Bill Lafferty
From my side
For three decades, I have been working in the middle of language, technology, and enterprise operations. I have worked as a solutions architect for one of the world's leading translation management systems, co-founded and run a localization service business in Japan, and built scalable solutions. I have also worked on the client side, supporting sophisticated continuous localization pipelines for an array of enterprise products.
LocNavigator is a distillation of that experience, and a direct response to something I kept noticing was absent: transparent, community-reported data on how this industry actually operates. Until now, it has been very difficult to get a sense of the tools that people run, how well they perform together, and whether the terms we use to describe these systems mean what we think they mean.
Began career as an in-house legal translator at one of the largest law firms in Japan. Worked as a professional Japanese-to-English legal translator for fourteen years.
Co-founded TBSJ, an LSP based in Tokyo and focused on legal and financial translations.
Founded an independent localization agency, Lafferty Translations. Have since then converted it to LocNavigator, LLC, a consultancy focused on program readiness, vendor selection, and workflow modernization.
Solutions Architect at Phrase (then Memsource), advising enterprise teams on TMS implementation, workflow design, and localization strategy.
Senior Solutions Architect at Acclaro, a global language service provider.
Client-side Senior Technical Program Manager at Toast with a focus on localization technology and workflow automation