07/21/2021
Twenty five years ago, I was asking my friends "does anyone know a job where I can use my love of language and tech together?" That started me on my path of International Quality Engineering, starting first in Localization (French, then German), then Internationalization (first West Europe, then Eastern Europe, then the Middle East, and on to India and Southeast Asia), and finally Culturalization and teaching. As part of that, I got a third bachelors in German, learned basic Russian, and got a masters in Applied Anthropology with a focus on Middle Eastern Studies while learning Arabic and documenting Adobe's efforts to bring Photoshop to the MENA region. Along the way, my love for teaching spilled out, first as a volunteer with Photoshop and Teach the Teacher, followed by two CISV villages and an interchange, a stint as a host dad for a French student, and finally teaching first Inclusive Design and then Software Localization, JavaScript, C #, and more.