Hüseyin Mergan

About

✓ Language technologies expertise with hands-on experience ✓ Experience in localisation and translation domain for more than 10 years ✓ Experience in team and people management ✓ Experience in global localization project management ✓ Experience in localisation strategy setup ✓ Managing key customers and projects ✓ Consultancy in content strategy and internationalisation ✓ Consultancy for technology implementation ✓ Experience in machine translation implementation and creation of curated strategy and workflow ✓ Simultaneous Multiple project management ✓ Technical and algorithmic mindset, and workflow automation ✓ Ability to work with technical teams and stakeholder management ✓ Customer centric and cost saving oriented mindset ✓ Proactive and strong ownership

Experience

• Google (Istanbul, Turkey)
  • Senior Language Manager
    Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Language Manager, Localisation
    Oct 2020 - Nov 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Lecturer (Part-time) at Bogazici University
  Sep 2012 - Present · 13 yrs 10 mos

  IT for Translators: The course aims to improve translation oriented computational skills of students and help them to look at innovation and technologies from a new window. Translation Tools: The course aims to help students to have hands-on practice about the techniques applied in localization industry and help them to obtain critical approach to applications to find the best approach in relevant context.

• Senior Localization Solutions Consultant at Sony Electronics
  Sep 2018 - Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Sony (6 yrs 1 mo)
  • Localisation Solutions Consultant
    Apr 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

    - Management of global localization programs -Consulting digital teams on localisation and internationalisation - Leading translation stream for key digital projects - Optimising localisation process and automation - Deploying automation and cost effective solutions - Delivering projects to business as usual teams - Consulting on creation of localisation assets/kits - People management - Gathering requirements and translating into process

  • Principal Localization Project Specialist
    Apr 2014 - Apr 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    - Process design - Translation automation - Project Management - Budgeting - L10N, I18N Consultancy - Product Launches

  • Senior Localisation Project Specialist
    Sep 2012 - Apr 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Localization Services Manager at Nuna Localization
  Jul 2010 - Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  I am doing business development. My main focus is to maintain relations with clients and help our team to deliver top quality jobs by scrutinizing QA needs and parameter and thus build related environment. After GM left the company, I overtook the GM role as acting between November 2011 and September 2012