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Dario Jazbec Hrvatin’s path from in-development tester to Documentation Team leader

This month, we are highlighting Dario, who joined OnTheGoSystems in April 2014 as an in-development tester. He is now a Documentation Team leader for WPML and Toolset. Dario, what was your exact position when you started? I started in 2014 as the first in-development tester on the company. I guess I did well as we hired more testers after that. :) I was a tester for our Toolset plugins but through testing, I got to know WPML a lot as...

January 20, 2021

Irina Sozonova

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Irina Sozonova on the “challenging and rewarding” work of balancing a career with raising a young family

Our December Star of the Month explains how working at OntheGoSystems has helped her achieve her goals of owning a home and raising three young children. Irina Sozonova’s career with OntheGoSystems started as a translator for the translation service ICanLocalize. She found translation work to be addicting and worked hard to “provide the utmost quality translations to clients because they were important.” She joined the ICanLocalize support team in June 2013 as a support assistant. Over time, her tasks have...

January 20, 2021

Dario Jazbec Hrvatin

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Honoring Helena Petridou on her retirement

We celebrate virtual birthdays, we share our Star of the Month and summaries of our company events, among others, but this is the first time we have someone retiring at OnTheGoSystems. Helena has been our Administrative Assistant for several years, and we all highlight her kindness to everyone, her professionalism and lovely attitude in her day to day. OnTheGoSystems is a completely remote company from the very start but this didn't prevent us from honoring our Dear Helena Petridou on...

December 30, 2020

Laura de Figueiredo

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Vitaly Tarasenko, November’s Star of the Month – “Working from home is 100 times better than any office”

Vitaly Tarasenko, is a father, husband, Marvel fan, pet lover, and November’s Star of the Month! Vitaly lives in Cherkasy, Ukraine with his wife and daughter. They also have a big parrot named Zoro, a rabbit named Pitbull, and two turtles named Thor and Loki. For the last 3 years, Vitaly has worked as a developer on the ATE Proxy team and has used working from home as an opportunity to pursue his hobbies and spend time with his family....

December 15, 2020

Dario Jazbec Hrvatin

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How to successfully hold on to an online job.

This is a sticking point for some people who would love to work online from their own homes. Can you make the grade so that your online job becomes a successful career? OnTheGoSystems is organized into 12 separate teams each with defined team roles. This allows us to identify the needs of both the company and the teams, and also to provide opportunities for anyone in the company looking for new challenges or personal and professional growth. David Garcia Watkins,...

December 10, 2020

Helena Petridou

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OTGS November News

Before entering the holiday season, we spent our November diligently working on the next Toolset and WPML releases. At the same time, our support kept ticking like clockwork, and we continued our work with partners.  Toolset News November has been all about stability and performance for the Toolset team. We just published a joint release of all Toolset plugins. It packs tons of fixes and usability improvements and much better performance. You can find the details in the announcement post....

December 1, 2020

Dario Jazbec Hrvatin

Product News

OTGS October News

This October saw us continuing the work on big upcoming features for our plugins. We're also nourishing existing partnerships and building new ones. Toolset News In October, the Toolset team focused on improving stability and performance. We're finishing a short sprint to address a large number of both small glitches and long-standing issues. This prepares the ground for the development of upcoming releases.  Together with those, we are also completing a couple of new features that will push Dynamic Sources...

November 3, 2020

Laura de Figueiredo

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Jamal Boulhous’s Success Story – “Teamwork is the special sauce”

This month, we are highlighting Jamal, who joined OnTheGoSystems in November 2018. He is now a Toolset Supporter, helping clients from around the world on a daily basis from his home in Morocco. Check out our interview with him below. What were you doing before joining OTGS? While trekking in the great Atlas I started with the company in November 2018 after working for a couple of years as a freelancer. During my freelance work, WordPress and WooCommerce were my...

October 15, 2020

Irina Sozonova

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Working with OnTheGoSystems is never boring!

What comes to mind when considering working remotely at home? Perhaps you see yourself copy/pasting boring lists of data every day? Are you concerned that the line between work and home life will become blurred? Or maybe you feel anxious about a lack of community and differences in culture.   Allison Rivers, our Employee of the Month, has recently joined OnTheGoSystems and assures us, “I’m never bored!” Let’s find out why. Allison, first tell us a little about yourself. I’m an American...

October 15, 2020

Helena Petridou

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Morning warm-ups with Irina Sozonova

We all know from childhood that morning exercises are good for the elderly and young, but we often cannot convince ourselves to start exercising. Usually, people give themselves logical reasons against doing a set of morning exercises: "I don't have time."  Morning exercises can be completed in 10 minutes. If you can't find this time in your normal routine, then you can try to set a goal for yourself and get up earlier. A few minutes of lying in bed...

October 2, 2020

Irina Sozonova