Localization for the eBay Global Marketplace

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Sabine Rioufol, Herbert Hoisl, and Marcel Bregman, representing the core functional groups with the eBay localization team (translators, project managers, engineers), will give an overview of the processes and best practices eBay has put in place over the years, to address some of the challenges commonly faced in enterprise localization. In addition, each speaker will highlight a particular solution related to their specific area, focusing on how it helps optimize for velocity, quality and/or cost for a given support use case, for instance agile web development.

Sabine Rioufol is the Senior Language Specialist Manager at eBay. She has been involved in the localization industry for 20+ years. She started her career as an in-house linguist at a small LSP, and has worked as a translator, interpreter and manager in various companies, including eTranslate. She joined eBay in 2003. where she now leads a team of 13 linguists – 9 involved in the traditional localization track and 4 involved in the machine translation. Sabine is passionate about establishing processes and recruiting, and people management to ensure the best quality. Sabine holds a Master’s Degree in Translation and Interpretation from Monterey Institute.

Marcel Bregman is the Senior Localization Engineering Manager at eBay. He has been active in localization for almost 20 years, and has been with the eBay localization team since 2001. During this time Marcel has been involved in localization process engineering, setting up l10n support for subsequent generations of the eBay platform stack, implementation of a Translation Management System, migration to a simship release model, internationalization education, among others. Marcel holds a Master’s degree in Chinese Studies from Leiden University, in the Netherlands.

Herbert Hoisl is the Senior Localization Program Manager at eBay. He has been active in localization for more than 20 years, and has been with the eBay localization team since 2003. He heads up a team of localization project managers, responsible for project planning and execution, client communications, vendor management, as well as metrics tracking. Besides managing his team, Herbert focuses on process improvements, planning of strategic initiatives, resource planning, client consultation, and budget management. Prior to eBay, he worked at Micrografx, Corel Corporation, and HighTech Passport Ltd.

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