I am US citizen, born in Minnesota, and I attended Swedish public schools in Uppsala and Lund during elementary and secondary school. I graduated from Yale University, and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. During the course of my education I studied Spanish, German, Hebrew, Greek and Latin. 

I then worked for a rare book dealer who mostly sold books in French, Italian and Spanish, because they were records of the early explorers.

I then started a used computer business that became my primary involvement for the next 12 years. I continue to work with software, with a Swedish application that has gone through the US DOD's Information Assurance program for devices that connect to DOD networks. 

I have been translating for a variety of different agencies off and on since 1985. I have extensive experience with IT, networks and computer and application support I also have extensive experience with telecom, IT security and public works, and have dealt with a variety of customers in different industries who are responsible for emergency preparedness, disaster and business resumption planning.

I've written a column for a weekly newspaper and co-wrote a book on the history of Antique Maps of the Holy Land. 

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