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Project Management

Location:
Lawrence, KS
Posted:
February 25, 2015

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HEDRICK ALLEN

**** **** **** ******, ********, KS 66046 Email: acohet@r.postjobfree.com. Phone: 785-***-****

KEY STRENGTHS

Project Management • Customer Service • Marketing

PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

Luz Inc., Boston, MA

Private company specializing in technical translation for medical and scientific companies.

Project Manager • 1/2014-5/2014

Managed project workflows, schedules, budgets, status reporting, purchase orders, invoices, and project

archival.

Maintained 90% on-schedule, on-budget delivery of all projects and ensured profitability of 30% to

40% for large projects.

SH3 Inc., Overland Park, KS

Private company that specializes in technical translation for industrial manufacturers and biomedical

companies.

Project Manager • 4/2007-9/2013

Guided John Deere account translation projects and reviewed new projects for assignment to corporate

and independent contractors. Managed project workflows, resources, schedules, budgets, status reporting,

purchase orders, invoices, and project archival.

Orchestrated thousands of Word, XLS, InDesign, and XML Trados and Across-based translations into

Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.

Maintaining 95% on-schedule, on-budget delivery with average profitability of 30%.

Managed client specific glossaries, project memories, and style guides to ensure translation

consistency and efficiencies.

Lionbridge Technologies Inc., Framingham, MA

Public company that provides translation, online marketing, content management, and application testing

products.

Project Manager • 4/2006-4/2007

Guided hundreds of translation projects for clients such as Microsoft, Walmart, GE Finance, and GE

Energy. Source files included Word, XLS, In Design, PowerPoint, Flash, XML, HTML, and Help-based

projects.

Managed over 175 translation projects valued over $700K with overall profitability averaging

60%. Project deliveries fell on average within 1 day of scheduled commitments.

Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Project; tracked milestones and timelines for translation,

engineering, and accounting departments to ensure that translation projects remained under budget

and on schedule.

Blue Martini Software Inc., San Mateo, CA

Public company that provides sales optimization and customer relationship management systems.

Project Manager (Contract) • 1/2002-7/2002

Executed outsourced translation strategy for software, website, help, and documentation translation

projects into French, German, Spanish, and Japanese.

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HEDRICK ALLEN

1101 West 21st Street, Lawrence, KS 66046 Email: acohet@r.postjobfree.com. Phone: 785-***-****

Played critical role in vetting new external vendors and negotiating contracts valued from $300K to

$1M annually. Designed metrics for use in evaluating vendor performance and tracking vendor costs

which lead to vendor fee reductions of 5%.

Served as liaison between translation vendors, QA reviewers and internal engineers to resolve

linguistic issues and increase translation speed through development of proprietary

internationalization tools.

Kensington Technology Group, San Mateo, CA

Public company that manages design, development, marketing, and sales of mobile computing

accessories, including mice, trackballs and gaming devices.

Vendor/Project Manager • 6/1999-12/2001

Established an outsourced-based localization program from scratch via partnerships with 3 rd party

translation and Quality Assurance vendors.

Managed budgets and schedules for translation of software, help, documentation, and packaging for

input, gaming and imaging devices into French, German, Japanese, and Dutch. Annual budgets

ranged from $128K to $500K.

Managed workflows and communications between 5 internal departments and 3 vendors. Tracked

project costs against performance metrics and negotiated 20% post-mortem cost reductions from

vendors.

Created capital expense reports to support strategic plans for simultaneous shipment of translated

software and related products.

Spearheaded online market surveys and focus groups to increase customer satisfaction.

MARKETING

Gained valuable knowledge and expertise in marketing by serving in several capacities:

Marketing Manager, Cromwell Environmental - Established online corporate presence via

Facebook Twitter and Yelp. Planned solar energy direct mail campaign in cooperation with Kansas

Sierra Club. Designed sales collateral such as corporate fliers, handouts and display materials for

events and industry trade shows. Organized corporate promotional events for solar energy and

environmental remediation services such as ‘lunch and learn’ seminars for local realtors. Secured

external resources for service subcontracting.

Senior Marketing Analyst, G2 Research Inc. - Managed research projects related to IT sales

channels. Developed market research and IT vendor profiles using interviews, surveys, financial

statements, and published collateral. Increased sales by 12% by leveraging past and ongoing research

and targeting technology product companies.

Marketing Manager, Allen Press Inc. - Managed journal subscriptions for 115 scientific journals.

Conducted pricing surveys, primary market research and direct mail campaigns that increased annual

journal subscriptions by 10%. Collected data for Statistical Process Controls studies leading to $70K

in annual saving within marketing and accounting departments as well as $4M added print production

capacity.

NON PROFIT & TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Private ESL Instructor, 2005-2006 - Taught English conversation to students ages 7-17.

Adjunct Instructor, Kansas City Kansas Community College, 2002-2004 - Taught basic computer

concepts and networking. Designed online class materials using WebCT. Student evaluation scores

higher than school's mean scores.

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HEDRICK ALLEN

1101 West 21st Street, Lawrence, KS 66046 Email: acohet@r.postjobfree.com. Phone: 785-***-****

Adjunct Instructor, Lawrence Career College, 2002-2004 - Taught Visual Basic Version 6.0 and

programming logic and design.

Staff Monitor, Lawrence Open Shelter, 2004-2006

Assistant Teacher, Wesleyan Methodist Church, 2004

Volunteer, Salvation Army, 2003

Volunteer, Bert Nash Community Center, 1993

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Master of Business Administration, Peter F. Drucker Management Center, Claremont, CA

(Thunderbird, Archamps, France and Goethe Institute, Germany)

Bachelor of Arts, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME (Harvard University – Summer Program and

Institute D Etudes Europeens, France)

EMS Basic Certification, Johnson County Community College

CELTA (Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults), University of Cambridge.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Microsoft Certified Professional (2000 Pro-

Server), A+ Certified 2003, SDL Trados Studio, Across, and MS Project

REFERENCES

Aron Cromwell, Owner, Cromwell Environmental, 615 Vermont Street, Lawrence, KS 66044. Email:

acohet@r.postjobfree.com. Phone: 785-***-****

Mr. John Lankston, Program Manager, SH3 Inc., 7101 College Boulevard, Suite 500, Overland Park, KS

66210. Email: acohet@r.postjobfree.com. Phone: 913-***-****

Ms. Linda Snow (former) Director of Input and Gaming, Kensington Technology Group, 2000 Alameda

de las Pulgas, Second Floor, San Mateo, California 94403-1289. Email: acohet@r.postjobfree.com. Phone:

415-***-****

Mr. Gene Kean, Executive to the CEO & Director of Sales (retired), Allen Press, Inc., 810 East 10th

Street, PO Box 368, Lawrence, KS 66044-0368, Email: acohet@r.postjobfree.com. Phone: (785) 843-

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Mr. Chan Tung, Kansas City Kansas Community College, 7250 State Avenue, Kansas City, KS 66112,

Email: acohet@r.postjobfree.com. Phone: 913-***-****

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