Woodpark Consulting's principal consultant, Tom Alwood, has twenty years experience working in multilingual communications, both in translation operations and translation technology management roles. His focus is on the interaction of technology tools with operations with the goal of optimizing the efficiency of translation and localization production. He has served as the technology lead for the internal translation departments of Bowne & Co., RR Donnelley & Sons and Merrill Communications as well as independent Language Services Providers.
Currently he consults with Language Service Providers and Consumers on technology adoption and production automation.
His areas of specialization include technology development, implementation, and integration for business management systems, workflow tools, CAT and Machine Translation tools and interactive client solutions. In addition, Tom serves as a US representative of TAUS (the Translation Automation Users Society) an industry think tank dedicated to promoting translation technologies.
Woodpark draws on a network of consultants to offer additional perspectives and skills appropriate to any engagement.
