Firoz Hasolkar

Firoz Ismail Hasolkar B-102, LandMark CHS, Plot:A-72, Sector 23, Dharave Nerul (E), Navi Mumbai:- /- Engineering Line Manager (16+ years of experience in Localization and content management) Objective: To seek a career in the areas which suits my professional experience, Training and Educational Qualification. Profile & Strength: Over sixteen years of rich in-depth exposure to the vast spectrum of activities in areas of Localization, Project Management, Content Management, Resource & Vendor Management, etc. in Localization and Publishing domain. Demonstrated leadership and decision making abilities, leading and mentoring teams unlocking their full potential. Ability to manage multiple localization projects and delivering with high quality on time. Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision. Education: Bachelor of Commmerce from K.J. Somaiya College of Science & Commerce. (2000) Advance Diploma in Software Eng. (ADSE) from APTECH Computer Education. Software Skills: : Ms-Office Tools, SQL, HTML, XML, Javascript, Studio 2011, SDLX 2007, TMS, Translation workspace[Logoport], Xml, Html, JavaScript, HTMLQA, HelpQA, EmEditor, Beyond Compare, Adobe FrameMaker, ABBYY Fine Reader 7.0. Professional Experience: Presently working with SDL Multilingual Solutions Pvt. Ltd. as a Engineering Line Manager, from Nov 2011 till date. Handling multiple L10N projects & leading a team of 10-12 members. Project planning, planning for resources & Client interaction. Providing Pre-sales support, Technical inputs in preparing proposals for clients. Ensuring timelines of deliverables, resource utilization, resource availability, high level review of the deliverables. Coordinating and negotiating with vendors. Ensuring the deliverable’s meet the Quality standards as required by the client. Providing strategic inputs to the team on meeting the customer requirements constantly. Preparing and reviewing MIS reports. Motivating team members to support both timeline and cost based business requirements. Excellent business analysis skills, negotiation skills, communication skills, and people management skills. Conducting team appraisals, 1-2-1 meetings, identify training needs, and motivating the team to perform well. Detail of Professional Experience: Organisation : Lionbridge Technologies Designation : Senior - Localization Engineer Duration : 6+ years Projects & Responsibilities Here I was leading a team of 5-6 members working on multiple L10N projects Assisting the project execution team in handling the day-to-day project coordination in technical part Handling the various file formats and use of appropriate in-house software tools for evaluations Analysis of word counts in incoming files from clients Provide technical and localization engineering support to Project Management Teams Troubleshoot and resolve globalization and localization issues. Interacting with client, co-ordinating with teams, vendor management on day to day basis Internal Audit of project done, creating monthly projects, utilisations reports. Successfully completed On-Site-Training from company’s project center in Valbonne France. Organisation : Integreon Managed Solutions. Designation : Production Associates Duration : 1 year Projects & Responsibilities Edgar: The job involve conversion of pdf or word document in to Ascii or Html format, formatting word file to html in Dreamweaver as per client specification, and coordinating with team to have a smooth flow of the job. Research Exec.: The job involves sourcing data through web and generate reports after analyzing the same. The job was searching information of a particular company or a information of a product on internet & creating report. Organisation : DNC Data Systems Pvt. Ltd. Designation : Data Analyst Duration : 3 years and 6 months Projects & Responsibilities Xml Project Mark-Up Languages:- Document Markup using XML, SGML. Markup files in XML/SGML using VEDIT or XMLSPY as editor. Quality Assurance:- Perform quality checks on the data in the final process and ensure the data is error free and as per the specifications. In-house Coordination:- Coordinating with the team members, allocating jobs and having a smooth flow of day to day work activities. Finance (Reports) Analysis of Corporate and Financial Information of S&P 500 Companies on the basis of study of Annual and Quarterly Reports. Data Cataloging, Conducting a Quality Check on the information obtained, coordinating the team, maintaining the status of the entire job done by team member. Company Database Maintaining database of S&P 500 Companies. The job involve data gathering of companies Financial information, Director information etc through various sources from Internet. Quality Check of Company data which is capture through various source. Legislations Converting DOC, PDF to IAS (Intermediate) XML & transformation to KPMG-UK & KPMG-US XML, Quality Check in the final process, creating macros. Freelancing: Worked as Freelancer with Webonix Solution as Web desinger Personal Information: Name: Firoz Ismail Hasolkar Date of Birth: 18-April-1979 E-mail:-Cell No.:- Languages Known: English, Hindi, Marathi (Firoz I Hasolkar)