Joe Rowan

About

Proven software international expert with extensive globalization and international experience across software localization and globalization engineering, project management as well as team and people management.

Experience

• Head of Localization: Health & Life Sciences organisation at Microsoft
  May 2000 - Present · 26 yrs 2 mos

  Head of Localization for Health & Life Sciences range of Healthcare products. Also organization SME for Global Readiness and Accessibility. Previously Senior International Engineer and Project Manager for Microsoft HealthVault and MS Band. Previously Engineering Localization Manager for MS Business Contact Manager (BCM) and MS Customer Relationship Manager (CRM). Previously Engineering manager for Microsoft Works Previously Engineer on Microsoft Works

• Software engineer at Aztech Translations
  Nov 1998 - Apr 2000 · 1 yr 6 mos

  Worked with Microsoft in an engineering contract capacity on Microsoft Office 2000 and Microsoft Works 6

• Client Lead Engineer at SDL International
  Jan 1998 - Oct 1998 · 10 mos

  Formerly ITP. Software localization engineer

• Senior Engineer at Corel
  Aug 1994 - Dec 1997 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Tester at Microsoft
  Jul 1992 - Oct 1993 · 1 yr 4 mos

  Localization tester on Schedule+, Excel, Windows NT