Linguistic Systems, Inc. Management Team
Martin Roberts
President
Founder and president of Linguistic Systems, Inc., Marty Roberts is thoroughly knowledgable regarding all aspects of translation services. From his initial involvement in the company's formation in 1967 to the present, Marty has developed a solid operation for continuous growth.
Marty's educational background includes a BSME (1954) from City College of New York and an SM (1960) from MIT in Mechanical Engineering. Before enrolling at MIT, he worked as an engineering project manager, and from 1960-1970 he was a staff research engineer in the NASA space program at MIT.
Under his leadership the company has branched out from legal translations to include many other areas: business, government, marketing, industrial, information technology, medical, insurance, training, finance, and bio-tech. He has guided the company from 3 staff members in a small room to its present 30 employees and some 6,000 contractors. His vision has enabled the company to develop a unique online system that will allow for rapid expansion in a world that is becoming more interconnected every day.
Bill Lawson
Director of Marketing
Bill joined Linguistic Systems, Inc. in 2005 and is responsible for overseeing marketing for the company. Prior to joining LSI, he was the principal of his own consulting firm, WFL Enterprises. Bill is a veteran marketing manager with a career in the technology and services industries. These companies include National Semiconductor, Bull Information Systems, VeriFone, and Cerida Corporation. He has a B.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University.
Edel Damkjaer
Director of Accounting and Human Resources
Edel is a native of Denmark, where she completed business school, and continued her education at Northeastern University in the US. She has been employed by several manufacturing companies, to design, implement, and install accounting systems. Edel has held her current position at LSI since 2000, and has been responsible for implementing major financial and HR systems. Edel came to LSI from a private mortgage and real estate holding company, where she was the head accountant.
Michael Hundt
Operations Manager
A native of Canada, Michael has over 25 years of experience in the language services industry, both on the client and on the provider side of the business. He graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1979 with a Bachelors degree in German and English before beginning his career with a large telecommunications manufacturer where he started a Translation Department from the ground up that handled all the of the company’s needs in 10 languages. In 1996, Michael and his family relocated to the US where he joined a large localization company and managed various aspects of their operation as the company expanded. Michael came to Linguistic Systems in the role of Operations Manager in 2004.
Jim Corcoran
IT Manager
Jim joined LSI in 1999 after working 20 years in human services. Jim manages the computer and telephone networks, supports staff and applications, as well as plans and implements new information technologies. Jim is a certified Novel Engineer and has received a certificate in client server application development from Boston University's Corporate Education Center. Jim has earned other various database development and Microsoft Windows certificates. He has a BA degree from Fairfield College and a MA degree from Assumption College
Mark Ettinger
Vice President of Business Development
Mark H. Ettinger, vice president of business development, has more than 22 years of US and international public records, translation and legal industry experience. Prior to joining Linguistic Systems, Mark was executive vice president of Government Services for Aristotle International, Inc. Before joining Aristotle, he was vice president of business development at LocatePLUS. He also spent almost four years as vice president of sales and marketing for LocatePLUS. As vice president of sales and marketing, Mark was in charge of overseeing sales, marketing, customer service, and the channel group for both on-line and wireless product lines at LocatePLUS, a leading provider of on-line investigative solutions to law enforcement, legal and insurance professionals and licensed investigators. LocatePLUS’ data assists in homeland security, anti-terrorism, and crime-fighting initiatives.
Prior to joining LocatePLUS, Mark was director of The Legal Translation Center for Linguistic Systems, Inc., where he focused on working with large law firms and corporate legal departments. Before that he was vice president of the National Practice Institute, where his primary responsibilities included establishing and overseeing relationships with key law schools, state, county, and metro bar associations as content partners for West LegalEdcenter. In addition, Mark was responsible for up to 100 seminars per year, NPI staff, and production of the National Practice Institute’s Law and Technology shows. Mark spent eight years with the Minnesota-based West Group (WESTLAW), foremost provider of e-information and solutions for the U.S. legal market. While at West Group, he was consistently recognized as the company’s top-producing sales representative for West’s Legal Directory.
In his career Mark has made presentations to over 1000 of the largest US law firms and various top US government agencies. He received his Bachelor’s of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota in history and his MBA in management from the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Kathrin Rueda
Quality Systems Manager
Kathrin joined Linguist Systems, Inc. in 2009 and is responsible for maintaining the company’s quality management system, including its ISO 9001:2008 and EN 15038:2006 certifications. Prior to joining LSI, Kathrin worked as a quality management system consultant and auditor for Siebert Quality Systems and as a technical writer, translator and translation project manager for Draeger Medical Systems and Siemens Medical Systems. Kathrin holds a Masters Degree in German and a Masters Degree in English from Tufts University, as well as certifications in auditing, web design and graphic design.
Phyllis Mitzman
Recruitment Manager & Government Contracts
Phyllis Mitzman(PhD) has been with LSI for over 10 years, working as a writer as well as senior editor on many projects. She is recruitment manager and an independent translator as well, and has been instrumental in developing and gaining acceptance for proposals with several major companies and organizations, including the European Union. She has also developed and implemented the company's successful foreign brand analysis program. Before joining LSI, Ms Mitzman worked for Harvard University, Northeastern University, Addison Wesley, and Little Brown as an editor, writer, and project manager. Her educational background includes a BA in history (City College of New York), MA in history of ideas (Brandeis University), and a Ph.D. in English language and literature (Leiden University, the Netherlands). She has over 25 years of language translation and editing experience, and has a working knowledge of Dutch, German, and French.
Hugh Ochler
Senior In-house Project Manager
Hugh M. Oechler has had considerable experience shepherding large and small translation projects through to completion in a timely and cost-effective way. In his over 20 years at Linguistic Systems, Inc., he has managed numerous legal, medical, scientific, and patent translation projects from a variety of major languages to English, including German, Japanese, French, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, and others. His own language expertise is considerable, including German, French, Spanish, and Indonesian.
Mr. Oechler's educational background includes a B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, an ALM from Harvard University in the history of the Chinese minority in Southeast Asia.
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