Finishing Swedish Gymnasium (~upper secondary school) in 1979 after a four-year course of Electronics and Telecommunications, I continued with a one-year course in programming.
After finishing school I went directly into the fine mechanics of typesetters and typesetting terminals, and a few years later continued with OCR (Optical Character Recognition). These jobs took me to various places around Europe: Iceland, England and Switzerland.
Later, with Inter Innovation Corp., I designed and built several microcomputers, power supplies, communications units, servo power amplifiers and related equipment for the company's line of banknote input-output machines. I dealt with various quality control issues, mostly regarding printed circuit boards, static electricity and small scale mechanics. One year I spent teaching on EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) and EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) issues. For this I went on technical courses on Military EMI Prevention at various locations in Sweden, Holland and England.
Supplementing this, I have a long experience with Ham radio. I began way back in the days of the mechanical teletype and worked my way up to digital packet radio and microwaves. I build antennas and feeder lines on free-hand.
During all the years I spent on electronics an microcomputer design, I learnt the handling and use of most measuring equipment in the amplitude and frequency domain.
During the years with Document Systems Corp. (1989-1991) I personally translated a lot of software and accompanying handbooks, help files etc., and supervised several translation projects. Among the software I may mention Borland's SideKick Plus, Sprint and Quattro Pro, all the versions of Ventura Publisher, Logitech Finesse, Lotus Freelance Graphics, Ashton-Tate (Borland) Framework IV and Symantec's Norton Commander 3.0.
I am a certified technical translator with Berlitz Translations Services.
After two years service at Cap Gemini Sogeti in Sweden (1992-1993) I left and started my own company in the translations - layout - handbook tech writing - computer graphics business. I continuously translate educational material on Novell NetWare, internetworking, Ethernet and computer security, and write handbooks on various topics. Among the handbook customers I may mention the Swedish Post Office, QA information Security (Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus distributor) and others. In the graphics field I have done art books, CD-record art and wrappers, brochures, logotypes etc. as well as consultations in all personal computer-related technical matters. Furthermore I am a very prolific writer and regular contributor to several Swedish microcomputer publications (Mikrodatorn, Swedish PC World, Computer Sweden and more). I do everything from hardware testing to new products reviews.
Several year's experience in managing Novell NetWare ended up in me writing a book on the subject, plus networks and computer security in general. The book sold unusually well in Sweden, so I had to write a second issue. The third release is selling equally well.