Summary
Franklin Yow is a technology management consultant and former Microsoft and Google program manager with a career spanning international product releases, accessibility improvements, and localization engineering. He has led large cross-functional software teams and processes—managing global releases, scaling text-to-speech and Narrator language coverage by 200%, and instituting review and pre-triage practices that measurably reduced downstream fixes. Based in Redmond, WA, he combines deep operational rigor from corporate program management with hands-on engineering roots dating back to testing and localization roles in the early Windows and .NET era. Franklin now helps clients achieve goals by aligning technology choices with management practices, translating large-team experience into scalable, repeatable workflows. His background in both computer science and civil engineering underpins a systems-oriented approach to problem solving and stakeholder alignment.
6 years of coding experience