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Management Team |
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TDA is directed by Jaap van der Meer, a language industry pioneer and visionary, who started his first translation company in The Netherlands in 1980. In 1987 his company INK published the first desktop term extraction and translation memory software. He inspired and funded the founding meetings of the LISA organization for the localization industry and he co-founded the SAE TopTec Multilingual Communications Conference for the automotive industry. He was president and CEO of ALPNET. Jaap is a regular speaker at conferences and author of many articles about technologies and translation and globalization trends. |
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Yan Yu Yan Yu (development manager) is a software and consulting industry veteran. Before joining TDA, he was with Idiom Technologies for seven years and held a number of management positions; his accomplishments include leading many Idiom WorldServer implementations and defining Idiom's WorldStart implementation methodology. Prior to Idiom, he was a Managing Principal Consultant at Oracle Consulting, where he focused on developing database-driven web applications. He holds a B.S. and a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University, and a M.B.A. degree from Louisiana State University in Shreveport. He is based in San Francisco, California. |
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Donna Parrish Donna Parrish (technical manager) is co-organizer of Localization World and publisher of MultiLingual Computing & Technology. Prior to her work at MultiLingual Computing, Inc., she was a computer programmer for 25 years. This was preceded by a stint teaching junior high school mathematics. Donna holds a degree in mathematics from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. |
Jaap van der Meer
