Tex Texin

Chief Globalization Architect at XenCraft

Leader of internationalization of successful software products in a broad array of industries, using a variety of technologies. Always looking for new challenges: emerging markets, new paradigms, difficult problems. Popular author and speaker at technical and business conferences on globalization and software development. Representative to Unicode and the W3C consortia and other standards organizations. Participating in the steering committees for several organizations. Specialties: Internationalization for China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Middle East. Unicode and Web standards expert and contributor.

Experience

Xen Master, Chief Globalization Architect at XenCraft

May 2002 — Present · 24 yrs 3 mos

Specialists in software and web internationalization, Unicode, and localization processes worldwide.

Member Board of Directors at Translation Commons

Jan 2019 — Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

Board member advising on the Language Digitization Initiative; co-author of the Language Data Gathering Guidelines.

Owner, Author, Architect at I18nGuy.com

Jan 1998 — Present · 28 yrs 7 mos

Education and evangelism for internationalization and advocacy for industry standards.

Chief Globalization Architect at Rearden Commerce

Dec 2010 to Jul 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

Globalized the first personal internet assistant and commerce platform.

Internationalization (I18n) Technical Director at NetApp

Apr 2008 to Apr 2009 · 1 yr

Defined global product strategies; led NetApp's first Japanese product and migration to Unicode.

Software Internationalization (I18n) Architect at Yahoo!

Jan 2004 to Apr 2008 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Built a team of i18n architects providing globalization services, standards, and tools to Yahoo! worldwide.

Events & webinars (1)

Panel: What's Globalization?

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