Lloyd Honomichl was the Senior Internationalization Engineer for Lionbridge from December, 1999 untilMar 2004 when he was fired for health related resons. He worked with software development firms to prepare their applications for worldwide deployment and taught courses in software internationalization.

He has an extensive knowledge of internationalization (I18n) issues as they apply to Windows, Macintosh and Linux/Unix as well as web based applications and databases. He is fluent in C/C++, Java, English and German.

Prior to joining Lionbridge he worked at Novell as a Senior Consulting Engineer. He was the lead architect of Novell's International Product Development group and Novell's representative to the Unicode Technical Committee for eight years.

He has a black-belt in character set conversion and in 1996 he was "loaned" to Sun's Javasoft group and co-authored the CharToByte and ByteToChar classes for JDK 1.1.

Since joining Lionbridge, Lloyd has continued to work with the Unicode Consortium and has spoken at several International Unicode Conferences and serves on the conference review board.

He has been an active member of the The Internationalization Guidelines, Education & Outreach (GEO) Task Force of the W3C Internationalization Activity since its inception in November 2002.