TBXINFO - Key Persons
Alan K. Melby started working on terminology exchange formats in the 1980s well before XML became a standard. He has been the championing figure behind TBX throughout its development, from its beginning in the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), to its first publication by the LISA, and its elevation to a formal international standard: ISO 30042. He is currently an emeritus professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University, where he serves as Associate Director of the Translation Research Group. He is also a member of the governing council of the International Federation of Translators (FIT).
Andrew Morishita studied at BCIT, and works at SAP as a Developer. He has six pets- three dogs and three cats.
Arle Lommel is an expert in both the technical and business aspects of the localization and translation industry. He worked as the Director of Standards at Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) until 2011 and acted as a custodian of LISA standards through their transition to ETSI, ISO, and subsequent industry adoption. He also led the submission of the TBX standard to ISO which led to ISO 30042:2008.
Edward Ho is currently studying Computer Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. He's a Cloud Developer Intern at SAP, working on SAP BusinessObjects Cloud. BusinessObjects Cloud is an enterprise cloud analytics solution that combines BI, planning, and predictive analytics into one solution. The product itself is fairly new and developed in Vancouver, Canada and Waldorf, Germany. His team works mainly develops on Data blending and Grid/Table features in an agile development setting. Having been here for almost a year, he says it has been very exciting to see the office grow and to see the product develop as a whole. He's definitely had an amazing experience here at SAP. A fun/interesting fact about him is that he used to play Curling when he was in high school.
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- Student in UBC Computing Science
Edward Wu is a student in UBC Computing Science. He was an Agile developer Intern at SAP. An interesting tidbit is that he has a chemical engineering degree.
James Hayes graduated from Brigham Young University with a Linguistics BA and a focus on Computational Linguistics. He is currently working in the Translation Research Group and concurrently serves in the role of Vice President of LTAC Global.
Jason Bernhardt is currently enrolled at UBC in the Computer Science Second Degree program. His first degree is in Civil Engineering. At SAP he works as a developer for their newest cloud solution to business analytics and planning. It's a fun role because it allows him to practice core programming skills like writing new features, fixing bugs in new code, and testing. Additionally, this product is in its infancy and has huge potential in the marketplace so it has the feel of working for an exciting start up with the culture and atmosphere of a huge company. In the last few months he's run a half marathon and placed second in a League of Legends tournament.
Jimmy Wang attended school in Uvic and BCIT. His intern position is Operations Specialist, meaning he does a little bit of everything from directing workflow to coding tools. He does sketches and drawing as a hobby and almost went to into Arts.
Joshua Sims is a Linguistics student at Brigham Young University and a member of the Translation Research Group. He has done linguistics research projects abroad in Mongolia.
Kaden Carr is a performance student at Brigham Young University working on a minor in Computational Linguistics and aspires to attend law school. He is also a current member of the Translation Research Group.
Kara Warburton has 35 years of experience in the language industry where she has played a leading role in terminology management, particularly as it applies to commercial enterprises. She was the global lead of terminology management at IBM for 15 years. Through her company, Termologic, she has provided support and training in terminology management to dozens of global companies and organizations. She has actively contributed to the development of standards and best practices for terminology and other lexical resources through LISA, TerminOrgs, and ISO TC37, as well as the Object Management Group, the Globalization and Localization Association, and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).
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- Student at the University of British Columbia
Kathy Wang is a student at the University of British Columbia studying Computer Science. She is an Agile Developer intern at SAP. A fun fact about her is that she had green hair for about six months.
Kylie Loo studies Computer Science and Business at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. She is a Technical Developer and QA intern at SAP. Interesting fact: she has held a koala before in Australia (they stink!).
Sue Ellen Wright is a Professor of German and a member of the Kent State University Institute for Applied Linguistics, where she teaches computer applications for translators and German to English technical translation. She is ATA certified for German to English translation. She also provides training and consultancy to companies and institutions for implementing terminology management in the localization process. She has been active in the national and international standards community, through ASTM International and as chair of the US/ANSI Technical Advisory Group for ISO Technical Committee 37.