Asian Absolute Newsletter, Summer 2006

Aileen joined Asian Absolute as DTP manager in 2004 and became operations manager in April 2006.

In this demanding role, Aileen takes overall responsibility for completion of all localisation work handled by Asian Absolute China, overseeing the various production teams in Beijing. She is in regular contact with London colleagues, ensuring that the production teams complete all work in time for challenging deadlines and to Asian Absolute’s stringent quality standards. Despite her incredibly high-pressure role, Aileen says that the Asian Absolute people make working within the company a pleasure. On her last trip to London, she remarked that the opportunity to work side-by-side with London staff was extremely valuable. Even when back in Beijing, she says her close involvement and strong working relationships with the London account managers make her feel a real part of the UK delivery teams.

Aileen now has over a decade of experience in the localisation industry, having decided on a career in print design while at university. She is a specialist in the use of QuarkXpress, InDesign, FrameMaker and other sophisticated artwork and web design programmes, which are fundamental to her highly skilled work. She has trained many Asian Absolute staff – in London as well as Beijing – in the use of these tools, and continues to pioneer many of the methods and techniques of localisation that give Asian Absolute its competitive advantage.

Aileen has lived in Beijing for most of her life and graduated from the Beijing Institute of Printing before launching her career as a designer with a local advertising company. Following that, she spent two years working as a DTP engineer for Bowne Global Solutions in Beijing and then moved to SDL International. With SDL, Aileen worked for a year in her home city of Beijing and then spent two years in their Irish office, where she gained hands-on experience in the demanding atmosphere of a busy European agency.

Aileen finds living in Beijing interesting for the constant changes that she sees taking place around her and appreciates the way people from across China can find a place in the capital. She dislikes the crowding and pollution of the city, however, and outside of work she is an avid traveller, having visited many places in Asia as well as Europe, although she says she still has a long list of places to which she intends to travel one day.

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