Peter Ring - the founder and manager of PRC - Peter Ring Consultants.
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Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1940 - Aries. Danish citizen.
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Formal Education:
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1964:
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M.Sc. in electronic engineering from The Danish Technical University, Copenhagen.
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1982:
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B.Com. (Danish: HD) in organisation/strategic planning from The Copenhagen
Business School.
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Professional Career:
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1992-:
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Founded PRC in March 1992. Started development of the PQM system
in May 1993 (now the "
PQM 3.0
Planned Quality of Manuals" programme). Started developing
AcosHelp
in December 2001.
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1990-1991:
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Aarup Management: Ultra high-tech technology transfer from U.K. to Denmark.
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1977-1990:
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DTO: Senior consultant. On-line search development. Consultancy on technology
transfer and industrial (business-to-business = B2B) market analysis. DTO's
ESOMAR member. Project on ISO 9000.
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1972-1977:
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Radiometer A/S: Documentation manager. Learned to write manuals. Development
of "the user-friendly manual".
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1964-1972:
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R&D work (electronics). The last 4 years with Radiometer A/S, Copenhagen
(electromedical equipment, etc.).
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Other major positions:
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2003
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Judge in
STC
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(Society for Technical Communication, USA) Trans European Technical Communications Competition 2003.
See the
certificate.
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1995-1997:
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Danish Engineering Society: member of the occupational hazard committee.
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1985-2000:
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Danish Marketing Association: board member of B2B Forum (chairman 1990-92).
Council member 1992-2000.
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1985-1989:
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Danish Optical Society: founding member and active substitute member of
the board.
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1984-1988:
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Danish natl. rep. for EVAF (The International Assn. for Business Research
and Corporate Development.)
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1974-1978:
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Member of the board, Copenhagen Basketball Assn.
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1964-1965:
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President: Helion Film a.m.b.a.
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Teaching how to write user-friendly manuals for:
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The Danish Marketing Association 1998-99.
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The Danish Engineering Society - Education (DIEU) 1993-1997.
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The Copenhagen Business School, Institute for English 1997.
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Danish companies (in-house training).
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Languages:
5 = Fluent. 1 = A little. 0 = No.
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Language
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Speaking
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Reading
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Writing
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Danish (mother tongue)
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5
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5
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5
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English
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5
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5
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5
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Swedish
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4
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5
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0
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Norwegian
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4
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5
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0
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German
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3
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4
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1
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French
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2
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3
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0
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Computer
programming experience:
I started programming in 1960 with a university course on machine coding of DASK -
a huge water cooled vacuum-tube based monster with 10k RAM and 5-hole telex-tape
in-/output! In '64 it became GIER-ALGOL
programmes for the transistor based GIER computer, where the communication
was papertape via a 10 char/s Teletype. Huuh, it was fast! Later on I
programmed in BASIC and FORTRAN, and for programmable calculators from
HP and TI. In '88 I got my first real home computer, a NewBrain with 96k
RAM, for which I wrote programmes in BASIC and PASCAL: games, utilities,
a budget programme, and a word processor. Next step was an Amiga 500, where
I wrote more games, utilities, and a database programme. Now I'm using PCs
and I'm writing
programmes
in mainly MS Visual Basic 6 Pro, and databases and large macros in MS
Access and Visual Basic for Applications. The latest public available programme is
AcosHelp
written in Visual Basic 6 Pro
and
PowerBasic for Windows.
Hobbies
- when I've got the time(!):
Sailing boat (28' Maxi 84), badminton (a weekly double with old friends),
tennis, bridge, skiing (alpine and cross country), computer programming,
travelling, and writing texts for occasional songs.
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