Language Standards for Global Business
Vienna, Austria
December 14-15, 2006

Andrzej Zydroñ, CTO, XML-Intl., Poland

Andrzej Zydroñ was born in England. Educated in France he started working in IT in 1976. His experience has covered all aspects of computing, with in depth knowledge of Software Engineering, SGML, XML, encoding methodologies and translation memory. Highlights of his career include:

• The design and architecture of the European Patent Office patent data capture system for Xerox Business Services.

• The design and architecture of the Xerox Language Services XTM translation memory system in 1996.

• Author of XML and SGML filters for SDL International's SDLX Translation Suite.

• Assisting the Oxford University Press, the British Council and Oxford University in work on the New Dictionary of the National Biography.

Andrzej Zydroñ is a member of the LISA OSCAR Steering Committee. He is the technical architect and editor of the GILT Metrics proposed specification suite, as well as editor of the proposed TBX Link specification. Zydroñ also sits on the OASIS technical committees for Translation Web Services, XLIFF and XLIFF segmentation. He is also a W3C invited expert sitting on the W3C ITS technical committee. Zydroñ is also a Chartered Member of the British Computer Society. As CTO for XML-Intl, he is currently developing the next generation of XML-based text memory systems to reduce authoring and translation costs for documentation. Zydroñ is fluent in English, Polish and French.