Translation Services: LSI Management

President | Director of Marketing | Director of Accounting & Human Resources | Operations Manager | IT Manager

Martin Roberts
President

Founder and president of Linguistic Systems, Inc., Marty Roberts is thoroughly familiar with the translation services industry. From his initial involvement in the company's formation in 1967 to the present, Marty has developed a solid operation for continued growth.

Marty's educational background includes a BSME (1954) from City College of New York and an SM (1960) from MIT. Before enrolling at MIT, he worked as an engineer in various capacities, 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 academic. He has guided the company from 3 staff members in a small room to its present 30 employees and some 4,000 contractors, from a $25,000 organization to its present $3.5+ million position. 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.

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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 marketer 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.

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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. She has held this 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 a head accountant.

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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 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.

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Jim Corcoran
IT Manager

Jim has been with LSI for 7 years, managing the computer and telephone networks, supporting staff and applications, as well as planning and implementing new information technologies. Before coming to LSI, Jim was Director of Rehabilitation Services at CASCAP, a human service organization. He has an MA in psychology counseling, has been certified as a Novell engineer, and has received a certificate in client server application development from Boston University's Corporate Education Center.

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