Tailor Made Communications

Translation - Localisation Strategy - Localisation Management - Tool support since 2001

Life is simple

Your content sells your products > Selling products in other markets and cultures needs your translated content > The better you translate your content, the more products you sell on foreign markets.

What I do really well is to help you improve the processes of this beneficial circle. I will help you to control and increase the quality of your translation and stretch your localization budget.

Who are you?

Are you considering to start selling your products globally?
Do you already have a successful global presence and wonder if you can improve how you sell your products?
Do you already follow solid GILT processes, and want to step up even further?
Are you an LSP, about to hit the next structural growth ceiling intrinsic to your business model?

Whatever your position is now, I can work with you to improve it.

My Tools and Methods

Curiously, it helps to create a framework, especially if you wan to think outside the square. So let's anchor your existing approach in the vast best practice processes of the GILT Framework: Globalization, Internationalization, Localization and Translation - to give us the opportunity to turn your existing strategy into gold.

This method may extend to your existing approach to content creation, style guides (including terminology), TMS integrations, Localization and efficient Translation and review workflows.

What I bring is my appreciation of the people, skills, and tools that form the rich tapestry of the language industry. It allows me to weave in my threads, collected over more than 18 years of involvement as a localization consultant, corporate workflow designer, university teacher, translator, and essential contributions to the development of two cloud-based CAT tools, all from my professional remote office, located in Earthsong, New Zealand's first Co-housing Community.

My Experience

Design: I have been designing and implementing solutions for large scale translation and localization users since 2001, 16 years of that time for Lingo24.

Leadership: My thought leadership and expertise are the base for large content owners and LSPs to create robust best practice localization and translation processes and localization-ready content life cycles, and then to grow to much more than that.

Facilitation: The sustainable facilitation of the synergies between translation buyers, LSPs, and suppliers across this fragmented industry hinges on cooperation and strategies for all areas of the content life cycle.

CAT tools: In the past, I have helped developing essential functions of two CAT tools (XTM, Lingo24’s Coach), and I have taught several other CAT tools to students at the University of Auckland.

Christof Schneider

Christof Schneider arrived in New Zealand in 1996 and has been based at his remote office location in situated in the Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood in Auckland since 2007. He contributed to New Zealand's exquisite translation scene as translation technology teacher at the University of Auckland and part of NZSTI.

In 2004 he joined Lingo24 as 10th member of the organisation and was instrumental in creating the technologically advanced company it is today. He holds dual German and New Zealand Citizenship.

Christof is passionate about the professional tools for translators and subsequently appropriate tools for buyers of language services. He has taught tools to translators, and helped with the development of XTM and Lingo24's Coach TMS.

Competence Profile

Part of the Language Industry since 2002

Some of the key skills Christof Schneider adds to any organisation:

Unique ability to facilitate the synergies between buyers, LSPs and suppliers
Excellent written and oral communication and reporting skills Presentation skills (in person and online)
Self-drive, results-oriented, positive outlook and clear focus on high quality
Analytical eye and natural forward planner, critically assessing own performance
Mature, credible and comfortable dealing with senior executives of big companies
Emphatic communicator, able to see things from the other person’s point of view
Able to get in with others and be a team player

Professional Passion

Solutions, Strategy and Training for Content Owners and LSPs

Christof's experience and skills are most beneficial for content owners with localisation needs and Language Service Providers.

As "localisation expert", he helps you to

develop content life-cycle workflows,
train stakeholders, and
support transparency for the GILT process.

He is passionate about the benefits of scaleable workflows with attention on source content creation and selection and vivid awareness of key assets in the process, like Translation Memories, style guides and terminology, translation query management, MT management, review strategies etc.

Christof has also added to the value of several CAT tools as tool trainer, tester, documenter and hands-on development supporter.

Experience

Consulting, Teaching, Research & Development, Localisation

...as Consultant:

building & improving scalable operations
Workflow & XTM Product Consultant
Workflow and Coach Product Consultant

typical work-results:

Supported workflow automation for large volume customers
Trained staff and suppliers

Important strategic results & Thought Leadership

Framing roles and tools for technical division, file engineering and consulting departments
Introducing Okapi Framework to the technical department
Introducing LMM and GILT framework
Ongoing improvement of Coach CAT tool
Frameworks for skill based services (e.g. application localisation services, TM and terminology maintenance etc)

Services

Localisation Strategy

Maximising your content's value across all publishing levels requires planning

Assessing your content assets so that an effective strategy and tools are used to transfer the function and value of your content. Enter your source content safely into flexible, predictable measurable localisation and translation pipelines. Tailor workflows so that your message comes across all languages in all your documents, websites, Phone Apps, Software applications, and other interfaces. (more...)

Tool Coach & Support

All Language Service Providers need to utilise tools to deliver reliable and reassured quality.

We help to build, complete and maintain your tool box of desktop and cloud based AI, CAT, CRM, CMS and authoring tools.

Translation & Content Creation

Freelancer for English to German translation since 2002

As part of a professional network of qualified translators and linked to capable multi-language providers, we will help with any kind of translation, localisation or other language related assignment (more...)

Teaching at the University of Auckland

Electronic Tools for Translators and Localisation Issues

Teaching all facets of electronic tools for translators at the Translation Studies department of the University. As guest lecturer, tutor and honary reasearch fellow, Christof has taught several modules from 2002 to 2011. In 2019 this relationship was rekindled and finally ended in 2022, when the department was suspended (more...).

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