KLD - Capabilities and knowledge

Courses and siminars attended
Knowledge areas
Less deep knowledge areas

Courses and seminars attended

• Volkshochschule Zürich: technical programming using FORTRAN was my entry to the data processing world.
• STV evening classes: atomic reactor technology, higher mathematics, simulations and measurements
• Volkshochschule Zürich: operations Research and statistical methods.
• Educational classes on various aspects of data processing at IBM and DEC, ETH, EPFL etc.
• 10 years of involvement in the IBM user group SHARE Europe provided permanent education in English language, information technology and personal skills.
• Protext conferences in Ireland - not only as participant, but also as speaker, see publications.
• IMAKA class on rhetorics.
• IBM Education Centre, La Hulpe: General Management Perspectives Class.
• Seminar on technische dokumentation (and others) at itl in München.
• tekom (Germany) and tecom (Switzerland) seminars and workshops.

Knowledge areas

• Structure and present information for users of information services, both in German and English (well, proofreading by native English speakers always gives feedback for enhancements).
• Develop concepts concerning documentation and organisation.
• Visualise relationships, data and concepts.
• Create and lay out documentation using FrameMaker, MS-Word and PageMaker as well as specialised graphic tools such as Illustrator, Photoshop or Freehand.
• Provide classes for FrameMaker
• Create hypertext applications with RoboHelp, FrameMaker and Acrobat.
• Develop Web-sites and create the pages with various tools (Dreamweaveretc.); Javascript; PHP.
• Develop and draw nomograms (see samples) This is a capacity nearly extinct.
• Manage a (not so large) team.
• Support development of programs concerning dialogues (user interface) and international usage.
• Prepare and perform educational courses.
• Program applications with Visual Basic and Visual Basic for Applications.
• Use of office applications such as Word, Excel, bookkeeping, and of course the Internet.
• Detailed knowledge of documentation methods on mainframes (IBM-MVS), Mac and Windows.
• User interface design and typography
• Of course there is more than basic knowledge in machinery, chemistry, electricity and technical communication giving a head start to document subjects from these areas.
• Managing and tweaking Windows, starting with Win 3.1 all the way up to XP; solving problems mostly on my own.

Less deep knowledge areas

• UNIX operating system - mainly as a user for documentation purposes.
• Object oriented technologies and programming.
• Normalisation of data for data base design.