Erik Thau-Knudsen, born March, 1, 1960
March 2007
Data list
- Resumé
- Employments
- Education
- Post-graduate training and courses
- Sites
- Professional qualifications
- Command of languages
- Miscallenous
- Notice
Resumé
I am 47 years old, a university graduate from Copenhagen, Denmark, and I have been interested in the internet ever since its emergence in Denmark. I did my first e-mailing in 1992, and later I went through BSS's (especially the Danish Politiken On Line) to HTTP. I started coding HTML in 1998, and I still do, now respecting the latest standards.
My degree is cand. mag. & ling. merc. of 1989 from the U. of Copenhagen. Throughout quite some years I earned my living as free-lancer. From that time I made my experiences in text writing, teaching, interpretation, translation, research, and knowledge transfer.
In my future work I want to combine my skills to generate and structure information targeted for the Internet, not only for HTTP, but also WAP, MIME &c.
Employments
| Year | Tekst |
|---|---|
| 2006-2006 | National Encyclopedia / Gyldendals Forlag, Copenhagen, Denmark. Author. |
| 2004-2005 | TGK Consult, Copenhagen, Denmark. Consultant |
| 2000-2001 | Department of Slavistics, U. of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark. Researcher |
| 2000- | IHB, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen, Denmark. International observer . |
| 2000- | Silkeborg Municipality, Silkeborg, Denmark. Polling official. |
| 1999-2001 | National Encyclopedia / Gyldendals Forlag, Copenhagen, Denmark. Author, consultant. |
| 1996-1999 | Department of East European Studies, U. of Copenhagen , Copenhagen, Denmark. PhD student. |
| 1994-2002 | Slavisk Censorkorps, Denmark. Marking at higher educations |
| 1994 | Department of East European Studies, U. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Teaching assistant. |
| 1991-1992 | Department of Oriental Philology, U. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Teaching Yakutian |
| 1990-1999 | Language School of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (now Language Center), Copenhagen, Denmark. Teacher. |
| 1990 | Dep. of Slavistics, U. of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. Post-graduate research fellow. |
| 1988-1989 | National Council of Danish Students, Copenhagen, Denmark. Chairmanship, including member of the editory board of Studenterbladet. |
| 1988 | Dep. of Cultural Sociology, U. of Copenhagen. Teaching assistant |
| 1987-1988 | Students Council (now: United Students' Council), Københavns Universitet. Chairmanship, including member of the editory board of Q |
| 1985- | free-lance (at times under the name Sprogformidlingen), Silkeborg, Århus, Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Hamburg. Interpreter, translator, language teacher |
| 1985 | World Health Organisation (WHO), Copenhagen, Denmark. Artist for the exhibition on the occasion of the 50th aniversary of WHO. |
| 1984-1985 | International Secretariat, De forenede Bryggerier (nu Carlsberg Breweries Inc.), Gentofte, Denmark. Trainee (building on-line databases, writing confidential newsletter) |
| 1983 | Radio Moscow (now Voice of Russia), Moscow, Russia. Russian-Danish translator. |
Education
| Started yyyy-mm-dd |
Ended yyyy-mm-dd |
Study | Specialisation | Place of study | Average mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-03-31 | 1996-04-12 | Certified translator & interpreter | Bulgarian |
Copenhagen Business
School Frederiksberg Denmark |
8.1 |
| 1985-08-01 | 1989-10-04 | Balkanistics | Linguistics Major language: Macedonian Minor languages: Greek, Albanian |
University of
Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark |
10.3 |
| 1981-08-01 | 1985-06 | Bulgarian | Part 1 |
University of
Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark |
9.4 |
| 1980-08-01 | 1983-06 | Russian | Part 1 |
University of
Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark |
8.6 |
| 1979-10-01 | 1980-05-31 | Student | Folk music, folklore Adult pedagogics |
Skælskør
Folkehøjskole Skælskør Denmark |
[no marks given] |
| 1976-08-01 | 1979-06-22 | Gymnasium | Natural sciences (physics, mathematics) |
Nørre
Gymnasium Copenhagen Denmark |
10.3 |
| 1967-08-01 | 1976-06-23 | Primary school | Computer science, 1975-1976 (de facto BASIC programming) |
Enghavegård
Skole Gladsaxe Denmark |
13 |
Translation of grades (13 scale
)
Post-graduate training and courses
- 2003: 6 months course in World Wide Web journalism at Danish School of Journalism.
- 2003: 6 months course in Journalism — on the way to a PR job ved Danmarks Journalisthøjskole.
- 2002: 1 week course in Adobe PhotoShop 7 in Magistrenes Jobservice, Århus, Denmark.
- 1995: Also: Close to half of a Bachelor's degree in Portuguese philology, with a flavour of general linguistics, at the Faculty of the Humanities, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sites
I only include existing sites.
- I built them. I develop them further.
- Slavoglotta.dk <www.slavoglotta.dk>: A professional site. 2007-
- Erik Thau-Knudsen <www.thau-knudsen.dk>:
My own site. 2001-
Undersites:- Erik Thau-Knudsen's pedigree . <www.thau-knudsen.dk/stamtavle/>2001-
- Erik Thau-Knudsen, webredigering. <www.thau-knudsen.dk/web/>2004-
- I re-built them. I develop them further.
- Kulturforeningen Danmark-Bulgarien <www.dan-bul.dk>: An NGO site. 2003-
- I am still building
- The Beanlucks <www.thau-knudsen.dk/beanlucks/>: A family site. 2005-
- I am its administrator.
- SF Silkeborg <www.sf.dk/silkeborg>. 2005-
- I built them. Nobody develops them further.
- thomas : køhler <www.thomaskohler.nu/>: A politician's site. 2003-
- TGK Consult <www.tgkconsult.dk/>: A professional site. 2004-
- SF Silkeborg <www.sfsilkeborg.dk>. 2005
- På niveau med Centre Pompidou <www.centre-pompidou.tk>: Teaching material, ordered from Silkeborg Amtsgymnasium. 2004.
- Min Thomas <www.thau-knudsen.dk/min_thomas/>: Student work, Danmarks Journalisthøjskole. 2003 (password protected)
Professional qualifications
Computing
Software
Coding, scripting, programming
- XHTML 1.0 (Basic, Strict, Transitional og Frameset), 1.1 (Modular) ; 2.0
- HTML 3.2-4.01, Transitional, Frameset og Strict, Proprietary
- CSS (Cascading StyleSheets) 2.0-2.1 ; 3.0
- JavaScript 1.5
- SSI (Server Side Includes) 1.0
- BASIC og COMAL
- XML 1.0
- PhP 4
- Beginner's skills in VBScript, CMS
Standard software (selected)
| Type/Title | Version | Mac | Win | Linux |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating systems | ||||
| MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) | 6.22 | (x) |
x | - |
| Apple Macintosh Operating System, including Aqua | 6.x ; 7.0 ; 7.1 ; 7.5.3 ; 7.6.1 ; 8.0 ; 8.1 ; 8.5.x ; 8.6 ; 9.0.4 ; 9.1 ; 9.2.x ; 10.2.x (Jaguar); 10.3.x (Panther) ; 10.4.x (Tiger) ; | x | - |
- |
| Darwin (Apple Macintosh Operating System) | 1.0 | x | - | - |
| Microsoft Windows | 3.11 ; 95 ; 95 Second Edition ; 98 ; 98 Second Edition ; 2000 / NT 5.0 Professional | (x) |
x | - |
| Text processing | ||||
| Apple Works / Claris Works | 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 5 ; 6 | x | ||
| BBEdit Lite | 6.1 | x | - |
|
| Microsoft Word | 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 5.x ; 6 ; 7; 98 ; 2000 ; X ; 2004 | x | x | - |
| OpenOffice / NeoOffice | 2.0 | x | x | |
| Pages | 1.0 | x | - | - |
| TexEdit Plus | 2.x | x | - | - |
| TextEdit | 1.0 ; 1.3 | x | - | - |
| Text Wrangler | 2.1.x ; 2.2.x | x | - | - |
| Data bases | ||||
| Microsoft Access | 2000 | - | x | - |
| Apple Works / Claris Works | 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 5 ; 6 | x | - | |
| EndNote Plus | 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 6 ; 7 ; 8 ; 9 | x | - | |
| FileMaker | 1 ; 3 ; 4 ; 7 | x | - | |
| MySQL | x | |||
| Spreadsheets | ||||
| Apple Works / Claris Works | 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 5 ; 6 | x | - | |
| Microsoft Excel | 98 ; 2000 ; X ; 2004 | x | x | |
| Presentation & Desktop Publishing | ||||
| Adobe Acrobat | 4 | x | - | |
| Apple Works / Claris Works | 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 5 ; 6 | x | - | |
| JPEG View | x | - | - | |
| Keynote | 2.x | x | - | - |
| Microsoft PowerPoint | 98 ; 2000 ; X ; 2004 | x | x | - |
| Image processing | ||||
| Adobe ImageReady | 2.0 | x | - | |
| Adobe Photoshop | 3 ; 5.5 ; 7 | x | x | - |
| Apple Works / Claris Works | 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 5 ; 6 | x | - | |
| Graphic Converter | 3.6.1 ; 4.2 ; 5.x | x | - | - |
| Macromedia Fireworks | 4 ; MX Studio | x | x | - |
| PhotoSuite | 1.5 | x | - | |
| Painting and drawing | ||||
| Adobe Illustrator | 9 | x | - | |
| Apple Works / Claris Works | 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 5 ; 6 | x | - | |
| Gimp | 2.2 | x | - | x |
| Macromedia Freehand | MX Studio | x | - | |
| NeoOffice | 2.0 | x | - | - |
| Animation | ||||
| Adobe ImageReady | 2.0 | X | - | |
| Macromedia Fireworks | 4.0 ; MX | X | X | - |
| Macromedia Flash | MX | X | - | |
| (x)HTML editing | ||||
| Adobe GoLive | 6 | x | - | |
| Amaya | 8 ; 9.x | x | x | |
| AppleWorks | 5 ; 6 | x | - | |
| BBEdit Lite | 6.1 | x | - | - |
| Macromedia Dreamweaver | 3 ; MX Studio ; MX 2004 ; CS3 (Kanzo, beta) | x | x | - |
| Microsoft FrontPage | 4 ; 5 | x | x | - |
| Microsoft Word | 5 ; 6; 97; 98 ; 2000 ; X ; 2004 | x | x | - |
| Mozilla; SeaMonkey | 0.9 ; 1.2.1 ; 1.5 ; 1.6 ; 1.7.x | x | x | |
| Nvu | 0.9 (β) ; 1.0 | x | x | |
| Netscape | 4.x ; 7.x | x | x | |
| Tidy | 1999-07-01 ; Balthisar 2003-03-03 | x | ||
| HTTP browsers | ||||
| Amaya | 8 ; 9.X | x | x | |
| Camino / Chimera | 0.6 ; 0.8.2 ; 0.8.4 ; 1.0.x | x | - | - |
| cHTML (Sony Ericssons browser) | for T610 ; K700 ; K750 | - | - | - |
| Flock | 0.7.4.1 | x | ||
| Firefox / Firebird / Phoenix | 0.6 ; 1.0 ; 1.0.1 ; 1.5.x | x | x | |
| iCab | 1.0-3.x | x | - | - |
| Lynx | 1.0 ; 2.x | x | x | |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | 3.0; 4.0; 4.5; 5.0; 5.1; 5.2; 6.0 | x | x | - |
| Netscape | 2.0 ; 3.0 ; 3.0 Gold ; 4.0 ; 4.5 ; 4.7 ; 4.75 ; 4.79 ; 7.0 ; 7.1 ; 7.2 | x | x | |
| Mozilla | 0.9 ; 1.2.1 ; 1.5 ; 1.6 ; 1.7.x | x | x | |
| OmniWeb | 5.2 | x | - | |
| Opera | 4.0 ; 5.0 ; 6.0 ; 7.0 ; 7.2 ; 8.x ; 9.x ; Opera Mini 1.x , 2.x | x | x | |
| Safari | 1.0 ; 1.1 ; 1.2.4 | x | - | - |
| SeaMonkey | 1.x | x | ||
| Conferencing | ||||
| First Class Client | 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 5 | x | x | |
| Lotus Quickplace | x | x | ||
| WebX | x | x | ||
| Networking | ||||
| AppleTalk | x | - | - | |
| AppleShare | x | - | - | |
| Personal Web Finder | x | - | - | |
| Vicomsoft | 7.x | x | - | |
| TCP/IP | x | x | ||
| FTP | ||||
| Interarchy / Anarchie | 4 ; 6.2 ; 6.3 ; 7.0 | x | - | - |
| Macromedia Dreamweaver | MX ; MX 2004 ; CS3 (Kanzo, Pre-release) | x | x | - |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | 5 (in Windows 2000 / NT 5.0 Professional) | - |
x | - |
| Statistics | ||||
| Apple Works / Claris Works | 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 5 | x | - | |
| FileMaker Pro | 3 ; 7 | x | - | |
| Microsoft Excel | 98 ; X | x | - |
Hardware
- Acquiring hardware for old machines
- Acquisitions and sales of Macintoshes
- Finding spare parts all over the planet Earth (RAM modules, screen cards, etc.)
With pen and paper - writing on print and screen
- World Wide Web sites - built up from the very
basics or thoroughly revised
- Political sites
- Commercial site
- Non-commercial organisation sites
- Private sites, including family sites
- Knowledge sites
- Journalistic sites
- Journalism at student papers (Q, Studenterbladet,
Røde Blade a.o.)
- Editing
- Interviews
- Features
- Leading articles
- Layout (only of Røde Blade)
- Press releases (in student politics)
- Letters to the editor
- Knowledge sharing
- Lecturing
- Bulgarian poetry
- Macedonian conditions
- Bulgarian carnevals
- Encyclopedic articles
- Balkan etymologies
- Migration words
- Turkic languages
- Altaic languages
- Lecturing
- Research
- Publications in Danish, English, Russian, Macedonian, Bulgarian
- Research interests
- The history of Balkan languages
- Bulgarian and Macedonian
- Greek
- Albanian
- Rumanian
- Etymologies, e.g.,
- Vampire
- Silk
- Turk
- Futures (verbal expressions for posteriority)
- South Slavic dialectology
- Socio-linguistics
- Origin of languages and relationships of phyllas
- The history of Balkan languages
- Narratives
- Poetry (including song lyrics and playwrights)
- Festive speeches
Company administration
Budgets, accountancy, book-keeping
- Book-keeping for TGK Consult
- Critical accountancy of Kamtchatka office
- Regular book-keeping
- Cooperation with external accountant
- Invoicing
- Invoice distribution
- Invoice check-ups
- Money distribution
- Checking balances of distributed fonds
- Budgeting
- Handling budget cut-backs
Human relations
- Selecting job applicants
- Job interviews for three employments
- Tutorship at the U. of Copenhagen
- Planning and executing crash courses in two different university departsments
Administration and leadership
- Leadership of organisations with up to 80,000 individual members
- Chairmanship, conducting meetings
- Meeting preparations
- Preparing introductions for speeches held for up to 1500 people
- Briefing parliamentarians (lobbyism)
- Interpreting legal acts to lay people (members etc.)
- Representing the organisation at international meetings, conferences, etc.
- Negotiations with clients (police and similar government authorities) about working and payroll relations
- Consideration of cases before university bodies (dealing with staff and economy issues)
- Budgeting
- Developing education structures, curricula, etc.
Buying and selling
- Buying computer spare parts on the world market
- Internet based sales of computer spare parts on the world market (own site, eBay, etc.)
- Setting prices of products
- Negotiating prices
- Examing all technical details for products set for sale
- Production of sales materials
- Knowledge of V.A.T. and customs regulations of EU countries and 3rd countries
Command of languages
Fluent (reading, speaking, listening, writing, interpreting): Danish (native), English, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, German.
Medium (reading, somewhat speaking): French, Swedish, Portuguese, Albanian, Slovenian.
Working knowledge (reading): Netherlandic, Italian, Castilian, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Modern Greek, Turkish, Arumunian, Polish, Faeroese, Yakutian, Mongolian (Khalkha), etc.
Miscallenous
International experiences
- Living in Russia (Moscow, East Siberia), totalling more than one year
- Living in Bulgaria, totalling more than one year
- Living in the Republic of Macedonia, totalling more than one year
- Living in Germany (Hamburg, etc.) for more than 3 months
- Living in Kazakhstan (Pavlodar, etc.) for more than 3 months
- I am an experienced traveller in Germany, Russia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, Portugal, Croatia, Hungary
Sports
- Capoeira
- Instructed in the regionál style, in Senzala, Mestre Peixinho/Mestre Steen)
- Tried to instruct an international class in Iaşi, Rumania
- Canoeing
- Lake and river paddling in Denmark, Siberia, Italy
- Cataract paddling in Sweden
- Running (long distances, between 4 and 14 kilometres)
- Participation in the Hermitage Run (Eremitageløb) and various minor events
- Swimming
- Swimming from 1972 till 1978 in Gladsaxe Idrætsforening (Gladsaxe, Denmark), now Gladsaxe Svøm
- Training 1975-78 directly under Kalman Hentzelman, previous national couch of Sweden and Finland, olympic winner in 1936
- Participation in national championships 1977
- Swimming between the mainland and islands/islets/opposite shore of Black Sea, Adriatic Sea, Skælskør Fjord
- Bicycling
- Bicycling to work and back. Upper limit: 35 km each way
- Bicycles are super means of transportation — I once freighted a 2.2 metres iron cupboard for 4 kilometres on my bike
Notice
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