Programme design · Tooling · Since 2013 Localization PM & solutionist

Localization, solved

I'm Phi Tran. I don't just move words between languages — I design the programme behind them: the workflow, the vendor mix, the quality system, and the tooling that holds it together. Twelve years running it. Eleven tools built when nothing off-the-shelf fit.

12Years running l10n
11Tools built & shipped
3Continents covered
End‑to‑endScope I own

What I actually do

Six ways I get involved

Translation is one line item on a much longer invoice. The hard part is everything around it — deciding what gets localized, in what order, by whom, checked how, and shipped through which pipe. That's the part I own.

01

Programme management

One owner for the whole pipeline: scope, budget, schedule, vendors and launch. Ten locales running in parallel without ten separate fire drills.

02

Process & systems design

CAT and TMS setup, connector plumbing, file-format engineering and terminology architecture — so content moves on its own instead of by email.

03

Automation & tooling

When the tool I need doesn't exist, I write it. Eleven of them are on this page: extractors, QA engines, batch processors, analyzers.

04

Quality engineering

Bilingual QA frameworks, automated checks, reviewer workflows and the metrics that show quality actually moved — not just that someone reviewed it.

05

Content ops & DTP

The messy last mile that usually breaks a launch: multilingual DTP, layout QA, font and line-break behaviour, CJK and SEA typography.

06

Team enablement

Style guides, onboarding and training, so the standard survives after I hand the process over. The goal is that you stop needing me.

Built, not bought

11 live · free · no signup

Every one of these started as a bottleneck on a real project. Rather than file a ticket and wait, I built the fix — then left it free for anyone in the industry to use. No accounts, no upload: most of them run entirely in your browser.

01 QA Checker Bilingual QA across XLIFF, DOCX & XLSX — mistranslations, omissions, number and tag errors, with AI review. AI 02 TermExtract Upload any document — DOCX, PDF, TMX, XLIFF — and pull out the key terminology. Exports to Excel. AI 03 Consistency Checker Find every source segment translated differently across an XLIFF, TMX or pasted bilingual file. Free 04 WordCount Pro Instant word counts, segment stats and project cost estimates with a built-in rate calculator. Free 05 TMX Analyzer TU counts, language pairs, quality issues and duplicate detection from any .tmx file. Free 06 Style Guide Generator Paste sample translations; get the implicit rules back — tone, formality, punctuation, number formatting. AI 07 Multilingual SEO Mapper How your audience actually searches in each target language — not a direct translation of keywords. AI 08 i18n String Extractor Pull every hardcoded string that needs translating out of JS, TS, Python or HTML source. Exports CSV. Free 09 SyncTime Pro Compare working hours across cities at a glance — built for distributed localization teams. Free 10 Duration Tool Reads real audio/video durations locally, rounds up to whole minutes, exports TXT or Excel. Free 11 Number to Words Any amount into words in Vietnamese & English as you type — for invoices, contracts and cheques. Free

Work with me

Freelance & consulting · worldwide

Embedded PM

I join your team for a launch, a quarter or a market entry, and own localization delivery end to end alongside your product and engineering people.

Best for shipping now

Process audit

A focused engagement: I map how content actually flows today, find where it stalls or leaks budget, and hand back a working process your team can run.

Best for scaling up

Tool commission

A custom tool for the bottleneck specific to your workflow — the same way the eleven on this page came about. Yours to keep, no licence.

Best for repetitive pain

Want the
full picture?

Twelve years of programmes, clients, systems and tooling — the whole track record in one place.

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Got a localization
problem?

Tell me what's stuck — a launch, a pipeline, a quality gap, or a task your team keeps doing by hand. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fix.

phiphi106@gmail.com
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