LinkedIn: Matthias Zeitler

Current

Business Consultant at SDL International

Past

Group Technology Manager at CLS Communications
Director Product Management at TRADOS
CTO at step: GmbH

CTO / VP Technologies at STAR Group

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Education

Santa Clara University
Fachhochschule Salzburg

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Matthias Zeitler’s Summary

Matthias Zeitler’s Specialties:

Product Management, offshore, globalization, localization, translation, BPO, process automation, process reengineering, software development, CMS, Content Management, WCM, GMS, Globalization Management, TWS, Tanslation Workflow Automation, online communities, social networks, web 2.0

Matthias Zeitler’s Experience

Business Consultant

SDL International

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SDL.L; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2006 — Present (2 years)

Defining global information management solutions for key accounts like Electronic Arts, John Deere and Kodak and SDL internal solutions for customers like Yahoo and GMI.
Managinging and supporting the complete account management lifecycle from initial sales contact to final delivery of solution.
Group Technology Manager

CLS Communications

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

October 2005 — March 2006 (6 months)

Reviewed the current IT infrastructure and defined a technology strategy that would give CLS a competitive advantage in the global market. Evaluation of build vs. buy strategies.
Lead cross functional meetings to facilitate decision making process.
Gained a much better understanding of localization processes at financial institutions.
Director Product Management

TRADOS

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 3 months)

Gathered market requirements and defined together with the CMO a next generation product portfolio strategy to enable the company to expand the localization tool offering to a complete global information solutions product portfolio covering authoring through publishing lifecycle stages.
Started to implemented this strategy for one new product and one existing product. Supported cross functional initiatives that ultimately lead to the acquisition of TRADOS by a major competitor (SDL International).
CTO

step: GmbH

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2003 — July 2004 (11 months)

Built a software development center in St. Petersburg to deliver an enterprise grade globalization system as differentiator for an international translation group start-up.
18 employees in my reporting line
CTO / VP Technologies

STAR Group

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2001 — September 2003 (2 years 7 months)

After starting as the Executive Product Manager for Translation Workflow, Matthias was quickly promoted to lead all translation technology products at STAR.
Responsibility for staff and strategy of the software development unit
at two locations with a total staff of 47
Acquisition and handling of high potential leads and accounts like DaimlerChrysler, Heidelberg and BMW
Setup of a department for the development and marketing of a standard workflow solution for translation processes ("globalization management system")
Evaluation of new ideas for translation memory tools