Andrea Vine is a masochist who has put up with internationalization for over 11 years, and actually still enjoys it. She has worked for large firms such as Computer Associates and Xerox, and was an independent consultant for 7 years. Currently working for Sun Microsystems in the iPlanet group, she also contributes articles and information (sometimes unwittingly) to trade journals and books. Most recently she traveled around the world evangelizing internationalization to anyone who would listen, and had a surprisingly good response.