Qualifications

• Internationalized numerous applications for Japan, Korea, China, Thailand as well as Europe, LATAM, and the Middle East.
• Internationalization architect experienced with double-byte, bidirectional, Unicode, and numerous code pages and character encodings as well as cultural differences for all regions of the world. Specialized in high performance text processing.
• Software architect experienced in ISAM and relational database internals, word processor, spreadsheet, software development tools (compiler, simulator, cross-development environments) and operating system design. Experienced with C/C++, Java, PHP and several other programming languages.
• Contributor and advocate for software standards, particularly Unicode and Web internationalization.
• Extensive hands-on management experience building international teams, shepherding projects to completion, emphasizing quality, and establishing cross-organizational buy-in.
• Proven track-record creating successful Systems, Developer and Localization Tools, Network, Database, Office (Spreadsheet, Word Processing, etc.), Modeling software, embedded systems and Web applications for search, social networking, and e-Commerce.
• Extensively traveled. Excellent communication skills. Frequent speaker at software and internationalization conferences.

Experience

2002-Present XenCraft, Bay Area, CA
2002-Present Founder, Globalization Consultant, Xen Master
Globalization consulting, training and products
Recent projects include:

• Design best practices and i18n migration strategy for e-Commerce company
• Lead i18n library and Unicode support for PHP
• Establish best practices for leading internet search and publishing company
• Create Japanese version of Microsoft Exchange backup, restore and storage systems
• Create globalization strategy and best practices for multinational corporation
• Assemble a centralized localization team, define best practices, implement vendor management, negotiate new pricing, recommend localization tools strategy
• Implement Unicode collation and word indexing
• Assess Java and C++ software for support of Japanese and Asian languages and provide detailed recommendations
• Assess C++ application for Unicode-enabling and CJKT languages
• Define Unicode conversions for specialized character set encodings
• Deliver tutorials on internationalization, character sets and Unicode to software development organizations
• Implement high-performance encoding/decoding algorithms
• Assess Progress 4GL-based client-server application for European and Asian markets.
• Deliver training for internationalizing Web applications to software development organization

Linkedin

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