David Flórez Herrero

Responsible for the operations that support the delivery of Blizzard localized products in all languages, and for leading pipeline improvement initiatives. Leading, developing, and mentoring peers on best practices - Managing the localization of several Blizzard games and products on several platforms (PC, console, mobile): Delivery in time, within budget and with no major localization defects - Leading and supporting global localization initiatives, like tools migration and implementation, or defining new roles based on experience, needs and strategy. Praised by stakeholders for my influencing skills and my proactivity to reach goals - Acting as my team’s representative with the Shanghai office: Very positive feedback from the office as a conversation facilitator - Team support: Identifying and solving inefficiencies; organizing events like a virtual team building, with a very positive feedback - Defining and coordinating project schedule, scope, budget, progress, risks, issues, KPI and key learnings for several Blizzard IPs. - Localization production. - Collaborating with global stakeholders to deliver project goals. - Driving consistent and organized global processes for the global organization. - Contract and financial coordination. - Leading and coordinating initiatives for consistent and organized global processes. - Ratings and 3rd party coordination. - Quality assessment coordination.

Responsible for leading the translation efforts. Leading the team through prioritization, discipline focus and improvement initiatives. Acting as a link with the PMO office. Supporting team management activities - Translating in-game and out-of-game text from all Blizzard games, with good quality and velocity - Acting as a localization PM for the Spanish team (8-10 members with translation, audio and QA roles) for several games, with 90+% final user quality perception - Supporting management by: organizing and leading team meetings; offering coaching and mentoring; performing recruitment activities (internal translation resources and vendors) - Monitoring the team’s performance to identify the need for correction, training or additional resources, improving visibility on team performance, and team health - Leading the Spanish translation team transition from a model with resources dedicated to individual Ips to a model that allowed shifting resources, resulting in higher quality, performance and resource agility; Coordinating global process and product documentation and training efforts for internal and external resources - Acting as a representative with other locales, disciplines and internal and external stakeholders, leading discussions and processing information, allowing other translators to focus more on the core tasks