B-*/**, Mahananda Phone

Nagar, Dewas +91-989**-*****

Road, Ujjain E-mail:

(M.P.), India. janmejayssikarwar@g

mail.com

Janmejay Singh Sikarwar

Objective Work in a competitive environment where I can

realize my potential as a leader with a vision and

Areas of make my efforts bring growth to the organization

Professional while helping me reach the pinnacle in my industry.

Expertise

Driving Localization Business

Defining best practices and working with cross

functional teams

Creating and expanding localization business

processes

Strategizing and profitability management

Customize and develop Tracking mechanisms to suit

client satisfaction

Managing multipartite projects

International Vendor Management

Attending and aiding sales meetings, preparing RFPs

and responding to client queries about the same

Identifying new business opportunities and liaison

with existing clients for growth of business

Checking the business viability of new projects

Client communication and requirement study visits,

proactively suggest solutions

Project Management

Expertise in localization, translation processes

and techniques

Preparing Localization Plans

Localization quality management

Terminology management

Costing management

Staffing/Schedule management/Contingency Planning

Project Status Reporting

Client communication

Managing day-to-day working of project teams

Localization Engineering and Testing

Managing end-to-end localization engineering

Successfully shipped MS products WinXP, Office

2003, Windows Vista, Office 2007, Windows 8, Office

2010, IE8 and IE9 in various Indian and

international languages

Long experience with Complex Script languages

The Vista and Office12 products localization cycles

were piloted with my team so as to make process

improvements before rolling out to other vendors,

which corroborates my efforts in the field

Worked with MS to create some new glyphs on

languages such as Punjabi, which could ship in

their products

Effective use of even small pools of

engineers/testers to manage large scale

engineering/testing tasks

Visualizing and Devising Tools to Aid Localization

Quality

Looking into tool requirements of the teams,

localizers as well as engg./test, visualizing the

desired tool functionality and helping the

developers create the right tool

Getting the new tool developed, tested and

incorporating in live project

Some of my team's efforts in this direction were

thoroughly praised by the MS Office and Windows

teams

Training

Visualizing training requirements of various teams

Preparing self-training and feedback mechanisms for

continuous improvement of resources

Devising and incorporating checks and balances for

effective use of available training facility

Other

Handling very large multi-disciplinary teams

Selection/devising of Status Reporting Mechanisms

International Sufficiency testing for product

globalization

Terminology champion for all languages dealt in

hitherto

Managing teams with variant cultural backgrounds

and geographic locations

Working in conjunction with sales teams for RFPs,

sales pitches, project feasibility and pre-sales

efforts etc.

Professional

Experience and [ Aug 2007 - Till Date ]

Responsibilities Project Manager with Webdunia.com (I) Pvt. Ltd.

Excellent understanding of localization and content

related projects. Proven skills in Project

Management and leadership

Managing parallel running projects for 20+

languages, involving very large team sizes, many

disciplines, multiple stakeholders and time-zones

Selection, developing and managing external vendors

Vast experience of working on Microsoft product

localization

Content writing - overseeing the creation of

manuals, videos and documentation for Microsoft and

Webdunia products

Vast experience with web based product localization

and translation. Helping Google product

localization team meet the high quality standards.

Experience in Office Online localization

Experience with mobile technology localization and

manuals localization. Worked for Nokia, Samsung and

LG

Experience in medical translations and back

translations

Experience with print related translations

[ July 2006 - July 2007 ]

Assistant Manager - Localization with Webdunia.com

(I) Pvt. Ltd.

Managed localization, engineering and testing of

Windows Vista and Office 12

Accolades from MS Windows team during the project

postmortem at Redmond

Responsibility of product testing and content

management for Webdunia's portal properties

[ July 2004 - July 2006 ]

Project Leader with Webdunia.com (I) Pvt. Ltd.

Managed client communication and overall

responsibility of production for Windows XP and

Office 2003 in 5 languages and then Windows Vista

in 12 languages

Managing Hindi localization quality and content

quality for portal news and write-ups

[ April 2001 - June 2004 ]

Localizer and Sub-editor Content with Webdunia.com

(I) Pvt. Ltd.

Writing for and managing the technology channel on

www.webdunia.com

Creation and sourcing of exclusive news and current

affair stories

Managing Hindi content quality for portal and news

outsourcing done by Webdunia

Driving content development for the Webdunia Hindi

portal

Localized Windows XP and Office 11 to Hindi

Accolades and Lead the team to achieve the coveted 'Excellence in

Awards Localization' Award in 2003, conferred by Microsoft

Felicitation in the form of a plaque and individual

certificates to all team members by Microsoft for

meticulous working on the mammoth Office 2007, 2010

and Windows Vista and Win7 projects

Internal to the company, awarded 'Crown of the

Fortnight' twice, in recognition of good work done,

chosen among peers

Efforts for team development and meticulous working

were mentioned by the CEO on at least 3 occasions

in his address

Additional Part of the CMMI initiatives of my company

professional Guest lectures on 'Computing And the Use of Indian

experience Languages' at the University in Ujjain

Education [ Pursuing ] SCDL (Distance Learning) Pune, India

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration

[ 1993 - 1996 ] Vikram University, Ujjain MP,

India

Bachelor of Science

[ 1997 ] Mumbai Mumbai, India

Short Training in Computer Hardware/Networking

Trainings and

Learning Curve Management Development Program on Effective

Communication at India's Premier Business School,

IIM Indore [ 2008 ]

Trainings, project discussions and project

kick-offs for Windows Vista and Windows 7 at

Microsoft - Redmond [ 2005, 2008 ]

As a part of the central working group,

participated in trainings on CMMI and helped in

Webdunia's efforts in achieving CMMI-III [ 2005 ]

Several small workshops on effective resource

management, team development etc [ 2004 - till

date ]

Reference http://www.linkedin.com/in/janmejaysinghsikarwar

Tools Proficiency Trados, Multiterm, MS Loc Studio, Helium, Wordfast,

Idiom, d j vu, Alchemy Catalyst

Languages Known English - Proficient

Hindi - Proficient

Gujarati - Elementary

Marathi - Elementary

Punjabi - Elementary

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