Jim DeLaHunt

Current

• Principal at Jim DeLaHunt & associates

Past

• Engineering Manger, Gaiji Architectures at Adobe Systems, Incorporated
• Program Manager, Core Technology at Adobe Systems, Incorporated
• Engineering Manager, Gaiji Architectures at Adobe Systems

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Education

• Adobe Systems, Incorporated
• Stanford University
• Cornell University

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Jim DeLaHunt’s Summary

I am an expert consultant in multlingual websites. It's straightforward to do websites and web-based businesses in English or Chinese or Punjabi or any one language. But add a second or third language, and issues crop up, from business to interaction design to engineering. I help you understand the issues, ask the right questions, and take action based on your answers.

More generally, I help small businesses take products to global markets, overcoming business and technical challenges on the way. I also help larger firms move forward their back-burner international projects.

Many of my clients put me to work on sites using Drupal or Joomla (free software Content Management Systems). I've done custom module and template development, data porting using raw MySQL queries, bug fixing, configuration, and system administration. I blog about interesting technical issues I encounter, as a form of giving back to the Joomla and Drupal communities.

I bring technical experience in software engineering and management, a proven track record in working with international partners, foreign language ability, and skills in group process to bear on your business and engineering management needs. I am tenacious; I have seen difficult projects to completion.

I am based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and have permits to work throughout the USA and Canada.

Jim DeLaHunt’s Specialties:

Multilingual websites, world-ready software, international partnerships, internationalisation (i18n), localisation (l10n), globalisation (g11n), software engineering, engineering management, Japan, China, Korea.

Very good Japanese language: can run and translate for business meetings. Fair German. Some Spanish, French, and Chinese (Mandarin).

Software Engineering: Joomla! and Drupal CMSs, Python, C, C++, PostScript. Familiar with PHP, XML, HTML, Perl, Prolog, DNA sequence algorithms.

Jim DeLaHunt’s Experience

• Principal

  Jim DeLaHunt & associates

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  Expert consultant in multlingual websites, with a side practice in sites based on CMSs like Joomla and Drupal. For the FEC Network, did extensive customisation, bug fixing, data migration, setup, and sysadmin. (e.g. AmusementEquipmentDirectory.com, AmusementExpo.com)
  
  Also world-ready business and technology development. For a California renewable energy startup, I researched the Japanese photovoltaic market and did initial business development. For Adobe Systems, I gave email productivity training and investigated pitfalls in an email client transition.
  
  I wrote the cover story for "php|Architect", May 2007, on Unicode. I presented at several International Unicode Conferences, including 2008 and 2007. Also presented to Vancouver Drupalers, Vancouver Joomla! day, VanDev, and the Vancouver PHP conference, etc.

Additional Information

Jim DeLaHunt’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Jim DeLaHunt’s Interests:

Aviation (licensed Private Pilot—Canada and USA), international business, Japan, USA, Canada, China, Korea, Taiwan, foreign languages, text typography and fonts, gaiji, software engineering, science technology and society (STS), community activism, LGBT advocacy, marriage equality, opera, theatre

Jim DeLaHunt’s Groups:

PFLAG Vancouver (Parents Families and Friends of Lesbian transgender bisexual and Gay folk — Canada), Green College UBC (University of British Columbia — Canada), Equality California Institute (San Francisco California), MECA (Marriage Equality California), Leadership Midpeninsula (Palo Alto California), UUCPA (Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto), San Francisco Symphony Chorus, West Bay Opera (Palo Alto California), Opera San José, WebDirections North, VanDev

•    Adobe Alumni
•    Global Worker
•    Stanford University Alumni
•    Old Novocastrians' Association (RGS Newcastle)
•    AeA Japan Alumni Forum
•    B2B Conversion Optimization Network
•    Wyoming High School Alumni
•    Global Asia Network
•    Canada Connects - Media and Technology Innovators thinking Globally

Jim DeLaHunt’s Honors:

Publications and public presentations:

"Web 2.0 goes to Babel: Multilingual websites and user-supplied content", 32nd International Unicode Conference (IUC) in San José, California in September 2008.

"The SING Gaiji Architecture in Adobe Creative Suite 3", with D. Strebe. 31st IUC, October 2007.

"Unicode and PHP — a gentle introduction". Cover story for php|architect magazine, volume 6, issue 5, May 2007.

DeLaHunt, Jim and Yoshi Hongo, ed.: "The AEA English-Japanese Japanese-English Engineering Terminology Dictionary". American Electronics Association, Santa Clara, CA, 1988.

Textor, Dr. Robert B. et al: "Austria 2005: Projected Sociocultural Effects of the Microelectronic Revolution", co-author. Verlag Orac, Vienna, Austria, 1983. In English and German.

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