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Henk Boxma owns Boxma IT and holds a master degree in technical computer science. He has over fifteen years of software engineering experience, a decade of which has been in the medical device industry at various geographical locations. During his tenure at Medtronic working with various architectures, business units and processes, he consistently encountered the gap between engineering and localization. In response, Henk took the initiative and successfully changed Medtronic’s localization process throughout by leading a crossfunctional and cross-geographical team of developers, testers, and translators. Significant process improvements and cost savings were achieved for all involved disciplines, for which Henk was awarded the prestigious Medtronic CRDM Star of Excellence award in May of 2008. Henk presented the case study and its results on various occasions, including webinars, Localization World 2007 in Berlin and the Tekom Roadshow 2008 in the Netherlands, France and Italy. The past years, Henk attended many conferences, such as Tekom, Localization world and WorldWare. He spoke about various subjects, such as quality, software localization and visual localization of web-based applications. In Henk's vision, the most value-adding feature is a localized product. He observed that this requirement is not taken into account during most development projects. The consequence is often a significant negative impact on translation quality, time-to-market and costs. Henk founded Boxma IT to help companies to reduce costs, decrease time-to-market, and improve product quality by integrating localization in the development process. Henk wrote an article in Multilingual about the real costs of quality software translations. More info on LinkedIn. |