Microsoft Corporation
Senior Content Project Manager: September 2007 – August 2008
Responsible for creating the strategy for Communities (US domestic and International)
Localization Project Manager: January 2001 – September 2007
Implemented the use of Machine Translation to translate Support Knowledge Base articles into 9 international languages.
Vendor Relations Manager: May 1995 – January 2001
Responsible for negotiating multi million dollar contracts with localization vendor. Created the Trados pricing model for Microsoft Corporation
Latin American Operations Program Manager: June 1993 – May 1995
Reviewed Specs of Spanish products to make sure that they conformed to the market needs.
Spanish Language Lead: September 1989 – June 1993
Created the first Spanish Style Guide and Glossaries
Recommendations:
“Jose Luis has been a long standing customer and we have successfully collaborated for a number of years. He has consistently contributed creative and insightful input to any project, and has fostered a true sense of partnership and professionalism.”
Nathalie Molina, Director, Strategic Accounts, Lionbridge Technologies
was a consultant or contractor to Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
“Jose Luis is one of the most professional and target oriented customer I have had in my professional career. We managed multimillion contracts easily and with both parties satisfaction. Thanks Jose”
Dino Sergiano, WW Account Manager, L&H
was a consultant or contractor to Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
“Jose has extensive and exceptional skills in the localization, program management, localization vendor management, and project management disciplines, among other areas. Of particular note are his creative skills--he is an exceptional strategic and out-of-the-box thinker. He and was a key player in Microsoft's efforts at delivering machine-translated support content on the Web. Jose also has great depth of experience in negotiating Fiscal Year-level contracts with Premier-status localization vendors. Jose is a great fit for a variety of strategic, international-focused, or content-related work.”
Chris Niccoli, Localization Program Manager, Microsoft
worked directly with Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
“We provided localization services to Cheluis. He always knew how to appreciate well done work, and he always knew how to foster changes when work was below standards. He has been very creative in designing business processes.”
Javier García, Founder, LexiTrans
was a consultant or contractor to Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
“Jose Luis is someone you can trust, a team player and tons of experience in internationalization, definitely a great hire.”
Javier Larrinaga, Group Program Manager, Microsoft
worked with Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
“Jose Luis is an excellent linguist and project and business manager--multi-faceted and accomplished. He is detail and quality minded and a reliable and excellent perfomer, whom I recommend.”
Anil Singh-Molares, Sr Director, Vendor Relations, Microsoft Corporation
managed Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
“Jose Luis is extremely smart, creative and efficient. I worked in the same group as him, and also in different groups. He is very enthousiastic and prompt to find solutions to problems. He always thinks ahead of his peers and managers. With that, very professional and a great colleague. I very strongly recommend him.”
Martine Smets, International Program Manager, Microsoft
worked directly with Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
“Jose worked for me in the Microsoft International Business Network. He was responsible for maintaining contractual business relationships with localization vendors. He worked smart, was very diligent, and works well on a team. He takes on challenges and sees them to completion. I have no reservations in recommending for a position inside or outside of Microsoft.”
Rick Grimm, Director, Microsoft Corporation
managed Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
“Jose Luis Riesco should be considered for a position that enables his experience in project management and globalization to be utilized. He is hard working, collaborative person who builds and maintains rapport with stakeholder groups, communicates well and delivers on time.”
Sheila Henderson, Senior Director, CSS Content Delivery, Microsoft
managed Jose Luis indirectly at Microsoft Corporation
“Our team/I have been working with the group that Jose used to belong to, and I've seen his presentations many times. He's passionate, dynamic and very authentic to what he's been doing. He is also an excellent collaborator, working nicely with lots of folks with different cultural background and technical background. He is always respectful to others and is fun to work with him as well. I am confident that he can be a great asset to his new group (whichever group he is going to work for) and I highly recommend him for his passion and skill sets.”
Takako Aikawa, computational linguist, MS
was a consultant or contractor to Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
“One of the groups I manage at Microsoft Research is the Machine Translation incubation group. The people in my team worked with Jose Luis in building the system that translated the KB articles.”
Alex Acero, Research Area Manager, Microsoft
worked with Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
“Jose hired my company to provide services around development, testing, and deployment of machine translation services. I worked with him directly on several projects over the course of approximately 5 years. I was always pleased to work on his projects, as he is smart, capable, and direct: very easy to work with in every way. I found that the expectations he set were clear, reasonable, and consistent, and if problems arose, he worked directly with us and with his managers to get them solved quickly so that we could move on with the work. He would be an asset to any team that values relationship-building and high-quality results. As I am no longer affiliated with Butler Hill Group, this is a personal endorsement and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of BHG.”
Mo Corston-Oliver, Owner/COO, Butler Hill Group
was a consultant or contractor to Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
“Jose Luis is a highly creative and strategic mind. His creativity and strategy lead him to obtain the yearly Microsoft Engineering Excellence Award for Global English Standardization and Machine Translation of the CSS Knowledge Base awarded by Bill Gates.”
Helena Masar, International Project Manager, Microsoft
worked directly with Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
“Jose Luis is an extremely flexible and creative person, who can take on a technical challenge and turn it into the top feature of your product. He is a savvy Program Manager with great expertise in l10n and i18n.”
Avelino Lopez Garcia, Program Manager, Microsoft
worked with Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
“Jose is excellent in his work and has years of experiences in localization and online business. Jose is great team player and it's really great to work with him - learn from his expertise and enjoy his excellent sense of humor. You can always bet on Jose that thanks to his creativity he will come up with some new solution.”
David Pavlik, Program Manager, Microsoft
worked directly with Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
“Jose is a pleasure to work with. He has much experience in the localization industry and understands the trend. He also likes to work on the cutting edge of the technologies such as machine translation. His business acumen will also help whoever he works for grow. I highly recommend.”
Roger Luo, Program Manager, Microsoft
worked directly with Jose Luis at Microsoft Corporation
Honors & Awards:
- 2006 Global Solutions Automation Globalization Best Practice Award
- 2007 Microsoft Gold Star Award for Exceptional Performance
- 2007 Engineering Excellence Award for implementation of Machine Translation in Customer Service and Support