Alpnet announces hiring of Paula Shannon.SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 1996--ALPNET Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AILP AILP Associazione Italiana Lavoratori e Pensionati (Italian Retired Persons Association) AILP Application-Initiated Lightpath Provisioning ), the largest dedicated commercial provider of language translation, product localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. , and related language services to businesses, Tuesday announced Paula Shannon has joined the ALPNET management team as director, Localization Sales - North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Shannon formerly worked for Berlitz Translation Services in a similar role and brings over 10 years of industry experience to her new position at ALPNET. John W. Wittwer, ALPNET executive vice president, stated, "Paula Shannon has language skills in French, Dutch, Spanish, German and Russian and has excellent technical and communication skills in addition to her outstanding track record in working with clients in the localization and translation industry. "We are very pleased that this talented and experienced individual has chosen to join the ALPNET team and to work with us to achieve the aggressive and exciting goals which we have set." Wittwer went on to say, "Ms. Shannon will focus on sales of value-added localization services throughout North America in order to allow ALPNET to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. its software localization and production capabilities, and increase its revenues in this important market. "A separate but vital role for Ms. Shannon will be to serve as a management and training resource for the U.S. and Canadian sales teams. She will be based in ALPNET's Montreal office and will spend much of her time with sales reps, clients and prospective clients throughout North America." ALPNET is the largest publicly owned Publicly owned can refer to:
ALPNET supplies its clients with language translation, product localization, language interpreting, language training and multilingual desktop publishing and printing services. Additional information about ALPNET is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.europeonline.com/alpnet. CONTACT: ALPNET Inc., Salt Lake City D. Kerry Stubbs, 801/265-3300 e-mail: Info@ALPNET.COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. |
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