, Globalization, and Wireless Telecom networks (2G GSM, 2.5G GPRS, and 3G UMTS):

15 years of experience in the new technologies industry
10 of those years in technical/project/program/account management positions
50/50% experience on client side vs solution provider side
Hands-on experience on desktop products and large-scale programs for enterprise-level software & systems deployed at sites of 30 major customers
Significant practical experience with management of in-house local teams, remote teams, insourcing, outsourcing
Several years of experience in client relationship management and partnership projects for major customer accounts
Several years of experience in management of Channel reseller and collaborative partnerships

Jeff ALLEN's areas of expertise (with embedded links)

Certifications

ISO 9001:2000 internal auditor: He was officially certified as an internal auditor in September 2005 by AFNOR/AFAQ in France

Machine Translation Certification: He is officially certified as a Dictionary Developer of the PROMT-based Machine Translation software (specifically for PROMT XT v6, v6.5, v7, but also applies to Reverso Pro 4, Reverso Pro & Expert 5)

Mycom NIMS-PrOptima Telecom Business Intelligence solution suite: He is officially certified as a trainer of the following Mycom NIMS-PrOptima courses: Reporting user training, Call Trace module, Geographic Information System, Suggestion Assistant Decision Support System, Profiling tool, System Administration, Importation Control Manager and Importation Engine. Certified on software versions: 1.9, 1.10, 1.20, 1.30, 1.40. See: Jeff's training page

Professional Experience (summary)

Previous technical and management positions in corporate and industrial insitutions:

EMEA Director of Technical Account Management & Professional Services at SYSTRAN
Quality Management Program Manager, Channel Account Program Manager, Product Training Manager, Technical Documentation / Translation Manager at Mycom France (Business Intelligence Telecom Solutions)
Project Director at Softissimo (Translation software/system publisher and integrator)
Technical Director at the Evaluation and Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA):
Lead Researcher and Translation Lab Supervisor at the Center for Machine Translation/Language Technologies Institute, Computer Science Dept, Carnegie Mellon University
Trainer of Controlled Language Authoring tools and Translation tools at Caterpillar, Inc. Technical Information Division

Translation and language training positions 1988 - 1994 (prior to entering the industry of Natural Language Processing)

Course Coordinator, Business Language Professor, and Translator at Executive Language Services
Dept Head & Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Summer Institute of Linguistics European Training Programme (ETP)
Professor of French Language at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lyon (Graduate Business School of Lyon)
Assistant to Director and Translator at Centre Oregon d'Etudes Françaises Student Exchange Program run by the Oregon University System
Lecturer in Language and Communication at the Université Lyon 2
Lecturer in French and Applied Linguistics at Portland State University (PSU) Foreign Languages & PSU Applied Linguistics

Products/projects

Jeff ALLEN has held key roles on 15 corporate and government sponsored projects and programs: click here to see the list

Advisory roles

Since February 2001: Editorial Board Member of Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine advisory board with 20,000 readers in 60 countries and in existence for over 15 years.

Since March 2005: Industry Advisory Board Member of LINGUIST-List with 21,000 members in over 100 countries and in existence for 15 years.

Since January 2005: Moderator of the MT Forum on TranslatorsCafé professional translators' site of TC Moderator with 30,000 individual member and 3,000 professional agency members world-wide.

November 1999-May 2002: Executive Board Member of Mason Integrated Technologies, a company aiming to develop and publish minority language engineering applications and related services.

Conference roles

The following list of conference technical/program roles for international conferences confirms this experience: click here

Nominated as Executive Committee Chairman of Controlled Language Applications Workshop (CLAW2006)
Program Committee & Sponsorship Committee of Controlled Language Applications Workshop (CLAW2003)
Chairman of Executive Committee and Program Committee of Controlled Language Applications Workshop (CLAW2000)
Publicity Chairman & member of Program Committee of 6th conference of Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA2004)
Technical review Committee of 4th conference of Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA2000)
Sponsorship Committee of North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL2001) conference

Selected articles / conference presentations

A list of selected language articles, presentations, case studies by Jeff ALLEN (with a business-related focus rather than technical) is available: click here

Contact information

Email: jeff.allen@free.fr or postediting@gmail.com
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AOL Instant Messenger: jeffallenmt
Mobile Telephone: (+33) 6 70 91 17 26 (France)