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Owen Porter
Junior Localization Specialist with experience in translation quality, terminology, cultural adaptation, and localization testing. Practical work includes Localization, Terminology management, Translation review, Localization testing.
Experience
Walmart
Bentonville · United States
Junior Localization Specialist
Jul 2025 - now
- With a senior colleague reviewing the change, translated product text and dialogue from source context, character intent, and in-product behavior rather than isolated strings; preserved meaning and user action across the localized experience.
- Within an assigned workstream, maintained terminology decisions with definitions, context examples, prohibited variants, and review owners; reduced inconsistent wording across product, marketing, support, and voice scripts.
- With a senior colleague reviewing the change, reviewed cultural, legal, and usability risks with regional specialists and documented approved adaptations; made departures from the source intentional, traceable, and reviewable.
- Within the assigned scope, maintained a terminology glossary and translation memory, reviewed locale-specific screenshots for truncation and formatting errors, and reconciled reviewer changes before the localized release.
- Within the assigned scope, designed localized copywriting for a brand-marketing campaign using market research, tested target-audience comprehension and completed the translation review before the campaign deadline.
- Within the assigned scope, owned a localization review using terminology management and brand-voice references, resolved culturally misleading translation and completed quality-assurance checks before delivery.
- Within the assigned scope, published audience-specific editing guidance using tracked review comments, reduced repeated terminology corrections by 31% and completed reporting before the agreed deadlines.
NPR
Washington, DC · United States
Localization Specialist Project Contributor
Mar 2024 - Jun 2025
- The team tested localized builds for truncation, variables, font support, input methods, and context mismatches; my scope was data preparation, quality checks, and follow-up documentation under senior review. The team closed language defects with reproducible evidence before release; documented my assigned work separately from the team result and confirmed it with a senior colleague.
- Within the assigned scope, checked the final version against the approved source and editorial brief, flagged an unsupported statement, and retained a clear correction history when the material changed after review.
- Within the assigned scope, resolved a late editorial correction by identifying every version that contained the disputed passage, verifying the replacement against the original source, and sending the corrected package with a clear description of what changed.
Selected project
Localization Specialist — independent case study
Project team member
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
- Within the assigned scope, the team reviewed cultural, legal, and usability risks with regional specialists and documented approved adaptations; my scope was data preparation, quality checks, and follow-up documentation under senior review
- Prepared an independent editorial brief using public sources, separating verified statements, interpretation and missing information; linked draft passages to source notes and checked quotation context.
- Produced a publication-ready draft with a source list, rights notes and a correction log; checked the final headline and excerpts against the full material so the short version did not overstate the evidence.
- Owned the independent publication check using source-linked transcripts, resolved a misleading shortened quotation and completed the release package with rights and correction notes.
Education
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland · United States
B.A. Journalism
Sep 2021 - Jun 2025
Relevant coursework: Reporting, media law, video storytelling, audience engagement
Skills
Role expertise
Localization · Terminology management · Translation review · Localization testing · Cultural adaptation
Publications
- Published a personal editing breakdown using the independent project’s cut list, explaining source verification, caption choices and the tradeoff between brevity and factual qualification.


