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The Next Iteration

Today is my last day at TL. This is the first time I’ve cleaned out a desk, packed up the car, and driven off without looking back.

In truth I will look back, and I have already started to reflect on what we’ve accomplished as a company in the past 3 1/2 years.

We completely reorganized the company. We moved successfully from desktop software to a product line that allows delivery to the web, mobile devices, even learning management systems; when I arrived, the company did not believe we could do this, but we did it.

We entirely reinvented our design and development process, adopting agile successfully where it was appropriate. Our process is now productive, visible, and a long-term competitive advantage for this kind of product-driven company.

We generated customer happiness with the biggest customers in the world.

I had the pleasure and the tremendous challenge of working with the largest government agencies and organizations across the Department of Defense and beyond. These services need companies like Transparent Language, who are dedicated to being a different kind of vendor, one that - without exception - puts the mission first, to over-deliver on every project, to develop and deliver on a vision that extends years into the future, but always begins today.

It all starts now

The United States of America still sends 19 year old soldiers overseas to operate checkpoints without teaching them how to say stop your vehicle. Would we allow a warfighter to go downrange without knowing how to operate a rifle? Of course not, and yet language and culture training lags behind other standards-based training priorities year after year.

Affecting real language transformation in the US Government will take a massive commitment, amazing people, and partners like none that have worked with the government in the past. Luckily, our nation finds all three of these in Transparent Language.

Keep up the good work TL, you know always where to find me.