Biography for Tex Texin

Tex Texin is the chief globalization consultant and architect for the XenCraft company.


Internationalization Architect

Tex assists companies with the globalization of their web sites, products and business. Tex specializes in economically creating software for all regional markets and has extensive experience with CJKT markets.

Tex has created and implemented strategies that phase migration of large applications from legacy character sets to Unicode, and from monolingual to multilingual user interface and content. A benefit of this phased approach is that the revenue generation from sales of each phase is used to sponsor continued development. Tex has also created specialized tools and processes for efficient localization at reduced cost and short time-to-market.

Engineering and Project Management

Tex has extensive hands-on management experience building international teams, shepherding projects to completion and has a proven track record creating successful Systems, Tools, Database, Spreadsheet, Network, and Modeling software.

Unicode and Web Standards Development

Tex is active in the Unicode Consortium, and is a member of the Unicode Conference Technical Committee. Tex is also an invited expert to Internationalization Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) where Tex participated in the creation of the W3C recommendation on Ruby Annotation and is also contributing to the Character Model for the World Wide Web. Tex is currently active with the W3C Internationalization Group task forces: Core, Web Services, and GEO (Guidelines, Education and Outreach).

Tex is also on the Project Management Committee for ICU (IBM's Open Source library "International Components for Unicode").

Training

Tex is a popular speaker and lecturer at conferences globally on software development, standards (W3C, Unicode, Internationalization, ISO 8601 et al.), and globalization (both business and technical). Tex often presents a 3-hour tutorial on Web Internationalization at Unicode Conferences and has been providing workshops on Localization Project Management at venues around the world.

Skills and Experience

Tex has significant engineering experience with C, C++, C#, Java, Assembler, 4GL, shell, script, and many other programming languages. Operating system environments include Microsoft DOS, Windows, and .NET, Unix (HP UX, SUN Solaris, IBM AIX, Linux), Mainframe, Mini, Micro, Real-time, Simulation, and Cross-platform.

Tex has developed ISAM, database, project scheduling, spreadsheet, word processing, cross-assembler, simulator, network agents, modelling and other products for international use. He has also developed specialized libraries for internationalization, especially for high speed text processing and implementing algorithms for working with or converting between character encodings used around the world. This includes encodings for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Hebrew and Arabic.

Wild and Crazy Guy

Tex is well-known for playing lead air guitar on his Philson Stratoblaster for local and visiting classical rock bands.

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Tex can be reached at +1 781 789-1898.


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