TAUS Data Association

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Jul 30th
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Management Team

Jaap van der Meer
Director of TDA

Jaap van der MeerTDA 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 van der Meer is a member of the Localization World management team, a regular speaker at conferences and author of many articles about technologies and translation and globalization trends.

Yan Yu
Development Manager

Yan YuYan Yu responsible for the development of the TDA application. Before joining TDA, he was with Idiom Technologies for seven years and held a number of management positions. Prior to Idiom, he was a Managing Principal Consultant at Oracle Consulting, where he focused on developing 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.


Donna Parrish
Technical Manager

Donna ParrishDonna 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.



Karl Vassallo
Webmaster

Karl VassalloKarl Vassallo is the TAUS webmaster, responsible for TDA’s online presence. Karl has previously held highly successful web marketing roles and has a wide range of international experience which ranges from organizing events around the world to owning a restaurant in his native Malta. Karl has a B.A. in Commerce and Management from the University of Malta and is currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.