Adolfo Gómez-Urda Montijano

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Work Experience

Currently Working On

    

    


Games I Have Localized (THQ)

Saints Row The Third French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Polish, and Czech Xbox 360, PS3, and PC     Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Russian, Polish, and Czech Xbox 360, PS3, and PC     SpongeBob's Surf & Skate RoadTrip French, German, Spanish, and Dutch Xbox 360 Kinect     Red Faction: Armageddon French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Polish, and Czech Xbox 360, PS3, and PC     Homefront French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Russian, Polish, and Czech Xbox 360, PS3, and PC

Games I Have Localized (Ubisoft)

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones Japanese and Korean PS2     Star Wars: Lethal Alliance French, German, Italian, and Spanish PSP     Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Polish Xbox 360, PS3, and PC     Surf's Up French, German, Italian, and Spanish PSP, DS, and GBA     Hamsterz 2 French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch Nintendo DS     Assassin's Creed French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Polish Xbox 360 and PS3     Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition French, German, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Polish, and Czech PC     Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Polish Xbox 360, PS3, and PC     Battle of Giants - Dinosaurs French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, and Norwegian Nintendo DS     Cesar Millan's Dog Whisperer French and Spanish Nintendo DS     Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Polish Xbox 360, PS3, and PC     CSI:NY French, German, Italian, and Spanish PC     Far Cry 2 French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Czech, and Hungarian Xbox 360, PS3, and PC     Academy of Champions French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch Nintendo Wii     Imagine Detective French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish Nintendo DS     No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle French and Spanish Nintendo Wii     Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, and Japanese PSP     Assassin's Creed II French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Czech, Japanese, and Korean Xbox 360, PS3, and PC     Pure Football French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch Xbox 360 and PS3     Assassin's Creed Brotherhood French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Czech, Japanese, and Korean Xbox 360, PS3, and PC


Localization Project Manager, September 2010 - Present
THQ, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Localization Engineer, October 2005 - September 2010
Ubisoft, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Senior Spanish Translator/Reviewer, January 2003 - October 2005
SDL International, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Software Developer (Corel Ventura 10), January - August 2002
Corel Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Freelance Subject Matter Expert (Java, HTML, DHTML, XML), February 2002 - April 2005
Transware plc., Dublin, Ireland Freelance Spanish Reviewer, September - October 2002
Symantec Corporation, Dublin, Ireland

Webmaster, Translator, Research Assistant, and Office Assistant, September 2000 - August 2002
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (SLALS), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Freelance Multimedia Translator, 1998 - 1999
DLMultimedia, Madrid, Spain Translator and Interpreter, 1997 - 1998
Sierra Nevada Basketball Club of Granada, Spanish top division, Granada, Spain

Technical Skills

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science, September 2000 - December 2006
     Location: Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
     CS courses taken: Programming Methodology (Class definitions. Designing classes and member functions. Class libraries and their uses. Input and output. Program development. Introduction to software engineering. Specification and implementation. Inheritance.), System Hardware (Processor structure, Data and Instructions, Instruction Set Processor (ISP) level view of computer hardware, assembly language level use. Memory systems -- RAM and disks, hierarchy of memories. I/O organization, I/O devices and their diversity, their interconnection to CPU and Memory. Communication between computers at the physical level. Networks and computers.), Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science (Finite state automata and regular languages. Push-down automata and context-free languages. Pumping lemmas. Applications to parsing. Turing machines. Undecidability and decidability.), Data Structures and Algorithms (This course will emphasize the definition, usage, and manipulation of fundamental data structures and their associated algorithms: stacks and queues, trees, tables, lists, arrays, strings, sets; and will introduce files and access methods. External sorting, B-trees, multi-key organizations.), System Software (Hardware-software interface, system kernel, system services, system evolution. Assemblers, compilers, linkers, and loaders. System component interfaces. User-level view of operating systems.), Technical Writing and Communication, Software Engineering I (Principles of software development and maintenance. Software lifecycle models and deliverables: requirements analysis and specification, architectural and detailed design, implementation, verification and validation. People, product, and process issues: team dynamics, communication, presentations, reviews.), Operating Systems (Operating system evolution and services. Process management: concepts of processes, concurrent languages, process states, process communication, operating system structure, processor scheduling, monitors. System management: virtual memory, resource allocation, queue management, communication with peripherals, exception handling. File systems. Interactive computation. Protection. Distributed systems.), Data Communication and Computer Networks (The study of remote access to and communications between computers. Network architectures and topology; communication protocols and interfaces, functional layers; transmission facilities including communications equipment, line utilization, switching, and error handling; standard protocols; network interfaces including routing and flow control; point-to-point, broadcasting, and local networks theory and current practice; high-level protocols; reliability and security, encryption.), Databases (Classical database management: modelling, data integrity, data independence and security, ANSI/SPARC architecture, data models (relational, hierarchical, and network), database design, detailed study of the relational model.), Designing Programs with C++ (Introduction to C++; syntax; compiler directives; simple programs. Programming with strings. Program organization. Input and output using streams. The Standard Template Library; containers; algorithms; iterators. Classes and types; new types; abstract types; inheritance and dynamic binding. Overloading and generic programming. Advanced topics: abstract classes; type conversion; exception handling; memory management.)
     Location: Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
     CS courses taken: Abstract Data Types and Algorithms (Introduction to the design and implementation of abstract data types and to complexity analysis of data structures. Topics include: stacks, queues, lists, trees and graphs. Special attention is given to abstraction, interface specification and hierarchical design through the use of an object-oriented programming language.), Computer Organization (A thorough treatment of computer system organization. Processor architectures (RISC, CISC, superscalar). Instruction sets and addressing modes. Assembly language. Basics of digital logic and hardware construction. Memory organization and cache principles. System buses. Input/output methods and devices.), Internet Application Programming (Design and implementation of Internet application programs. Topics include: fundamentals of the Web, introduction to client/server architectures, Internet programming, Web browsers, hypertext links, network programming.), Programming in C++ (In-depth study of the language C++ from a software engineering perspective, with emphasis on features supporting the development of large efficient and reusable systems. Topics include: encapsulation, templates, references, constructors and destructors, overloading, memory management, exception handling, and the standard template library.), Design and Implementation of Computer Applications (A continuation of Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming focusing on the design and implementation of complete applications including the user interface, the software architecture, and the interacting domain objects. Brief introduction to UML. Possible application topics include a testing framework, user-interface architectures and managing persistence.), Introduction to Systems Programming (A course designed to introduce the student to programming with procedures and primitive data types. Topics include: arrays, strings, pointers, heap and stack memory allocation and deallocation, iterative and recursive linked list manipulations, system/library calls.), Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (A first course in problem solving and computer programming designed for students who wish to specialize in Computer Science. Introduction to object-oriented programming: syntactic constructs, data abstraction, classification and inheritance, typing and polymorphism, testing and debugging.), Discrete Structures I (An introduction to discrete mathematics and discrete structures. Topics include: propositional and predicate calculus, Boolean algebra, introduction to complexity of algorithms, mathematical reasoning, counting, recurrences, relations, introduction to graphs.), & II (A second course in theoretical aspects of computer science. Topics include: formal languages and automata theory, computability theory, complexity theory, graph theory and algorithms, NP-completeness.)
Graduate Diploma in Software Localisation, 1999 - 2000
     Location: University of Limerick, Ireland
     Courses taken: Localisation Process I (What is localisation, the localisation industry; tools and resources; key stages of the process including engineering and translation; introduction to Software Localisation from the perspective of the localisation process.) & II (QA/testing; publishing; case studies of a software publisher and a service provider.), Language Engineering I (Introduction to multilingual technical documentation; tools for developing documents; representing the content and structure of a document; further issues relating to document content and structure; the World-Wide Web.) & II (Architecture of a document processing system; typical Language Engineering tasks within Localisation; the terminology database; the translation workbench; the machine assisted translation system; technology underlying Language Engineering systems.), Programming Global Applications I (Introduction to programming fundamentals; preparing software to be independent of language, locale, and market; architectural issues; designing an international-aware user interface; an introduction to approaches to designing and implementing international-aware software.) & II (An introduction to locale classes and libraries; defining an international web site: browser considerations for multiple languages; internationalisation of HTML, URLs etc.; multilingual language servers; considerations when developing international web sites; programming international-aware applications to facilitate conducting business over the WWW.), Quality and Localisation (Text processing versus data processing; tools and resources; design and use of tools for software quality assurance, localisation engineering, testing and software project management.), Localisation Engineering Fundamentals (Data input, storage, manipulation, output; character codes and character sets; introductory operating system concepts - installation, basic commands, methods of processing, data security and integrity, backup and recovery, drivers; file management; system configuration: formatting/partitioning disks/drives, disk imaging tools, multiple operating system tools, locale management, code pages; telecommunications (technical basis): client-server principle, network principles and protocols, dialogue systems; structure of the Internet, electronic mail.)
Bachelor of Arts in Translation and Interpreting, 1995 - 1999
     Location: Universidad de Granada, Spain
     Specialization: Scientific and Technical Translation

Additional Skills and Interests



Last updated: April 9th, 2012

adolfog at gmail.com

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Currently Working On

Assassin's Creed 2 French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, etc. PS3, Xbox 360, PC     

Games I Have Localized

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones Japanese and Korean PS2      Star Wars: Lethal Alliance French, German, Italian, and Spanish PSP      Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Polish Xbox 360, PS3, and PC      Surf's Up French, German, Italian, and Spanish PSP, DS, and GBA      Hamsterz 2 French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch Nintendo DS      Assassin's Creed French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Polish, and Czech Xbox 360, PS3, and PC      Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Polish Xbox 360, PS3, and PC      Battle of Giants - Dinosaurs French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, and Norwegian Nintendo DS      Cesar Millan's Dog Whisperer French and Spanish Nintendo DS      Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway      CSI:NY French, German, Italian, and Spanish PC      Far Cry 2 French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Czech, and Hungarian Xbox 360, PS3, and PC      Academy of Champions French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch Wii      Imagine Detective French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish DS      Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, and Japanese PSP      Assassin's Creed II French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Czech, Japanese, and Korean Xbox 360, PS3, and PC


Localization Engineer, October 2005 - Present
Ubisoft, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Develop my own localization tools (VB and C#) to extract and integrate localizable text assets and improve the localization process:
    • Localize text assets from games based on the Unreal engine
    • Localize the Xbox 360 xlast file and PS3 Trophy file contents
    • Detect character corruption issues in localized text assets
    • Detect variable mismatch issues in localized text assets
    • Reuse translation assets from previously localized files
    • Localize text assets from Nintendo DS games
    • Merge translated files from vendors into master file and flag potential issues in the process
  • Act as an internationalization consultant for game development teams
  • Define and develop formats and processes for localizable text assets
  • Manage integration, data modification and text/subtitle debug of US and localized versions
  • Coordinate data integration
  • Communicate with translation vendors to handle translations and integrate them into the game
  • Gather contextual information to facilitate translation and provide support to vendors
  • Synchronize English and localized subtitles
  • Analyze and fix text and subtitle bugs in US and localized versions
  • Fix TRC terminology bugs for all languages
  • Develop Localization Kit for post master versions
  • Provide technical support to remote integration teams and third parties
Senior Spanish Translator/Reviewer, January 2003 - October 2005
SDL International, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Translated technical and multimedia documentation, software, and firmware
  • Edited and reviewed technical and multimedia documentation, software, and firmware translations
  • Acted as lead translator and took full responsibility for linguistic quality of my own projects
  • Ensured that all translations met the customer's standards and the needs of the target market
  • Worked closely with project managers, engineering and DTP teams
Software Developer (Corel Ventura 10), January - August 2002
Corel Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  • Fixed Corel Ventura bugs using MS Visual C++ debugging tools
  • Found, isolated, and fixed memory leaks using MS Visual C++ and HeapAgent
Freelance Subject Matter Expert (Java, HTML, DHTML, XML), February 2002 - April 2005
Transware plc., Dublin, Ireland
  • Reviewed technical aspects of translation into Spanish of nine computer-based training courses:
    Java 2 Fundamentals I (Java 2 Fundamentals I), & II (Java 2 Fundamentals II), Programming Fundamentals (Programming Fundamentals), HTML Fundamentals I (HTML Fundamentals I), & II (HTML Fundamentals II), HTML Frames and Forms (HTML Frames and Forms), Style Sheets and DHTML (Style Sheets and DHTML), XML Fundamentals (XML Fundamentals), and Advanced XML in the Enterprise (Advanced XML in the Enterprise)
Freelance Spanish Reviewer, September - October 2002
Symantec Corporation, Dublin, Ireland

Webmaster, Translator, Research Assistant, and Office Assistant, September 2000 - August 2002
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (SLALS), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
  • Designed and created the new SLALS Web site
  • Translated web pages and information booklets into Spanish
  • Edited information booklets, manuals, and tests
  • Registered test takers, monitored and marked tests for the Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL) Assessment Unit
  • Wrote macros using Visual Basic to automate link insertion and find/replace work
Freelance Multimedia Translator, 1998 - 1999
DLMultimedia, Madrid, Spain
  • Translated computer games individually and in small teams
  • Reviewed translations into Spanish
Translator and Interpreter, 1997 - 1998
Sierra Nevada Basketball Club of Granada, Spanish top division, Granada, Spain
  • Helped club motivate and communicate with foreign players
  • Responded to challenges under pressure by helping head coach explain contract details and present game strategy to potential new players

Technical Skills

  • Programming & Scripting Languages: C++, Visual Basic, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl
  • Markup Languages: XML, HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS
  • Software Localization and Translation Tools: SDLX, TRADOS Translator's Workbench, Atril Déjà Vu, Alchemy CATALYST, SDLInsight, TRADOS GXT, Translator Studio, HtmlQA, RoboHelp
  • Other Software Applications: MS Visual Studio (.NET Framework), Perforce, MS Visual SourceSafe, FrameMaker, Corel Ventura
  • Operating Systems: MS Windows, Mac OS, and Linux

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science, September 2000 - December 2006
     Location: Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
     CS courses taken: Programming Methodology (Class definitions. Designing classes and member functions. Class libraries and their uses. Input and output. Program development. Introduction to software engineering. Specification and implementation. Inheritance.), System Hardware (Processor structure, Data and Instructions, Instruction Set Processor (ISP) level view of computer hardware, assembly language level use. Memory systems -- RAM and disks, hierarchy of memories. I/O organization, I/O devices and their diversity, their interconnection to CPU and Memory. Communication between computers at the physical level. Networks and computers.), Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science (Finite state automata and regular languages. Push-down automata and context-free languages. Pumping lemmas. Applications to parsing. Turing machines. Undecidability and decidability.), Data Structures and Algorithms (This course will emphasize the definition, usage, and manipulation of fundamental data structures and their associated algorithms: stacks and queues, trees, tables, lists, arrays, strings, sets; and will introduce files and access methods. External sorting, B-trees, multi-key organizations.), System Software (Hardware-software interface, system kernel, system services, system evolution. Assemblers, compilers, linkers, and loaders. System component interfaces. User-level view of operating systems.), Technical Writing and Communication, Software Engineering I (Principles of software development and maintenance. Software lifecycle models and deliverables: requirements analysis and specification, architectural and detailed design, implementation, verification and validation. People, product, and process issues: team dynamics, communication, presentations, reviews.), Operating Systems (Operating system evolution and services. Process management: concepts of processes, concurrent languages, process states, process communication, operating system structure, processor scheduling, monitors. System management: virtual memory, resource allocation, queue management, communication with peripherals, exception handling. File systems. Interactive computation. Protection. Distributed systems.), Data Communication and Computer Networks (The study of remote access to and communications between computers. Network architectures and topology; communication protocols and interfaces, functional layers; transmission facilities including communications equipment, line utilization, switching, and error handling; standard protocols; network interfaces including routing and flow control; point-to-point, broadcasting, and local networks theory and current practice; high-level protocols; reliability and security, encryption.), Databases (Classical database management: modelling, data integrity, data independence and security, ANSI/SPARC architecture, data models (relational, hierarchical, and network), database design, detailed study of the relational model.), Designing Programs with C++ (Introduction to C++; syntax; compiler directives; simple programs. Programming with strings. Program organization. Input and output using streams. The Standard Template Library; containers; algorithms; iterators. Classes and types; new types; abstract types; inheritance and dynamic binding. Overloading and generic programming. Advanced topics: abstract classes; type conversion; exception handling; memory management.)
     Location: Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
     CS courses taken: Abstract Data Types and Algorithms (Introduction to the design and implementation of abstract data types and to complexity analysis of data structures. Topics include: stacks, queues, lists, trees and graphs. Special attention is given to abstraction, interface specification and hierarchical design through the use of an object-oriented programming language.), Computer Organization (A thorough treatment of computer system organization. Processor architectures (RISC, CISC, superscalar). Instruction sets and addressing modes. Assembly language. Basics of digital logic and hardware construction. Memory organization and cache principles. System buses. Input/output methods and devices.), Internet Application Programming (Design and implementation of Internet application programs. Topics include: fundamentals of the Web, introduction to client/server architectures, Internet programming, Web browsers, hypertext links, network programming.), Programming in C++ (In-depth study of the language C++ from a software engineering perspective, with emphasis on features supporting the development of large efficient and reusable systems. Topics include: encapsulation, templates, references, constructors and destructors, overloading, memory management, exception handling, and the standard template library.), Design and Implementation of Computer Applications (A continuation of Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming focusing on the design and implementation of complete applications including the user interface, the software architecture, and the interacting domain objects. Brief introduction to UML. Possible application topics include a testing framework, user-interface architectures and managing persistence.), Introduction to Systems Programming (A course designed to introduce the student to programming with procedures and primitive data types. Topics include: arrays, strings, pointers, heap and stack memory allocation and deallocation, iterative and recursive linked list manipulations, system/library calls.), Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (A first course in problem solving and computer programming designed for students who wish to specialize in Computer Science. Introduction to object-oriented programming: syntactic constructs, data abstraction, classification and inheritance, typing and polymorphism, testing and debugging.), Discrete Structures I (An introduction to discrete mathematics and discrete structures. Topics include: propositional and predicate calculus, Boolean algebra, introduction to complexity of algorithms, mathematical reasoning, counting, recurrences, relations, introduction to graphs.), & II (A second course in theoretical aspects of computer science. Topics include: formal languages and automata theory, computability theory, complexity theory, graph theory and algorithms, NP-completeness.)
Graduate Diploma in Software Localisation, 1999 - 2000
     Location: University of Limerick, Ireland
     Courses taken: Localisation Process I (What is localisation, the localisation industry; tools and resources; key stages of the process including engineering and translation; introduction to Software Localisation from the perspective of the localisation process.) & II (QA/testing; publishing; case studies of a software publisher and a service provider.), Language Engineering I (Introduction to multilingual technical documentation; tools for developing documents; representing the content and structure of a document; further issues relating to document content and structure; the World-Wide Web.) & II (Architecture of a document processing system; typical Language Engineering tasks within Localisation; the terminology database; the translation workbench; the machine assisted translation system; technology underlying Language Engineering systems.), Programming Global Applications I (Introduction to programming fundamentals; preparing software to be independent of language, locale, and market; architectural issues; designing an international-aware user interface; an introduction to approaches to designing and implementing international-aware software.) & II (An introduction to locale classes and libraries; defining an international web site: browser considerations for multiple languages; internationalisation of HTML, URLs etc.; multilingual language servers; considerations when developing international web sites; programming international-aware applications to facilitate conducting business over the WWW.), Quality and Localisation (Text processing versus data processing; tools and resources; design and use of tools for software quality assurance, localisation engineering, testing and software project management.), Localisation Engineering Fundamentals (Data input, storage, manipulation, output; character codes and character sets; introductory operating system concepts - installation, basic commands, methods of processing, data security and integrity, backup and recovery, drivers; file management; system configuration: formatting/partitioning disks/drives, disk imaging tools, multiple operating system tools, locale management, code pages; telecommunications (technical basis): client-server principle, network principles and protocols, dialogue systems; structure of the Internet, electronic mail.)
Bachelor of Arts in Translation and Interpreting, 1995 - 1999
     Location: Universidad de Granada, Spain
     Specialization: Scientific and Technical Translation

Additional Skills and Interests

  • Foreign languages: Native speaker of Spanish, fluent in English and French, intermediate in Italian, translation skills in German, and basic knowledge of Dutch
  • Lecturer at the Université de Montréal (conferences on the translator's role in localization and localization engineering) from 2005 to 2007
  • Recipient of the ERASMUS exchange program scholarship, attending Thames Valley University, London, U.K. in the 1996-97 academic year
  • August - November 2005: Played for the Concordia University Varsity Soccer team
  • 2002 - Present: Played for FC España in Totalcampo soccer league in Montreal
  • 2000 - 2001: Member of the Committee for the Rights of International Students
  • 1999 - 2000: Played for the University of Limerick Volleyball Team
  • Enjoy travelling and independent films


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