Saad Alaa kamel

Localization Project ManagerFull Time

• Job Details:Key responsibilities: • Manages localization projects from beginning to end, working closely with language specialists, vendor managers, QA team, internal business partners and External Clients. • Develops project plans, timelines, resources selection plans and quality control activities. • Manage day-to-day relationship with client on project matters; provide regular status reports and proactively offer solutions to ensure customer satisfaction. • Track project progress to ensure that quality, deliveries and cost stay on plan. • Ensure completion of all project-driven administrative processes. Key achievements: • Creating and managing high number of daily projects in a time-sensitive environment. • Gained excellent knowledge by managing many projects on different online and offline CAT-tools such as: Trados, MemoQ, Memsource, XTM, lokalise and Smartling. • Performing Root cause analysis and discussing the corrective action plans with internal teams and external clients to ensure that all the requirements will be met.

Project ManagerFull Time

• Job Details:Key responsibilities: • Manage each step of the localization process: initiating, executing, and closing projects. • Provide support to sales management in costing and planning to prepare quotations and timeline. • Consult with clients to formulate workflows and understand requirements. • Supervise and review the performance of localization linguists to predict and resolve issues. • Creates and controls localization project budgets, performs cost tracking analysis, ensures timely issuance of purchase orders and invoices and approves work orders. Key achievements: • Successfully managed projects to high profile clients with large budgets, under pressure of fast-paced environments and more than 40 team members to be managed. • Coordinated with the Vendor management team and participated in the recruitment process to recruit new linguists which resulted in achieving 150% growth in Revenue and enrichment of African linguists’ data base. • Coached new project coordinators, monitored their performance and delegated tasks to them in order to be fully prepared to lead new projects. • Participated in preparing yearly brand growth plan and shared some insightful thoughts regarding the business expansion which proved to be effective and increased the added value.

Editorial AssistantFull Time

• Job Details:Check the submitted manuscripts in terms of authors’ list, missing data and manuscripts’ title Assign the approved manuscript to the appropriate editor Follow up on the editorial workflow at all stages to ensure timely completion of the process Act as a liaison between authors, editors and reviewers during the whole review process Act as a liaison between authors of accepted manuscripts and the production unit in order to ensure receiving all materials required to proceed with the production cycle Work collaboratively with the Special Issues team in order to handle all cases related to the launched Special Issues and Information Technology Departments in order to resolve complaints of all users