Andrzej Zydroń
Biography:
Andrzej Zydroń was born in England. Educated in France he started working in IT in 1976. His experience has covered all aspects of computing. He started working with SGML in 1985, writing complex photo composition filters for SGML for Xerox. An expert in Software Engineering, SGML, XML, encoding methodologies, translation memory and document image processing. Highlights of his career include:
The design and architecture of the European Patent Office patent data capture system for Xerox Business Services.
Writing a system for the automated optimal typographical formatting of generically encoded tables (1989).
The design and architecture of the Xerox Language Services XTM translation memory system.
Writing the 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.
He is currently CTO of XML Intl, and the technical architect of the XML based “text memory” system - xml:tm, a revolutionary new approach to the authoring and translation of XML based documents.
Andrzej is a member of the Localization Industry Standards Association (Lisa) OSCAR steering committee and technical architect of the proposed OSCAR GILT Metrics specification, as well as editor of the proposed OSCAR TBX-link specification. He is also an active member of the OASIS XLIFF and Translation Web Services technical committees as well as being a member of the British Computer Society.
Andrzej is fluent in Polish, English and French.
