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Hello, My name is Machtelt Garrels, aka Tille, and Dru invited me to join this list. Why? For the last year, I have been Translation and Vendor Coordinator for LPI. My contract was suddenly ended because of a reorganization, so I'm looking to spend my time on other worthwhile projects that support Open Source and freedom. As the experience I gained over the past 13 months is very specific to the certification business, the BSDCG caught my attention. To give you an idea of what I can contribute to the project, please allow me to sum up the tasks that I performed for LPI, the Linux Professional Institute: - - Review and delivery coordination of the computer based tests in six languages to the test center vendors (Vue, Prometric and NTT), creation of PDF for the paper based tests in six languages (FR, DE, PT, ES, ZH and JA) and delivery to LPI main office, according to the publication schedule. - - Communication with translation vendor and test center vendors: finding sore points in the communication, addressing communication problems by adjusting procedures. - - Store files sent to and received from vendors in an encrypted library, organizing the data, provide LPI staff with the documents they need; assembling packages for vendors and reviewers (librarian function). - - Finetuning the creation process of computer and paper based tests: debugging database output, defining the output formats, debugging foreign language output, documenting the processes, uniforming the look and feel of the exams, developing a process for paper based test creation based on XML source files. - - Development of a uniform answersheet for use with teh paper based tests, using Iris scanning software. - - Coordination of translation reviewers, planning publication of translated tests, debugging input of translations into the database. - - Optimizing security procedures: physical security and encryption are very important given the sensitivity of the data. I also learned a great deal about psychometric analyzing methods, how psychometrics and security go hand in hand, about cut scores and when and how to set and raise them, and so on. I have good contacts at the test centers, as I dealt with them directly. I know what file formats they need, how to customize exams for each vendor and I have a fair idea of publication costs and how to decrease those. At LPI I was at first assigned to be Translation Coordinator because I have a solid technical background, so I can help out the translators and reviewers if things are not clear to them, and I speak Dutch (mother tongue), French, English, German and understand Spanish and Portuguese. Chinese and Japanese is a bit too much for me, but I have acquired experience with oriental fonts, when to use which and how to troubleshoot rendering problems, garbled characters and other problems related to Chinese and Japanese exam development. Plus I learned a great deal about a variety of cultures in the world and how to deal with regional, cultural, economical and moral differences. Sorry to brag on like this. I think the more you know about me, the more you will all be able to tap the resources that I am bringing. Before you ask if it is not strange to switch from LPI to BSDCG just like that, and if people over at LPI are going to like it: my managers assured me that I did not have to go because of performance issues, on the contrary. The replacement of the exam development team is purely for organizational purposes and we all get excellent references. Strange, isn't it, but let's not speculate too much over that. And finally, even though I am a Linux fan from the first moment, I've been running FreeBSD on web, ftp, backup and mail servers before, and I recently switched to iBook and PowerBook for laptop hardware (don't shoot). Looking forward to get to know you, Tille. - -- My Penguin, my freedom. http://tille.xalasys.com Books: http://writers.fultus.com/garrels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD5kjOsIIUbMXbBA8RAj33AJ0RX3OqVr7al0T1GcXQrrRj89ToFACgmT63 9GUf+QL4Kkxt/+lkW/HM8Wk= =yYdX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
